Alcoholism

I have seen the affects of cannibis on alcoholism..some call it replacing an addition, but when one weighs the differences on health between the two... I have also seen that used appropriately, It can help control the cravings the alcoholic feels.

Part of the reason I'm prescribed medical marijuana - in addition to other reasons - is as an alcohol replacement. It is in a sense replacing an addiction, but then again I only feel the need to get drunk once a month or so, so I'd say it works.

I think it works, but it serves as a better replacement if you did not smoke when you had a drinking problem, or even smoked just a little. That's just what I am guessing, I am sure there are people out there who would feel differently.

I know it works as I am proof. Haven't had a drink in 7 yrs. But then again it all depends on the makeup of the person. Some will trade one for the other, but alcohol is the one that will kill you.

a few hits from a pipe help kill my cravings for a while...

It helps but i i seem to need a cold beer to get rid of the dry mouth........ ;)

its real i had to stop drinking after about 17 years of hardcore drinking like about $1500
A WEEK hardcore and i actually died twice trying to quit and if it wasn't for weed i'm sure i would have had a harder time quiting or even ended up dead. so yay weed!!!

Guaranteed, it honestly helped me back off of pretty much killing myself thru alcohol abuse. I would drink a fifth of rum every day. I lost weight, and pretty much went down the tubes in health. One day I put my mind to quitting drinking (or come almost to a stop anyway). Man, the withdrawal kicked my azz. So I went back to drinking. I hated myself for being weak and cold-turkey'd a second time, this time though, made sure there wasn't a drink in the house. When my drunkeness wore off, I got really sick and decided to try to sleep it off with a bowl of good weed - Whalala!!!!The alcohol side effects became non existent. My appetite jumped thru the roof, and I slept better than I had in years. Seeing this article only proves what I thought happened; it stopped my cravings etc... I still drink maybe once a week and only 1/3 of a fifth. I don't ever want to go thru that again...

Medical Marijuana has saved me from my binge drinking chaos. I can't speak more highly for what I call "weed therapy." I have a fb pg deciated to this called Robyn-Love. My purpose is to spread this message to others who has suffered from alcohol. I myself came to deaths doors steps two times from DUI. God save me for a reason, my purpose. Please like my page and contiune to spread the word. Weed is medicine and can save the world. Much LOVE.

Bud is going to save the world. We live in an Orwellian world where: war=peace, ignorance is strength, debt = wealth, and truth is hate. Alcohol is the poisoning of our society in ego, hate, ignorance, and division. Bud is waking the world up to the TRUTH that we all come from and return to the same source.

"Weed therapy" is an important part of the healing process of the humanity. Hopefully the People will embrace groups like the above Robyn-Love as the REAL, LEGITIMATE healers in our society. All the worst things I have done in my life were on alcohol. It should be shown to be the destroyer of society and lives that it is. Not some TV promoted celebration of the good life. That idea is a death wish. Fck alcohol.

I would LOVE if you that posted would post your testimonials on my facebook page Robyn-Love http://www.facebook.com/pages/Robyn-Love/245616568824158

It is so important that we spread this message. It can SAVE LIVES!
Thank you! ~Robyn-Love

MMJ saved my life as far as alcoholism goes. I was literally dying from alcohol abuse. Its still a struggle from day to day, but thanks to MMJ I have been sober from alcohol for over a year. This is after a good 19 yrs of serious drinking and clinical detoxes+rehabs. Not anymore! thank you Mother Earth.

So i talked to my mom about this and her reasoning is that people should be able to control their substance abuse, when they use and how much they use. Even tho its trading addictions. I like to mix but now i get to violent when i drink so i just blaze.

Cannabis for the treatment of alcohol dependance is excellent way to help deal with the anxiety, insomnia, and many other associated symptoms. But, unfortunately it appears that whoever wrote this blurb did so by glancing at a couple article he or she did not understand or read for that matter.

See, the problem is that suggesting cannabis for the treatment of alcohol withdrawal is not only irresponsible, it is life-threateningly dangerous. THC binding to CB1 receptors is great and all, but what you need to be looking at is GABA. To skip a long explanation, extremely heavy drinkers such as alcoholics change their brain's neurochemistry, and if they stop drinking, they can get gran mal seizures. IF they survive those, they can expect more seizures and add haucinations for up to a week as the delerium tremens come on. Without properpharmaceutical intervention, some sources put the mortality rate as high as 50%.

The INSERM/CAD/Complutense University study mentioned doesn't seem to actually exist, at least not in the form purported. The closest thing I've been able to find is a youtube video of a local news reporter mentioning a CANCER study, not anything do do with seizures. There is no mention of any such study at any of the respective organizations web pages, and a JSTOR search didn't bring up anything either. That means if it exists, it was never published. Also, a JSTOR search for "Cannabis for Alcohol Dependence" produces zero results, but I digress.

This isn't something that just happens to a rare few. I myself have had no less than 2 of such seizures, and been hospitalized 5 times for alcohol withdrawal. If I had been trying to self medicate and treat my alcohol withdrawals with cannabis, I would not be alive today. Please remember, I'm not talking about cannabis for treatment of alcohol addiction but rather the acute withdrawal symptoms.

I've always smoked weed and really don't drink and have never done shrooms or other drugs my friends around me were doing.

^2 up wrong wrong wrong

the guy ^3 up is 100% right. After and ONLY after successful alcohol WITHDRAWAL treatment either by pharmaceuticals or tapering (requires an iron will to do tapering but before the recent dawn of pharmaceuticals people use to taper since people started drinking thousands of years ago) should you begin using cannabis as a substitute and never as the actual treatment. You can of course smoke pot while recovering from withdrawal correctly by pharmas or tapering, it helps reduce nausea, anxiety but it's not the same high..trust me...f'ing alcohol withdrawal sucks the joy even out of being high, but it still has medicinal effects as mentioned (cannabis i mean).
First of all, have you ever been in alcohol withdrawal and smoked pot...it feels weird and seems to get the weird feelings intensify (but it's an illusion, it DOES help) a bit..you dont enjoy the high that much but it does reduce nausea and can help sleep if the withdrawal symptoms are not that intense (and sleep is GOLDEN when recovering from withdrawal...and also very hard).
Remember folks taper or do pharma...if you have the will..taper! you will be tapering down on pharmas anyways, and successfully tapering down on booze feels amazing to your self-esteem.
Then when you get out of withdrawal...smoke weed and forget the booze! If you like booze and want to return to drinking...wait at least a month after you stop tapering, smoke that weed and heal :)
If you do return remember to keep it in moderation, rule is if you feel buzzed and you had anything to drink in the last 30 mins...you will upgrade to light drunk soon, that's the perfect state! stop after you feel buzzed.
And remember, your liver, your brain, your heart pressure...it's all at stake become a pothead not a drunk again!

Sources: my own trip to hell (withdrawal) and my journey to back to Earth (succesful tapering) and eventual rise to heaven (became a pothead as an adult once again [after being one in high school and then stopin and becoming a drunk in adulthood] and never looked back)

Extra: the tapering guide that worked for me: Tapering guide! (for strong wills and MILD withdrawals, HEAVY withdrawals SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION, for more info google search the criteria for MILD and HEAVY alcohol withdrawal)

i think drinking is a waste unless its the holidays than a rum n coke or 2 maybe but i will alwayz take a zip of some fine indica over a fifth of death in a bottle stay medicatd yall one love srhsoldier 420 4 life

Does anybody even consider maybe not needing a substance at all? Here to tell ya . . . it's nice.

Going through mild (if you want to call it that) alcohol withdrawal the last few weeks after drinking almost every day for the last 5 years. Always used to swear cannabis was where its at and that I would never become a heavy drinker, but at some point I slipped into alcoholism and tried to downplay it the whole time. It was a liter of whiskey or vodka a week for a while and then I switched to beer and cut down but it was still controlling me. Matter of fact I was mostly quitting for financial reasons at first but started realizing how harmful it was b/c of the withdrawal symptoms. I have to say the intense panic attacks have to be the worst, and since I stopped smoking herb the last 2 weeks also it has made even tougher for my mind to relax. I am still trying to decide if I should wait a few months to smoke again or if cannabis is fully safe to use now and won't derail my recovery from alcohol abuse. Looking at the responses here though it seems like I shouldn't worry too much about lighting up. I guess sometimes it takes years just to remember what we already know...

i am a recovering alcoholic and cannabis helps me everyday.

I am also a recovering alcoholic,i was drinking a litre of vodka daily.
Last year i was in hospital nearly 10 times due to withdrawals.Unfortunately each time i went back to drinking only a few weeks,even after the hell i kept putting myself through.I was having severe anxiety to the point i wanted to cut my wrist,panic attacks where i would get pin and needles all over my body and not being able to breath and also hallucinations of seeing tropical fish floating amongst things,voices and music in my head and also shakes and major sweating,insomnia and puking up my stomach lining.
I honestly thought i would never stop craving to drink as soon as i felt better,but now when i have alcohol cravings i simply roll a joint and the cravings go away.I am even starting to feel alot better mentally and eating properly again.My depression has dramatically dropped and i am starting to think i actually can beat alcoholism once and for all,which i thought was highly unlikely.
I did find when going through major withdrawals the cannabis made my anxiety worse but it works differently in some people.
Now i hardly get alcohol cravings and when they come they are not so overpowering.