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I'm pretty sure that pot is not an addictive substance. Quitting pot is easier than quitting caffeine. Heavy smokers sober up quite often for job drug tests, f

I'm pretty sure that pot is not an addictive substance. Quitting pot is easier than quitting caffeine. Heavy smokers sober up quite often for job drug tests, for example. I've personally smoked for years and just quit for a while. Some things get a little off because of habit changing: A few days of decreased appetite and a bit of insomnia. The hardest part is dealing with the boredom I get at first. I simply don't want to do some things, and then I also start seriously hating some other things I just did. Like cleaning house. I hate cleaning house, but simply just dislike it when I'm smoking regularly. I eat less healthy without the stuff as well because food enjoyment is different. But really, quitting is just a bit of a bother even after doing it for years. If you mix it with tobacco, you might be getting tobacco withdrawals... which can be fixed with smoking (Not the healthiest thing, but I do it). It is a habit, not an addiction. I've known a few folks that have issues quitting - each and every one of these folks I've known have had underlying mental health or physical health issues that were partially self-treated with smoking. I'm not really advocating daily use, but I'm not against it either. I just don't want people thinking they'll be horribly addicted in the same manner as nicotine, alcohol, or even caffeine.

wholinator2 8y ago
I used to agree that marijuana wasn't an addictive substance. And within the same post you state it is nonaddictive, you go on to state all the addictive properties of it. I think it is dangerous and wrong for people to tell everyone that marijuana isn't addictive. It would certainly like for you to think so though. Obligatory, everybody's bodies are different, what works for you might not work for everyone, ymmv, etc. I have used marijuana medically and will state without question that it is an addictive substance. Whether that is the multiple shitty feelings you get from stopping abruptly or the deep unending desire to 'just smoke a little' in the three days it takes to get over or. I think those 'comparatively little' things are enough to consider the drug an addictive substance. I've watched people drop out of college to smoke away all their money, I've watched kids lose all their friends and think nothing of it, I've seen people incur great risk of physical harm to acquire weed when they were out or sit in their house descending into self hate because everyone else was out too. You may be able to quit easily but it is wrong to apply your experience to broad statements like, "pot isn't addictive". Marijuana is an addictive substance and I wish this anti-prohibition mindset I see so many places would fight for science, not just weed.
- utexaspunk 8y ago
  Eh, addiction usually implies a physiological reaction to withdrawal. AFAIK it's pretty well established that there is no physical addiction to cannabis. One can very easily feel dependent upon it, though. Then again, if I were to cut off my Wellbutrin or Vyvanse cold turkey I'd be in for a rough ride as well. The fact that something can be habit-forming does not necessarily make it bad.
  - pmoriarty 8y ago
    There are two types of addiction: physiological and psychological. The kind you get physical withdrawal symptoms from are physiologically addictive. These are drugs like alcohol, nicotine, and heroin. Cannabis can be psychologically addictive. You can crave it when you stop or have trouble coping with life without it -- much like people who are psychologically addicted to eating lots of food. Both are psychologically addictive. You can get psychologically addicted to just about anything pleasurable or desirable. I try not to do that with cannabis or anything else.
mnm1 8y ago
> I'm pretty sure that pot is not an addictive substance. That's exactly what they said about coke. You're wrong. If it's not an addictive substance, this is news to me. It's about half way through the year and I've probably tried to quit about 90 times or roughly every other day. It most certainly is addictive in every sense of the word and even has mild physical withdrawal symptoms. Yes, it's not like withdrawing from heroin, and it probably won't make one sell everything to get it, but to say it's not addictive is simply false. I'm not against daily use and I'm not saying it's necessarily negative, but it most certainly is addictive for some people. As the Luniz song goes, "THC ain't no joke."

wholinator2 8y ago

I used to agree that marijuana wasn't an addictive substance. And within the same post you state it is nonaddictive, you go on to state all the addictive properties of it. I think it is dangerous and wrong for people to tell everyone that marijuana isn't addictive. It would certainly like for you to think so though. Obligatory, everybody's bodies are different, what works for you might not work for everyone, ymmv, etc. I have used marijuana medically and will state without question that it is an addictive substance. Whether that is the multiple shitty feelings you get from stopping abruptly or the deep unending desire to 'just smoke a little' in the three days it takes to get over or. I think those 'comparatively little' things are enough to consider the drug an addictive substance. I've watched people drop out of college to smoke away all their money, I've watched kids lose all their friends and think nothing of it, I've seen people incur great risk of physical harm to acquire weed when they were out or sit in their house descending into self hate because everyone else was out too. You may be able to quit easily but it is wrong to apply your experience to broad statements like, "pot isn't addictive". Marijuana is an addictive substance and I wish this anti-prohibition mindset I see so many places would fight for science, not just weed.

utexaspunk 8y ago
Eh, addiction usually implies a physiological reaction to withdrawal. AFAIK it's pretty well established that there is no physical addiction to cannabis. One can very easily feel dependent upon it, though. Then again, if I were to cut off my Wellbutrin or Vyvanse cold turkey I'd be in for a rough ride as well. The fact that something can be habit-forming does not necessarily make it bad.
- pmoriarty 8y ago
  There are two types of addiction: physiological and psychological. The kind you get physical withdrawal symptoms from are physiologically addictive. These are drugs like alcohol, nicotine, and heroin. Cannabis can be psychologically addictive. You can crave it when you stop or have trouble coping with life without it -- much like people who are psychologically addicted to eating lots of food. Both are psychologically addictive. You can get psychologically addicted to just about anything pleasurable or desirable. I try not to do that with cannabis or anything else.

mnm1 8y ago

> I'm pretty sure that pot is not an addictive substance. That's exactly what they said about coke. You're wrong. If it's not an addictive substance, this is news to me. It's about half way through the year and I've probably tried to quit about 90 times or roughly every other day. It most certainly is addictive in every sense of the word and even has mild physical withdrawal symptoms. Yes, it's not like withdrawing from heroin, and it probably won't make one sell everything to get it, but to say it's not addictive is simply false. I'm not against daily use and I'm not saying it's necessarily negative, but it most certainly is addictive for some people. As the Luniz song goes, "THC ain't no joke."