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[quote=Anonymous]Uh oh. The Marijuana Mafia is not gonna like this. WaPo just did a deep dive on marijuana addiction. How real it is, and how people who suffer from it are suppressed by weed proponents who insist it's harmless.

SOURCE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/07/31/marijuana-addiction-legal-recreational-sales/

[QUOTE]“The problems that come up with cannabis-use disorder are very real. This was not always something that was talked about,” she said. “We were sort of laughed out of 12-step spaces.”

She smoked daily throughout her teen years before she was diagnosed with cannabis-use disorder when she was about 20. At rock bottom, M.B. said, she smoked or used a vape pen roughly every hour, often waking up at night to take hits. M.B. said she believes her habit led to at least one psychotic episode and to the draining of her finances, even as she lived at home with her parents. She spent so much buying weed that she stole money from family to pay bills.

M.B. joined the program online in 2020 during the height of the pandemic, although the withdrawals weren’t easy. For about a week, she couldn’t keep down food, suffered intense headaches and felt so uncomfortable that she showered constantly.

“I was really angry, crying all the time,” M.B. said. “I had really intense dreams that I was smoking.”[/QUOTE][/quote]

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