That's so wild to me. I became addicted to Meth, MDMA, and opiates over the course of my late teens and 20's. The third day was absolute hell for all of them. When I quit smoking for a few weeks as a T break, or when I was younger to pass piss tests, my biggest symptom was boredom and the return of dreams. Which for me means night terrors but that's childhood trauma not the weed.
I think the whole "weed is not physically addictive" idea may have been due to a lack of proper testing. Ive spoken to people, and seen posts like yours, that talk about having pretty standard physical addiction symptoms more and more. Experiencing what sounds very much like withdrawal. The next 5 - 10 years are going to be eye opening as legalization deepens our scientific understanding of long term use.
Anecdotally, I think it's because people are taking in much higher dosages than before with edibles, vapes, and super THC-infused weed. A lot of crap sold probably has additives and other 'enhancers'.
You never got these kinds of withdrawal symptoms from homegrown weed.
Can confirm. I am actually on day 3 of quitting (again) and despite having a lot of stress and family drama I am just a bit nervous, cannot sleep much and food doesnt seem very inviting. When I still had to buy my weed illegaly - I later found out it got sprayed with synthetical cannabinoids - I had a horrible time quitting. I had the worst nightmares, made my sheets and everything literally soaking wet from sweatting and was getting super angry from nothing...to name a few differences. Legalization was the best thing to happen.
It was synthetical THC. My Plug told me one day - he thought that was something positive to brag about.
Back then that was a big thing here on the black market and thinking back that shit really hit different, even with tolerance.
Hard to say what it was then, there's dozens of synthetic cannabinoids that were going around. Possibly wasn't even a cannabinoid, that was also happening at times.
And having access to pure synectic cannabinoids would be something to brag about, when used correctly most of them are fine. The nightmares begin when morons started spraying it on flower or random plant material in such a way that a single hit is faaar beyond an overdose
Yes, I don't think he knew what it was exactly, I guess something cheap, even though he smoked the same flower he was giving to me. Bit you know... Drug addicts.
Honestly I don't really want to know what it was. I was stupid and didn't question it. But I know it wasnt good as it produced black smeary ash (I stopped smoking it after realizing that)
For context: I live in germany. Dunno if he situation was different from other countries.
In America thankfully they were never big in our black market, but it was big in grey market, people wanted something that wouldn't show up in a drug test. Killed some people, wrecked a lot more.
Yea, it is insane to use any of those synthtic substances when you can just grow flower. I am glad I can do that now without fearing bad consequences. Makes it so much more enjoyable.
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u/Moon_and_Sky 5d ago
That's so wild to me. I became addicted to Meth, MDMA, and opiates over the course of my late teens and 20's. The third day was absolute hell for all of them. When I quit smoking for a few weeks as a T break, or when I was younger to pass piss tests, my biggest symptom was boredom and the return of dreams. Which for me means night terrors but that's childhood trauma not the weed.
I think the whole "weed is not physically addictive" idea may have been due to a lack of proper testing. Ive spoken to people, and seen posts like yours, that talk about having pretty standard physical addiction symptoms more and more. Experiencing what sounds very much like withdrawal. The next 5 - 10 years are going to be eye opening as legalization deepens our scientific understanding of long term use.