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I didn't think I could get addicted to weed
- stringfood 4mo agopeople think you can't get addicted to weed? What do they think potheads were
- IshKebab 4mo agoI have wine pretty much every week and I wouldn't say I'm addicted to it. Addiction doesn't just mean you do it a lot.
- stringfood 4mo agohaving one or two glasses of wine a few times a week is not enough to trigger any physical addiction. When looking at both pot and alcohol addicts I would assume abusing daily would be a requirement
- jazz9k 4mo agoAs My co-worker once said: "I've been smoking weed every day for 20 years, and I'm still not addicted to it!!"
- cineticdaffodil 4mo agoJust aggressively enthusiastic one-herb-cures-all medicinal enthusiasts?
- AndrewKemendo 4mo agoThis is so tired of an argument Anyone can get behaviorally addicted to anything. Refined Sugar is currently the #1 drug in the world and people are dying and sick from it but nobody cares because people equivocate “sugar” from fresh mango and a nerds rope as the same Addiction to cocaine alcohol or opiates are both behavioral and induce biological/chemical dependency This is exactly the equivocation you see in practice: “ Those withdrawing from heavy usage will experience a sharp decrease in dopamine release, which might encourage continued use. Studies have shown the risk of developing CUD is greater for those who start using before the age of 25, as Amy did, and for those who use heavily or have pre-existing mental health issues or genetic predispositions to developing addiction.”
- butlike 4mo ago> and for those who use heavily or have pre-existing mental health issues or genetic predispositions to developing addiction Who would of thunk that those needing the medicine might overdo it?
- 1shooner 4mo agoBut you are also equivocating: >Anyone can get behaviorally addicted to anything. This disregards the broad range of observed likelihood of a behavioral addiction to a given substance, and the magnitude of negative effects of such an addiction. Likewise, saying 'nobody cares' about the amount of refined sugar in diet isn't even equivocating, it's just not true.
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- sysreq_ 4mo agoIronically legalization has done more to reduce weeds popularity than any ad campaign. The old-school California medical system was honestly much better than what we see now though. Rather than moving marijuana to an alcohol type model, I wish they had moved alcohol to a medical marijuana one instead. Quick doctors appointment every 6-12 months on an opt in basis - just a check up to make sure you are partaking responsibly. America loves to make things a binary; all or nothing.
- butlike 4mo agoDevil's advocate: I don't need you to police my behaviors or protect me from myself. I know what I need better than you do.
- altairprime 4mo agoThis turns out to be false for addiction-class things like cigarettes, alcohol, and opium where a chemical dependency is statistically likely to form across an entire population. Oxycontin (for example) trivially overwhelms “I know my needs” and virtually the entire population is vulnerable, barring those very few of us with the anti-addiction adaptations (who then also tend to lack a working feeling of completion-success, which is a curse in its own right!). Most societies choose not to apply a Darwinian filter along those lines, as evidenced by the absence of addiction testing and culling at birth, so it doesn’t make much sense to consider that with adults, either — and as one of those few without the proper brain wiring for the rewards-addiction circuit, I have zero interest in a world populated exclusively by people with brains like mine. There are solidly good reasons we have these neurotransmitter systems and it’s a bad plan to winnow out those who don’t by applying an Randian ethos to drug policies.
- cluckindan 4mo agoListing the three most addictive, dependency-inducing and mortally dangerous substances used by humans to temporarily achieve a stress-free mental state doesn’t mean cannabis belongs in the same neighborhood.
- moomin 4mo agoThere’s a guy from my parent’s generation who smoked. A lot. Extremely decent guy, one of the reasons I made it through my own childhood in one piece. He’s been clean for ten years. He tells me he can barely remember a 20 year stretch of his life. Great guy, but not an advert for cannabis use.
- dh2022 4mo agoI like South Park's take on this. If you smoke marihuana nothing will happen to you. 15 years later you will still be watching TV on your parents' living room couch :).
- ratelimitsteve 4mo agofunny, because I started smoking marijuana and it actually got me out of my parents' house. I got my degree, got a career, got clean from everything else, got married and bought a house. i now work every day with other well-paid and well-regarded professionals and the preponderance of us that smoke weed every day just like Dr Dre ordered would be shocking to your sensibilities. maybe stereotypes aren't a good place from which to draw your worldview, because i think the primary driver there is less the truthfulness of the belief and more your comfort with it.
- dh2022 4mo agoYou obviously did not smoke / are not smoking enough!
- cluckindan 4mo agoAbout a hay bale’s worth a day should do them in!
- amanaplanacanal 4mo agoSmoked a lot when I was younger, eventually decided that sitting around stoned was pretty boring, so I quit.
- cluckindan 4mo agoQuit sitting around?
- amanaplanacanal 4mo agoNo I still do that :)
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- cluckindan 4mo agoSo can many other things. People who suffer from psychoses will eventually have an episode, but those who use cannabis in moderation tend to suffer less cognitive impairment than the abstinent or the heavy users. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215001316300166 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221500131...
- comprev 4mo agoIt's a psychological addition of being stoned and slightly detached from reality - no different to people munching pills every weekend at a rave or drinking enough to be tipsy (or wasted, if that's your thing) It's escapism, pure and simple.
- sqircles 4mo ago> Psychological addition [...] no different to people munching pills every weekend at a rave or drinking enough to be tipsy (or wasted, if that's your thing) I can assure you pills and alcohol are much more than a psychological addiction.
- cluckindan 4mo agoThe majority of people addicted to drugs have neurodevelopmental issues from childhood. A significant part have preexisting mental illness of one sort or another. You can call it escapism because that would make sense to you if you were doing drugs, but for most addicts, it’s about being able to feel and act normal, like the others.
- dweinus 4mo ago"As with other drugs, some people can be casual dabblers; other people, well, can’t." I think this is true. Unfortunately people (this article included) tend to talk about it as purely benign or unmitigated poison. I think the reality is that the dose, the frequency, and the role it plays in someone's life make it a positive or a negative. I wish we could get out of the hyperbole to be honest about the pros and cons.
- hahn-kev 4mo agoDose, frequency and role. Exactly like alcohol.
- Henchman21 4mo agoLike any intoxicant
- kittikitti 4mo agoI hate this narrative and hope people who push it have to be sober 24/7 for the rest of their lives. People will take this and use it to harass others with real world consequences. I used to respect The Guardian until it became a platform for Reddit journalism. Its now the favorite for conservative liberals.
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