Theanine for marijuana addiction (Natural remedy that eases marijuana withdrawal)

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I tried Theanine for the withdrawl and it really works. Takes the anxiety away completely .. seriously and i was skeptical. I got it in Whole Foods. Its a natural amino acid...

Anyone else tried this?

[Cannabis Rehab Admin]

That’s really interesting thanks for passing that on.

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Forgot...

Also, forgot to add that Theanine is found naturally in Green Tea.

[Detox Me]

I started taking some theamine pills today... a profesional told me to.... 30 min have passed but nothing...lol. I will report when I have taken them for a while.

[Cannabis Rehab Guest]

Third day for us

I picked up some L-Theanine a couple of days ago. My wife and I have been having really bad fights from the stress induced by trying to quit. We've been consuming for almost ten years daily and all the joy it once gave us is gone. As it has slowly been diminishing our mental capacity, we decided to quit.

The fights were getting way out of hand. The thought of having to deal with the feeling of frayed nerves for weeks was incomprehensible. I was even thinking of moving out.

I read about the L-Theanine here and decided to try it.
The calming and stress reducing qualities of the L-Theanine are remarkable. We quite literally haven't raised our voices at each other since we started taking it.

We're taking 200mg roughly every 4 hours through out the day. We are taking the Suntheanine brand which is supposed to be much more effective then the other synthetic brands. We bought it at whole foods and it cost $45 for 180 capsules. You can find it for almost half that online.

Might I also add that I have always had fairly bad insomnia. It was one of the reasons that I started smoking, for the first time In my life I was able to sleep through the night.
Well, the L-theanine makes me as groggy at night, if not more so then the weed.

L-theanine has other positive effects as well. It's supposed to help improve concentration and focus. Just what my foggy head needs. It's not like I feel %100 better by any means
but maybe %30 less brain fog. L-theanine is also suppose to boost you immune system.

Please try this is you are having a hard time. It's really made a huge difference for us.
Perhaps this should be a sticky is it's really helping people.
Good luck everyone...

[Cannabis Rehab Admin]

No problem I have made it sticky. I like green tea but I just find it makes me feel a bit on edge, I don’t know if it’s the caffeine or tanning or something, I just don’t get on well with too much tea of any kind. Anyway this is very interesting stuff.

[Detox Me]

Update I have been taking theanine for 12 days and yes it helps a lot with the anxiety and the low energy levels.

[Cannabis Rehab Guest]

L Theanine replaced Weed

I suffer from severe panic attacks, I'm 26 and it only started a couple of years ago for some reason (panic attacks), doctors don't know the cause they just say that im 100% healthy every time i go see them about this, now that the panic attacks keep on coming back and I am considering maybe getting pills prescribed which i totally disagree with but if you knew what a severe panic attack is you would understand that an anxiety pill might help(destroy your liver/kidneys at the same time), well I don't have insurance anymore ever since I moved to United States since I cant afford it here, so I started to smoke the drug to help my panic attacks and anxiety, after couple of years it was damaging me more socially than helping my anxiety panic attacks (which it was, take one hitter of dank the drug and BAM no more feeling that you are dying haha), so I researched about healthy alternatives and found out about L Theanine, so I started taking L Theanine a couple of days ago to help ganja withdrawals and my panic attacks, its working , its actually amazing , it feels this should be illlegal because its over the counter pill haha, but yes if I knew this existed before I would of smoked wayyyy less the drug and saved thousands of $$$and did not have to risk being caught by police over something that was helping me medically , one cool thing about this pill is that you are recemended to take it on an empty stomach, so every morning I wake up now I take one , no rush on eating since I have busy schedual, im more relaxed now and NOT drowsy like you get from weed, Although I still go see 311 and smoke a bunch of joints haha once in a while, but the drug is just for fun now and not so frequent like it used to be, I am honestly happier with my life now than I ever was, try L Theanine , it obviously wont knock you off your feet like the drug but you will feel calm and happy , and feel even more happier knowing the pill comes from green tea :P

[TonyMinaro]

it works, well so far

i read this post about L Theanine, and as i'm struggling with my addiction to weed, i got some off the net, i have been taking 200mg every 4 hours and to my surprise i don't feel cranky having not smoked any the drug for 2 days.
I was smoking the drug all day every day and as i am on social security benifit i was finding it was taking too much money, as well as me becoming more paranoid and indecisive, i was becoming very anxious too, and had started to buy the drug then throw it away or cane it so it was gone, my head was becoming very f**ked.
I have found so far that i can relax, before, my young children visiting when i had no the drug would be a nightmare, and i would get really stressed, this is not happening. it really is amazing the effects, i still have kinda wierd dreams, but thats a small price to pay concidering i dont feel the need to smoke weed.

My brother has been a hard smoker for over ten years, his head is totally mashed and hes really anxious, he is at his witts end with not being able to stop smoking weed, even though now it only has a negative effect on him. I have told him about the L Theanine, hopefully he will try it. But until then i must concentrate on my own problem, and maybe it will serve as an good example for him and give him the will to stop.

i have also joined a gym and attend most week days, i have found this to help immensely, even though i did at one point go there after smoking weed, and hurt my back as a result.

[Detox Me]

Update on the Theanine use. I finished my box I dont use the brand that you guys mention cause its a hole diffrent country but I guess its the same. So as I was saying I finished my first box and I willingly or unwillingly forgot to buy the replacement for about 3 days. By day 2 I was back to being a nervous wreck again, anxious, emotional, I almost cried over 2 glasses of wine, and tired and unmotivated again. So on day 4 I basically ran to the drug store to get some more, day 4 was pretty bad but day 5 is back to feeling pretty good again.
So It does really work and help. the question is how long am I supposed to have to take it, I dont like depending on stuff any more!

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RE

You can build a resistance to Theanine. It will begin to take less effect if you take too much. I would take a couple a day for 2 or 3 days then I would not take any for a couple of days. The symptoms would return but it gives you more of a clear perspective on what the symptoms are. And, knowing that you can just take a couple of hundred milligrams of Theanine to take it away, helps you deal with them better.

Also, you can just drink some green tea if you cant find the pills. Works just the as well. Green tea has Theanine and its really good for you. The act of drinking warm tea seems to help even if it doesnt have Theanine.

The japanese know whats up...

[Cannabis Rehab Guest]

I had an interesting experience with this stuff. I bought a bottle of 100 mg capsules. The first time I took one I noticed a slight calm but not many other effects. The next day on a completely empty stomach I took my second pill. After about an hour and a half of feeling calm and alert, I noticed some really strange effects. I had a very vivid experience that was similar to being high, and it almost had hallucinogenic properties.
The first thing I noticed were that all of the colors around me were very bright and vivid, and that my perception seemed very clear. Most of the effects reminded me of what would happen when I was just getting high for the first time after a very long tolerance break. However I felt like I was in complete control, with no paranoia or anything to that effect. It was also an extremely introspective experience. After about an hour and a half the effect went away.
This was yesterday.Today I woke up and felt good, still very introspective but with no anxiety or depression. After about two or three hours the depression came back but with little of the social anxiety that has been bothering me. At about 3 today I took another pill and I almost felt like myself again after a few hours. I was very stressed out, but I was stressed out about things that are realistically affecting my life instead of the introspective nonsense that has been going through my brain. I ended up giving myself a headache, but it is a kind of headache that I don't mind.
This stuff is interesting and I am definitely going to ask my psychologist about it. The last time that I was a heavy marijuana user was on april 20th but I did smoke one time a little over three months ago. I have still been having all kinds of psychological problems, mostly related to depression and social anxiety. I am 18 years old and first smoked marijuana when I was 13, and became a heavy user when I was 14.
I feel like I need to get over the social anxiety before I can get over the depression. Theanine definitely helped a lot with it and hopefully I can continue to use it to achieve the same results.

[Cannabis Rehab Admin]

Hi and welcome.

Wow that all sounds pretty trippy, I must admit I never would have thought an amino acid would have such an effect, after all they are just something that are found naturally in our food, but maybe it’s to do with the dosage, perhaps you might want to lower the dose slightly if you find they trip you out too much, but I am sure you know what you can take. Anyway thanks for a very interesting post.

Take care and please keep us posted on how it goes.

[Cannabis Rehab Guest]

yeah it was pretty weird but ive taken it since then and had no such effect. I am almost completely over the social anxiety since that trippy experience, even without taking the theanine. I don't know whether it was a direct chemical response to the theanine or the thoughts that I had when I was tripping but I feel a thousand times better. This is really great stuff.

[Cannabis Rehab Admin]

That’s really interesting, maybe it had a mild ibogaine therapeutic trip like effect, for more info on the that check out this post, anyway it’s great to hear you are feeling a lot better, I must admit I never would have thought that something like an amino acid could have such an effect, I never would have even heard of it if the users of CannabisRehab.org had not made me aware of it, but more and more people are posting saying how beneficial they have found it, it’s starting to sound like pretty magic stuff!