A Critical Standpoint on Smoking Marijuana

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You probably do feel withdrawel symptons when you stop smoking Cannabis, but I imagine you only get withdrawal symptons if you go from smoking frequently to not smoking at all or nearly not at all.

Again, i'll refer back to fruit (lol). If you were to eat fruit every single day, like clockwork, and then suddenly you stopped eating fruit, you would experience withdrawal symptons.. This doesn't mean that fruit is addictive, it just means that you had grown accustomed to eating certain amounts of it or at certain times.

Same for weed.

LOL toker- I guess you are right: If you experience w.drawal when you quit eating fruit, it does not necessarily mean fruit is addictive. Being "addicted" to something refers to how you fit within a symptom profile (eating fruit alone, if fruit is interfering w/work, fruit hangovers, how much you think about fruit between uses etc lol).

BUT- experiencing withdrawal is definitely a component of addiction (dsm-IV, http://balder.prohosting.com/~adhpage/dsm.html). Although you don't have to be addicted if you experience withdrawal (eg a dr can taper you off of certain meds that you otherwise might have if you would have gone cold turkey, but your dr wouldn't consider you addicted).

It is probably safe to say though that if you are experiencing w/drawal from said fruit lol, then there probably is a degree of dependence there.

It always starts with grapes... harmless? Yeah, but they are the "gateway fruit." Soon you'll be eating hundreds of grapes a day just to feel normal, then move on to harder fruits like apples and honey dew melon. If you are lucky, you won't end up under a bridge with your head in a watermelon.

And don't let anyone tell you the tomato is not a fruit- it IS. We just don't regard it this way in our society lol.

2600 Reviewed by 2600 on 04-17-2005. A Critical Standpoint on Smoking Marijuana After reading these forums for around a month, and attempting to comprehend certain statements that have been made about smoking marijuana, Iâ??ve decided to write a few of my thoughts about this ever so interesting plant. Let me first say that in no way am I against people smoking it, and I hope you can try to listen what Iâ??m attempting to get across with an open mind. Hopefully it will make for good discussion, as I am trying to understand why certain people think they way they do about Rating: 5