A close neighbor of mine fell into opiate addiction after multiple years of chronic pain from extreme health issues.
She tried to stay off those medications, but couldn’t function throughout the day without the relief.
Things became relatively scary 10 years ago when legislatures put a clamp down on prescription opiates, as well as it had the opposite of the intended effect on my buddy. Suddenly her prescriptions were actually cut back so much that she had absolutely no option but to turn to the black market to avoid physical withdrawal. You can’t supply someone a medicated dose of oxycodone as well as then expect them to take a quarter of that dose each day from the day moving forward without time for adjustment as well as tapering. Marijuana doesn’t pose the same exact risk for addiction as an opiate, but there is still a tolerance to the substance that builds in the bodies of those who use it all the time. You might find that you need extra cannabis to get the same effect, which is annoying if you’re on a limited budget. My own tolerance to cannabis has started to build in the past few weeks from dabbing cannabis concentrates from the medical cannabis shop. You start with a particular sized dose as well as that works for a while, but then you need to increase the size of the dose a small amount each week. If you’re not especially careful, the tolerance to THC can get absurd swiftly, so occasionally I switch back to using medical marijuana flower products for a while to try as well as get my tolerance under control. Going from 1 type of product to another certainly helps if you can’t take a tolerance break altogether from the entire plant for a week or so.