Marijuana Anonymous of Albany, NY

08/28/2025

I remember when I first tried to start an MA meeting in the Albany area. I met this guy at the MA convention in NYC who lived up here. So we decided to get a meeting going. We found a great church near Siena in the Latham area which is in the middle of the Capital District, and it had easy access and plenty of free parking and was safe. So we got it all ready and started a land meeting. Then after two lousy meetings this contemptible POS made up some phony excuse and ran off on me like the coward he was. So for about 7 more months I tried to keep the meeting going by myself and a friend from NA who never smoked pot but came by occasionally to keep me company.
Someone said I should love the MA miscreant who bugged out on me. Why? I never bought into that "you have to love everyone unconditionally" malarkey. If someone is trying to hack me to bits, I am not going to love him just because I met him at a meeting a couple of times. And if you don't care about or GAF about someone, telling them you love them is phony AF. He certainly never GAF about me and screwed MA too. But the sad thing is that the allergy to service in MA is endemic, not fringe thing. I have been asking people to serve at every meeting for years. It's even in the script, You don't have to be my buddy if you do service, but you do have to show up and do your part when you are up to serve and attend most of the other meetings too. It is not a onerous task at all. It gets lonely doing it all by myself.

08/28/2025

Yeah I am really pi**ed off and at the end of my rope about this meeting. For years I have been running the meeting on my own and covering almost all the costs of even the $15 then $17 a month Zoom license fees. But I feel really hurt that not one of these lazy phukks have ever committed to being a trusted servant for more than a couple meetings. Meetings need a group of trusted and dependable servants to be effective. I don't want this meeting to be MY MEETING. So last night I got the meeting going, cut the audio, pointed the camera at the ceiling and used this as my background image. Then I just let it run without any intervention.

07/04/2025

And stay pot free too!

04/02/2025

This is inteersting but not definitive. But as far as mental health issues go, there is a solid link between long time pot use and depression, bi-polar...

Research shows cannabis causes major changes to your DNA.

Long-term cannabis use has been shown to cause changes in the human body's epigenome, according to a study of over 1,000 adults.

The research looked at how cannabis affects DNA without changing the actual genetic code.

The epigenome controls which genes turn on or off. One way it does this is through DNA methylation—adding small chemical tags to DNA that affect how cells read genetic instructions.

Researchers from Northwestern University followed people aged 18 to 30 over 20 years. They collected blood samples at the 15 and 20-year marks and compared the DNA methylation of people who had used cannabis either recently or over a long period.

They found 22 DNA changes linked to recent cannabis use and 31 linked to long-term use in the first set of samples, and 132 changes linked to recent use and 16 to long-term use in the second set.

One DNA change was the same as one seen in to***co users, suggesting cannabis and to***co may affect the body in similar ways. Some of the changes have been linked to things like cell growth, hormone activity, infections, brain disorders like schizophrenia, and drug addiction.

But the researchers say the study doesn’t prove that cannabis causes these health problems. It only shows a connection between cannabis use and changes in the body that might affect health.

More research is needed to understand what these changes actually mean and whether they lead to health problems later in life. The researchers noted future studies should include more diverse groups to confirm the findings. They also believe this research could help inform public health decisions and improve understanding of cannabis’s long-term effects on the body.

learn more https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-023-02106-y

03/20/2025

I wonder if these times are correct because it's happening when most of the US is in bed.

01/12/2025

MAWS is the best source on addiction to cannibis

When we give up the drug of our choice, a void is created. The initial struggle to abstain from ma*****na use often leaves us vulnerable...Although we may not now be addicted to these substances, their use can lower our inhibitions and leave us open to repeating old patterns of thinking and behavior, which can lead back to ma*****na use or on to new addictions... Read the entire pamphlet at MA12.org/Cross-Addiction

*****naAnonymous

01/07/2025

𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, "𝐈 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤..." Where as ma*****na addicts, we will share old beliefs of how we thought it used to help us and what we know now.

*****na *****naAnonymous

01/02/2025

11/24/2024

We have a New Day, Time and Name for Our 1 Zoom Video Meeting. It's "Swimming to Shore" at 6 PM Wednesdays EST with the same Zoom URL

10/05/2024

Sorry to a couple of people who were at today's meeting that I was going to send emails and chips to. I closed the meeting thinking that I could access the previous chat contents. But the only previous chats I could access after I closed the meeting were the ones to the whole group, but not DMs to me. So if you failed to get your chips or confirmation email, just email me at web@ma-albany.org.