Should I Stop Smoking Weed?

Hey guys, I'm kinda new at this hub thing, but that's not why I'm writing this... I've been smoking weed for quite a few years now and I need to know if what's happening to me when I blaze lately is common or not. I'm not sure how bad it is or if it gets worse, but maybe by sharing my experience with you I can find out if I should stop smoking weed or not.

O.k. when i first smoked some marijuana it felt kinda cool and spacy. I used to hang out with a few friends who always had some bud stashed away, so we started to smoke pot like every day... After a while it just seemed like I wanted to catch a better quality buzz, so we started pitching in for some crazy chronic weed. The skunk bud must have psychologically made me addicted to this stuff real bad, because if I didn't have some, I just became real cranky and pissed off at everyone for no reason.

At the time, I was working at this pizza joint part-time and barely had enough money to pay for school, but that didn't stop me from wasting a bunch of cash on hairy cannabis... I started taking money out from my savings and even did the stupid thing of getting some cash advance from my cards... Man, the weed made me care about nothing, i hardly ever payed the card on time, missed a bunch of school and just ended up lying to make up stories as if everything was going well with me.

But the real problems started showing up lately, I mean when smoking weed. I can't seem to get that bliss that I got earlier after burning bowls. Then i feel like something is really bothering me, as if something is just creeping down my spine and giving me messed up thoughts about people and life, like as if everyone sucks, they're losers and worthless... i friken hate that feeling and was wondering if it happens to you guys too?

Sometimes I'll get real anxious and nervous about the smallest things that never were a problem before. I can hardly be around people because of it, it just feels like everyone knows that i'm stoned and that i'll become a homeless some day if I don't stop smoking marijuana someday.

There's more, but I think you get the point, some really weird & unpleasant side-effects are happening, i need to know if any of you out there had to also stop smoking weed because of these things. Is is really possible to be addicted to marijuana? I mean, I've never really heard about someone struggling with a marijuana addiction. Most potheads just don't stop smoking marijuana because they don't want to, at least that's what i thought.

But recently, I tried to go cold turkey and quit pot, it felt like i was in a dream state, neither up or down, it freaked me out so i just lit up another joint to get out of it. I don't know man, smoking weed just isn't what it was for me when I started out. I'm sure that not everyone is the same, and different people experience different things. But I do know for a fact that some people just simply get tired of marijuana and just up and quit! yet others like me feel like we have to keep smoking for some stupid reason.

So after listening to my rant, what kind of advice or info can you fill me in on about this dilemma i'm in? Should I stop smoking pot? What kind of stories do you know of when folks never quit smoking pot? How bad off am I?