Here are some photos of Lady Gaga at the ARTPOP album launch at the Brooklyn Navy Yard two nights ago. She had four costume changes that I counted, but I’m only including pics of two of the costumes. Did she change in front of everyone, or did she like, step away for a moment to get a drink and then she came back five minutes later with a whole new ensemble? I’m overthinking this. I should just let Gaga’s overwhelming art and originality wash over me. Anyway, Gaga is still talking and promoting her album. She gave an interview to a radio show and she ended up claiming that she’s “addicted” to marijuana. “Marijuana” is what we’re calling “cocaine” these days I guess.
Lady Gaga has come clean about her addiction to marijuana. The singer, 27, said that she smoked marijuana to deal with the mental and physical challenges of her career, including a recent hip injury that forced her to cancel a large portion of her Born This Way tour.
“I have been addicted to it and it’s ultimately related to anxiety coping and it’s a form of self-medication and I was smoking up to 15-20 marijuana cigarettes a day with no tobacco,” she said on The Z100 Morning Show.
“I was living on a totally other psychedelic plane, numbing myself completely, and looking back I do see now that some of it had to do with my hip pain. I didn’t know where the pain was coming from so I was just in a lot of pain and very depressed all the time and not really sure why,” she said.
The pop star said that over the years, she has experimented with various drugs to avoid difficult emotions – particularly challenges that arise from being in the public eye.
“I’ve been addicted to various things since I was young. Most heavily over the past seven years. A friend gave me this term, ‘I lily pad from substance to substance,’ because I get to a point where I can’t go any further with one substance so I move to another.”
“But, the truth is that it is very hard to be famous,” she added. “It’s wonderful to be famous because I have amazing fans. But it is very, very hard to go out into the world when you are not feeling happy and act like you are because I am a human being too and I break, and I think there is an assumption . . . that I cannot break because I am an alien woman and I am unstoppable.”
“The truth is that I can break, and I did. I was not very good at breaking. I lost everything that I love. I was in a wheelchair for six months. I did a lot of drugs and took a lot of pills,” she admitted.
But Gaga said she plans to “fight” her addiction, and challenge herself to create music without the aid of mood-altering substances.
“I do put that pressure on myself; I have to be high to be creative. I need that, that’s an error in my life that happened for over 10 years. Can I be brilliant without it? I know that I can be and I have to be because I want to live, and I want my fans to want to live.”
Scientists and addiction specialists still debate whether marijuana is really and truly addictive. I smoked pot every day for about a year and half in my late teens, but I never considered myself addicted to it (although g–damn if it didn’t help me sleep). That being said, I think if you already have a predisposition to addiction or addictive behavior, I could see how you could get “addicted” to pot. But what do I know? I’m not a medical professional. And besides, I think Gaga is full of it. I believe she was smoking pot a lot, but (just a guess) she was probably also mixing it with pain meds and other recreational substances. You know, because it’s SO HARD for her to be famous. Lord, this girl… she needs to be acquainted with people with genuine hard knocks. Her hyperbole (“I lost everything that I love” = hip surgery) is insulting.
Also: I bet Gaga is a really annoying stoner. I bet she doesn’t even want to listen to Janis Joplin.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
She’s got absolutely nothing left to talk about. Didn’t we have to hear all about her coke days a few months ago? Now it’s pot “addiction” (which can be cured immediately by deleting your dealers # from your phone). Not buying it. She’s desperate for attention and this is all she has to get her in the news.
Gad she so overshares her hyper-awareness. But I guess many, many celebs do that.
That last pic where she looks like an extra from one of the later Harry Potter movies – I always wonder if at some point during her overly costumed, monster-claw day she’ll suddenly realize how ridiculous she’s become and just burst into tears …
Nah.
From my understanding, you can become psychologically dependent on pot but not physically dependent/addicted.
I for one, am ready for her to take her freak show into hiding. It isn’t edgy anymore, it just reeks of desperate attention seeking.
^^This. I am so sick of celebitches ” Blah, It’s sooo hard to be famous because you to go out and act happy in front of people who make you millions of dollars”. Try being happy in front of two small children when you don’t know how you are going to pay for both rent and groceries. God these people are so out of touch.
You’re right, elo. That takes real courage.
RIGHT ON, elo! ITA
The only ‘addiction’ that pot is would just be that it’s a habit. Just like anything else.
I said it before and I’ll say it again. The wheelchair was a gimmick. You are ordered to MOVE after a labral tear repair, stationary bike 3/week even if you are in crutches. If you plop your @$$ in a wheelchair the repaired tissue will be stiff. I have a bilateral labral tear and repaired one side last year. Neither the injury or the surgery are as painful as she describes. Get over yourself, there are people with bigger issues Gaga.
I had a serious car accident about fifteen years ago, when I was just a kid. Ended up with knee injuries, hip injuries… and you’re absolutely right. I was ordered into PT *immediately* to prevent my injuries from healing improperly and becoming stiff, to the point where my doctor was unhappy with my because I’d had to wait an extra day or so before I could start PT. I’d walk in with crutches, and get right to work with a stationary bike and ankle weights. I can’t think of any leg injury that would require that much immobility… Spinal, yes. Hip? Not so much.
She was in rehab.
Using marijuana to self – medicate is not an addiction.
I disagree strongly. Self-medicating with pot IS an addiction. Pot can interfere with other meds, does not really work, it’s impossible to get the same ‘brand’ each time, etcetera etcetera.
THere is nothing wrong with pot, but just like anything including milk, too much is not good. Someone with an addictive personality who self-medicates with pot has an addiction problem.
I know. That was me.
+1
I know a lot of people in AA that regard themselves as addicted to pot, along with alcohol.
Physical dependency aside, people can become addicted to anything: shopping, gambling, sex, etc.
Her addiction is to fame.
Oops, just saw your post, I’m basically saying the same below.
I find the timing suspect? Miley was just smoking on TV @ the European Music Awards. I think that’s the motivator of her confession to how difficult her life is. Her 15 is up and lasted longer than it should have. If these people had real talent, they wouldn’t have to try so hard to be noticed.
Me too…
I think you can become “addicted” to anything, if you are psychologically dependent on it. I think she has more of an addiction to attention and yapping. Mostly yapping: yap, yap and yap.
She’s addicted to attention.
There is no hip surgery on the planet that confines you to a wheelchair for six months unless you shatter your pelvis, which she did not do… WTF is she talking about?
I work in a retirement home that has a rehab unit. I have hip replacements left and right. If those elderly people are made to get up and walk with a walker (non-weight bearing on the affected leg) a day or two after surgery, then surly that woman can.
I havent kept up with pot research but I am constantly baffled when I hear people say that pot isnt addictive atleast on an anecdotal level. I know two guys separately, who have been to treatment centres over pot use and who describe themselves as addicts. I think it more likely that pot is like alcohol, with most being able to manage their use and some just predisposed to abuse.
Yeah I was surprised to see ‘addicted’ in quotes because I’ve known people who were addicted to pot.
Sorry double post
I think it is mentioned in the article, but I believe the conventional wisdom is that you can become psychologically addicted to marijuana, but not physically addicted. (ie: if you quit abusing cocaine, crack, heroine, etc. there are strong physical and psychological effects that come from withdrawal) I think you can probably become psychologically addicted to just about anything.
It’s psychological dependence vs. physiological addiction. There is nothing in the physical properties of marijuana that make it addictive, unlike nicotine, alcohol, and many other drugs. Kicking weed was no big deal, physically, for me. Quitting cigarettes and caffeine are horses of a different color.
it has nothing to do with alcohol.Ihate when people compare these two things.
I am ashamed to say but I would consider myself to be a pot addict. I know it only makes you psychologically addicted, but I’ve gotten to a point that I really cannot eat, sleep or even relax without weed. I know it’s bad, but I’m already seeking treatment, and trust me: it is addiction, not ‘addiction’.
Oh, no! What if she can’t still be “brilliant” without being high? What a tragedy that would be.
I have genuine compassion for people who struggle with an addiction, although I would call this dependence, not addiction, and I do think that pressure comes with being famous, but I have a really hard time feeling sorry for someone who feels so sorry for themselves. Is that mean? Something in me just hardens against them. I think part of the solution is to take real responsibility for your actions, not to cloak excuses and self-pity as honesty.
that reminded me of that guy in my class back in the days: “its not addictive, i would know, i smoke it every day” 😀 so ehm why do you do it every day then?
you can become addicted to video games so yeah you can also become addicted to Marijuana. its just that Mary J has a lot bigger lobby, so people try to white wash it. if you do it recreationally (and thats not every day) and you are an adult than its not really dangerous. but as a teenager it has a negative effect on your brain. the earlier you start the smaller your IQ for example. memory and concentration problems are other side effects. if you smoke regulalry as a teenager your brain wont be able to fully develop.
Sarah can I find the study you are referring to? There is absolutely no research that states marijuana damages teenagers brain the way you state. None, because it does not exist.
No, marijuana does not have a larger lobby than Sony, Microsoft,Nintendo, ect. Marijuana has a relatively small lobby. Alcohol has an enormous lobby. So large in fact, it spends millions every year to keep marijuana illegal. If the marijuana lobby was a big as you state, there would be major changes on the federal level. There are not. All the changes you see in regard to legalization have come because of the grassroots. (pun intended)
Anything can become addicting . As far a drugs go marijuana is relatively benign.
…only posting b/c of your rude reply:
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blog.html?b=life.nationalpost.com/2013/07/25/marijuana-use-by-teens-linked-to-permanent-brain-abnormalities-later-in-life-u-s-study
…glad I started in my 20s!
Umnm…you’re preaching to the choir, my friend. Habitual user, long-time supporter.
SOCAL’s haughty “…the study doesn’t exist.” is why I posted that. It does exist. Do I agree with it? I have to plead ignorance as I only have a degree in Criminology and Psychology, neither of which gives valuable insight on the developing mind and/or the effects THC may have on it.
Okay here’s another haughty reply Amanduh.
That study was done on mice. Researchers have been studying this for 20 years. This is the closest they have gotten. There has been no link in humans.
I have a BS in Marketing and I am working on my Masters in Economics at UCSD.
Marijuana is my industry. I know my facts. Find a study that shows conclusively the link. There is none.
http://m.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-squeaky-wheel/201208/study-finds-regular-marijuana-use-damages-teenage-brains
…a longitudinal study not done on mice.
Where did the research done? What was the university? The link you provided was not in anyway conclusive. Show me one with actual facts.
http://m.pnas.org/content/early/2012/08/22/1206820109.abstract?sid=5b3ddb0d-8d4f-4165-a1dd-9ea3d35b2601#xref-corresp-1-1
Sarah/Amanduh that link does not give the information I requested. This is silly. There is no study that can prove conclusively the link. Are you even reading what you’re posting?
You’re right….a very simple Google search will link you to this study. I can read all the footnotes, references, dates, sources….not sure why you can’t?
My point was simple (well, supposed to be…): there are studies out there. Not the kind you prefer, but there are studies…
Anywhoo, this has been fun!! Now my damn search bar is all “marijuana and teens” lol. Good luck with your Masters!!
You are absolutely wrong. There are MANY MANY studies of the teenage brain stoned. It is harmful. Very harmful.
I read that link you posted and if you believe that then you deserve that ‘rude reply’. It’s incredibly funny that marijuana has been around since the dawn of time and yet there isn’t an large population of people walking around with voices in their heads. You do know that whole ‘introduced it to the mice slowly’ is a crock of bull when it reality what they’ve been doing has been loading the mice constantly with smoke from a gas mask? They did the same with monkeys as well. So all that smoke with NO OXYGEN coming in is what harms them, NOT the THC. Before marijuana was made illegal by the US Government it was used freely and often and then after it became illegal there came all the different excuses as to why it was made that way. That link you posted only further proves that it’s a different tool in creating cause for concern with marijuana which only feeds into the anti-marijuana legislation. So you can say that you’re glad you started in your twenties but all you’re doing with that ridiculous link is further misinforming people.
‘Why do you smoke it then?’ Because if you do any act once a day for seven days it’s a habit. Just like smoking a cigarette, just like exercising, just like using the bathroom at a certain time. Habit. Marijuana doesn’t have a large lobby- if it did then it would be legal in the way alcohol (oh hey that’s poison for your body) or pharmaceuticals (poison too!) are legal. Alcohol and pills which HAVE killed, which HAVE caused other disorders, which HAVE lead to organ failure are legal while no death, disorder, or organ failure has been caused by marijuana. Marijuana have positive effects for it’s users while you just take minutes, hours, days off of your life taking part in other substances. Hurm.
Umm…you’re preaching to the choir, my friend. Habitual user, long-time supporter.
I didn’t post the original comment, I was only replying to SOCAL’s haughty “…the study doesn’t exist.” comment. The study itself does exist. Do I agree with it? I have to plead ignorance as I only have a degree in Criminology and Psychology, neither of which gives valuable insight on the developing mind and/or the effects THC may have on it.
The first study was one done on mice. The second one you linked wasn’t credited. Nor have the “results” been replicated. My original point stands. The study does not exist.
I don’t believe asking someone for a source on medical evidence is haughty.
SOCAL: looks like the study was done at Duke.
And no, asking someone for a source is not haughty. Dismissing someone’s claim (even though there are studies…perhaps not the kind you’re looking for, but there ARE studies) and saying, “…because it doesn’t exist.” is rather haughty…
Didn’t mean to sound haughty. I am marketing research for the marijuana industry. If there was a convulsive study linking the two, I’d have heard about it and would have been working overtime trying to combat that (potentially) devastating road block to legalization.
Anyhow thanks for the luck, I’ll need it. Have a great night and thanks for the interesting thread. It was fun!
@ SOCAL: well now don’t I look like an arse. Here you are, working on one thing I’m pretty passionate about, and I get all “preachy”…
Sincerely sorry buddy…sometimes I just turn into a jerk and call people out on their ‘rude’ behaviour, when I myself am the one being rude.
Thank you for all that you’re doing in terms of legalization. I am a long-time supporter and partake (partoke? har har) regularly.
Best of luck with your studies and cause…
I have MS and use marijuana (legally, by prescription) every single night to control muscle spasms so that I can sleep. I have been using it this way for over 2 years and I am in no way addicted.
When I travel outside Canada I – of course – have to leave my medical marijuana at home. Other than having to deal with muscle spasms (not fun, but I survive) I have absolutely no withdrawal symptoms of any kind.
Yes, people can become psychologically dependent on weed, but there is no true “addiction”.
She’s on a little more than marijuana… I’ve read that she’s a coke head, and in desperate need of rehab.
That would explain her “Slumber Party” at the Chateau Marmont last year with Lindsay Lohan.
she has become a bit dull after her comeback hasn’t she?
I really liked her up until this “comeback” blitz that has been going on. For some reason she originally seemed very fresh and genuine and interesting.
I can’t put my finger on it, but NOW she seems like a poser/faker and like she’s trying to emulate who (and what) she once was.
I’m not sure what happened or what the disconnect is, but she’s not the same person she used to be – before she was just as colorful (more?) but now she just seems like she’s trying.
If she has to smoke 15 joints per day, she’s got some really crappy pot.
Right?! It’s like when my dad gives me some of the old man weed he smokes. I smoke an entire joint and I’m like ” hmmm maybe I’m a little high” while rolling the next one lol.
I remember when Elton John went off on a rant and said GaGa needed rehab…I’m sure he was not talking about her “weed” habit.
I don’t think you can actually be addicted to marijuana itself but I think you can definitely become addicted to the habit of smoking it. Like I’m addicted to the habit of eating grilled cheese but grilled cheese isn’t addictive, kwim? Melted Brie on french bread with cranberry salsa- is there a Betty Ford for that?
There are people who are addicted to the the Internet, video games, even digging their ears or eating Comet. You can become mentality addicted to anything.
…yes, YES, melted brie on french bread with cranberry salsa…keep going…
I find this dialogue far more interesting/relevant than a washed up cokehead crying “weed!” for attention.
Well, looking at a lot of songs on Artpop that are boring, she obviously doesn’t need drugs to be brilliant, because those songs are not brilliant and she was high when she wrote the album. Her next one can’t be any worse.
Yes, if applesauce, or whatever that song is called is the best on this new cd, what does the worst song sound like;
Glad a lot of the music I listen to is from the 60s/70s; the drug use was real (unfortunately), but it wasn’t an attention-seeking gimmick, and the music – zeppelin and marley and marvin and queen, etc. – stood on it’s own. I’ll bet she doesn’t even know or care who Janis Joplin was, and Janis was an original with way more talent than this retread gimmick.
She isn’t addicted to pot. No pot head would ever do half the crazy stuff she comes up with. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
She is trying so hard to be ‘edgy and shocking’ but she gave it all in one go. Her time is up or just make it about the music! Because she can really sing.
I chuckled at your comment remembering the Dave Chapelle skit and had to watch it again. Priceless.
I’m Rick James, bitch! Show me your titties.
I really think Gaga could benefit from settling down and having babies. She needs some normalcy in her life. She seems so lost in her own hype and all this crazy art pop shit that makes absolutely no sense to anyone. It’s kind of sad.
Oh, please God, no!!! Please no babies—no little monsters.
She’d probably wrap them in a tortilla, make them wear goggles and put a sponge on their top of their head, and proclaim that she “made art.”
Okay let me say this, cigarettes are addicting, not marijuana. When I stopped smoking cigarettes cold turkey 14 years ago, the first month was hell. No gum, no patches just stopped. I felt it throughout my entire body, and it was awful. I would never go back to it, and would love for my hubby to stop. Now weed I can honestly say there have been years where I didn’t smoke, and never for a moment felt any sense of a ‘with drawl’ from stopping. Do I smoke now, yes. It helps me tremendously to be able to sleep. But at times I stop, for instance if the budget just doesn’t allow it for a bit. I miss it yes, but am I experiencing any unpleasant effects by stopping? No. My husband had to give it up for his job, and though he misses it he was able to stop with no problem.
As for her claiming to smoke 15-20 joints day, IDK about that! I’d never get out of bed at that rate, and I would think with her money she’s smoking something really good.
I’ve been smoking pot for 26 years now, pretty much daily (well, I use a vaporizer now–I never put smoke into my lungs). I’ve taken months off at a time if looking for a job and needing to be clean for a drug test, or if I just want a weed break, but generally speaking, it’s just part of my life. I have Asperger’s and bipolar and it helps my anxiety HUGELY. That said, I’m not “addicted” and when stopping for a break or whatever, I don’t crave it or even really think about at all. I don’t get this “pot addiction” thing. Sure, for some addictive behavior is addictive behavior regardless or the substance or activity, but for the vast majority pot will just never ever be an issue. In my 26 years of pot smoking I have raised two well-adjusted children (who are 18 this year and off to college!), have bought and renovated a home by the ocean, have five college degrees (associates, bachelors, two masters, and the latest being my PhD in comparative lit), established a career as a teacher, I have established a business (a non-profit dog rescue), traveled the world (well, Canada, Europe, and Russia, so not exactly the world, I guess), had two books of poetry published, and adopted a child two years ago. My point? Pot is not necessarily an interference or hindrance in any way to living a normal life. I will use pot for the rest for my life. I use pot to calm my thoughts and reduce anxiety (which, for Asperger’s and bipolar combined can be rough) instead of drugs like benzos. For years docs pawned klonopin, xanax, and drugs that like on me, but they were too heavy and just bad. They made me depressed. Controlled use of pot keeps me on an even keel (along with my low doses of lithium, wellbutrin, and microdose of prozac). I am grateful for it, and also grateful to live in a state where pot is decriminalized. So, basically, Lady Gaga is an attention seeking ass and not much more. Of course, this is just my experience and I can only speak for myself.
On a side note, my son has Asperger’s as well. I’m truly impressed by all of your accomplishments (5 degrees!) but not surprised as I know full well that extreme intelligence is a ‘blessing’ that comes with the syndrome. I would hope to see such a list of his own accomplishments in the future. 🙂
Hear hear!! You should be the spokesperson for grass!
It drives me completely crazy when people rail against pot for being a gateway drug, blah blah blah. People who believe that crap have NO idea what they are talking about. There are many medical uses for marijuana & more are being discovered everyday.
THANK YOU.
The only negative is that it’s a habit just like anything else and just the habit of smoking it is what can be a drawback. Which is over in a matter of hours. I’ve too stopped several times and there hasn’t been any type of negative on my mood or personality. I’m so incredibly sick of seeing celebrities jump on the weed train when in reality they won’t admit their other addictions (hello white lady). Her coke problem was why her and her former best friend forever had a falling out and she went to rehab. These idiotic celebrities aren’t doing anything in helping the negative stigma of marijuana but only making it worse. You know half the people that will read her interview will believe her about being addicted to it because they believe everything they read from the internet or from an idiot that sings into a microphone.
Great comment.
I smoke a bowl almost every night, but I’ve also gone for months (and several years) without it. Sometimes I just want a break and other times I want to save money or simply don’t have access to it. I never freak out (like an, uh, ADDICT would)—not a big deal.
Anyway, as someone who suffers from severe insomnia, weed has been immensely helpful to me. I also notice that I have a generally improved sense of well-being when I’m smoking regularly. I never smoke before work or even socially, but I sure look forward to getting in bed at the end of a long day and relaxing with some MJ.
Am I addicted to it? Nope. That would be like accusing someone who has a beer or a glass of wine every night of having alcoholism.
Thank you!
Without marijuana my insomnia is at full swing and I have no appetite at all. There is still more tests that do need to be done on marijuana but we won’t see them in the way we have we alcohol or pills anytime soon due to the absent negatives of marijuana I’m afraid.
I call B.S.
Your name, my god I love it. Especially on a Gaga post.
Anybody else have that scene from Half Baked in their head? You know, the one where Dave Chappelle goes to an NA meeting and tells everyone that he’s “addicted” to pot and Bob Saget freaks on him? *laughing quietly to herself*
Definitely the first thing I thought to myself…
As someone who is a chronic pain sufferer I can relate to what she says about not even knowing where the pain is coming from and just needing to medicate medicate medicate. If you have chronic pain you get to the point where you don’t even feel the pain like a normal person, you just know that your body feels wrong, you have anxiety, you can’t live your life the way you want, you become totally out of touch with the actual sensations in your body, etc. I also use weed as a self medication and it’s hard for me to not smoke. No physical withdraw just the mental anguish of the way my body feels.
Anyway I finally, after many years, have been diagnosed with a spinal deformity and can begin to understand and face my pain. I will still use weed for pain management as it is better for me and easier to handle than pain killers and muscle relaxers.
What I have learned is that chronic pain sufferers should not be judged. It’s very hard for me to explain what it’s really like to no longer feel normal
physical pain because the body is so inundated with it, but to feel a sort of disconnect from your body and forget what normal sensation is like. Gaga drives me crazy but I feel like in this instance she is trying to talk about something that is very hard to express. I hope she gets the help she needs. Now that I am getting help I feel like my life is starting over, I hope the same for her.
I promise you she’s lying about pain. She’s trying to justify smoking marijuana due to the stigma it still has which she and the rest of these celebtards are further proving.
Just because some people quit pot with no side effects, doesn’t mean pot isn’t psychologically addictive. For plenty of people, it is. It’s not physical or dangerous to quit without supervision, like alcohol or benzodiazepines, but those quitting aren’t necessarily pleasant to be around. And not everyone chills out and relaxes when they smoke; I know someone who gets absolutely obnoxious and loud when he smokes, and cranky in between joints.
I hate the current whitewashing and over-hyping of marijuana as some purely beneficial herbal remedy for what ails you.
This is a great discussion! jc126 – I agree that I too am not sure it is an herbal ‘cure all’, but I have got to agree with Patricia and others up thread who lauded the pain and for some folks reported anxiety relieving (and other) qualities/side effects?of use of weed. I am not sure everyone is saying that they believe it is a CURE though. I think it can help with symptoms of disorders, conditions, etc. I have heard people rave about hemp oil and it’s ability to cure, but I don’t know . . .
Maybe kind of like taking cold “medicine” – right? When you take your kid to the Dr. and they prescribe Robitussin or whatever to help your kid FEEL better – you’re not always treating the disease, virus, whatever – just providing temporary relief from yucky symptoms. I can appreciate that pot is TEMPORARY relief, as opposed to maybe taking some really HEAVY sh-t.
‘”Marijuana” is what we’re calling “cocaine” these days, I guess’ – Now THAT is Kilarious! Love your posts, K.
GOD CAN WE PLEASE JUST NOT LET ANY CELEBRITY SMOKE WEED ANYMORE?! PLEASE.
You don’t get addicted to it, that dumb twit. What I would give to shove that piece around her eye into her eye! Miley, Bieber, this cunt. ALL they are doing is giving it a BAD name and further confirming the anti-marijuana propaganda! Please. Let me shove that gear looking glasses thing into her eye. PLEASE. I LOATHE this woman.
You DO become addicted to pot.
Give a habitual marijuana user a drug that blocks their absorption of THC, and they will immediately go into physical withdrawal.
The reason why people don’t generally get those withdrawal symptoms when they stop is because THC builds up in your fat cells. When you quit cold turkey, the THC keeps leeching out of your fat cells for up to a year afterward.
So you’re really tapering off the drug very gradually, not quitting cold turkey. It’s only due to this quirk of nature that people think marijuana is not addictive. In fact, it really is.
And now I’ll turn off my serious face and note that Gaga looks really pretty in that first photo! I still really like her, all fame-whoring aside.
You need an education. Watch The Union. Pot is not addictive.
Uh, I found the word in your sentence that causes the ‘physical withdrawal’ and that word is DRUG.
Inform yourself please. I’ve quit marijuana (OMG cold turkey even!!) a lot over the course of the years out of just boredom of smoking or a job and there has never been a single damn time there has EVER been a physical withdrawal. Dear god do you believe every single thing you read from the internet? Why not try reading comments cause uh, a lot of these ladies have smoked and quit and there has never been any negative to their bodies- mine included.
But then again I’m sure you believe that alcohol isn’t really all that bad for a person as well as actual pain killers cause it’s legal. PFFT.
Try reading what I wrote and actually comprehending it.
I explained why there are no physical symptoms of withdrawal when you quit cold turkey.
Oh geez…..
Comments like these are why I’m so outspoken about the fact that I smoke pot.
Education, education, education, people…
Please PLEASE don’t speak publicly about marijuana unless you are educated. We don’t need more people reinforcing an existing stigma based on misinformation about pot.
Sorry, but no. You’re wrong.
I like weed. And I don’t like gaga. But I’ve had plenty of friends who wanted to stop smoking, and couldn’t, despite negative effects on their mental health, motivation, weight etc. And people who smoke huge quantities daily can do themselves major damage.
You can say that about donuts – but we don’t call donuts an addictive substance.
Donuts don’t give people psychosis
For anyone interested, a fantastic interview with Howard Stern. It’s a wide-ranging interview, no holds barred. I love his interviews. It’s never just route questions. I loved his questions dissecting some of the Fame/Fame Monster songs, and she told the truth about the Perez Hilton public breakdown of their friendship and his hate for her now. She admitted during her drugging a year ago when she was out of her mind she was injecting her face with filler all the time until some people close to her professionally stopped her and told her she wasn’t looking like herself . And she plays the piano and sings. It was interesting she wrote the hit Telephone for Pussycat Dolls and they passed and then Britney Spears recorded it and didn’t use it and she took the song back. At the time her team didn’t know if she was going to be huge and she was still writing for other stars and especially sexy songs were given to other stars because they didn’t consider she was pretty enough and dressed too weird for sexy music. An interesting trajectory of her career. LOL I loved her discussion about in this celebrity obsessed culture how a reality star like Kardashians being mentioned in the same sentence as creative artists like Michael Jackson. Kanye will have a fit to that.
http://ladyxgaga.com/post/66782925165/check-out-this-interview-gaga-did-with-howard
I meant “rote.”
gaga is full of it. I don’t think she ever came clean about her hiatus. I bet she was in rehab.
Just read thru all the posts.
I cannot believe all of the people here who say pot is not addictive. How the heck would you know if you are NOT addicted to it?
I know many many people (member of mental health forum) who are addicted to pot. They crave the drug. They need the drug to survive. They cannot stop using.
Just because you take it for pain, or muscle spasms or anxiety and you are not addicted and can stop when you want does not mean EVERYONE can stop when they want.
Why do you think so many people can drink and not be alcoholics? It is the same with pot. I have a friend who is a major alcoholic but can smoke pot at will. I am the opposite. I have an issue with pot but no problem with alcohol. Mostly because it just makes me sick if I drink too much.
ANYTHING can be an addiction but not every addiction is harmful. I am addicted to a certain author’s audio books. I listed to them over and over and over. Cannot stop. But this does no harm.
One thing about pot. You can take a sip of wine and not be drunk. YOu take a hit of pot and you are stoned.
This is the dumbest thing I’ve heard in a long time. A sip of alcoholic beverage and a puff of marijuana smoke are NOT comparable. Instead, let’s compare how many lives are ruined by pot vs alcohol. I do not currently smoke weed, but I have and probably will again, and yes, emotional and habitual dependency can occur with marijuana, but physiological and physical addiction is impossible. You take away alcohol from an addicted alcoholic, and they can DIE from physical WITHDRWAWAL, like… Cardiac arrest and other organ failure. Take away weed from even the most serious pot head, and yeah, they may get cranky, but they won’t die, in fact, they’ll probably truthfully just be cranky cos it’s fun to smoke, but they’ll eventually keep it moving, like I did. Get real, get the facts,and don’t talk about stuff you know nothing about, cos you obviously are not a pot smoker.
Ps, lady gaga is friggin idiot.
wow, such anger.
I know potaholics, alcoholics, heroin abusers, former crackheads, pill poppers, etc.
Comparing any addiction to any other is wrong. Just like comparing any person to another. We are all different, we all have different chemistry. Obviously heroin is much more dangerous than pot, as meth is much more dangerous than alcohol. However, ANYTHING can be dangerous to anyone. Just like a car in the wrong hands is a lethal weapon and for someone else it is a way to commute to work.
I wish I wasn’t a pot smoker. I am trying harm reduction. Cutting back, not quitting altogether.