Can you get addicted to weed?

[Lesta]

cphilip, I would have agreed with you before researching, but there is a distinction...

[Automaggin2]

Atleast 1/3rd of my entire school smoked pot. I know and have known alot of potheads, most of them rather smart. It does effect short term memory, but after you stop smoking your memory does come back. The only negative effect of pot is damage done by smoke inhalation. Everything you learn in school is BS.


Pot should be legal. It is the safest drug out there.
More people smoke pot now then ever before. Imagine the money it could bring in. If it was legal, you know the government would tax it to hell.

Do you ever read about people dieng from weed?

[Will Wood]

Pot will become legal within the next 20 years, for sure. A step that would help quicken this would be a cheap and quick way to detect if someone has smoked on the spot.

I smoke generally at least once a week now, usually 2-3.
I probably smoked a good ounce before I ever experienced a high. I thought it was stupid at first... but I kept on doing it, people kept on handing me a joint or bowl. Then I started to experience the high and I was like "woo this is fun"

So I do it alot now...

[OysterBoy]

The worst I've ever heard in terms of reprocussions was a case of dry heaving / puking, simply because it was their first time and they just hit it too hard.

I'm not saying everyone should smoke weed, but I am happy to just mellow out in front of a movie with a joint, bucket of cookies and a quart of milk.

[f3rr3+]

no its not physically addictive, you wont get withdrawl like you would from opiates or another physically addictive drug.

but, it can be mentally addictive just like eating and other such things can become a habit just like cracking your knuckles.

ive known all to many people who, only because of themselves, allowed it to become the center of their lives. and thus, they threw away what they had for what they wanted.


if you have will power you will have no problem, and the only one who can tell you if you can handle it is yourself.

[Lohman446]

I have never done weed... but I need to take a moment to make a point here.

As stated above, I think it CAN BE addictive, though not everyone who uses (even regularly) is an addict. Take gambling, some people can't stop after doing it just once, and loose fortunes to it. Others spend fortunes they can afford, do it everyday, and can walk away at a moments notice. Just because its addictive does nto mean any single user will become addicted. I smoked for a short time, and quitting was not an issue at all. Same with drinking.. though quitting was an effort on that (and genetic history tells me Im predisposed to alcholism which was a main reason I quit once I thought I was addicted to it).

As for why weed is illegal - it is a poltiical issue (I had a friend who studied this so some things mgiht be wrong) having to do with the Mexican American war over Texas. It is no more deadly or addictive (perhaps less so) than cigarettes or alchohol. That being said - no more addictive or a health hazard does nto mean its good for you. I recommend highly that you don't use any of those above to an extent beyond social usage. Of course Dr Atkins woudl also argue that carbs are highly addictive and dangerous.... slippery slope when we start letting the government tell us what we can put in our bodies. I would agree with those that have said many things that are illegal should not be - both chemicals and acts (prostitution for instance). Anything that does not have a victim outside of those who participate in it should be hard to be illegal. And Im not talking "society" victims, the line needs to be more direct

[e mag]

I think legalizing drugs with proper education is the answer, not the nonsense they brainwash our youth with would do the World a whole lot better. When kids get older they realize that what they have been told is an exageration or flat out lie in some cases. That makes them go out and experiment for themselves. At least that was the case with me. All the talk about how we shouldnt do it made me want to do it.

Exactly, I have seen so many people try weed and then they think how in school they told you weed was so terribly bad, but it actually isnt so then they think most other drugs probably arent that bad either. and then people think weed is a gateway drug. I guess the position of weed being a gateway drug can never really be proven as fact, but in my opinion it isnt. I know so many people who smoke weed. most only smoke weed, some have experimented with "harder" drugs, and a very few have gone on to regularly use other drugs. There are so many factors that contribute to a person deciding whether or not they experiment with drugs like their personality, surroundings, mentality, etc. Of course there are a lot of cases where weed was a persons gateway drug, but i dont think that makes it a fact. Most people try weed first because in almost any area weed is the most readily available. Also, many people try other drugs because of something like this; they go to their dealer to get some weed, the dealer doesnt have any but has something else, so the person buys that. If weed was legal this wouldnt happen. In my opinion, if marijuana was legal and people were educated about it i think many people who have gone on to harder drugs never would have

Your mincing words to protect your position. Addiction is addiction. Metal or physical. Sorry if you don't want to admit it. If a metal addiction gives you a physical symptom the the addiction is physical. Plain and simple. Your the one that fails to understand. Or wants to write some definition that fits his argument.

yes addiction is addiction, but there are different kinds of addiction. I have never seen a person who stopped smoking weed go through any kind of withdrawal. As someone said, they are addicted to the computer, although a computer obviously has no addictive chemicals. Computers are fun to use, i used be really into computers and you might say i was "addicted", but then i realized how much time i was wasting and completely stopped using them for awhile. Similarly, i have seen many people heavily use marijuana and then completely stop for whatever reason, and be perfectly fine. So while technically any type of addiction is an addiction, being addicted to something because its fun is different then being addicted because you HAVE to. These are just my personal experiences though. I could post hundreds of links to sites that say weed isnt addictive, and im sure you or i or anyone else could find hundreds of sites that say it is. However, i have read many articles online and in magaizines and journals, from legitimate sources, that say marijuana is not chemically addictive. Of course every pro drug source says weed is not addictive and sources from the government and anti drug agencies say it is. However, from what i have read, it seems that the majority of unbiased sources say that marijuana is not addictive and relatively harmless.

I think someone else also said something about weed being dangerous by lowering your inhibitions, which reminded me of two anti weed commercials. One showed some kids who crashed their car after smoking weed, another showed a teenage girl who became pregnant which they blamed on her smoking weed. I think a big problem in this country is the misconception of marijuana being so dangerous and therefor you see ads against it, but you dont see this for alcohol. Alcohol causes so many more accidents then weed, especially among teenagers. Also, i dont know why anti drug agencies feel the need to say that weed will lead to girls being taken advantage of but not say anything about alcohol. Girls being taken advantage of after drinking alcohol is such a bigger problem, especially at colleges. I have never heard a girl say she was taken advantage of after smoking weed.

As for weed becoming legal, i dont think it will anytime soon. I say this because the government would have no way to tax it because it would grow so freely. Someone said it is illegal to grow tobacco, last time i checked tobacco was an unscheduled drug and was legal to grow? the reason you dont see many people growing it though is because it is hard to do so. marijuana however, would grow just about everywhere from coast to coast. Of course the government could make it illegal to grow, but once it was legal to buy i think you would see it grow all over the place whether it was legal or not. I think it is kind of funny that alcohol and tobacco, two very addictive drugs that can lead to serious health problems, are legal while marijuana is not.

[TransMan]

Tobacco is legal to grow for your own use if your growing it to sell you have to pay permit or summin and then you can sell it and make bunches of money.