Actually, heavy users experience withdrawal for up to 3 months. I used to smoke about ten joints a day, and decided to quit. About two weeks later, I had the weirdest spell at work - I got dizzy, I became confused, I fainted - my boss took me to the hospital, and when I spoke to the doctor (after my boss had left, obviously) we eventually touched upon my history of cannabis use and after running tests, the doctor said I was most likely experiencing withdrawal and advised me that withdrawal can continue for up to three months.
I'm not saying weed is addictive for everyone, but for habitual users, it can become addictive in the same way anything you use to block out your problems can. People who eat a lot of fast food experience dizziness and withdrawal from the sugar, as well, when they quit. Weed definitely isn't addictive in the same way as heroin or cigarettes, but for some people, they absolutely can become addicted. And they can go through incessant cravings and withdrawal.
To the OP - for me, the longer you go without weed, the less you remember what it felt like, and the easier it is to go without. My advice would be to put yourself in a situation where you simply can't get hold of it (at your parents, maybe, or on holiday) for about five days - after that, it becomes a hell of a lot easier. For a heavy smoker, the first few days after are by far the worst. get through them, and it's pretty easy.
Since the only thing pot does is take sugar from one's blood stream, there cannot be any more physical effects after abut 24 hours, than if you didn't eat for 24 hours. Your doctor is misinformed and whatever was going on with you had absolutely nothing to do with doing pot several months earlier. My father was a surgeon and studied the effects of pot in clinical trials for over 20 years and other than the physical damage of taking any kind of substance into one's lungs, found absolutely no connection to incidents like yours or any physical withdrawal symptoms at all. None, zilch, period.
There is a huge amount of misinformation about pot out there, mainly generated by our government, because if the "war on drugs" ever ends, a great many rich and powerful people will lose a great source of income and many others will become unemployed.
'My doctor was misinformed' whereas clearly you're extremely informed, due to your 5+ years of medical school. A surgeon is very different from a doctor and has entirely different training, if your dad really was a surgeon he would not be involved in such a study. I understand why you're saying this stuff, as I said I'm not claiming weed is bad or intrinsically addictive, just that for people who have used it incessantly it becomes addictive in the same way that other healthy things (in moderation) like food and sex do.
On a different note, the war on drugs is a lot more complicated then you think. The government isn't perpetuating war simply because it hates you getting high - what exactly do you think happens to the criminals making fortunes off of drugs if the war on drugs goes away? The cartels dissolve and they just melt back in to society? A lot more legitimate, tax-paying citizens would become EMPLOYED if the war on drugs ended - cartels kill lots of people and are generally all-round bad guys who don't put their money back into society and don't benefit the government in any way. The government doesn't perpetuate the war on drugs to piss off casual drug-users, it is impossible for them to sanction the cartels, and at the moment there is no real alternative to keeping on fighting them.
Oh, for crying out loud. "government doesn't perpetuate the war on drugs to piss off casual drug-users," Really? Are you that naive? The government doesn't give a rat's ass about the casual drug-users, addicts and dealers in society. It's ALL about the money that the politicians, their friends and cohorts make from the "war on drugs". From drug testing and consortiums to privatizing prisons, police force budgets and rehab clinics. It is ALL about the money being made in the "war on drugs". The US has a greater percentage of it's population in prison than any other country on earth and the vast majority of them are in for a minor amount of pot. Real dangers to society, those pot heads.
Oh, and by the way, a surgeon is a doctor (MD) before he becomes a surgeon (a specialist). Not at all different training, just much, much more.
All of that actually costs the government a fuck-ton of money. An irrespective of that, it's impossible to simply end the war on drugs because the war on drugs is actually largely waged against gangs of hardened criminals and murderers (cartels) and it's kinda hard to stop fighting them. There's no point arguing with a conspiracy theorist, but actually my dad is President of the United States and did his President-training in a Mexican cartel with Scarface so I think you will find that I know more about this than you do.
Gypsy might have gone a little too far but by no means are they a conspiracy theorist. The war on drugs is ridiculous and only BENEFITS the cartels. By banning pot you've given the cartels all the power. Legalizing drugs = no black market = no cartel control.
Legalising pot, or legalising heroin, cocaine, etc? Weed only accounts for 30% of cartels annual profits (http://www.insightcrime.org/news-analysis/study-legalization-cut-cartel-profits-by-30)
Cartels make 30 bn a year from selling drugs to the US. What d'you think happens when that money goes? They go work in Mcdonalds?
I'm sorry, you really are incredibly naive, aren't you? It's not the fucking government who makes the money, jesus fucking christ!, it's the fat cats who own the private prisons, the drug treatment centers, the drug testing centers, companies that supply the equipment to the PD's to fight the stupid war on drugs, etc.
Get a grip; if it weren't profitable, the fat cats wouldn't care the tiniest bit about the "hardened criminals and murderers (cartels)" (who do you think supplies the cartels with weapons and equipment to use against the war on drugs?). They are insulated, living a life you couldn't possibly imagine.
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Actually, heavy users experience withdrawal for up to 3 months. I used to smoke about ten joints a day, and decided to quit. About two weeks later, I had the weirdest spell at work - I got dizzy, I became confused, I fainted - my boss took me to the hospital, and when I spoke to the doctor (after my boss had left, obviously) we eventually touched upon my history of cannabis use and after running tests, the doctor said I was most likely experiencing withdrawal and advised me that withdrawal can continue for up to three months.
I'm not saying weed is addictive for everyone, but for habitual users, it can become addictive in the same way anything you use to block out your problems can. People who eat a lot of fast food experience dizziness and withdrawal from the sugar, as well, when they quit. Weed definitely isn't addictive in the same way as heroin or cigarettes, but for some people, they absolutely can become addicted. And they can go through incessant cravings and withdrawal.
To the OP - for me, the longer you go without weed, the less you remember what it felt like, and the easier it is to go without. My advice would be to put yourself in a situation where you simply can't get hold of it (at your parents, maybe, or on holiday) for about five days - after that, it becomes a hell of a lot easier. For a heavy smoker, the first few days after are by far the worst. get through them, and it's pretty easy.
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Since the only thing pot does is take sugar from one's blood stream, there cannot be any more physical effects after abut 24 hours, than if you didn't eat for 24 hours. Your doctor is misinformed and whatever was going on with you had absolutely nothing to do with doing pot several months earlier. My father was a surgeon and studied the effects of pot in clinical trials for over 20 years and other than the physical damage of taking any kind of substance into one's lungs, found absolutely no connection to incidents like yours or any physical withdrawal symptoms at all. None, zilch, period.
There is a huge amount of misinformation about pot out there, mainly generated by our government, because if the "war on drugs" ever ends, a great many rich and powerful people will lose a great source of income and many others will become unemployed.
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'My doctor was misinformed' whereas clearly you're extremely informed, due to your 5+ years of medical school. A surgeon is very different from a doctor and has entirely different training, if your dad really was a surgeon he would not be involved in such a study. I understand why you're saying this stuff, as I said I'm not claiming weed is bad or intrinsically addictive, just that for people who have used it incessantly it becomes addictive in the same way that other healthy things (in moderation) like food and sex do.
On a different note, the war on drugs is a lot more complicated then you think. The government isn't perpetuating war simply because it hates you getting high - what exactly do you think happens to the criminals making fortunes off of drugs if the war on drugs goes away? The cartels dissolve and they just melt back in to society? A lot more legitimate, tax-paying citizens would become EMPLOYED if the war on drugs ended - cartels kill lots of people and are generally all-round bad guys who don't put their money back into society and don't benefit the government in any way. The government doesn't perpetuate the war on drugs to piss off casual drug-users, it is impossible for them to sanction the cartels, and at the moment there is no real alternative to keeping on fighting them.
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Oh, for crying out loud. "government doesn't perpetuate the war on drugs to piss off casual drug-users," Really? Are you that naive? The government doesn't give a rat's ass about the casual drug-users, addicts and dealers in society. It's ALL about the money that the politicians, their friends and cohorts make from the "war on drugs". From drug testing and consortiums to privatizing prisons, police force budgets and rehab clinics. It is ALL about the money being made in the "war on drugs". The US has a greater percentage of it's population in prison than any other country on earth and the vast majority of them are in for a minor amount of pot. Real dangers to society, those pot heads.
Oh, and by the way, a surgeon is a doctor (MD) before he becomes a surgeon (a specialist). Not at all different training, just much, much more.
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All of that actually costs the government a fuck-ton of money. An irrespective of that, it's impossible to simply end the war on drugs because the war on drugs is actually largely waged against gangs of hardened criminals and murderers (cartels) and it's kinda hard to stop fighting them. There's no point arguing with a conspiracy theorist, but actually my dad is President of the United States and did his President-training in a Mexican cartel with Scarface so I think you will find that I know more about this than you do.
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Gypsy might have gone a little too far but by no means are they a conspiracy theorist. The war on drugs is ridiculous and only BENEFITS the cartels. By banning pot you've given the cartels all the power. Legalizing drugs = no black market = no cartel control.
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Legalising pot, or legalising heroin, cocaine, etc? Weed only accounts for 30% of cartels annual profits (http://www.insightcrime.org/news-analysis/study-legalization-cut-cartel-profits-by-30)
Cartels make 30 bn a year from selling drugs to the US. What d'you think happens when that money goes? They go work in Mcdonalds?
I'm sorry, you really are incredibly naive, aren't you? It's not the fucking government who makes the money, jesus fucking christ!, it's the fat cats who own the private prisons, the drug treatment centers, the drug testing centers, companies that supply the equipment to the PD's to fight the stupid war on drugs, etc.
Get a grip; if it weren't profitable, the fat cats wouldn't care the tiniest bit about the "hardened criminals and murderers (cartels)" (who do you think supplies the cartels with weapons and equipment to use against the war on drugs?). They are insulated, living a life you couldn't possibly imagine.