It actually isn't. Cannabis is an exit herb, meaning it is not physically addictive.
Using cannabis to treat the issues you were using drugs to soothe is a substitution, yes. The medicinal benefits assist in quitting, comfort and more. The mistake is to assume that simply using cannabis will remove the original use for the drug. (in this case nicotine)
Quitting a drug is easier and craving free when the underlying issues creating the 'addiction' are dealt with. Once the physical addiction is also broken with the assistance of cannabis, the need for cannabis diminishes rapidly.
Solve the medical need another way, the cannabis desire evaporates and becomes a 'pleasure' thing instead of an 'addictive need,' thing.
The prevailing 'institution' on addiction is crumbling, in the face of cannabis being used as an exit herb.
It is a wrong way, attempt to replace one crutch to another.
A few years ago a have an expirience playing GTA Vice City. When I tired to go for the story line quests, I began to wander through the city and kill drug dealers. I do not know why, of all who were there (whores, queers, gangsters, cops and other riff-raff), they liked me least of all.
Now I have a child grows. And I know that one day it will meet some kind who starts to tell something like that. I know the right answer, and I know its price. But, alas, I do not know how my child will go and what it will cost him.
Hope we understand one another.
@thecleangame, it looks like let's change vodka with whisky)
It actually isn't. Cannabis is an exit herb, meaning it is not physically addictive.
Using cannabis to treat the issues you were using drugs to soothe is a substitution, yes. The medicinal benefits assist in quitting, comfort and more. The mistake is to assume that simply using cannabis will remove the original use for the drug. (in this case nicotine)
Quitting a drug is easier and craving free when the underlying issues creating the 'addiction' are dealt with. Once the physical addiction is also broken with the assistance of cannabis, the need for cannabis diminishes rapidly.
Solve the medical need another way, the cannabis desire evaporates and becomes a 'pleasure' thing instead of an 'addictive need,' thing.
The prevailing 'institution' on addiction is crumbling, in the face of cannabis being used as an exit herb.
Glad I could help. :D
@picker your understanding of cannabis is incorrect. I have no idea what you tried to mean with the Grand Theft Auto reference.
Please Re-Read The Vodka Whisky post and My Reply
It is a wrong way, attempt to replace one crutch to another.
A few years ago a have an expirience playing GTA Vice City. When I tired to go for the story line quests, I began to wander through the city and kill drug dealers. I do not know why, of all who were there (whores, queers, gangsters, cops and other riff-raff), they liked me least of all.
Now I have a child grows. And I know that one day it will meet some kind who starts to tell something like that. I know the right answer, and I know its price. But, alas, I do not know how my child will go and what it will cost him.
Hope we understand one another.