Review: A Timely Topic
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 2, 2014
The news media is full of the new laws making the sale of marijuana legal in many places in this country so it is with some surprise the Willy Wong has published this book at this time. Or is it? Willy Wong shares his own history of addiction to Cannabis sativa and how that addiction created many problems, not the least of which was an adverse effect on his asthma. It was this need to quit his addiction that brought him to write this book - he was heavily dependent on information from various sources including the internet and local peer support groups. Now free of his addiction for 10 years he has compiled all the information that helped him to offer to those addicted to marijuana.Wong opens his book with the facts, that information about the drug Cannabis sativa that is difficult to find as succinctly phrased as here. He discusses the effects of the euphoria, the after effects for smoking marijuana on cognitive function, the landmarks of addiction - all those aspects of becoming involved with the addictive phase of marijuana whose symptoms may be elusive.He then enters the core material of the book - how to stop smoking marijuana. He outlines the detoxification stages (mentally, physically and psychologically), how to deal with resisting the drug, how to reset your mind to manage the stress that often is the driving force for the use of any drugs (tobacco, alcohol, prescription drugs), where to find support for camaraderie and assistance in breaking the habit, how to medically manage the side effects of withdrawal (learning how to sleep at night without marijuana, etc), and in many ways a recap of the re-managing of the mind to forego marijuana and prepare and nurture the resistance to take up the drug again.Willy Wong has been there and now is free of addiction. His manner of relating the information is not with a chastising voice or a condemning voice about marijuana in general, it is more a resource of information for those who wonder if their once casual enjoyment of Cannabis sativa has taken over the neurons that define their occasional pleasure as an incipient addiction. Grady Harp, January 14