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Several months back, when I told my sister that one of the reasons I'm planning on moving out of South Carolina is because where I'm moving to (Puerto Rico) has a medical weed program that I'm eligible for since I have Autism and ADHD, she told me that medical weed was laced with fentanyl.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (11 children)

It's also been bred to be waaay stronger over the last couple decades. I see a fair amount of weed-induced psychosis rolling through inpatient, or at the very least weed-exacerbated psychosis. Way worse than the psychosis is the hyper-emesis syndrome. One of the characteristic symptoms is "scromiting" (Scream-Vomiting).

It's better for you than alcohol. That's not a high bar. A light mauling from a black bear is also better for you than alcohol. It's waaay better for you than cigarettes but also most brain cancer starts out as lung cancer and I'll let you follow the rest of that on your own. Most of my substance abuse patients who are hooked on shit like fentanyl and meth also tell me that nicotine is the hardest drug to quit.

Weed's not the worst. It's still drugs though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (9 children)

nicotine is the hardest drug to quit.

Wild. I've quit smoking multiple times, and thought the first week or so was unpleasant each time, but not awful. Each time I started up again it was because my ex-spouse started smoking again and was pushing cigarettes on me. Since the divorce a decade ago, I haven't had a cigarette. And that was after about fifteen years of smoking around a pack and a half a day.

I know that quitting drinking all at once can straight up kill you, if you're a hardcore alcoholic; I've known a few people that had the shakes every time they were sober.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (5 children)

Oof what? You must never have smoked a lot despitewhat you say. Because ive tried to quit a few times and ive only been smoking for 8 years, but every time after about a week i start coughing almost constantly. And the only thing to ease it wad smoking again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

I'm pretty sure I know what I smoked.

I quit because I started coughing up dark brown shit every morning; I always had some kind of congestion in my throat. I decided that I didn't want to do that anymore, so I stopped.

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