Marijuana Withdrawals, Quitting Smoking

 Marijuana is pshysically addictive. No doubt about it ...i smoked only dank weed for years and when i try to stop or just reduce quantity i have psysical withdrawls and i know other people who have psysical withdrawals too...guess why?! Because they always smoked dank stuff too. So the main active ingredient in marijuana (THC) is addictive but people donat´t use pure THC. The strength of t weed makes the difference. And another intersting fact is the half-life of THC: more than 10 days! Smoke 1 joint and you are intoxicated for more than 20 days. So the peak of withdrawals comes between 3 and 6 weeks after quit..

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I disagree there are withdrawls and with you you had a child in your body that gave u the extra effort to quit. My wife stopped with our last child had no problems but after he was born she started back up and now 2 years later we are trying to quit and she is having a bigger issue than she did before. For u to say that there is no issues is wrong just cause you stopped with ease dont mean others are addicted my issue is i used pot to stop meth. and now im afaird im addicted to the THC to take the place of meth ive been off meth for over 5 yrs now. And personelly i had no problems quitting that drug why is pot so hard.

To the people who say pot is not addicting have not smoke alot or long enough. IF it is ur everyday thing u do form a dependency Im sick and tired of people saying its not addiction if u can not give a positive statement to help someone quit then you should not voice ur statement this is for people to help them stop and for u to say there is no addiction is truly wrong. Please keep all your bad thoughts and negativity on a other page. Im hooked and trying to stop its terrible.

Everyones body reacts different to everything. Why do you think some people are allergic to certain things and others aren’t?

Clearly you're right, based on the myriad of forum posts both on and off this site describing withdrawl symptoms lasting up to and even past a month, and the known fact that certain people with genetic predispositions can develop addictions to almost anything including garden-variety psychotropics...

Look up dopamine.

For all you non believers, weed is addictive.  Anything can be addictive.  Just because it does not have the addictive components of other drugs, does not mean a person will not become dependent on it.  Anything you put into your body consistently over a long period of time will cause you to be dependent on it.  Yes, weed is psychoactive. But think about what it does.  It calms you down, it helps you sleep, and it makes you extremely hungry.  How can something cause you to have physical side effects when you use, but not when you quit?Try smoking multiple times every day for an extended period of time. Then quit.  What will calm you down?  What will make you eat?  I know from experience.  I am now on my second time quitting.  The first was a year ago (after smoking every day for 10 years).  When I was smoking, I could eat all day with no problem. When I quit,  I couldn't eat right for two weeks.  I was irritable, but had no insomnia.  I started smoking again two months after that (only because I wanted to). I am now on my second time quitting after smoking daily for the last 10 months.  I haven't been smoking now for 5 days. I am experiencing the hot flashes.  I wake up in the morning to find that my sheets are soaked with sweat.  I eat once a day (not even a whole meal).  I am eating more now, but not much.  If you don't believe me, you need to do your research.  Look it up in actual scientific resources, not just some blog.  You will learn the truth.  I research everything that goes into my body.  I know what it is and how it will effect me.  Weed is addictive if used excessively.  Also, everything doesn't effect everyone the same.  Also, you guys may have been smoking some B.S., so you don't know how it feels to quit the good stuff.

Weed is addictive. Point blank.  Whether it is physical or psychological. According to the merriam-webster dictionary, addiction is defined as compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance (as heroin, nicotine, or alcohol) characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal; broadly : persistent compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be harmfu. Okay lets analyze.  Compulsive need for a habit forming substance characterized by tolerance.  If you having been smoking weed long enough, you will notice that your highs get weaker and weaker, which causes you to want to smoke it more.  Just like any other drug.  That is called tolerance.  The more you use something, the more tolerant you become of it.  Next, well-defined physiological withdrawal symptoms.  If you have a loss of appetite, hot flashes, cold sweats, bad moods, and insomnia, those are physical withdrawals.  Regardless if they are cause by a psychoactive drug, you cannot say that these symptoms are only in your head.  Are we imaging that we are going through these? I don't think so.  Then the definition goes to say "compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be harmful.  How is that not addictive?  When you smoke you have physical effects.  Yes, weed is a psychoactive drug, which means it has heavy effects on your brain.  But doesn't your brain control your body?  When you get high, you have a sense of euphoria.  It's in your mind, but it makes you feel different in a physical way.  You get hungry, physical.  You get tired, physical.  Furthermore, according to cannibismd.net (a medical marijuana dictionary), "Addiction is generally defined as a physical or psychological dependence on a substance, especially alcohol or other drugs, with use of increasing amounts."  So whether it is physical or psychological, weed is addictive.  WHen you quit after excessive use, you are likely to experience physical and psychological withdrawal sypmtoms.  Just because they are not the same as other drugs does not mean they are not withdrawal symptoms.  Yes, these withdrwal symptoms may be good signs.  Sweats mean the stuff is trying to get out of your system.  But think about it.  If you never smoked, then you wouldn't be going through these.  I have quit weed and cigarettes.  Cold turkey for both (and at totally different times).  I quit the cigs two years before quitting weed.  I had no withdrwals from quitting cigs, but we all know that there are some, just different for different people.  So just because you didn't have withdrawals, doesn't mean someone else didn't.  And no mater what kind of addiction you have, addiction is addiction.  All you guys are doing, is giving people an excuse to use a drug.  If they think its not addictive, they are more likely to experiment with it.  Come on people.  Wake up.  I have nothing against weed.  Actually I love it.  But just because I love, does not mean I can ignore the effects that it has had on my body (using and quitting)

The people that say that there are no physical withdrawals clearly do not smoke heavily. Smoking heavily means that that's all you do. You don't have time for work or for college. That's the way I smoked and trust there are physical withdrawals.

I watch this topic as new people post up, as I posted up a while ago when I made my big push to give up. I like to see that other people are living the same life as myself - for better or for worse - and I hope you get to where you want in life.

Giving up was tough, really tough, so tough I failed. I managed about 3 months without weed, but then I had some stressful stuff going on in my life and I was forced into spending large amounts of time with a few stoners due to the job I was doing. Somehow I went from having a bit on a joint to buying weed again over about 2 weeks. That was just before christmas and carried on till the end of January but I had to knock it on the head again. So again I'm a month in clean from my last relapse and hope to not fail again! I know I'll see this situation again though, but I'll recognise it better hopefully.

i think you should quit smoking everything if your pregnant!!!!! just saying

If people did they're homework they would know that insomnia is psychological. Depending on the thoughts and signals being sent through the brain will increase the chance of insomnia. If you sitting in bed thinking about weed your not gunna fall asleep. its all in your head the only way you can properly go to sleep in to disengage what your thinking about at that time. Just like a computer you must close all programs before you can shut down your computer for the night

I have really enjoyed reading everyones posts.  Finding that I have agreed (surprisingly) with many of the "is addictive" camp as well as the "not addictive" camp (my choir), I felt compelled to post.  

some of you are really dumb no offense, ever hear people say "everyone is different?" Marijuana can be addictive to some people.. I have been smoking for 2 years almost every day.  ANYTIME i have tried to quit i experience the symptoms described in the first post.  recently i have been busy and under stress trying to graduate college and get an internship so naturally i haven't been smoking as frequently and just this morning I got sick 3 times. it was just bile grossness but anytime this happens to me i get a gag feeling in my throat that lasts a week and i always lose weight because theres no chance of me eating during these episodes. normally i'm 100 lbs but when i go through this routine i drop to 90-85 in less than a week which isnt good for someone that's even as short as 4'11 like me so all of you strong believers in marijuana being like the best thing ever and it should be legalized and there are NO side effects asdlkfjasl;dfj, you're wrong.  there can be side effects for SOME people. i've discovered myself thats a fact.  my boyfriend on the other hand has smoked since he was 13 living in costa rica and pretty much just stopped last year and didn't experience any of these symptoms.  Clearly nobody has throughly researched this to find out if marijuana can cause these side effects but somebody should because I can't live with this feeling and anyone that gets this feelings knows what I mean.  if you haven't experienced this feeling you just won't understand, the problem is marijuana and I'm afraid the only way to feel better is to quit smoking it - at least that is what I've found.