To ask for your experiences of living with a regular weed smoker?

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My dh has smoked weed daily since I've known him and he now seems moodier and with a shorter temper than ever. I know these can be side effects but then they can also be side effects of daily life. I find I'm walking on eggshells more and more. Any experience of this or advice? Thanks

Of course it's overstated. The fear mongering about Skunk is rife in our media here in the UK. About 10 years ago radio 4's 'You and Yours' devoted an entire week to the dangers of cannabis misuse. It was all somewhat sensationalist and hysterical. Choosing to focus on the psychosis and paranoia that smokers will doubtlessly experience if they smoke too much. I was invited to join in one of the shows. I made the point that the overwhelming majority of smokers won't end up committing mass murder and end up in a padded cell. But young people who overuse do risk seeing their best years and there opportunities slip away, through being too stoned into apathy to recognise them or do anything about them. I was edited out........

www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html

iJon I don't know a huge amount, not being in this area any more, but apparently about half the people coming into drug services voluntarily self-referring have heavy cannabis habits now (might be with something else too though). So, if you wanted to go anonymously in and get help, that would be just fine- and they wouldn't think it was too trivial to deal with.

There are lots of private clinics offering expensive treatments, but I'd ask your local NHS drug services first to see what they offer- they are now called 'recovery services' so that it's not as stigmatizing, but I think often people think they are only for really hard-core multiple drug/heroin addictions and they are not. If in London, there may even be specialist groups for cannabis addicts.

Many people who smoke cannabis daily, esp if with tobacco are essentially nicotine addicts, so if this applies to him, he could seek treatment in Stop Smoking services, they see a lot of daily weed smokers too.

Weed smokers are the most boring people on earth.

Agree heartily with youboden. The problem is, they don't see themselves as others experience them.

I work in an industry (at a firm anyway) where there are quite a few smokers. It's pretty obvious who puffs and who doesn't just by the wavelength they seem to be on..

I was married to a man in my early twenties who was a heavy cannabis smoker. Never again. It was the worst experience of my life. He was angry, paranoid, jealous, controlling and very, very aggressive ( he would start fights in the street with random strangers, for example, because they 'looked' at me). I left him when I was pregnant with my DD. I saw him last month for the first time in 18 years and he was a mere shell of a man. He takes very heavy medication due to being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. The doctors who diagnosed him think his very heavy and early cannabis use has had a massive role to play in him developing such debilitating mental health problems. It doesn't surprise me at all.

Thanks HP