Quitting Alcohol for Hepatitis Leads to Seeking Cannabis

Quitting Alcohol for Hepatitis Leads to Seeking Hierba

A user, diagnosed with hepatitis and advised to avoid alcohol, asks strangers on a forum how to obtain marijuana without getting into trouble. The contradiction isn't theirs; it's the law's, which punishes sale but not consumption, leaving those seeking an alcohol substitute without prescriptions or guidance.

Legal Consumption, Illegal Sale: Spain's Hierba Limbo

The starting point is a user's admitted ignorance: hierba sales are a crime, but private consumption isn't prosecuted. This gap fuels the hierba association model—closed clubs distributing to members at prices reportedly three times the product cost. Another user warns these clubs are periodically raided. The other option is seeds and home cultivation, with a shop in Hospitalet presented as legal by one user.

CBD in Tobacco Shops, THC in the Shadows

Confusion between the two compounds explains half the mess. THC is the psychoactive component that gets you high; CBD doesn't alter the mind and is sold in tobacco shops and specialized stores as a mild anti-inflammatory and anxiolytic. Some see this as a legal loophole, while others point out that the substance that actually gets you high is precisely what's outside that loophole.

The Response: Poppies, Anxiolytics, and Common Sense

The rest is a catalog of what not to do. Jokes about industrial glue—if it's not toxic, it doesn't get you high—recommendations for prescription anxiolytics and their acknowledged dependency in the same sentence, wild poppy, and early 2000s strains like White Widow. Amidst the noise, two messages offer some sense: rest from screens and breathe, and the realization that any substance, legal or not, eventually leads to dependency.

A Diagnosis No One Decides to Address

The most uncomfortable detail is that the initial question—what can be taken when the liver forbids alcohol—goes unanswered by any professional in the entire conversation. It's answered by a stranger with a seed shop and another recommending an anxiolytic. This is the level of healthcare coverage for substituting one legal addiction for something else.

Given these pieces, the prudent approach would be to ask a doctor first, not the first person to reply on the internet. No one does. And the question of why hierba remains outside the doctor's office and inside anonymous forums will likely remain unanswered.