I suspect that you don’t consider yourself really addicted to marijuana. Most users don’t think they are addicted. After all, you are certain you can stop any time you want to. The fact that you never get around to wanting to stop never enters your mind. When you are forced into situations where you see you can’t stop, you get mad at everyone else but never mad at marijuana.<\/p>\n
Here’s one list of addiction symptoms from Narconon<\/a>:<\/p>\n I’ve seen points 2 through 6 in your behavior. That is why I know you are an addict. It isn’t enough to admit that you use marijuana, you have to face the reality of the situation: you are addicted to marijuana. You are not a free man. You don’t have control over your life. You live a lie if you think you do.<\/p>\n “They have struck me, but I was not hurt; They have beaten me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake, that I may seek another?<\/em>” (Proverbs 23:35).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPrior Lesson\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSearching for My Friend\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNext Lesson\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Addicted I suspect that you don’t consider yourself really addicted to marijuana. Most users don’t think they are addicted. After all, you are certain you can stop any time you want to. The fact that you never get around to wanting to stop never enters your mind. When you are forced into situations where you…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":25976,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-65781","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":65806,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/bible-studies\/searching-for-my-friend\/growing-pains\/","url_meta":{"origin":65781,"position":0},"title":"Growing Pains (Searching)","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 12, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Growing Pains by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Satan is never content with trapping a person in a single sin. 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Symptoms of Marijuana Addiction:<\/h3>\n
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