A close friend of mine fell into opiate addiction after so many years of chronic pain from severe health problems.
She tried to stay off those medications, but couldn’t function throughout the day without the relief.
Things got really scary 10 years ago when legislatures put a clamp down on prescription opiates, and it had the exact opposite of the intended effect on my friend. Suddenly her prescriptions were cut back so much that she had absolutely no choice but to turn to the black market to avoid physical withdrawal. You can’t give someone a medicated dose of oxycodone and then expect them to take a quarter of that dose everyday from the day moving forward without time for adjustment and tapering. Marijuana doesn’t pose the same 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 daily. You might find that you need more cannabis to get the same effect, which is frustrating if you’re on a limited budget. My own tolerance to cannabis has started to build in the past few months from dabbing cannabis concentrates from the medical cannabis dispensary. You start with a particular sized dose and that works for a while, but then you need to increase the size of the dose a little each month. If you’re not careful, the tolerance to THC can get crazy really quickly, so occasionally I switch back to using medical marijuana flower products for a while to try and get my tolerance under control. Going from one type of product to another definitely helps if you can’t take a tolerance break altogether from the entire plant for a week or two at least.