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They told you that it was an "innocent drug", one that was, for all intents and purposes, harmless. They said all kinds of things to get you to try it. Most of what they said wasn't true.

Cannabis Withdrawal syndrome is a very real, and very terrifying condition.
The following are true stories, from real marijuana smokers. Their names have been changed, in order for me to print their stories.

Joe started smoking pot at 19. He started with casual use. He enjoyed the feeling of getting high, and the "companionship" he experienced with his "friends" when they were getting high together.
At first Joe only smoked pot a couple of times a week. But as time went on, he began to smoke it more and more often.
Before he knew it he was smoking marijuana every day, and not just once, but 4 or 5 or 6 times a day.
The expense was sometimes an issue, but most of the time it was not because his friends all smoked pot too, and they always were cool about passing around a joint.
Joe was smoking so much because it took more now, than at the beginning, to help him get that "high feeling." He was going through about an 8th a day, before he realized it.
At 20, Joe decided he really wanted to clean up his act. He told his friends that he didn't want to smoke pot anymore. He stopped buying it, and stopped smoking it... for 9 days.
For 9 days Joe did not sleep either. He felt he was going out of his mind. His thoughts were running wild, his stomach turned, he was experiencing weight loss, and extreme anxiety. Joe was awake for so long that blood vessels in his eyes actually began to burst, an extreme case of "red eye."
Joe knew that if he just smoked a bowl before he went to bed, he would be able to sleep like a baby again.
He tried as hard as he could, as long as he could, to not give in to his "need" for pot. But after 9 days, Joe went back to marijuana, and says now "I will never stop smoking, because it was the worst thing I have ever gone through in my life, I can never go through that again."

Paul started smoking at 16. Casual user, like Joe. No big deal, it's just pot he thought. Everyone says it's a harmless drug. Over time he too increased his usage of the drug, because it took more and more to get him high.
Pauls girlfriend became extremely upset with him, finding out that he was smoking marijuana. So he promised her he'd stop. After the first couple of days, he found that he could not sleep without the drug, so Paul too, went back to smoking. He lied

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