It is STUPID to say you can't be addicted to pot. You are assuming when ever someone talks about addiction they are referring to people who just NEED to get their fix and do terrible things because of it... You can be hooked on pot, it's just nothing like being hooked on Heroin. You can't tell me that when you smoke pot for like a week to a month straight and then quit cold turkey that you don't ever think, "I want to get high." Cause if you have those thoughts then you have a psychological addiction. What I do think is bullshit is the way they use the term in the article. They use it as if the marijuana addiction caused them to make bad decisions which just isn't true whatsoever. It may have influenced the decisions but it wouldn't be the main cause...
I'm psychologically addicted to chocolate. When I don't have it, I constantly think about it, and when it's in front of me, it's impossible to resist.
You know the reason I actually got into pot without giving it too much importance was because of numerous people like you ignorantly saying that kind of stuff. I ll just say I had enormous problems with pot and I think drastically affected my life in a negative way. I usually don't talk like this to people who are older than me but shale, seriously stop spreading the bullshit. you are HARMING people! especially the young ones. Smoke if you wanna smoke but be well aware of the dangers of smoking. I repeat stop the bullshit. You even sent a letter to a magazine without knowing shit? just based on your experience. Jesus fucking christ....
Yeah, you're totally right, it's stupid to assume that words mean what they literally mean, instead of whatever the fuck you personally feel they should mean. The rest of the world should decide to accept your version, instead, anything else would be stupid.
Addictions are all psychological (aside from physically addicting substances such as opiates and nicotine). I've been on what you might call a coke binge since feb-march of this year (almost nightly use most of the spring and nightly use all summer). By definition I would be called a cocaine addict, but mentally I know that I am above the drug and that having or doing more isn't going to make my day or night any better. I'll do it if it's around but I don't spend any money on it, nor do I fiend for it like some of the people I have dealt with. I'm at a point where I've done so much that if I never saw it again in my life I wouldn't care. I would also never pay for coke again after the operation I was a part of and getting it for free. This personal experience leads me to believe that anyone with a so called "cannabis addiction" is simply a weak minded individual and is using the substance for the wrong reason (coping with daily life) as opposed to enhancing the current moment in time temporarily. I have also smoked weed daily for 4ish + years now and am certainly not addicted. If my dealers dry and I have to wait a day or two to reup...big deal, life goes on. I don't know what else to say...I guess I have a good head on my shoulders.
People who have trouble stopping pot have formed a psychological dependence- like a crux- on pot. It is not a true addiction, but yes for some people it can be hard for them to change their routines. The only people I have met who have ever claimed to have problems with pot, otherwise have other significant emotional, psychological and personality related issues. Such people almost certainly will suffer many other "addictions" in life, to other drugs, to alchohol, to cigarettes, and to various behaviours. The overall depedency potential of marijuana is far less than both alcohol and tobacco. However please don't whinge that your addicted to pot if you mix it with tobacco.
Well sure, it gets you stoned as hell, of course some people are going to like it and not stop, but I kind of find it rediculous that they're trying to say it's addictive as some drugs that can actually do alot of harm to your body. I'm sorry, but if you can't stop smoking weed of all things, you are an idiot.
I guess person who says - he/she is addicted to pot would also say he/she is addicted to wearing hat during winter or something like that. If you can stop without problems but enjoy doing something and see no reason to stop that doesn't mean that there is addiction.
Yup....if I can do blow more often than some people smoke weed and stop no problem, then you're fucking retarded if you cannot do the same thing with weed.
this thread kind of bewilders me. Who are we to say that someone else can't be hooked/addicted to pot? I can not believe there are people here posting that such people simply have no self control. It has been proven that somepeople are genetically prone to addiction of any kind regardless of substance. Just because you or I don't have a problem quitting pot doesn't in any way mean that we have the right to say nobody else should. You should never downplay someone else's problems because you have no idea what they are experiencing. These forums are generally very open minded, but sadly this is anything but that. ANY mind altering substance, or any activity that one enjoys can become addictive. I have been to rehab for opiate addiction, and while there I met 2 or 3 people that were there for pot, and nothing else. Those people had failed out of their classes, and stolen from friends and family to support their habit. I think those people would have a somewhat different opinion than those of you saying that they can't be hooked on pot just because you feel you aren't. BTW not trying to be an ass or offend anybody, I just couldn't read something like this and not comment.
I am addicted to both alchohol and weed. There is a huge differece between the addictions though. If I go too long without alchohol, or at a low level of alchohol, I get the D.T.s, a nasty experience characterized by a feeling of constant agitation, creepy skin feelings, confusion, nausea, twitching and at its worst(about 3 days dry) a state of delerium. Going without weed is different, it feels like all the color has drained from the world, I can't sleep no matter how much I drink, I have no intrest in anything, I don't even masturbate. Another reason I would descibe it as an addiction is the feeling I get from a toke once I have been dry for a while, it is an experience I would compare to a hit of junk, blessed peace in molten gold. This makes me think there is a physical aspect to the addiction because there must be a lot of neuroreceptors sitting like dry dogs in the sun, waiting for someone to come along with a bowl of water.
what you just said there took the words out of my mouth haha.. except for the alcohol, I don't drink often.. I'm not addicted to weed, but yes I'm hooked. I smoke weed cause I like it, I don't think it as something like "omg im addicted to weed", but I feel like i'm 'normal' when Im high, and when im high, im a downer. my whole mood changes, I dont conversate much, just one word answers. but as soon as im lighting up my bong, and i feel the high, it's like im talkative, im motivated to do things, which may sound weird but ya, i get so much more focused on what im doing when i've had a puff.