It took me years to quit, because I was unable to eat any food for over a week if I didn't get stoned. I would puke from so much as an apple and it took a whole month to get my appetite back. I lost about 20 pounds when I quit. A common misconception people have is that, because it doesn't happen to them and they smoke weed every day they believe it is impossible. You need to be habitually stoned for a very long while to have a chance of this happening. Cases exist when it doesn't happen, but a great many cases of appetite suppressive effects also exist to the point that it is a well documented effect of the withdrawal. Cannabis is an appetite stimulant and receptors for cannabinoids occur along the digestive tract. When they are overstimulated by cannabis downregulation happens and basically my digestive system would not function properly for a month. This might be primarily due to down regulation of receptors in the brain that are linked to the digestive tract, but the end result was that if I tried to eat anything whatsoever and I wasnt stoned, 20 minutes later I would start feeling really sick until I violently puked.
Appetite reduction is one of the most commonly reported withdrawal symptoms, and it is one reason apart from the psychological cravings related to the anxious side effects why a lot of people continue to smoke cannabis habitually once they begin to experience nasty side effects from the abuse. It really sucked when I had to skip breakfast, lunch, and dinner because I was trying to quit smoking pot, while I would have such a voracious appetite if I was stoned. I have regained my very strong appetite for food since I quit. If you are calling me a liar that is your choice, and there was a time in my life when I would not have believed the insane physical dependency I developed to be possible as well, after all I carelessly smoked enough weed to get there, but I have no reason to lie about how I was affected by this drug and I speak the truth. I battled with this devil of a drug for years before I managed to escape its terrible spell, and appetite suppression was one of the the very predictable outcomes of what happened to me when I tried not smoking any weed. I wanted and needed to quit so darn bad, but I also liked to be able to digest food, although there were a lot more uncomfortable side effects I experienced than just that which contributed to my drive to smoke it all day, as I was strung out for 3 months when I finally managed to stop. All this resulted in a nasty bad habit that stole years of my life away, although I am grateful to have regained control of my mind while I am still relatively young. If weed does you well, that's great but I will pass on that shit for the rest of my life.
I don't really get why people defend it so much. 90% of people I know who are cannabis users, use the drug on a daily basis. This is obviously due to the fact that cannabis is highly addictive, because it costs them a lot of money and effort to do this, and using it every day comes with obvious side effects. If they weren't hooked, then using it once every two weeks would make a lot more sense. Quitting really sucks for a while, and life just isn't as fun while the neural receptors are downregulated, so it's easier to live in denial and give in to the cravings that the drug produces in the mind, even though smoking it habitually is essentially pointless and in no way constructive. Withdrawal can be extremely disruptive so it makes more sense to remain stupid and lazy, albeit slightly functional while coming up with all sorts of excuses as to why this drug needs to be used.
