If you’re concerned about your own marijuana use and want help, call 866-789-1511. Mike Force
Until a few months ago, Jason never thought marijuana was addictive. Even though he had been smoking weed every day for the past 10 years, he didn’t think it was a compulsive habit. But then the 43-year-old Seattle resident decided to quit for health-related reasons. “For the first couple days, I didn’t feel much different,” he recalled. “The third day, I was, oddly enough, very hungry. I became very, very hungry, like I couldn’t get enough food in.” And that wasn’t all. “I started having very extreme dreams, very detailed, increasingly intense, bizarre stories.” He said he felt as if, without marijuana, “an essential nutrient was missing.”
He endured these symptoms for three weeks until he finally decided to start smoking again…
