Again I have no doubt people that have a predisposition to addiction report having weed withdrawals.
What's the psychological profile of the control groups? Any previous history of addiction?
Again it's not the reports of withdrawals that's suspect it's the question of the trigger being biological or psychological.
habit vs chemical addiction.
There simply is no evidence of chemical addiction. Plenty of evidence like anything it can be habit forming.
I addressed concerns about chemical addiction earlier in the thread. Probably around page 5.
I don't think the evidence is solid on chemical dependency, but there is some there.
Furthermore, it seems that much of the belief about the lack of chemical dependency or addiction from pot perpetuated from studies several decades ago, before weed has been bred and rebred into the animal it is today. Furthermore, smoking technologies have risen too.
Believe me, I used to be in the same camp thinking pot was perfectly harmless gift of the gods, and boy did I smoke. I live in Southern California, and we used to rate our pot from a 1 to 5 scale. 3 being chronic. Remember how Dr. Dre used to rave about it in his rap? Well it's about the lowest grade you can get your hands on here. 4 is medical, and 5 being og/master kush, which looks like it came from Krispy Kreme because it was so sticky and glazed with
trichomes.
I was also close to a dealer, and he had one of those RooR bongs. There's a whole science out there into maximizing your high from the pipe. The RooR was the paramount of it. First, it had a specially designed diffuser, little holes where the tube meets the water on the bong, this makes the smoke extra dense. Secondly, it was designed to hold ice - colder means more dense, think cold air intake. Lastly, the beaker is shaped to further increase the density of the smoke, and it's a fairly large volume. This is important for one main reason, and it'll become apparent when I explain how you'd smoke the thing.
First it has an extra fat bowl, you can smoke 0.3g in a single hit with that. You light it up good and you slowly milk it until the smoke reaches the top. Then right when it reaches the top and the huge beaker has now become entirely opaque, you cover the bong with your hand and exhale to prepare for the most intense huff you can muster.
Then in one swift huff, you empty that dense smoke from 0.3g of super sticky high quality bud in the span of a second. Normally even the most veteran smokers can't inhale that without their cough reflex being unleashed violently. But in this case, you suck it in so fast, the cough reflex doesn't stand a chance. Then you hold it in for as long as you could, and when you exhale, that dense white cloud is now entirely clear as it has all been absorbed into your lungs.
This coats your lungs with a thick layer of the THC tar. You could feel it as if you just entered in the sauna and you feel like you're drowning in the hot humid air. Since your lungs absorbs THC through the process of diffusion, the incredibly dense smoke is what brings you to the upper limit of THC concentration in your bloodstream through insufflation. When I smoked, I wasn't just baked, I was on an intense psychedelic trip to another dimension.
If you've ever seen me when I was in that state, you would've been asking WTF was I on, because it would've not been like anything you've seen. I would be moving catatonically, rhythmically into different structures and patterns. I'd be rolling around the walls as I became this perpetually spinning energy traversing alien landscapes. Needless to say, I alienated a lot of my friends from my days of smoking pot.
After a month of hanging out with my pot dealer friend, my tolerance has risen so much that the intense psychedelic trip dwindled to a mild high that lasts for half an hour. Smoking became pointless and I stopped. I went through intense vomiting and anxiety that lasted for about five days.
It felt like I was running a marathon and I was at the upper limit of what my heart can handle. Only except I couldn't stop to rest. Imagine that constantly for several days. That's what I went through. My only recourse was to actually go out and run. When I tired myself out, I can actually find relief for a while, until it came back shortly after and I had to run more.
All in all, I would actually say the withdrawals were ok. You deal with it for a few days and it's over. Big whoop. If it was just the withdrawals, I'd say it was worth it given how awesome the journeys it's taken me has been.
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