Science Settles it: marijuana is quite addicting

We tried that. Didn't work.

Alcohol should be banned too then I imagine?

Double dummy! No doctor or nurse is looking for an opportunity to diagnose delirium tremens in anybody. They’re almost always in the ICU for something else entirely. ICU doctors and nurses have a great deal of experience in post-operation problems. Symptoms of alcohol withdrawal are not one of them.

You’ll have to explain what you mean. How did it “not work”? It didn’t eliminate marijuana use? Is that your bar for whether a law is worth it?

You'll have to explain how what we have now is better. Massively increased drug use, addiction, mental illness, etc.

We have tried that. It goes horribly wrong. Give people the freedom to make choices a good chunk of them will make ones that ruin their lives and make them a burden to society. And another chunk will use their freedom to help that first group along. See the last 60 years or so of upping THC content in weed. Or before that the nicotine in tobacco. Or chemists coming up with meth and lsd. Give people freedom and there is zero doubt we could come up with some even better drugs. Society as a whole might suffer though.

So we have the current system where we try and regulate. We will see if dropping the regulations on weed turns out better or worse. My guess is probably just different

I would be fine with that, but I wouldn’t advocate for it. Alcohol has been part of human civilization for thousands of years. There is no getting rid of it at this point.

People regard Prohibition as a “failure” because not everyone stopped drinking. But afterwards, per capita alcohol consumption was at one of the lowest points in American history, less than half what we drink now.

https://apnews.com/article/public-health-health-statistics-health-us-news-ap-top-news-f1f81ade0748410aaeb6eeab7a772bf7

But alcohol prohibition is a pointless pursuit. I bet if you polled most Americans, they would say that alcohol use rose during that time.

But marijuana we may be able to do something about.

Drugs are for losers. Just drink a glass of milk with some creatine mixed in.

Well if you’re just going to make stuff up to prove an idiotic opinion. Based on something that maybe sort of happened once in an extreme case. You’d make a great politician.

Baloney, Salami.

Weed is simply not physically addicting.

You have to look at the organization behind any "research" and ask, who runs it/owns it? What axe do they have to grind?

Addiction? Alcohol, caffeine, nicotine. Running!

As a former daily weed smoker who grew up in the era of legalization, it is definitely very addictive. While it may not lead to the same tragic conclusions as alcohol abuse it can lead to you spending way too much money on the stuff, and dominating your life in a way that many other recreational drugs do not. Being a late teen/ early 20s person during that time was so strange, everything was about weed. I had several different friend groups that would hang out for the sole purpose of trying new strains. It’s not like we were hanging out and smoking weed, we were hanging out to smoke weed, that was the event. It first started to bother me when I had my first international trip, I was going to South Africa, and whenever it came up in conversation that I was going there the first question people would ask was “can you even smoke weed there?” Not “what are you doing there?” Or “are you visiting friends or family?”. It is a fun drug, and fairly harmless in use, but I think that the marketing around it being so harmless leads a lot of people to overindulge and incorporate it into every aspect of their lives. I have known very few stoners who don’t smoke on a daily basis. I have known very few stoners who don’t get high before or even at work. I have known very few stoners that don’t have weed or dab pens on them wherever they go, whatever the function may be. No substance should be so common in your life, no matter how harmless it may be.

all that being said getting high is pretty fun and if you only do it on the weekends or for special events then I don’t really see it as harmful at all, but the rhetoric about it not being addictive is just ridiculous, and the people who act like being in a constant state of highness is no big deal are in denial about their addiction.

It’s apparent when a worker is high on weed, and the quality of their work is usually shiit.

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Smoking anything deposits smoke in your lungs, reducing your lung capacity. Lung capacity is what slows me down when running. If you take gummies you'll have the whole evening to get high.
I used to walk on the street when I smelled smoke, but nowadays a third of all smoke is made by drivers. I take a deep breath and hold it until I am safely past the smoker. I might spare some to cough in the smoker's face. Nobody has yet put out the cigarette, or even apologized. I guess they are proud of smoking.

Some people suffer alcohol withdrawal from 3 to 4 drinks per day. Others don’t suffer withdrawal after they stop 10 or 12 drinks a day. There’s no way to predict. It is always a possibility though.

“Alcohol withdrawal requiring treatment is rare in people consuming fewer than six drinks per day, except in older adults, who may develop significant withdrawal symptoms even if they were consuming only several drinks per day.”

https://www.camh.ca/en/professionals/treating-conditions-and-disorders/alcohol-use/alcohol-use---treatment/treatment---managing-alcohol-withdrawal

I would say precisely the same thing for the marijuana advocates, who said marijuana could never possibly be addicting, and were dead wrong.

That is really interesting thank you.

IDK, I did it some in high school and college. The only thing it did was make me hunger for sweets, listen to Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin music and go to sleep. My senior year in high school I played a lot of basketball and after a game on the playground, we light up and the go to the nearest ice cream store for a banana split and i'd always eat a marathon candy bar. Hear I am several decades later and I miss those carefree days. I haven't toked in many years, but I surely must be addicted, LMAO!

Strange forum but it has been proven that alcohol and smoking cigarettes are far more destructive than marijuana or any THC definitive. Also, not sure about the addiction part on weed. How about personal freedom?If dudes want to shorten their lives on either three then why are some of you throwing stones at whatever choice someone makes?

In a perfect world, peace of mind requires nothing but we obviously all know it doesn't (look at American politics) so how someone escapes reality for a while is their own business and it seems as if many of the comments are entirely subjective to their own agenda...just as with American politics...

I wish the world worked that way, but it doesn’t. The choices people make, even personal ones, can be destructive for the society and culture around them. Ubiquitous marijuana use makes life more difficult for non-users. Other people have to pick up the slack for chronic users. Jobs go unfilled, or worse are populated with low performers. More accidents, more general laziness, more waste of time.

They're wasting their own time, not yours. Stoners aren't like meth or heroin addicts. They aren't a burden on society. If they are unproductive workers, the market will discover that very quickly and sort them into an appropriate job. They don't owe anyone excellence.

In general, I do think the legalization movement erred in arguing that marijuana is 100% harmless. It's such a bold claim, and all it requires is a scintilla of contrary evidence to destroy their credibility. The line should be: not entirely without risks, but way, way, way safer than alcohol.