Weed Has Officially Gotten Too Strong, People Are Taking Experimental Drugs To Curb Their Marijuana Addiction

Daily Mail - An experimental pill to treat cannabis use disorder has shown 'very encouraging' results in initial trials.

The drug, known as AEF0117, was found to reduce marijuana's perceived positive effects, including the feeling of being 'high', by up to 38 percent by researchers at Columbia University.

Marijuana use has reached record highs in young adults. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that one in three high schoolers are drug users, with one in six regularly using marijuana.

Have a drug problem? Well here are some more drugs to help with that. That's the American way.

I think weed has gotten too strong guys. We've jumped the shark with weed. Whatever advances in weed technology we've made in the past 10 years, lets reverse them. I don't think they were necessary. 

Just take a step back for a minute and think about where we're at here. We're now putting experimental drugs in our bodies, a drug that sounds like the name of Elon Musk's next child (AEF0117), in order to combat the use of what I've always been told (and can tell you from experience), is not a physically addictive substance. 

The drug caused no severe side effects and it did not cause withdrawal from cannabis.

The pill is a compound derived from pregnenolone — a hormone naturally produced in the body by the adrenal gland on top of the kidneys.

AEF0117 acts in the same parts of the brain as THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the active ingredient in cannabis, and appears to counteract the 'high'.

It inhibits the CB1 receptors responsible for the addictive effects of cannabis.

You know what this is right? It's Suboxone for weed. This is the exact same thing they do for heroin addicts. Give them a drug that hits the same receptors in the brain as the drug they're addicted too to prevent withdrawals, and blocks the receptors in the brain that the drug acts on, so that if you take the drug you don't feel the effects. They have that for weed now.

Is that how strong weed has gotten? That we need to take experimental drugs in order to stop smoking it? A land of bananas. I don't want to go all hardo and say, "You can't even get addicted to weed! Anybody who can't stop smoking weed is a pussy!" Because I know that's not entirely true. I'm sure there are a lot of people who smoke weed to the point that it negatively effects their lives, and have a hard time stopping. But is taking a whole new drug on top of that really the way to curb that? This might be stupid, but maybe to combat that we just dial back the THC a bit. How about instead of taking a whole new drug that fucks with our brains to reduce the weed high by 38%, we just make the weed 38% less strong. 

Weed has been too strong for at least 5 years now. It might just be a me problem. Maybe my anxiety has simply increased as I've gotten older. But when I was in college, I smoked weed every single day, and I enjoyed it 100% of the time. I'd smoke weed, chill out, and not worry about shit. It was fantastic. I could even be a functioning member of society. Nowadays, I'd say 80% of the time I get high I end up thinking, "Damn, I wish I would I wouldn't done this." I'll start thinking about every little, miniscule problem I have in my life, and convince myself that they're 100x bigger than they are. It's honestly not fun anymore. 

If somebody came to me with an eighth of weed and told me, "This shit is going to make you sort of high", I'd say that sounds splendid. Instead, it's always, "Dude you gotta check this shit out, pull out your phone light, it's covered in moon rocks. Take one hit of this thing and you'll be locked to your couch for the next 48 hours." I'm no longer interested in that. I guess I just want mids. Do mids even exist anymore? What the fuck ever happened to mids? I miss mids. 

I'm not even sure if people's weed addictions, and increased paranoia from smoking have anything to do with each other. That might be a false equivalency. But I've been thinking for a while that weed has gotten too strong. And if we're now treating marijuana addiction like we're dealing with heroin addicts, I feel like I might be onto something. Maybe we should dial it back a bit. 

Or alternatively, ""Don't be a pussy" - Clay Travis" - John Rich