Previous noid habit altering my cannabis using behaviour?

Smoked cannabis since age 14. At 16 it turned morbid and anxious on me after a traumatic experience with something else. For the next 15 years I would only occasionally try it, normally to find that it still made me miserable.

Then a couple years back I came upon some pure indica and I was in heaven, mostly. I bought a couple of 8ths. Then I didn't smoke for about 2 years aside from once or twice. I started developing this mad craving for indica weed, but I had no connections. I tried walking the city streets on a Friday night and asking people. No luck.

But my RC supplier had several noids. I was apposed to using noids. I had tried some of the first generation spice products, in 2010 and found then much the same as weed at the time. Unfortunately, they stocked JWH-122 which I was able to convince myself might not be too bad.

I ended up with a habit. Smoking myself up every evening, and heavy. It took me a while to get off it.

7 months later I started using the dark web. I bought some weed. It was an indica. Mad euphoria, compulsive redoaing and cravings. I ended up binging, smoking every 2 hours of my waking life and waking 1-2x/night to smoke myself back to sleep. Going like that for months.

Now I'm struggling to stop. I have such powerful cravings.

The compulsive use is what gets me. I was always a take it or leave it guy with weed, even when I had that goof indica - I had no compulsion to keep dosing every 2 hours before getting hooked on noids.

This happen anyone else?

Sounds very similar to what I experienced with JWH-018. I used to be a regular weed smoker but not excessively so, and took longer breaks from time to time. Then I got a gram of this stuff and started binging on it. When it was gone, I switched back to regular weed, but the damage was already done. I had cravings, and for a few months I even smoked before breakfast and also sometimes in the middle of the night when I woke up. I managed to kick it alltogether for about two years, but now I started again. It definitely got better in terms of compulsive dosing, but my behavior ist still more of an addictive type than it used to. I'm much more careful now though, so for the time being I can manage it pretty well.

I believe that consuming a full cannabinoid receptor agonist excessively for an extended period of time can permanently change your brain's response to the activation of these receptors. So it would make sense that this can happen. I'm not a neuroscientist though. It may also be possible that you and me started to have addictive personalities due to some other life event and this was purely coincidental.