Is marijuana physically addictive? (3279 hits)
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Submitted by Vomit (View user info) at 2005-02-13 12:35:52 EST
I have recently been in an arguement that I would like everyone's help with. I have two in-laws that are pharmacy tech's trying to tell me that marijuana is physically addictive. Being a very heavy pot smoker at one time in my life, I told them this is complete and utter bullshit. I have no doubt in my mind that it is mentally addictive, but you do not crave pot physically. They seem to think that they work at a fucking pharmacy, they know shit about pot...neither has ever smoked any before. I have polled all my friends and aquaintances that still smoke, and none of them think pot is physically addictive. Just wondering what the Uberpopulace thinks.
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Submitted by Oiseau (user info) at 2005-02-15 21:28:02 EST (#)
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"Marijuana is not physically addictive like tobacco"
http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_faq1.shtml
Submitted by nrduncan (user info) at 2005-02-15 16:55:14 EST (#)
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DIE
Submitted by peckerhead (user info) at 2005-02-15 12:05:38 EST (#)
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Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-15 09:07:44 (#)
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Update: One of them got so pissed off when I showed them this post, she fucking flipped last night!
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Vomit: I suggest one of two things; Hand your friend a joint so he/she can smoke it. Cannabis almost always has a pacifying effect. If that doesn't work then invite your friend out here to make an intelligent comment on the matter. I have read over most of the comments and they have been very balanced. Good points have been made on many aspects of this discussion.
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-15 09:07:44 EST (#)
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Update: One of them got so pissed off when I showed them this post, she fucking flipped last night!
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-14 16:25:08 EST (#)
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Woohoo, most heated!
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-14 16:22:45 EST (#)
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Shlongy? You out there?
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2005-02-14 15:21:16 EST (#)
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jimmiss, you're a maritimer? Where?
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-14 14:43:37 EST (#)
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Almost 1,000 hits...where's Shlongy when you need some heat?
Submitted by thaumaturge (user info) at 2005-02-14 14:16:45 EST (#)
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Not physically addictive. You are right, those people are using that myth as a crutch to help them cope with the idea of having fuck-up children. They (those pharmacists) are "addicted" to that belief, I suppose.
It can be mentally addictive on a certain level, sorta like addiction for one afflicted with Pica Syndrome. But that's usually gross.
I think that it can be very therapeutic, and therefore addictive. If it feels "good", people get addicted to the "good".
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-14 13:57:39 EST (#)
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Caulaincourt = french faggot
Submitted by pantsarestupid (user info) at 2005-02-14 13:36:21 EST (#)
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I beleive there is a limit to how much you should smoke though, as outlined by the following article.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6975
Anyone that smokes 50 joints a day is a fuckin retard anyway.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2005-02-14 13:33:53 EST (#)
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note: indians = maritimers
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2005-02-14 13:32:23 EST (#)
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Who says I want to seperate? Barely 30% of the people want to separate you ignorant fuckhead. The only reason I would secede is because us and Ontario has been dragging the useless maritime provinces forever. Westerners might be insignificant, but they can manage themselves.
I've been in the maritimes twice. You're not even fishermen. You're just a bunch of unemployed inbred retards that my taxes pay for. Providing fish = Saving our ass? What the fuck are you talking about?
But hey, IF there ever was a favor, it has been returned ten fold, you welfare loving tax sucking useless waste of oxygen.
Submitted by polymorph505 (user info) at 2005-02-14 13:28:37 EST (#)
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Jungle, you got any CD's?
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-14 13:27:47 EST (#)
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Hehe, everyone hates the froggies...
Submitted by jimmiss (user info) at 2005-02-14 13:19:04 EST (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2005-02-14 12:58:42 (#)
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Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-14 12:32:41 (#)
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Caulaincourt - Those are some great fuzzy out of focus pictures...and yeah, I can't stand french Canadians. You're fucking annnooooyyyiiinggg...bunch of whiny sucks that think the rest of Canada should cater to your every whim. You actually remind me of indians.
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This is the best the webcam can do. But in the end I can't possibly look as bad as you. And I doubt you'd call me a scrawny if we ever met at the drive thru you work at.
You are right though. We are indeed fucking annoying. But that's what minorities do and it pays off well. However, we still hold a pretty big share of this country so we are entitled to some whining, unlike those insignificant westerners and maritimers.
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Man, if you wanted to seperate fine. Your terms are pretty stupid though. That is... using our currency etc. If I was governor general I'd build a wall around Quebec made of baguets and you could hook a bunch of birchbark canoes up to the shores and get some voyaguers to paddle the whole damn whiny provice back to France. Except they don't want you back and talk about your accent the same way the english talk about the southern accent down in the states. Booyah!
Us maritimers are saved yours AND the westerners asses when we had fish and you had nothing. Now the tables have temporarily turned and you won't return the favor. And NOW that the east has oil again large firms based out of Alberta want are fighting NFLD for money money from it.
Submitted by jimmiss (user info) at 2005-02-14 13:14:10 EST (#)
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Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-14 12:32:41 (#)
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Caulaincourt - Those are some great fuzzy out of focus pictures...and yeah, I can't stand french Canadians. You're fucking annnooooyyyiiinggg...bunch of whiny sucks that think the rest of Canada should cater to your every whim. You actually remind me of indians.
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That deserves another plus two.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2005-02-14 12:58:42 EST (#)
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Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-14 12:32:41 (#)
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Caulaincourt - Those are some great fuzzy out of focus pictures...and yeah, I can't stand french Canadians. You're fucking annnooooyyyiiinggg...bunch of whiny sucks that think the rest of Canada should cater to your every whim. You actually remind me of indians.
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This is the best the webcam can do. But in the end I can't possibly look as bad as you. And I doubt you'd call me a scrawny if we ever met at the drive thru you work at.
You are right though. We are indeed fucking annoying. But that's what minorities do and it pays off well. However, we still hold a pretty big share of this country so we are entitled to some whining, unlike those insignificant westerners and maritimers.
Submitted by knucklesnelson (user info) at 2005-02-14 12:54:15 EST (#)
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I just get cranky when I'm out of weed, does that count?
Submitted by peckerhead (user info) at 2005-02-14 12:48:52 EST (#)
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epiphany wrote:
"Being in contact with as many potheads as I have been, and seeing a lot of them attempt to quit, I think that a certain type of personality gets addicted to smoking pot and begins to tell themselves they are better for doing it. Whether or not they are correct isn't for me to determine, just saying that if they think their lives are improved because of weed, they may manifest some sort of physical symptoms on their own in the absence of it."
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Having come into contact with hopelessly addicted alcoholics and chronic tobacco users -- along with people who use cannabis on a regular basis it is my observation that any side effects or withdrawal symptoms associated with weed pale in comparison to those of alcoholics and cigarette smokers. I know people who have smoked themselves to death - literally - and I have also known friends who have had their lives ruined by alcohol. I have a few friends who have used cannabis and had their lives ruined too -- not from any effect of THC but from being busted, getting a criminal record and the stigma that goes along with being regarded as a criminal. Incidentally, you don't have to smoke cannabis; it can be prepared and cooked into your favorite recipe, added to a milkshake or otherwise eaten. There are right and wrong ways of doing this - and one very real hazard: Has the marijuana plant been sprayed with a harmful chemical pesticide? --- yet another reason to get cannabis under government controls where the product would be labelled as to contents, additives etc.
Submitted by Jungle_Jimanee (user info) at 2005-02-14 12:44:31 EST (#)
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"gets addicted to smoking pot and begins to tell themselves they are better for doing it. "
Hit the nail on the head with that one; I used to think that being stoned helped focus, creativity and comedy. It sort of does but it takes more than it gives.
I have studied this intensivley when it comes to mixing (a drum & bass, DJ, beatmixing term), I was told that getting stoned would help me get into the flow and after 6 months of struggeling I finally tried after not smoking for two weeks and noticed dramatic improvement.
However once I started smoking again my mixing became "fuzzy" again. Stopped again only to find out that my mixing stayed fuzzy for at least three days.
Then I noticed that there was a "come up" and a "come down" with weed, so that when you are up you have all the benefits and the side effects; when you come down you have only the side effects.
I would say more, however, need to go home.
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-14 12:32:41 EST (#)
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Caulaincourt - Those are some great fuzzy out of focus pictures...and yeah, I can't stand french Canadians. You're fucking annnooooyyyiiinggg...bunch of whiny sucks that think the rest of Canada should cater to your every whim. You actually remind me of indians.
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-14 12:28:16 EST (#)
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Submitted by epiphany (user info) at 2005-02-14 12:16:19 (#)
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Marijuana has withdrawl symptoms that manifest themselves in the physical form once a user has stopped using. Moderate to severe cravings, loss of appetite, headaches, fatigue and stomach cramping are all normal symptoms of having stopped smoking weed after a period of repeated use.
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Out of the dozens of people that I know that have or do smoke pot (including my past self), I have never heard of anyone getting these symptoms.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2005-02-14 12:24:33 EST (#)
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Like many americans here, you group the french and french canadians together. Which really shows your knowledge of this world you sadly are part of. But it's okay, you've reach your last bastion so I can understand the need to bring up stereotypes.
And for your information, I have three posts with my picture on them.
The two posts before my most recent one and another entitled Revealed.
I take it you will inflict your Internet might on them, which should be hilarious, in a pitiful and pathetic way.
Make me proud, Captain Plaque.
Submitted by epiphany (user info) at 2005-02-14 12:16:19 EST (#)
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Marijuana has withdrawl symptoms that manifest themselves in the physical form once a user has stopped using. Moderate to severe cravings, loss of appetite, headaches, fatigue and stomach cramping are all normal symptoms of having stopped smoking weed after a period of repeated use. Withdrawl symptoms are the criteria that most scientists use to determine whether or not a "drug" is physically addictive, so draw your own conclusions.
Being in contact with as many potheads as I have been, and seeing a lot of them attempt to quit, I think that a certain type of personality gets addicted to smoking pot and begins to tell themselves they are better for doing it. Whether or not they are correct isn't for me to determine, just saying that if they think their lives are improved because of weed, they may manifest some sort of physical symptoms on their own in the absence of it.
I couldn't answer your question from experience, as I think smoking is disgusting.
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-14 12:12:51 EST (#)
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And I noticed you like to insult people that post pictures of themselves but have never put one up of yourself...until you have the balls to do that, your insults don't mean shit.
Submitted by Bizdorph (user info) at 2005-02-14 12:11:36 EST (#)
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Funny story: I was bored one day and was looking at that "truth: teh anti-drug" website and their informatino on marijuana. That said said that it had powerful addictive properties and can cause dependency. Like any good website, they cited a source. I clicked on the link to the source and found something altogether different. In the information for marijuana, it said: Physical Addiction - None. Mental Addiction - Mild habit-forming properties.
Har har p33n3r.
But yeah, I agree that marijuana isn't physically addictive. My friend does it a lot and quit recently with no side effects other than going "awww god DAMMIT!" whenever he smelled someone toking up.
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-14 12:07:28 EST (#)
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What can I say?? You're fucking FRENCH, asshole. You call me scrawny?? You faggots couldn't fight your way out of a wet paper bag. Fucking limp wrister.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2005-02-14 11:58:43 EST (#)
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Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-14 11:34:13 (#)
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It's not retaliation if your post actually does suck. Which it did. Pure bullshit.
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I can understand why you might think I was lying since an ugly little fuck like you must be devoid of any sex life.
And If being a nigger means not being a retarded red-haired scrawny reject with yellow teeth and a faggoty percing, I'll take it as a compliment.
At last, I take comfort in knowing that I hurt your Internet feelings on your camwhore post which explains your retaliation. Life must suck when you're THAT powerless.
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-14 11:45:08 EST (#)
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And my yellow teeth can always be whitened...you'll always be a nigger.
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-14 11:34:13 EST (#)
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It's not retaliation if your post actually does suck. Which it did. Pure bullshit.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2005-02-14 11:13:14 EST (#)
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hey you yellow teeth ugly scrawny motherfucker. keep your retaliation -2 for yourself.
thank you, you reject.
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2005-02-14 10:53:30 EST (#)
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not phsically addictive but psychologically...
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-14 10:38:53 EST (#)
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I was hoping Carol Richards would stop by with her thoughts on this one...
Submitted by standardeviant (user info) at 2005-02-14 09:13:59 EST (#)
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All I know is it fucks you any way you look at it. My brother is a tree stump from smoking so much. Do extacy, they are finding cures for alzeimers. And it is more fun.
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2005-02-14 09:11:30 EST (#)
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no it isn't
Tell them to stop watching Reefer Madness and get some real science
Submitted by DeathJester (user info) at 2005-02-14 08:58:39 EST (#)
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Cannabis is not physically, psychologically, or emotionally addictive. You can give up whenever you want with no after effects excluding boredom, having to face real life, and the world taking on a less green-tinted colour scheme.
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-14 08:47:41 EST (#)
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I haven't smoked weed in 3 years or so...did it bother me when I quit? Not at all. Which to me equals not physically addictive.
Submitted by BludKake (user info) at 2005-02-14 08:36:12 EST (#)
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Pot is physically addictive. Of course, this is just an opinion of mine. Tetrahydrocannabinol causes the inhibition of the reuptake of serotonin, a feel good chemical. That means when you smoke pot, serotonin floats around in your brain for alot longer, causing pleasant sensations. The mind is connected to the body, man. What the brain wants, the body wants. I'm a pot smoker and I'm functional. Embrace the reality of your addiction and it won't bother you so much.
Submitted by ChesterTheJester (user info) at 2005-02-14 08:33:55 EST (#)
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I don't know about physically addictive But I used to smoke like a chimney... I became a complete bitch and pain in the ass to be around when I quit... so Take that as you will
Submitted by Jungle_Jimanee (user info) at 2005-02-14 08:18:06 EST (#)
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I have smoked for years; pot, weed and tobbaco, I have quit nicoteen but am still battling with the Ganja. I have a degree in Biology and alot more experience than any of these "studies" (look at who funds them and why).
It does not matter wether Ganja is physically addictive or not; it is addictive full stop.
Smoking it damages your lungs, immune system, success with the opposite sex and wits.
It does seem to me that everybody needs a substance to seperate work time from playtime (about 6pm for most).
A good trick is to give up two things at the same time eg. ganja and chocolate. Then when you need to cheat you can guiltily have some sweets.
The main reason I find it so hard to quit is that I like the effect it has on my appreciation of music. I am not saying that it makes you more musical, just that it makes the music sound more pleasant and everytime I stop it takes 3 to 5 days for the music to sound good again.
And life does not seem so much fun, I get too serious and start losing my temper if I drink.
Still I don't want to live my life dependant on anything other than food, water and good company and sex.
Submitted by Shagabah_Jones (user info) at 2005-02-14 04:39:12 EST (#)
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yeah, as the man once said: it's all in yer head.
Submitted by funk_boy (user info) at 2005-02-14 04:18:04 EST (#)
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not physically addictive
Submitted by Jo_of_the_golden_P (user info) at 2005-02-14 00:58:06 EST (#)
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no fucking way is it addictive. utter bullshit. just because I WANT pot doesn't mean I'm addicted to it. You can easily smoke a few joints a day for months and then go months more without any harm and little more than the occasional jones.
Submitted by Zoidberg (user info) at 2005-02-14 00:46:19 EST (#)
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Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-13 21:19:50 (#)
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Submitted by Zoidberg (user info) at 2005-02-13 17:37:24 (#)
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no, but judging by your teeth in your camwhore, toothbrushes aren't either
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Coming from someone that is probably 5'4" and 300 pounds...where's your camwhore, fag?
Not so desperate for attention that I have to post a picture with no content. This isnt facethejury.com
If you really want to know, ask cookielass, she'll tell you how hideously deformed I am. Otherwise no reason for yall to know what I look like. I don't date ugly people
Submitted by HZRD (user info) at 2005-02-14 00:11:09 EST (#)
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I say yes. Here is an argument from a pothead: http://www.ubersite.com/m/59501
Submitted by peckerhead (user info) at 2005-02-14 00:03:36 EST (#)
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I will agree with just about everybody else and say No, marijuana is not physically addictive. The reason so many have said that it is not addictive is that it is true. De-criminalization for users is well under way. Legalization of cannabis is on the horizon. Applying a pro vs. con analysis, I see more pro's than cons - including a) getting cannabis controlled by governments as opposed to the Mafia or bike gangs. If cannabis was legalized then our police officers would have more time and resources to deal with users and pushers of much more harmful drugs including cocaine/crack, speed, heroin and all those wonderful designer drugs e.g. PCP -- which are turning kids brains into porridge. b) It's good economics. For example, marijuana could be cultivated and marketed the same way as tobacco and alcohol. The tax revenue would be enormous. c) Many young adults would have criminal records erased. People getting arrested and put in jail for getting high on marijuana is just ludicrous. Alcohol and tobacco are easily more harmful and have caused much more strife and harm in society than marijuana use. Even a bird brain should be able to see this. Check the statistics if you are not sure including deaths from lung cancer, fatalities from drunk driving, divorces resulting from alcohol abuse etc.
Submitted by Degreeless_Capibara (user info) at 2005-02-13 22:28:08 EST (#)
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Submitted by bush_for_god (user info) at 2005-02-13 19:54:13 (#)
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it is both physically and mentally addictive. but more than than those two it's the lifestyle that it entitles that becomes addictive the most. although it does have more tar than cigarettes
http://www.ubersite.com/cgi-bin/message_get.cgi?message=1108316152547627421
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Does it surprise me that this comes from a God-fearing, Bush-worshipping NASCAR dad?
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2005-02-13 22:17:43 EST (#)
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BOOO DRUGS ARE BAD!!!DON'T DO DRUGSSSS!!!
take a ride on the cannibus heheh...
South Park rules when you're high. "We killed our teacher and they found our seamen in her stomach."
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-13 21:19:50 EST (#)
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Submitted by Zoidberg (user info) at 2005-02-13 17:37:24 (#)
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no, but judging by your teeth in your camwhore, toothbrushes aren't either
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Coming from someone that is probably 5'4" and 300 pounds...where's your camwhore, fag?
Submitted by bush_for_god (user info) at 2005-02-13 19:54:13 EST (#)
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it is both physically and mentally addictive. but more than than those two it's the lifestyle that it entitles that becomes addictive the most. although it does have more tar than cigarettes
http://www.ubersite.com/cgi-bin/message_get.cgi?message=1108316152547627421
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Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2005-02-13 19:39:11 EST (#)
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I'm guessing a pharmacist and a pothead have two different interpretations of "physical addiction".
That's my two cents worth.
Submitted by Degreeless_Capibara (user info) at 2005-02-13 19:25:36 EST (#)
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It's addictive in the sense that you'd like to smoke more, like an addictive food or something. There is no nicotine or chemical additives in pot, since it is not handled through a processing plant, but instead taken directly from the cannibus itself.
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-02-13 18:43:13 EST (#)
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nah.
i used to be a heavy pot smoker. i had no withdrawels.
Submitted by Zoidberg (user info) at 2005-02-13 17:37:24 EST (#)
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no, but judging by your teeth in your camwhore, toothbrushes aren't either
Submitted by tech-junkie (user info) at 2005-02-13 16:53:56 EST (#)
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Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2005-02-13 14:52:15 (#)
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Idiots can get addicted to anything. Look at American Idol. That's what should be illegal. Pure trash.
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Simon making teenage girls cry?
"You're the reason people commit suicide. That was dreadful."
I jerk off to that, but yeah, after that it does start to become dull and uninteresting. Makes you wonder why it's become the #1 show in America."
Submitted by wardy (user info) at 2005-02-13 16:31:47 EST (#)
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i rule.
Submitted by wardy (user info) at 2005-02-13 16:31:36 EST (#)
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i think it can be both. i definitely have stopped smoking, and it wasn't impossible to do, but when i did quit, i did notice a lot of changes in behavior.
but i'm not real sure what the definition of a true physical addiction is, so i couldn't comment on my inability to fall asleep, or function... whether or not that was a physical addiction.
oh, and if none of that makes sense, go to hell. i'm still drunk from last night... which ended around 8 this morning
Submitted by Envenom (user info) at 2005-02-13 15:33:48 EST (#)
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If you find yourself saying stuff like "I could quit any time I want, I just don't want to" then you are addicted.
Submitted by CoreaPeekay (user info) at 2005-02-13 15:06:40 EST (#)
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I'm not addicted to it, if it is I guess its very gradual.
Then again saying jane is addictive is like saying that soda-pop and chocolate is. Its just a thing you do, like a routine or something, its not addictive. bah. i cant think of the words to explain it.
Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2005-02-13 14:52:15 EST (#)
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Idiots can get addicted to anything. Look at American Idol. That's what should be illegal. Pure trash.
Submitted by screamfeeder (user info) at 2005-02-13 14:49:59 EST (#)
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YES IT IS OH GOD IT IS SO TERRIBLE OMFG!!!*
*no it's not; I just wanted to be the voice of dissent.
Submitted by Envenom (user info) at 2005-02-13 14:41:47 EST (#)
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"If they say pot is physically addictive, would withdraw symptoms do they claim?"
Extreme irritability, desire to bludgeon your co-workers with a three hole punch. Doesn't necessarily have to be physically addictive...
Submitted by Envenom (user info) at 2005-02-13 14:37:49 EST (#)
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No, but it can become psychologically addictive which for all intents and purposes is the same thing. Perception is reality...
Submitted by MANICMOTHER (user info) at 2005-02-13 14:20:27 EST (#)
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Submitted by tragiksaint (user info) at 2005-02-13 13:23:17 (#)
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to that fuck that says that it's only mentally addictive to the weak, you are fucking ignorant
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Let me guess assface, addiction runs in your family.
If you are geneticaly predisposed to addiction YOU will have problems with it just as you would with most other even vaguely addictive substances, controled or not. I was speaking more on the lines of the fucked up little assholes who spend major portions of their youth in persuit of the ganja because to them facing reality without it is something they cannot do.
Some people light up in the same way that you might sit down after a long day at work and have a beer. Are they addicted? Is their mind telling them "lite it up man it's been 10hrs. too long"?
No they're sitting in their house lighting up at fat one saying " Ah another day at my crappy/boring/psychotic/hard/moronic( what ever the case may be)job is over. Now I'm just going to sit back, relax, and try not to think about the fact that I have to be back in 12 hours."
Submitted by dohnuts (user info) at 2005-02-13 13:58:13 EST (#)
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All of marijuana's addictive qualities are classified as psychological. None are physical. That answer comes from a book called Addictions: A Comprehensive Guidebook, edited by Barbara S. McCrady, which pretty much answers this definitively--or at least, as definitively as the current research can suggest. The book is one of the bibles of the field, and many top researcher use it in the seminars and classes they teach. It's contributors include people like Carlos DiClemente, who is one of the pioneers of the stages of change model of drug rehabilitation.
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-13 13:37:04 EST (#)
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Thanks for shrinking my freakishly large head, Mick.
Submitted by Timmah (user info) at 2005-02-13 13:34:10 EST (#)
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No it's not addictive. In the physical sense anyway
Submitted by MickGinny (user info) at 2005-02-13 13:31:07 EST (#)
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it is not addictive, i really enjoy good pot, i will smoke it all day everyday, and make tea from the stems. but when there is no premium weed for sale, i dont crave it, i may miss it but i have waited several months for the kind of weed i enjoy. and i know a little something about addiction.
by the way vomit, youre a star > http://www.ubersite.com/m/59447
Submitted by tlozoot (user info) at 2005-02-13 13:27:20 EST (#)
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Well... one can argue that just about anything is physically addictive. Food, chapstick, Ubersite. If you do something enough times, it will make you crave it or want to do it again, perhaps putting off other activities to do it--for example, I should be working on a Physics lab, but instead I'm replying to this post. Does that make Ubersite physically addictive?
But no, marijuana isn't really more physically addictive than most anything else, and it's almost certainly less physically addictive than alcohol.
Submitted by Fleury75 (user info) at 2005-02-13 13:23:41 EST (#)
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smoke. grow. eat.
trust me: mentally addicting not physically
Submitted by tragiksaint (user info) at 2005-02-13 13:23:17 EST (#)
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to that fuck that says that it's only mentally addictive to the weak, you are fucking ignorant. i smoked for almost every day for about 4 years, and nights i would go without it, were just fucking terrible. once or twice, it's actually started searches of the entire house for some pot in order to get to sleep. luckily , it's not like that anymore. after smoking SO MUCH, you can easily begin to lose interest in almost everything if pot is not involved, and easily have trouble sleeping when you are not high.
to address the original query, no, marijuana is not physically addictive. however, it CAN be very strongly psychologically addictive.
Submitted by Stabkill (user info) at 2005-02-13 13:11:34 EST (#)
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William_Q_Percy got it right in his response too... And he forgot to mention something else that is physically addictive that tons of people are on. Caffine!
So people who argue "physically addictive stuff should be outlawed" better be mormons or something, because that means no Coffee (the good kind), no cola (the good kind) and other stuff...
Truck drivers are screwed.
Submitted by Stabkill (user info) at 2005-02-13 13:09:30 EST (#)
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I'm sure the government wants people to believe what they say... who knows, maybe they've read shit from the government that said it.
Of course, look at the stupid commercials they put on in the USA about people who smoke weed being irresponsible and people get injured or do stupid things. I thought "ALCOHOL DOES THE SAME EXACT THING" as soon as I heard them. Actually, I think alcohol makes you do MORE stupid things than weed.
Fact: Weed does not incite violence and alcohol does.
The government is lying to us all... They should be letting us have weed and no booze. Less people would die, that's for sure. (You can't consume enough marijuana to overdose!)
So YOU are correct and those people who argue opposite are wrong, wrong, wrong.
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-13 13:01:46 EST (#)
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I thought there would actually be a few idiots that did think it's physically addictive out there...guess not.
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-13 13:01:01 EST (#)
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I think this is the first time I haven't got a -2 from Tigre.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-02-13 13:00:00 EST (#)
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Submitted by lnknptheory (user info) at 2005-02-13 12:56:45 (#)
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I'm taking a Psychology course currently. Marijuana is not physically addictive, it is mentally addictive.
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You don't know how many times I've heard," I'm taking so-n-so course and I am an unqualified expert to answer whatever question you have on this particular field." Hey, mr/ms college student, have something to say after you experienced something in life first. What you think does not matter to anyone but you and your professor.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-02-13 12:57:02 EST (#)
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No. Doesn't mean that pot-smokers aren't freakin losers at life, for the most part.
Submitted by lnknptheory (user info) at 2005-02-13 12:56:45 EST (#)
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I'm taking a Psychology course currently. Marijuana is not physically addictive, it is mentally addictive.
Submitted by Tigre (user info) at 2005-02-13 12:56:20 EST (#)
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Studies have been done. Tetrahydrocannabinol is NOT physically addicting to ANY part of your body. Mentally it is for those with mental diseases(depression for example). Physically, no, it is not. Nor is it to any animal on earth. It's just impossible, there is no toxin for the brain to latch onto.
Submitted by William_Q_Percy (user info) at 2005-02-13 12:54:15 EST (#)
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Not at all...
There have been times where I've smoked every day for weeks at a time, run out of my stash, and not touch the shit for months, without feeling ANY sort of withdrawl.
That is the key tennet to physical addiction. Your body will SHUT DOWN if it is addicted to something and doesn't get it. Crack, nicotine, heroin, all examples. Alcohol and pot are substances that can be psychologicall addictive, but not physically addictive.
Submitted by QueenAshlee (user info) at 2005-02-13 12:49:57 EST (#)
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No.
Submitted by jimmiss (user info) at 2005-02-13 12:44:51 EST (#)
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The active chemical in marijuanna is not physically addictive, however some peer reveiwed studies have found that it is psycologically addictive; Along the lines of gambling or extreme sports. There are *some studies out there that say it is physically addictive, but they are hardly done in a scientific mannor and rarely from a non biased board. As someone who has seen a fair amount of marijuanna smoked in his day I would say that it can't be addictive physically, because too many people that I know have smoked as much as they drank while in college, and then stopped because of where they started work and it didn't bother them at all. Maybe for the first week they really wanted to smoke a joint once or twice, but went for a drive or watched TV instead. Hardly what I'd call withdrawls.
I beleive there is a limit to how much you should smoke though, as outlined by the following article.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6975
Hopefully your friends aren't unreasonable people, or preachy. Which is why a lot of people hold contentions like they do. They're probably just really, really PC. But that's just a guess.
Submitted by MANICMOTHER (user info) at 2005-02-13 12:42:57 EST (#)
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Not physically nor mentally as long as you aren't a weak willed prat.
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-13 12:42:14 EST (#)
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The only reason she thinks this way is because her two kids are potheads and are failing school because of it. She wants to be able to make excuses for them.
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2005-02-13 12:40:41 EST (#)
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But I suppose it's different for everybody...
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2005-02-13 12:39:58 EST (#)
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Absolutely not. I went 4 weeks without it on Christmas break and I didn't even notice until about the second week. It's because I left my stash at home since I flew to Ontario, and didn't know anybody there to get some from. But I didn't even realise I hadn't had any. Even after I had, it wasn't any different.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2005-02-13 12:38:54 EST (#)
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I would say mentally I agree. If they say pot is physically addictive, would withdraw symptoms do they claim?