Addiction to marijuana is likened to being enveloped by a disease that has totally taken control of a user’s physical, mental, and emotional faculties.
When one decides to stop using marijuana, a plethora of withdrawal symptoms will consume his waking and sleeping hours, just like any withdrawal of addictive drugs.
The craving to smoke or chew marijuana will continue to rage within a person’s system once he stops using it. Withdrawal symptoms can first be manifested in the first 24 hours for habitual users. There will be irritability, mood swings, lack of appetite and cravings for marijuana. There will also be intense headaches, restlessness, anxiety and physical tension.
Withdrawal symptoms may reach up to 45 days. These will be the longest and harshest 45 days of a marijuana addict’s life. There will intense behavioral and emotional distress. One’s patience and willpower will be stretched beyond their limits and bounds.
But when one is able to surmount all of these, then he will be rewarded with a life free from the dominance of marijuana need and its effects.
I wish I was this strong. I feel like a piece of shit