I haven't read the whole thread, so someone may have already said this...
If you are using MJ to self-medicate, quitting MJ can seem like physical withdrawal because your underlying problem is back in full bloom and you aren't used to it anymore.
Right now, I am manic and I smoked all my pot. When I am manic, I don't even get stoned in the normal sense, but it slows things down for me and I am at least functional. Now that I am out of pot, I am having trouble eating, I am not sleeping, and I have been very aggressive and irrational. Risperidone gives me some intermittent relief. Don't believe me? read some of my recent posts.
Pot is not physically addicting. That's a fact.
Another fact: the physical dependency on a substance is only a part of what we call addiction, and not a necessary one at that. That's why nobody gets hooked on nicotine gum. Take away the smoke, the catch in your throat, the cellophane, and the act of sucking, and you only have a very mildly addicting product. Plenty of products are addicting but do not cause physical withdrawal, like pot and gambling, but one cannot look at the substance outside of the behavioral context.
If you are using MJ to self-medicate, quitting MJ can seem like physical withdrawal because your underlying problem is back in full bloom and you aren't used to it anymore.
Right now, I am manic and I smoked all my pot. When I am manic, I don't even get stoned in the normal sense, but it slows things down for me and I am at least functional. Now that I am out of pot, I am having trouble eating, I am not sleeping, and I have been very aggressive and irrational. Risperidone gives me some intermittent relief. Don't believe me? read some of my recent posts.
Pot is not physically addicting. That's a fact.
Another fact: the physical dependency on a substance is only a part of what we call addiction, and not a necessary one at that. That's why nobody gets hooked on nicotine gum. Take away the smoke, the catch in your throat, the cellophane, and the act of sucking, and you only have a very mildly addicting product. Plenty of products are addicting but do not cause physical withdrawal, like pot and gambling, but one cannot look at the substance outside of the behavioral context.