Tuesday, 9 June 2020

Cure cannabis addiction with nicotine?



https://www.leafly.com/news/science-tech/us-agency-funds-dubious-study-to-relieve-cannabis-withdrawal-with-nicotine

Relieve cannabis withdrawal with nicotine? 
Although tobacco was used by early Americans
in a pipe of peace, nicotine itself is poisonous.

Perhaps I infer too much 
... the fact that tomato plants die if
you've smoked and have 
tobacco on your brown stained fingers
before pinching out the side-shoots.

Withdrawal depends on 
the purpose behind using cannabis.

Used all day every day as 
an escape from reality, 
I can appreciate that it 
may be a difficult habit to break.

I used it to help clear a lymphoma.
High as a kite for ten weeks,
then I got the all clear scan.

Domesticity had been upset by
my use of it, and so I gave it up
immediately after the all-clear.

No withdrawal, no cold turkey.

To medical advice about its addictive property,
I steer them towards the opioid addiction 
that they're busily promoting,
and ask them to consider
that the non-hallucinogenic CBD 
component of cannabis can even help
to ween patients off this terrible addiction,

that they are at a loss to treat.

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