What Happens When You Quit Marijuana?

Right now, 55 million Americans use

marijuana

and in Canada,

marijuana

dispensaries are popping up everywhere like they're Tim Hortons for marijuana and I in Toronto can even order these nifty drinks that the Canadian government delivers to my door from my house, thanks to Justin Reed. It's kind of surprising to us, well, a recent survey found that 4.3 percent of Americans have tried to

quit

marijuana at least six times and failed, and withdrawal symptoms are now fully understood, so today we're going to explain exactly. What

happens

to your body

when

you try to

quit

marijuana The day one or two after you quit is

when

withdrawal symptoms begin.

A meta-analysis of more than 23,000 people found that 47 had at least three of the following withdrawal symptoms: nausea, headaches, depressed mood, difficulty falling asleep, sweating, anger, nervousness, decreased appetite and strange dreams, now at risk for withdrawal symptoms. It is proportional to the amount of marijuana you have been using, for example, someone who used marijuana three times a week would probably have fewer withdrawal symptoms than someone who used marijuana every day. The third day of quitting smoking is when irritability and anxiety peak, fortunately they begin to dissipate in the next few days, but on the other hand, strange dreams and difficulty falling asleep only begin to increase on the third day .

This information has led to new research suggesting that chronic cannabis users may induce intrinsic sleep problems. Around the fourth day after quitting smoking is when surprising physiological changes begin to occur in the brain. Marijuana contains molecules that mimic natural neurotransmitters already in the brain, called cannabinoids. Initially, cannabinoids circulate in lower amounts in the body, but when marijuana is ingested, it creates an influx of cannabinoids into your system, more specifically, an increase in the psychoactive component, also known as delta 9 tetrahydrocannabinol, which is like I like to call it. It's for newbies. When I see someone with an edible, I say how much delta 9 tetrahydrocannabinol got there, man. that you have consumed while getting high resembles the natural neurotransmitter anandamide and creates increased neural activity in certain parts of your brain, causing thoughts, imagination, and perception to magnify the binding of THC to your neurons.

It also affects the levels of dopamine and norepinephrine in the body, which can lead to Euphoria, pain modulation and anxiety, but the thing is that as you continue to use marijuana, it becomes more difficult to quit, you begin to create a desensitization and a downregulation of your endocannabinoid receptors, specifically the cb1 receptor, as this receptor modulates short-term memory systems. Increase in cannabis consumption. means a decrease in short-term memory that also affects neurons involved in the experience of novelty when it binds to specific neurons the influx creates an exciting sensation of novelty even for repetitive mundane tasks like washing dishes that's why you can get high and walk down the same street and I feel like everything is heightened it's like wow everything is blooming we're in the dead of winter but regular cannabis use causes downregulation of these same neurons making it harder to stop. smoke and feel the joy of a new experience while sober after too much marijuana, you could go to Paris for the first time and see the Eiffel tower and say that, it's a lighthouse, oh, it doesn't make sense, okay, great, we should climb it, No, let's not go up, uh, we should go home.

But fortunately, by the fourth day of quitting marijuana, the CB1 cannabinoid receptors will likely have returned to normal functioning. Basically, it only takes about four days after quitting marijuana for the neural changes in the brain to return to their baseline level. Now, this is new research and I think it's important that we continue to study this, especially as the popularity of weeds skyrockets. We need a lot of long-term evidence about how this might be affecting our brains. I'm focusing on how THC affects your body systems, how THC is introduced. It may involve smoking and the act of smoking could have lasting effects on your lungs, but there is actually a specific way in which the THC in your system can have longer lasting impacts on your neurology and brain if you consume too much marijuana during the development, as in In adolescence you can create long-term neurophysiological effects, so yeah, I started smoking pot in 10th grade, which by definition is a teenager, so wow, like a closeted gay kid in a high school With no other gay kids, I was drawn to that crowd of stoner skaters because to be honest, they were the most fashionable.

I also always had this gay voice, so when people come up to me and tell me you're gay, I tell them actually no, I'm kind of a cool, quirky guy, like a skater. m avril lavigne but a kid understood it when I was a queer kid weirdly marijuana was an advantage for me but all those reasons aside the scientific evidence now suggests it could have been causing long term damage to my neurophysiology so it was worth it because when arrives Due to the long-lasting neural effects of marijuana, brain age matters, but going back to days five to seven after quitting marijuana, a recent study found that most people who tried to quit marijuana failed within days five to seven and it was harder for the people who depended on her. marijuana Marijuana dependence can be defined as someone who has used marijuana daily for 10 years and has tried to quit numerous times but did not make it past day 7.

It can also be defined as continued use of marijuana despite social impediments. , psychological and physical it should. It should be noted that although many scientists agree that marijuana dependence exists, they also agree that marijuana dependence is less serious than dependence on alcohol, cocaine or opiates, but for the days of marijuana five to seven are important days to focus on when trying to quit smoking, as statistically they are. the biggest obstacle, I mean, I feel this, I still use marijuana, yes it's been decades, luckily not daily, but I wonder if I'm dependent and it's between days 5 and 7 when I usually find myself asking the government for some edible , government and taking my dancing skills to the next level, honestly it's also because the weekend is coming and I want to watch a movie high to be honest in my adult ears, I don't know if I've ever walked into a movie theater without being high for my movie. movie theaters rep the munchies and spend about 79k on their larger popcorn, they also get chocolate to pour on the popcorn, then gummies to eat to get the popcorn out of my teeth while I eat the popcorn and also nachos with an extra fake cheese, so I have enough fake cheese to kill a small horse, but eventually, if you make it to day 28 without marijuana, all withdrawal symptoms will disappear, your affected endocannabinoid system and cb1 receptors will return to their initial level and you might be able to understand a movie, so I'm.

I'm not saying you have to just go out and quit marijuana right now, for example, that's not

what

I plan to do, but I think it's very important to understand

what

will happen to you if you decide to quit, life is difficult and I think that education and Learning is what allows you to make the best decisions for you and I think science shows us that quitting marijuana is not as easy as we might think. You can click on a link to our podcast where we talk more about the science of quitting marijuana make sure you are subscribed and we'll see you next week for a new science video peace