I was once told that the herb was not addictive. 7 years on I fail to believe that statement. I still smoke and love the taste, aroma and high off of weed. Can't help but think 'maybe I like it a little too much!' Anyone feel the same?
A quick way to know that pot isn't addictive is that if you stop smoking it after 7 years you're not going to get sick or die.
hello first post n all. Yeah i reckon it is adictive, ive smoked for nearly ten years straight now and if i go without i do get ratty with people, lose my temper and act pretty rash. Oh hang on thats why i started smokin it in the first place!
Yeah the thing is meth heads crack heads all those fools look at this thread and laugh probably Hell even coffee heads
I can tell you with certainty that Cannabis has both physically and psychologically addictive properties. I do active research in psychopharmacology, and the very nature of how a cannabinoid chemical works in the brain gives it an inherent risk of addiction. I am sure people here won't believe me, so I will explain it (with lots of real citations from real books) when it comes up. However, I am the rest of the scientific community, acknowledge that this risk of addiction is far less than that for many other commonly used drugs, especially opioids, stimulants, and nicotine.
Yes, there is a psychological, and slightly physical addiction that can and will occur with many people who use marijuana daily. The absence of a marijuana high in these individuals will create an intense dysphoria, terrible depression and intense vivid dreams. Sweating may occur, feelings of heat and of strangeness. This "addiction" or psychological need to change your perspective on life usually occurs at an early age... you may have stayed up late at night to experience the sleep deprevation, may have eaten gluttonously, preferred chocolate over any flavor, drowned yourself in sugar and caffeine, and had a very difficult life. Marijuana, is not the key here... so far as your need to change perspective on reality entirely. You may enjoy the serenity and calmness granted by marijuana, and the ability to not have things spiral out of control as with alcohol. Get off the ganja, caffeine, sugar, anti-depressants and any other mind altering substance. Experience a re-birth of pain, and anguish and life as it was and change your thinking entirely. Once you are ready, you will be able to go back to marijuana and rarely use it. There will be no addictive quality left in it once your thought pattern has changed and you can experience life for what it is. Humanity out.
I don't know about "intense dysphoria" but one can easily get to the point where it's difficult to enjoy things without weed. However it just takes a little clean time for this to more or less correct itself. It can also cause a general sort of restlessness, I forgot the technical name for it. But yea, weed smoking can definitely become a compulsive thing, it just isn't as destructive as certain other addictions because you don't get sick or die as mr. writer pointed out, and a little boredom is much easier to deal with.
We are all addicted to something in one way or another. It's just a matter of how you can deal with your own addiction, legal or otherwise.
At least you guys are reasonable enough to realize it isn't 100 percent non-addictive. I thought I was going to have to start citing passages from pharmacology articles and shit to prove my point!
I believe some people tend to be more addicted to things than others. I could smoke a cigarette and stop the habit at will, but that's me, some of my friends are addicted to virtually anything. So yeah, I think it all depends on the person.
I believe that it is all dependant on the person. I personally smoked for 3 years almost daily, certainly daily for 1-2 years. I would say I had an addiction to not feeling bored as fuck and like I was wasting my time sitting around in my town. But seriously, I was addicted to smoking, and other things that came with it, the lifestyle almost, just being, saying fuck it to the daily grind. Then, I got in trouble and had to stop. This allowed me to take a step back and look at the situation sober and in a new light. I realized my problems and realized alot of my flaws as a whole. I started smoking again and actually thought I might not start again after not smoking for 9 months. Then I just smoked on the weekends, and now it has grown into a habit again. But I put restrictions on myself and know when I am letting my addiction run a bit rabid. Like many said, we all have addictions, and that's the real problems, the addictions, not the drugs.
I have suffered from akathisia before. I was on an antipsychotic (I have Schizoaffective Bipolar Disorder) called Abilify (it is a drug from Hell) and unlike most antipsychotics which comfortably sedate you like a warm blanket (well, not that 'nice', but still, you catch my drift), this one makes you hyper and you move your extremities CONSTANTLY, no matter how hard you try to stop. It prevents you from sleeping and pretty much sucks worse than anything else (other than severe physical trauma or cancer). You are on the drug to CALM YOU DOWN, and you feel like you are crawling out of your skin like there is no tomorrow. I literally cannot even describe it fully, as there is no 'normal' physical analogue to it. Well...there is. It is called Parkinson's Disease. But I doubt many of you guys have that.
