So how do you know when you need rehab?

[burnable]

I should be more diplomatic in my choice of words. In fact you could probably just insert the word "dependence" for every time I typed "addiction" and there wouldn't have been such polarizing responses. I tried to use the word 'addiction' in a context that it would perhaps not have all the baggage and stigma that comes to mind when thinking 'meth addiction'. Simple words are not boogey-men, but that's how people respond sometimes.

I meant that a weed 'hobby' is benign. It often doesn't require revision or prohibition and certainly not rehab, in the same sense that coffee dependence wouldn't require those things.

I also tried to de-segregate physical and psychological addiction. What does it matter what kind of an addiction it is? The point is what deleterious influences abound and how your relationships to people and to life are affected? Fortunately with weed, those are usually not even considerations.

[geonagual]

I smoke weed daily...

[Purple Banana]

Trust me, I have used both Rx opiates and weed for painkillers.

Weed is not physically addictive.

[savagepossum]

Some of you people are in serious denial, even though you are fighting against ignorant and closed minded people your becoming exactly like them by denying any possibility of addiction even though at the end of the day it comes down to personal experiance.

I have first hand seen people who have straight up given up on life and just don't care anymore and spend there whole time smoking weed and buying weed to escape there own personal problems and suddenly lose any previous ambitions they once had.

there are ALOT of people for which weed is bad for and only a few who can handle it and use it properly in moderation.

[psteve]

Some of you people are in serious denial, even though you are fighting against ignorant and closed minded people your becoming exactly like them by denying any possibility of addiction even though at the end of the day it comes down to personal experiance.

I have first hand seen people who have straight up given up on life and just don't care anymore and spend there whole time smoking weed and buying weed to escape there own personal problems and suddenly lose any previous ambitions they once had.

there are ALOT of people for which weed is bad for and only a few who can handle it and use it properly in moderation.

:tin foil hat:
Where do you get your information?
What studies are you citing when you say cannabis is addictive?
Sorry mate, but your personal 'experiance' doesn't hold much weight compared with a professor of toxicology (my former doctor) who says otherwise.
Your friends with the self treated depression are not addicted. It's a fact, no denial involved. I have done the research, and there is no credible study citing any addictive properties of cannabis.
Period.

[MadSativa]

Some of you people are in serious denial, even though you are fighting against ignorant and closed minded people your becoming exactly like them by denying any possibility of addiction even though at the end of the day it comes down to personal experiance.

I have first hand seen people who have straight up given up on life and just don't care anymore and spend there whole time smoking weed and buying weed to escape there own personal problems and suddenly lose any previous ambitions they once had.

there are ALOT of people for which weed is bad for and only a few who can handle it and use it properly in moderation.

haha your friends are week minded or mabey the they are just like u said they dont care anymore.........here dude we all care(we care about this dumb ass prohibition and we car about our countries and we car enough to make money to keep life movin )and smoking weed does not give you an escape where do you escape too???? your thinkig of alcohol not herb.....if you run out of herb tomarrow youll just be like damm wish I had some herb but if your using other things even alchohol if u run out tomarrow mor thatn likely if the adiction has hit you, you are gonna find a drink weather its spit in a glass or robbing the liquor store you will need your fix herb does not do this... if it does its not the herb its whatever someone put in it that your now hooked on

[Purple Banana]

Weed can bring out parts of people's personalities that can already be evident BEFORE they smoke weed- usually they were a good bit lazy before weed, and weed can accentuate that behavior, but to claim weed is physically addicting due to an observation made on a certain type of person is baseless. What about the other people with higher education, the university professors, doctors, teachers... Surely you can't make the same claim about them.

[Maggz]

you need rehab for weed if it's affecting your relationship with your children and/or family in a negative way, or if you hit your all-time low, whatever it is, be it prostituting your goodies for weed money or stealing $$$ for weed .. THEN you know u might have a problem..

if ur just lazy & love getting high , well .... thats natural, but have some self control and take control of ya life. no need for REHAB lol, shits expensive too. fuck that.

[burnable]

Weed can bring out parts of people's personalities that can already be evident BEFORE they smoke weed- usually they were a good bit lazy before weed, and weed can accentuate that behavior, but to claim weed is physically addicting due to an observation made on a certain type of person is baseless. What about the other people with higher education, the university professors, doctors, teachers... Surely you can't make the same claim about them.

couldn't agree with you more there. You also reinforced my comment about how a weed habit is benign and can be maintained responsibly by stalwart people (including profs, doctors, etc.)

If a person has the predisposition to binge and get hooked on something, they'll find something to do it with. Unfortunately for us, sometimes it's weed that they abuse, which shouldn't reflect badly on weed, but only on themselves. It's what I meant when I mentioned junk food and coffee. It's often not the substance itself, but the loser hiding behind it trying to escape something that needs reform.