example: a drug addict alcoholic who discovers god and turns a teetotaler gay bashing abortion hating new born Christian.

Is replacing addictions the rule or the exception?

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Something like weed has no chemical dependence aspect, but you can still be addicted to it.

    Marijuana is physically addictive as well as mentally, especially the ultra strong stuff we have today like THC vape pens, or dab. Anyone who has used marijuana daily for a decent amount of time and then quit can attest to the physical withdrawal symptoms.

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        7 months ago

        We were told that it isn’t physically addictive when I was younger, but the weed we got back then was probably 100x less potent too. A simple vape pen is up to 20x more powerful than the hashish that people used to fly to Amsterdam to get. The actual leaf is completely coated in resin now and probably has more THC than everything left over in a pipe from a week or more of smoking in the old days. It is so odiferous that I can smell my local dispensary from a 1/4 mile away.

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      i think it’s less withdrawal and more your body flushing out all the cannabinoids, as well as going from smoking daily to not at all is a massive shift in body chemistry. that may have symptoms associated but may not necessarily be withdrawal, although that line can be blurry