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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.
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.
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.
Fun fact! Nicotine paralyzes your cilia.
Your cilia are a layer of fine hairlike structures that coat most of your respiratory tract. They whip / beat together rhythmically to push debris filled mucous up and out of your respiratory tract to your pharynx where it can be expelled by coughing or swallowed and processed by your digestive tract. When you smoke, they're paralyzed, allowing debris to build up (and man is there a lot of debris, on account of, y'know, the smoking).
About a week after you quit they wake up and yell,"WHAT THE FUCK IS ALL THIS SHIT?" Imagine if somebody came into your job and roofied you, smeared diarrhea all over the walls, then left. You'd be mad too. Give your cilia lots of water to help thin that mucous out and make their job a little easier during that stage.
Also read up on the other stages of quitting, it'll make it much easier once you're expecting these kinds of things.