No Withdrawl Symptoms - Another Pot Myth Busted?

I've had to quit two times in the past four months, once for seven days and again two months later for four days.

What struck me was that i experienced NO withdrawl symptoms after heavy usage every day.

This was very different from the times I've run out over the past couple of years when my wife would say that she could tell when i didn't have smoke anymore because i got childish, irritable and even petulant.

I think i've figured out that only happens when i believe i should have it but do not, or can't (like when she says we can't afford it).

I think this proves there is no withdrawl from cannabis, just drawing from personal experience.

Anyone else? if we all find this to be true, then how could we spread the word?

it seems so many scientific experiments are being paid for to find ways of mitigating the effects of withdrawl among cannabis users, and i just think they've gotten so much of it wrong. it's frustrating.

I haven't smoked since August and I'm fine.

I thought it was already pretty widely accepted that cannabis use does not lead to physical dependancy.

Banditt said:

I thought it was already pretty widely accepted that cannabis use does not lead to physical dependancy.

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Yeah it's pretty much scientific fact. I'm not even going to bother trying to find anything to support my claim.

Although I think I do get mild withdrawl symptoms. I get irritable and have difficulty sleeping, more than when i'm using cannabis. I don't think its a physical dependency though.

That being said information you are fed on marijuana is rife with errors and out right lies. Not even sneaky lies, just big fat glaring obvious lies that are so easy to see through even someone baked out of their mind can realize it and see right through it. It would be comical like the reefer madness video if they weren't dead serious about it though.

People get withdrawal symptoms with a lack of sex. Bottom line, you do anything long enough and you just stop. You're going to have some sort of withdrawal because your body was use to it for so long.

mr2shim said:

People get withdrawal symptoms with a lack of sex. Bottom line, you do anything long enough and you just stop. You're going to have some sort of withdrawal because your body was use to it for so long.

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Exactly, human nature is habit. Do anything habitually, take it away, and you'll feel 'wrong' or 'different' or 'out-of-place' or whatever. Physical addiction though is an entirely different animal, like alcoholity.

I was smoking every night for over 3 months, and finally getting some decent sleep.

But, haven't smoked for the last 31 days, 4 hours, 22 minutes, 15 seconds (kidding), about a month now. I took a drug test at 3 weeks, 2 days, and since I haven't heard back from my potential employer, assuming I didn't pass.

I haven't slept well lately at all, and taking away my 'help' didn't help either. I got irritable and tired again, but now I'm just back to being tired all the time again, and no longer calling people morons on the IMDB boards

Physically dependency is just that .... the human body is DEPENDENT on the substance in order to maintain functionality.

If you're an alcoholic ... you can DIE from lack of alcohol.
If you're a heroin addict ... you can DIE from the lack of heroin.

Marijuana is not physically addictive. You will not die from lack of marijuana ... ever.
Marijuana however CAN be habit forming, and with this comes slight withdraw symptoms. The two most common symptoms include irritability and restlessness. These symptoms generally last 3 to 7 days.

If these symptoms continue, there very well could have been an illness of some kind that the marijuana was helping to treat. (insomnia, chronic pain, etc etc)

VWFringe said:

I've had to quit two times in the past four months, once for seven days and again two months later for four days.

What struck me was that i experienced NO withdrawl symptoms after heavy usage every day.

This was very different from the times I've run out over the past couple of years when my wife would say that she could tell when i didn't have smoke anymore because i got childish, irritable and even petulant.

I think i've figured out that only happens when i believe i should have it but do not, or can't (like when she says we can't afford it).

I think this proves there is no withdrawl from cannabis, just drawing from personal experience.

Anyone else? if we all find this to be true, then how could we spread the word?

it seems so many scientific experiments are being paid for to find ways of mitigating the effects of withdrawl among cannabis users, and i just think they've gotten so much of it wrong. it's frustrating.

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Due to pee testing, I've quit for several weeks, dozens of times.

Agreed, withdrawal is subjective. I get cranky if I do without, but never had a problem when cleaning up to pee, other than a sleepless night or two. Exhaustion always won out.

thanks for the replies, i sent a question to a famous scientist, and he replied, and i did a fearless inventory, and saw that i was experiencing withdrawal, but it was so slight compared to how childish and petulent i've gotten with my spouse when she says we can't afford it this week, that i just thought God let me skip it once or twice, haha
the first time i was sent to work on the east coast, and i thought i couldn't adjust to the sleep schedule, but it was withdrawal, and the "blah" feeling i thought was being lonely away from my family.
the second time i was visiting family and a funeral, so lot's of emotional content to sub-stitute, and the certain knowledge that i'd have it again four days later (and some sleeplessness the first night).

By telling myself I wouldn't have access, and for how long, I was able to mitigate the effects quite a bit, and perhaps that tells me i won't have to be immature about it any more too (for my wife's sake).