Can Pot Help Opioid Users Get Clean? | WEEDIQUETTE 

Former combat medic. Ptsd, depression, anxiety. Heroin addict now 8 years clean. MARIJUANA SAVED MY LIFE AND KEEPS ME CLEAN EVERYDAY.

Until you’ve experienced the effects of opioid addiction you can’t knock or judge what a recovering addict does to stay away from opioids 😇

Mushrooms did wonders in my life. Over the course of my life, I've suffered from uncontrollable, depression, anxiety, alcohol, smoking, and illicit pills addiction. Imagine carving heavy chains for a long time and then all of a sudden that burden is gone. This is something that really needs to be used globally to help people with similar health challenges. I've been sober for 6 years and have my life back.

My heart goes out to anyone struggling with addiction. May God give you the strength of a thousand men to fight the battle.

I’m very proud of Bo, he’s got that look in his eyes that says he actually wants to be clean.

I'm a current addict, and hearing that Harvard doctor say "it makes sense to me, too, and I wish them well" meant a lot. That's humility to say *my profession obviously doesn't have the answer, so I'm all for anybody trying essentially ANYTHING, because anything is better than the situation we've currently got."

Former Fentanyl addict. I'm 64 days clean and I'm completely sober. No Suboxone, marijuana, etc. God as i understand him and the 12 steps of A.A. saved my life. I know the struggle. No judgement. Whatever works for you! I love you and you got this!

Cannabis is an EXIT, not a gateway!!! This is a great example on why cannabis education is SO important! I love the work they are doing and I hope they’re able to keep it up for years to come. ❤

Years ago, I hurt my back at work and went on worker's comp. I had a doctor who told me, "Do you need anything? I can give you anything you want." I always said no, because I knew too many people who were prescribed opiates and were addicted, besides, I didn't like how they made me feel. I had him prescribe me the biggest Motrins he could. I would go to the office to get my prescription every month and the waiting room was packed, plus a line out the door, with addicts waiting for their scripts. When I went to my comp hearings, the comp insurance stopped paying me because the IME's said I was malingering because I wasn't taking opiates. I must not be in that much pain if I'm only taking Motrins. The judge asked why I wasn't taking them and I told her why. She said, "That's good enough for me," and ordered them to keep paying me.

I was on crack, heroin and methadone for 24 years. I got fed up of programs failing for me. So I decided to do it all myself. I stopped everything but the methadone. I was on 90 ml. Tapered it down to 1 ml over about a year. I took 1 ml for two weeks then stopped. I had zero withdrawal. Been clean about 10 years now.

Been clean off crack for over 15 years due to cannabis. It took smoking weed to make me realize just how stupid I was being smoking crack. I had forgotten how good it felt to just be stoned. I used to always drink alcohol and that was what lead me to crack as I always made the worst decisions when drunk or under the influence of alcohol. This one time i didn't have enough money to buy a 40oz of malt liquor before smoking crack, but I had some weed and since I couldn't gather enough change to get any alcohol. I just smoked some weed first and it was while high that I had this moment of realization of just how stupid I was being and how i was really fixing to throw my life away and mess everything up for good. I didn't smoke the crack I had bought that day. I cut it up in small piece s and sold it to the crack head across the street from where I was living at the time ( Not the most ethical thing to do ) but I had to get rid of the crack so I wouldn't even be tempted to smoke it and from that day on I only smoked weed and been clean off crack since October 18th 2008. Now I don't even smoke weed all the time. I can take it or leave it, but have no desire to ever go back to crack. So happy I'm still clean from that. You can say ( oh, you're just replacing one drug for another ) but there is a BIG difference between weed and crack same with weed and opiates. Weed is a much milder drug and while it can be habit forming. I have never stolen for weed.

“It makes sense to me too.” Hearing the Harvard educated doctor say that is a powerful statement

I love seeing all these comments of people recovering and dealing with this together. We are outcast, discounted because of "our choices" and when we choose the least harmful of our options, we are still put in a class. But we aren't a class, we are people, with stories and life experience different from everyone else. It hurts how some others will cut off communication based on their bias on cannabis users, further alienating people that might take something from or might need a conversation. Much love❤❤❤

I’m a methadone patient who uses cannabis daily. I recovered and came back from the street shooting speedballs daily. I now have a job, savings, investments, a fiancée and good relationship with my children. I will always be an addict and alcoholic. I went to AA for years too and haven’t drank for 20 years. Opiates were harder to quit than liquor.

Solid content. This not only hits that algorithm bite, but it’s also incredibly informative. Honestly, cannabis brought me out of a very very dark place. I remember that one evening. I smoked, I listened to music, and stared at myself for hours in the mirror. And I cried. I laughed. I talked to myself. And ever since then… genuinely. I’m a better human. I’m not perfect, but I’m better. I think there was a lot of unconscious introspection that was unlocked via cannabis. I get sick to my stomach thinking about who I was. I wasn’t violent, but I was vile. I had such… distaste for everyone and everything. I wasn’t well. To this day I will forever remember my cannabis night. That changed me. For the better.

wow this is amazing- finally a rehab that might actually work long term. Bravo Dennis, we've been waiting for this...

5 months on Friday ive been clean from fentanyl/crack cocaine!!! Im on the sublocade 💉 & marijuana throughout the day, and i have never felt better

when i was using i couldn't smoke pot. every time i would get high i'd have really bad anxiety because all i could focus on was how terrible i was living, how i needed to inject myself with this plastic tube upwards of 7x a day just to feel "normal" and how i destroyed all my personal relationships over a powder pressed into tablets. i've been clean and sober since 2013-14, i don't smoke ciggies, i don't drink alcohol but i do smoke the ganja everyday once i'm done my daily workout. *without any of the anxiety and racing thoughts i used to have* see, *i think the weed was "training" my brain so to speak, it forced it to confront the realities i was trying to escape from whenever i'd get high while still using opiates* because i'm no longer living that way or doing the things i was doing, marijuana and me are good, but if something in my life isn't right or isn't going how its supposed to be *the blessed herb lets me know ASAP!* *God made weed, man made speed ... Who, do you trust?*

ABSOLUTELY! Been clean 17 years of opiods. Smoke everyday + am so grateful!

I watched this and I’m so fkn happy to see people are trying to find a alternative to the heavy stuff that has taken so many of my friends since hi school Really good video I loved it ❤

I was a fent user for years, I tried getting clean 3 times until it finally worked. 6 months later I found a fent pill while cleaning my car and thought to myself, I’ll save this until my Suboxone wears off, and then I smoked some weed a few hours later and thought to myself, wtf am I thinking saving that poison for later? And I tossed it. I have ADHD and believe it or not, weed makes me think clearly and act less impulsively

2 years sober after a 30 year drinking career. Weed helped immensely. Living in Holland with our coffeeshops is a blessing

I used to help my friends get through rough Patches by what we call the marijuana maintenance program. Smoke, eat, sleep...😊

This video is worth so much more credit than anyones realises. It started in my 20s.. I suffer badly from EDS and muscle degeneration. My joints all dislocate daily. Pain is unbearable. Put me on oxy 10 year ago and just upped and upped dose until i barely recognised myself anymore. I BEGGED my gp to give me morphine instaead as its less than half the strength. Now I've been cutting it down myself and just struggle with the pain, marijuana helps immensely. Im so fed up of being treat like a junkie when its the proffesionals put you on it for money sakes. I quit the booze 13year in november so i know i have the will power. The pharmaceutical companies have so much blood on their hands .😢 thankyou so much for sharing this video ❤ wegot this guy's.

Counselor/Methadone and medic nual cannabis user here. Beau did himself a massive disservice by dropping from 50 milligrams to nothing. He can continue to taper one milligram at a time if he wanted to. He had take home bottles therefore he wasn't going daily and he could keep using cannabis while tapering his methadone. Fifty milligrams is a lot to just drop off from and he went through immense withdrawal unnecessarily, potentially increasing his chances for relapse. I was up to 110 at one point and am doing a taper as well. I'm down to 65 and plan another 5mg drop in a couple weeks. I hope everything works out for Beau, as someone who was using heroin for more than half the time they've been alive I fully comprehend the insidious nature of this disease. Massive changes need to be made and maintained on a daily basis. Addicts with sustained recovery are some of the most insightful people due to the fact that they've been forced to delve into the bullshit that contributed to their addiction.

I feel like taking 250 mg of edibles while you're in withdrawal would not be fun.. anxiety would be through the roof

I’m from Madison ME witch is a small town very close too Harmony.. former addict been clean for 4 year’s. Thank you for shining some light on the problem in Maine

Amazing Episode , Thanks for Sharing this Vice!

my mom used to shoot when i was a kid. back then i didn’t know how bad that kind of drug was and i couldn’t fathom how my mom was able to get clean without major withdrawals. the turning point for her was when we lost our house. she had spent most of our money on drugs and because of that she couldn’t afford rehab. she’s a single mom of two kids and is a lot better now. she put me through college, my brothers in a private school, and she’s clean. and it’s all thanks to weed. she quit cold turkey, no doctors, just weed, a lot of weed. but she’s so much better now. and even with weed, sometimes one 10 mg edible she can’t even handle now lol. just thought i’d share my story because my life wouldn’t be what it would be now if it weren’t for marijuana.

Clean , not clean whatever ... If pot is keeping me away from opiates , allows me to hold a steady job, keeps me from isolation from my friends and family and makes me a better person then what or how I was previously, you can call me anything you want. Not sober, not clean ect. It doesn't matter cause if that's whats helping or helped me crawl back from throwing my life away I'm good with it

32 years sober, and cannabis saved my life after starting it when I had 27 years. I have worked in addictions and this medicine is a god send. Nothing that made me better can be found in a hospital, and everything that nearly killed me, including the pharmaceutical business can be.

Weed is the reason I’m still clean off dope.. been away from H since 2017 I’m grateful to still be here and be breathing today.. weed is what saved my life 🙏🏼

You should make the same documentary about Kratom! But also how addictive Kratom can become. Quitting Kratom is no joke, but it can absolutely help people get away from Heroin or other potent opiates

i tried coming off benzos with weed and ended up addicted to pills more cuz i combined the two and it was twice as amazing 😭😭

Beautiful piece. Great journalism

Coming from a current opiod addict, if your withdrawing smoking weed is one of WORST ways to coupe with that withdrawal. Anxiety & for some reason the withdrawals go through the roof. This is MY PERSONAL experience as everyone is different.... to everyone who is hooked on pills, i hope we can get out of this mess one day.... 🙏

Wow crazy to see Dennis Hammac here, I was a caregiver in Maine and we were friends like 10 years ago. He's rough around the edges but tries to help people. Glad to see he's still doing it.

I was addicted to opioids/benzos for a few years. I went to a traditional rehab, they preached 12 steps and complete abstinence. The idea that addiction to one substance = addiction to all is heavily pushed in places like that. I went to 1 meeting after returning home, and that confirmed they weren’t for me. So I went back to my roots & started using cannabis as a form of harm reduction. I’ve been clean from hard drugs since. I have a steady job & income, I barely have cravings. I don’t think it’s for every recovering addict. But if you work to develop a healthy relationship with weed. It can be a very helpful tool to reach & maintain sobriety :)

This is the best documentary, I love the presenter, well made! Props on him doing a dab

love to see people helping people. That is what life is all about. Keep up the good work!!!

I was an Oxycontin addict following bowel surgery which left me hospitalised for 3 weeks. I was addicted before I left the hospital. Before I quit I was on 40mg twice a day and 35ml of oxycodone per day. I used Cannabis Oil, I knew how to make it from old, back when my Mom was dying with Chemotherapy. I started with half gram oil but it was too much. So I reduced that a little to quart gram. I reduced my dose by 5mg per week and 1ml of liquid until I was completely clean. The oil was a major factor in my recovery. I did all this on my own with Cannabis Oil. I've never felt better.. Good luck to anyone who's about to embark on their journey to sobriety and keep going all those who stay opioid free..

My best friend beat a 30 year opioid addiction using cannabis. I could not be more proud of him.

I'm not a pill or dope addict but I was a alcoholic. I'm about 3 years Californian Sober. Marijuana helped so much from anything really. I'm focused on building my car back up, I'm working normally, paying fines and whatnot as I should. As much as people say oh your just a pothead but in reality Idc I'm living better and happier without drinking 🙏🏾

Great job on this! Very interesting

Theres no secret trick!! You have to want it!

I was a heroin/opiate addict for 12 years before I got on methadone (which I didn't want to do but glad I did). I smoked pot all through my taper and after when it gets tricky. My Dr offered comfort medications but I didn't want another addiction to contend with. I just celebrated 2 years clean. I still and will always smoke though. If you are in addiction, get help. You CAN do this!! I believe in you!!! 💙💙💙

ive been trying to find this for the longest time to show my friend. i remember seeing it years ago originally uploaded

too bad im on probation 😞 still fighting this addiction it’s the hardest battle ive ever fought in my entire life

Bo keep staying strong. I know it's hard man. But I know you live for the struggle because when the reporter said you look excited while you were packing knowing how terrible your withdrawls from the opiods would be he said you look excited and through the excited smile across your face you say yeah knowing the challenge ahead. One love brother.

Weed gave me anxiety while detoxing from opiates. I actually quit both at the same time because of it. Almost five years for me!! In general replacing a drug with a drug doesn't end well for most people. But if it works long term for some, I say its great.

It has helped me. I’m going on 10yrs now of only using hemp products. I am even trying to start a small hemp business that will only have stuff that I’ve personally tried and has helped. I have over 3/4 of a million dollars of metal in my neck c3-c6 is all metal. I also have a few other body parts that are metal as well. It’s not easy everyday but these hemp products have helped me finally be able to just function.

Yes. It can. Thank you and goodnight.

I was clean for 11 years the normal 12 step way. I've had multiple back surgeries and feared ever getting another one bc of the opioids. Back went out in 2022 and I writhed for 2 weeks until I finally decided to "break my sobriety" and start smoking weed to manage my pain. I stayed off opioids and still smoke marijuana 2 years later. I still consider myself clean. I don' use opioids, drink, etc bc I know I am an addict but this has made it so I can live my life, work, etc. If I never touch another opioid again I will die a happy man. Also, remember when they called it a gateway drug, looks like its a way back out for some too.

Great documentary. Love these informative video's

I couldn't stop crying long enough to watch this right, this is so awesome

It sure can. Works better than NA meetings and is healthier than methadone and Suboxone

Excellent content and prospective. Thank you 😊

I'm glad u ask the questions u do bro🙋🏼‍♀️🤘💥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💙

So good to see my brother Dennis.. So good do see this on RU-vid So good to see freedom field

Been clean from Fentanyl & heroin for about seven months now, thanks to Suboxone. I also smoke buds, been smoking since the 2000s. Yeah it helps, but it's not a miracle thing

I truly felt bad for the guy getting off methodone

chronic relapser 10 rehabs never more then 6mo First time getting clean with shrooms and weed only 2.5 years now

Tried everything to get cleaned up including an expensive rehab. I wish this was around when i was getting clean i would have loved to go this route. I got clean and smoke lots of weed still. It fills the gap of the wannt and need to get high. But also helps my anxiety, body pain, overall mind enhancement. My only troubles ive had has been when i drink. The legal drug. But as long as i stay away from alcohol i can stay straight.

I am a heroin addict. Clean & productive for 12 years. It's called "Marijuana maintenance" program and its.helped many addicts stay clean.

Yes. i used rso Rick Simpson Oil to wean off meds. Simple. I have rare movement disorder and so switched to alternative meds to try and get quality of life back.

Happy for Bo, man. ♥️

That's so awesome this big dude is helpin these ppl its amazing we need more detox's

I have tried this more times than I wish an being stoned with withdrawal is horrible

I've been off heroin/fentanyl/meth for the past 15 months... I'm in the methadone program I got up to 45mg and IL down to 15 mg, dropping to 10 next week and then I'm gonna ride out on that for a bit I'm not in a rush to get off methadone... it saved my life... I would of been homeless or dead by now without methadone... saved my life 110%

I never smoked weed until about two years ago.Now I don’t drink and have been clean from coke for two years. Now I work in the cannabis industry and am trying to get back on track.

I love this. I’m an extractor myself, I would love to wash hash for these folks. Truly doing gods work

Weed definitely helps, but you have to keep smoking it to keep feeling it's affects. 3 grams of magic mushrooms is what led me to beat alcohol, opiate addiction, as well as heal from childhood trauma. 7 months ago I was reborn and have been experiencing the world through sober eyes. Never has the world looked so delightful.

YES I’m a year clean from opiates granted iam taking suboxone but after I’m done weening off weed curves my craving like no other pill or med out there. And if you were wondering I’m coming off 13 years of 40mg oxy hydros you name it. WEED WORKS 🤗

Used to watch your videos while watching them sobet is a blessing

bo's enthusiasm to get clean is something i wish more people had. if pot works, why not switch? it can't kill the user like opiods. i'm hopeful he stays clean and is able to be in his childrens lives. it's all about getting back up again when you fall. it's an effort he will have to make for the rest of his life, but one that is worth it

weed does nothing for my opiate withdrawal, I wish it did

I am currently using medical grade cannabis to try and come off a 11 year tramadol addiction

I got clean 2 years ago tapered to 1/8 of suboxone and cold turkey after that totally worth getting my life back.

The single greatest act of self love I've ever completed, was getting sober. I still smoke weed but nothing else. Almost 12 years of Quality time I've had. To anyone who needs this, you're not alone, you're not broken. You ARE WORTH IT!!!!!!

I was addicted for over 10 years..I think weed passes the time by when detoxing but you will still want to feel better and may relapse. So maybe if you don't have a phone or contact with outside world you can beat it

I was a raging heroin addict with almost 9 years clean in June! I don't understand how users will say that they still want to use after years of clean time, like seeing it will make them go crazy and want it so much!! Since getting clean I've had heroin in my face and it turned my stomach just the thought of others doing it in front of me! So I believe with the actual desire to want to stop and enough time, the whole thought process on the matter will be completely different

Absolutely. It’s a great sub. And tbh…. I’m a vet with chronic ptsd, and often consumed cannabis around opioid and other drugs as well. I would partake in a little soft white, but eventually I realize I should only be using would helps me not what makes me feel good or makes me want to be enjoy a certain feeling….. I learned cannabis is really the only thing I need, and if anything is the safest thing to indulge in…… I advocate these facts around my friends who use both opioids and snow ❄️ and they’ve come around to feel the same way… I don’t use anything other than cannabis now. They practice the same habits thankfully but of course they use the other stuff maybe 2-3 a year. But legalization in America was definitely the smarter move we’ve made recently….. Either that or we can go back to arguing about how taxes, insurance, and irs don’t help enough and demand more money than they give out or compensate. Or the VA still failing vets and how I still don’t have any benefits approved by the VA…. And there’s many like me.

Congratulations Bo I hope u have plenty more clean days ahead of u keep yr head up brother good luck

Weed heightens the withdrawls trust me 😅

The biggest reason marijuana is a gateway drug is : when kids and young adults realized pot wasn’t the crazy dangerous drug they were taught it was, they figured that was true with other drugs as well. I wonder how many people would never have tried harder drugs of weed had never been made illegal

15;58 ‘I wish them well ' that was really nice of Him. At this point we should try anything or everything to stop this menace. From a guy in Rural India. 🇮🇳

i know a guy who was a intense weed user and i can say that although its got amazing potential for therapeutic use it is a drug that if used constantly it can have very real negative side effects. i just feel that people who like cannabis seem to just drum up its good use and don't really acknowledge its negative side.

Some friends of mine had to see a psychiatrist after long term use

I know from personal experience that accountability and willpower work better than weed.

It definitely helps, I'm down to using half of what I used to thanks to Mary Jane. Unfortunately I have to used opiates for my chronic pain but it definitely helps m3 us3 way less than usual

Right on for Bo. Stay strong brother! You can do it!

...and the winner is...KRATOM

90 days in jail will get anybody clean on anything. Duh

Happy for Bo, 💪🏼🧘🏽‍♀️

Totally understand using dabs to get better. It's a strong depressant but yet no come downs or extreme addiction with smoking dabs. 🤘🏻 strength is within yall stay strong. Yall got this. 💪🏻

Great idea giving them another drug 🤦🏽‍♂️. Weed is a drug people dont be fooled

It can but kratom is better working 😂 don’t say I didn’t tell you

Struggling off and on...on and off opoiod addict here. Many tears sober at one point. Got addicted thru big pharma. Fetynal destroyed Mt life and almost killed me too many times to count. Cannabis is a life saver. I cried watching this.

My heart goes out to all these people wether they got clean or not the fact they could take a huge step like this and gice it their all im confident they can get clean one day and be happy

Using THC is the opposite of being clean. The video title is... strange. I get that marijuana use isn't stigmatized like it used to be but the title of the video is a massive stretch.