Actress Sharon Stone said she experienced significant withdrawal symptoms after quitting marijuana, warning others that the pot people smoke today is very different from what it was decades ago.<\/p>\n
The 68-year-old \u201cBasic Instinct\u201d star discussed what happened after using cannabis following a stroke she suffered in 2001.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got off one of my medications that I was on for my stroke last September, and they said I couldn\u2019t go off of it,\u201d Stone said during an interview<\/a> with Variety. \u201cThey said, \u2018You can\u2019t go off of it. You can never go off of it.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018I\u2019m going off it,\u2019 and it was like going off of f*cking heroin. I was sick as a frigging dog for four and a half months. I just thought, \u2018I want my life back.\u2019 I had gotten off the majority of the drugs over the years that they had put me on. But I was like, \u2018I want a drug-free life.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOnce I got off that, I decided I\u2019m going to quit smoking pot. And because I think they put so much stuff in it now \u2014 they really do \u2014 when I stopped smoking pot, I also got sick,\u201d she added. \u201cIt\u2019s not like you\u2019re pulling it out of the ground anymore. It\u2019s not like when we were kids. I got pretty sick for a month. I went to my neurologist, and he said, \u2018Sharon, I\u2019ve had people dying in the emergency room from marijuana.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n