see thats the thing, when people want to talk about another behavior they don't like, saying addiction is fine, in the context of "friends, families and obligat

see thats the thing, when people want to talk about another behavior they don't like, saying addiction is fine, in the context of "friends, families and obligations are neglected for this one thing" when people want to defend something, they rely on a stricter medical definition about how reliant the body becomes on another source of chemical it would have otherwise produced. This is something that marijuana doesn't satisfy, it is currently accepted that the brain doesn't stop producing its own chemicals, so therefore "you can't get addicted to marijuana", but With gambling addition, video game addiction, etc, there is no debate about whether this is self control issues or whether there is a drug that offers a chemical that your body now stops producing. its a self control issue, we colloquially call that addiction. the marijuana scene has needed to draw distinctions to get this far, now its time to quit the semantical debate and help with a solution that doesn't involve locking up parents and taking children through child protective services.