canndo
Well-Known Member
I think I recall addiction rates, heroin was one in four. Twenty five percent of those who try heroin become addicted . the percentage is higher for nicotine which is one of the mist addictive substances on earth. Of course the roa makes these numbers variable but if there is such a thing as addiction to pot, the incidence must be very low, far lower than coffee, far lower than any I can think of.
if one takes the term addiction at its most fanciful then indeed, pot can be "addicting". Given this, then it becomes a matter of how one manages ones addiction.
I hold that addiction is really a measured level of laziness. (you could call it motivated drug seeking behavior).
it could be argued that one who spends months and thousands on growing a few plants could be addicted to his result, but.. Craft brewers could be accused of the same thing.
I knew a man who, when told there was a single good hit of crack waiting for him some five miles away, discovered his car wouldn't start and peddled his bike there, for that what? 9 minute experience only to ride back.
addicted? I don't know.
every drug has a set of negatives and positives that each must balance. No psychoactive that I have encountered has the favorable profile of pot.
I know many who smoke compulsively, I really don't know if they are affected. All day, every day. But I have yet to see any of them affected for very long or very profoundly when they were without.
I did watch a friend reduced to eating a cigarette on a long plane flight.
and I knew three people who when confronted with the prospect of imminent death if they did not quit drinking, chose death rather than quit.
Do some reading on the matter. As an example, just look at the number of actual experts, not keyboard warriors, who are of the belief that because the brain is part of the body, a psychological addiction IS a physiological addiction. But i'm sure you know far better than these experts.
