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And I happen to know from my experience that it does.
One example of a phenomenon happening is sufficient evidence to overturn claims of the form “X doesn’t happen”.
If your education convinced you that you can eliminate the possibility of things happening entirely, then you were mis-educated.
It's not clear which point OP made that you're claiming is inaccurate.
The claim I’m saying is inaccurate is this:
… which referred to OP’s implication that weed makes you not dream, followed by intense dreams when weed is discontinued.
The “factoid” is true because it’s happened to me repeatedly.
No, I’m afraid you don’t know how scientific claims work. The OP read a claim that “weed makes you not dream.” They didn’t read a claim that “some people report not dreaming after they’ve gone to sleep after smoking weed,” it was a blanket statement about an effect of marijuana.
The fact that you have gone to sleep after smoking and not remembered your dreams afterward does not mean it was the weed that did it, and it certainly doesn’t mean it has that affect on most people, let alone everybody. The issue isn’t that the OP’s claim is true because it happened to you; this is why anecdotal evidence is not accepted as a basis for factual claims in science. There are too many potential confounding factors in any individual case. Plenty of people claim to have seen ghosts; that doesn’t mean ghosts exist.