A few weeks ago I blogged about my realization that I am addicted to coffee. I realized this because I went a day without coffee and got a huge, pulsing headache the next day around the time I would be throwing one back.
Yesterday, we had a team of doctors in the office talking to our documentary subject about his possible or un-possible addiction to marijuana. A sidebar came up about his (supposed) withdrawal while he was sober and how he didn't experience too many bad side effects of withdrawal. Dr. Gary Cohan explained simply the effects of caffeine addiction and marijuana addiction.
In so many words:
Tetrahydracannabinol(THC), the euphoric ingredient in marijuana, is fat soluble which is why it stays in your system for 12 weeks (most people think 30 days, but if you are a heavy pot user, small amounts will still be noticeable for at least double that). The THC being stored in your fat is why you don..t have any withdrawal effects- it leaves your system slowly over 12 weeks, where as caffeine, comes out all at once. The same goes for nicotine.
The fat soluble nature of THC is also the reason potheads can bake it into delicious cakes and cookies.
So it was nice to know that the withdrawal from my marijuana usage (due to this project) will be a nice and slow one, while my withdrawal from my job working on the marijuana documentary will include the splitting headache of looking for a new job on Monday.
Other things I am addicted to:
Guitar Hero
Spanky Wilson & The Quantic Soul Orchestra
Spray can wood stain - American Oak
Books of aerial photography of large American cities
Trader Joe's asian chicken salad
Drawn out set-ups to obvious and somewhat bad jokes
Terry Gilliam movies about time-traveling midgets and/or children
The Prospector
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