This whole post sounds a bit "hmmmm". I read your proceeding post, which made a little more sense but not by much. (There has been no evidence of brain damage, BTW.)
I don't think flour would be a common cutting agent because it's not very heavy and it's not the right consistency or texture to mimic the appearance of shiny and sticky trichomes. Unfortunately a lot more harmful substances do, such as glass and sand. All of this is thanks to it being illegal and people having to resort to dodgy sources.
That is a crazy amount of time to spend at a rehab. Now I know everyone is different but typically even Heroin addicts don't need that much time. I guess any substance in the hands of someone with an addictive personality can wreak havoc on that person. Good for you identifying that there was a problem and dealing with it though.
My dealer roommate said it was flour, I was not really thinking clear then, thus I gave no further though.
It was a white powder, that's all I remember clearly and it clearly stood out from the rest of the harvest. It was not meant to camouflage as weed parts, I think it was more meant as a substitute to make it bigger and heavier.
It may have been sand, but I haver never heard or read about such white sand, it was clearly as white as flour.
It was definitely no glass, though I've heard of this as cutting agent. As this episode is now five years into the past, I may have some gaps of what really happened. It is not a story I made up to entertain, but I acknowledge that I might not remember correctly.
On the length of the therapy:
Every country is different and I have done my time in Germany, where in the 90s heroin addicts could have 18 months therapies.
I was 25 when I entered the program (November 8th of 2006) and the pension insurance, which paid for my therapies, first gave me a standard of 16 weeks of therapy, which can be prolonged for every patient (25 years and younger) for eight more weeks.
My therapist, who also lead the group of patients of 25 years and younger, applied for everyone of the youths another eight weeks. Sometimes she (or better: the patient) got the extra time, sometimes it was declined.
After the 20th week it was clear, that this therapy would not help me any longer (it was repeating due to daily newcomers) and thus another application was filled for another kind of therapy.
While the first therapy was stationary, in a forest, daily program from 8am to 5pm, except weekends, three group therapies per week, work therapy, sports, ...., the second therapy, now 16 weeks, consisted of having one apartment for oneself (in the first therapy one had to share a room, for observational issues, relapses could be monitored better) in a house with 20 apartments.
The first month consisted of an external therapy at a clinic nearby, mostly inhabited by former convicts who now had the chance to make therapy instead of jail, to break loose from the drug life. The last three months one participated at an external work experience for four days a week, one day per week was meant for group therapy and cleaning the house.
After that was over, I lived for 15 months in an assisted living flat share with two other THC addicts and one flatmate who consumed heroin and alcohol and cocaine in his past life.
It may sound a bit much, but it got me away from using THC as an escape, because in the end, it doesn't matter what drug one uses, if one abuses any drug, it will lead to self harm. Some are more dangerous of course, like heroin and I knew some people who died from it, many voluntarily, as they know how much they can take if they have taken it for 20+ years, but still took more than they should.
EDIT to add:
I doubt, coming from my experience, that anything less than 16 or 23 weeks, or the famous 29 Days (we watched it in therapy) is enough to kick any drug habit, especially the bigger ones like heroin or cocaine or alcohol. That stuff has to leave your system not only physiologically, but psychologically too. It took me half a year to lose it and to think clear again.
Of course there are the self help groups like AA or NA or many others, but sometimes drugs have brought a human being down to almost nothing, and then more time is needed to get strength again.
The relapse quota is still high. 50% to 80% percent of the people making a therapy relapse in the first year, the quota goes down, the longer one is free of the drug(s). The second year still has 40% relapses, after that the quota goes down logarithmically.
On the part about the brain damage:
I meant psychosis and not neurosis, sorry, have confused the words (I'm awake again for more than 24 hours - work related).
THC consume can cause psychosis or at least accelerate and already latent prevalence to develop one.
http://priory.com/psych/cannabis.htm
Anyway, therapy was an important part of my life, I still visit the clinic on a yearly basis with a friend, who I met there, for reunions.
And every year less and less people one knew came to those events.
Btw, I'm not saying, that consuming weed will make an addict out of everyone, but some, like me, are destined or more prevalent to become addicted to any substance. THC did what I needed at that time and as my parents were addicts too, I didn't know any better.
I know many people, who can live a normal live with a daily or weekly or monthly or yearly or no weed consume.
I just can't. And that is okay.
Sorry for the mess and maybe confusing sentences.
Will stick to other confusing word combinations in the future, just ask
GGJstudios about them.
