Can you get addicted to weed?

[sharpshooter1286]

My friend is saying he's gonna start becoming a regular user, and I'm telling him no thats how you're gonna ruin your life you will get addicted, anyways-
eagle8907: shut up thats what you said before
oriOla89 69: ok
eagle8907: are you retarted? thats how people get addicted
oriOla89 69: ...you cant get addicted to weed
eagle8907: thats how ur gonna get kicked out of school for good
eagle8907: yes you can
oriOla89 69: no i wont do anything at school anymore
oriOla89 69: actually you cant
eagle8907: whose to say you wont do it at school
oriOla89 69: teres no addictive things in mcannibis
oriOla89 69: i do
oriOla89 69: trust me im not even gonna think about ti in school
oriOla89 69: thats retarted
eagle8907: how stupid are you
eagle8907: theres no addictive things on a computer, but i cant seem to get off of it
eagle8907: theres no addictive things in most of the food i eat, but that doesnt stop me from eating?
eagle8907: jesus, that almost makes me think that it actually might be a mental problem?

If you can't get addicted to weed, then why can't people stop using it?

BTW, I'm eagle8907.

[XxXRyanXxX]

yeah, you can get addicted to weed, But also some dont. I have friends that are so addicted, they sell off everything live horribal lives jsut to smoke, then again theres some that smoke for years, stop for months, then pick it up here or there, so really to tell you teh truth, its a kinda yes/no questions..some can, some dont.

[xmetal2001]

You can get addicted, but its not a physical addiction, its mental.

[Setzer]

Actually its a chemical addiction. You smoke weed, chemicals replace other chemicals your body makes naturally. If you smoke enough your body completly stops making those chemicals, and your body now requires you to smoke pot. Also it has some pretty nasty effects on your personality and memory. Also it is a gateway drug. I have had many friends that started by smoking pot and saying that they'd never do anything else. Then they started doing shrooms and saying they'd do nothing else. They have also tried heroin, cocain, and regularly use X. Pot lowers your inhabitions, and when you smoke it a lot you may find yourself using other drugs.

Takes a real friend to talk to your friends about this kind of stuff, and you should be commended.

edit: I'd just like to make this note, this is what happens when you smoke a lot of pot. Of course if effects people differently, and some need to smoke more than other people.

[skife]

personally i think they just get addicted to the feeling, not the weed itself
of course i have yet to smoke any.

drinkin is my game.

[TransMan]

Yes peopel can get addicted to the feeling no its not chemical because chemical would be physical like cocain and heroin some poepl have bad problems with doing it because they have no self control or arnt very smart. It can effect your short term memory but that will go back to normal when you stop and its not that bad in the first place. And its not a gateway drug anymore then prescription pills or beer is I drank way before I smoked so I guess that means I smoke pot because of beer.... I smoke quite a bit and I dont have problems selling my stuff to get money if I dont have money I just dont smoke and I have no desire to do other drugs I dont even like drinking that much. So It basicly depends on the person does your friend have low self control or depressed a lot because thats a lot of the problem with mental addiction. Depressed people get dependent on it to be happy and people with low self control just cant stop themselves.

Oh and there are another few threads on this subject and I think they got locked so I wondnt be suprised if this one was too.

[MagMan5446]

I'll tell you guys one thing, nobody on these boards except for transman (to my knowledge) understand pot. Nobody even has a clue what they're talkin about. But that's just because the group of people on AO differs completely from the stoner group, cause they're all out smokin while you guys are blowing your money on paintball. Pot won't make you sell the clothes off your back, it's not that kind of drug.

Plus your body gets back to normal after a month of not using. Even the memory comes back.

[Spleen]

no.

[WickeDKlowN]

Mentlly, yes. Physically, no.

Also, no, it's not a gateway drug. Weed dosn't make you want to go do some lines, or shove needles in your arm. It's the people that you hang out with telling you to try it that make you do that, not the weed.

I don't smoke myself, but I mostly hang out with stoners bacause they're generally mellower than others.

[bofh]

Plus your body gets back to normal after a month of not using. Even the memory comes back.

hehe, that's funny.

[Halliday]

Oh boy yes you can get addicted.

[spantol]

If you have an addictive genotype, you can get addicted--psychologically first, physically later, from what I understand--to anything.

If you don't have a predilection for, or a family history of, addiction, you probably won't. Pot in and of itself is fairly benign, as illegal substances go. It's when you're a born addict--when you're born with that addictive genotype--that pot becomes a gateway drug.

[silentdeath55]

2 (or 1, I cant remember) words, 3 letters, 1 acronym = addiction

THC. Any your friend says there's nothing addictive in marijuana. THC replaces chemical bonds in your brain making it harder/impossible to think straight. It is like having a wall between the electrical signals in your brain, and the connection can't be made. THC is one addicative chemical in weed, but who knows what the dealer/grower is mixing with the plant to make it more addictive. Some of the time they mix in other drugs just so you will get addicted and buy more.

[tribalman]

ok first things first, i don't know first hand the effects. never done it, never plan to. some of my friends very occasionaly smoke, but i think they've stopped. i've heard stuff about how it leads to harder drugs (to quote dennis leary from no cure for cancer, "pot does lead to other things, carpentry. u know that person, allways found a way to turn something into a bong.") some people say it doesn't. have there ever been any actual test results from the scientists? no. you know why? cause if they find it addictive the'll just raise the penalty for being caught smoking/selling/under the influence of/or holding for a friend. and if it goes the other way and they find it has no real effect than you acting like a dork, then people will be ralling for it to be legal (more so than now). so either way society loses out. so do what do, try not to get involved with pot or people that are insome way involved with it.

[Mango]

Nah, drugs are not addictive at all. Tell him he'll be fine.


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