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ASK A QUESTION
Is Marijuana Use
Affecting Your Family?
Are you a chronic marijuana user who is ever used the phrase "I can quit anytime I want," or worse yet, "I'm not hurting anyone with my habit?"
If so, you should first consider the validity of the first statement and perhaps you'd realize that if it were indeed true that you could "quit anytime you want," uttering the phrase would be completely unnecessary-you'd simply quit.
As for the second statement, "I'm not hurting anyone," maybe you should take a look around and perhaps you'd see it's simply not true.
Marijuana and Your Family
The dangers of smoking marijuana, while downplayed by many advocates for the drug, are very real and very serious.
Marijuana is a powerful mind and mood altering drug which can cause depression, anxiety, sleep abnormalities and even hallucinations in the short-term, and when used for longer periods of time can lead to cancer, emphysema and many other dangerous conditions, affecting almost every system in the body.
When under the influence of marijuana your reaction time is slowed, your vision is distorted and your ability to concentrate and remember things is significantly impaired. Over time, you begin to lose interest in things you once enjoyed, and avoid activities and functions where you'll be unable to get high.
What you consider to be nothing more than a habit which relaxes you, others, including members of your family, see as a drug problem which makes it difficult for you to carry out your everyday responsibilities and participate in the business of living.
If your "every once in a while" habit of smoking marijuana has spiraled into an addiction (and for many it does) it has an enormous effect on your family.
Here are just a few examples of how this happens:
- Financially.
Unless you're also committing the crime of growing your own marijuana, the drug does not come cheap, and every dollar you spend to fund your habit is money that could be better spent elsewhere, namely on your family.
All too often, addicts, including people addicted to marijuana, forget about the financial toll it can have on their family.
They scrimp and save every penny they have, not, mind you, to make the house payment or deposit money into the kids' college account, but for a temporary "high" which lasts no more than a couple of hours. This selfish behavior-behavior which is so common in addicts-affects every aspect of family life. - Physical and Mental Health.
You may not notice it at first, but the effects of long-term marijuana use can have serious health consequences down the road, and these risks affect your family as well.
Your family are the people who worry about you, love you and count on you for your contributions. If you become ill, treating your condition becomes a job the whole family is forced to cope with. - Legal Problems.
Marijuana use and legal problems tend to go hand-in-hand. In most states, marijuana is still an illegal substance, and the possession and use of the drug, not to mention the crime for driving while under the influence, is a punishable act.
Who's going to take care of things while you're in jail? Who's going to pay for the court costs? Obviously your family will have to deal with this, placing more undeserved worry and strain on an already impossible situation.
Marijuana is a drug, and with drugs come addiction, and addiction creates problems for everyone close to you. It's a gamble that can affect you physically, mentally, emotionally and financially, and a gamble which is unfairly shared by your family as well.
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