I was gonna think up a better thread title..but then I got high. http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-02-05-marijuana_x.htm
lies, "pot" isn't very addictive. i smoked it 4 days in a row when i was 12. and by the 3rd day i didn't really feel anything. on the fourth i had to smoke twice as much to feel high, so i said screw this, its too much work. Haven't smoked since.
Smoked a little in college, but I didn't like the paranoia that set in. So I just went back to drinking a lot.
I smoked it between 18 and 23. I was able to quit pretty easily but I know people from back then who still smoke. It's addictive to some people and some it's not, just like drinking, smoking and gambling.
Same here on the paranoia. I can remember driving at night and thinking every person driving behind me with a luggage rack on top of their car was a cop.
bullsh!t. i smoked just about every weekend my first 1 year of college. never really felt like i needed it. just wanted to. even my Sociology professor said it was bullsh!t when people would say that it's a gateway drug. he was my favorite professor ever.
There's gotta be some sort of paradox in this sentence. I was gonna try to figure it out...but then I got high.
The most moronic things I've ever done were due to being drunk, not high. Having said that, I don't smoke anymore. However, I never felt an addictive draw to pot. I don't believe that it's addictive in the physical sense at all. I could smoke a little for old times sake right this second as a matter of fact.
Right. There's apparently a gene for addiction. Which is why you see addiction run through families a lot.
I have to concur that it is, indeed, addictive. You can't say it's not addictive if you smoked for a couple days and then quit. It's too small of a sample size. When it becomes a way of life, and then you stop, there are withdrawl symptoms. Not nearly as serious as other drugs, but there are sypmptoms, both mental and physical. I smoked all thorughout college as a daily routine. I decided to quit when I graduated and it was REALLY tough. I found out that I had become reliant on it to be able to sleep. Initially, it is a stimulant, but if you smoke enough of it in a day, you'll crash pretty quickly after it wears off. This is really the only physical addiction I felt, but the real addiction is mental. A lot of people will argue that the "mental" addiction doesn't count as addiction, but if that addiction makes you keep coming back to it, then that's the very definition. Another misconception is that pot is not as dangerous of a carcinogen as cigarettes. When you're smoking mass quantities of a plant without a filter, it is MORE dangerous than cigarettes. I used to smoke so much, I'd cough up flegm with black tar in it. It took me a few months to get used to not smoking, but I'm glad I did.
w o w man. uhhh... w o w haha, man..."wow" is spelled the same forwards and backwards...that's so weird.
this article seems to be about under-age smoking, which I don't think you'll find many advocating. Young teens shouldn't drink or smoke? what a shocker! Pot is not physically addictive, it sets no tolerance level and has no lethal dosage. It is illegal because it provides you with a religious-type feeling and Christianity doesn't like competition.
I was one that was addicted. 3 times a day for 10 years. There were times each year where supply would dry up. Just before the dry times, hash and oil would become more readily available (or so it seemed). But once that was gone, there would be about a couple of weeks where there was nothing. I'd try and store up and pace myself but it was never enough. I'd break out the old stems and seeds for small comfort but of course that did very little if anything. That my friends, is an addict.
