Is pot addictive?

[esrabalamir]

yeah ur psychology must be "clean" if u wanna smoke it up

[esrabalamir]

i smoke this shit since 30 years and i am NOT addcit!...lol

[beachguy in thongs]

To a simple mind, like a mouse, THC is not addictive.

[esrabalamir]

To a simple mind, like a mouse, THC is not addictive.

thc is not addictive? why u smoke it up all the time then?

[esrabalamir]

tobacco,tea,nescafe(cafeine),yes, thc,.... all of them are addictive

[beachguy in thongs]

According to the congressional Office of Technology Assessment, research over the last 10 years has proved that marijuana has no effect on dopamine-related brain systems - unless you are an inbred Lewis rat, in which case abstention is recommended.

As Hollister independently concluded, "Brain damage has not been proved." The reason, obviously, is that the brain was prepared in some respects to process THC.

To be precise, according to the Office of Technological Assessment (OTA): "The capacity to produce reinforcing effects is essential to any drug with significant abuse potential." Marijuana should no longer be considered a serious drug abuse because, as summarized by the OTA: "Animals will not self-administer THC in controlled studies . . . . Cannabinoids generally do not lower the threshold needed to get animals to self-stimulate the brain regard system, as do other drugs of abuse."

courtesy of:
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/BRAIN.HTM

[esrabalamir]

i smoke this shit since 30 years and i am NOT addict!...lol

the same way

[jkg114]

It is addictive, and anyone who says it's not is a fucking retard. That's the only real answer. C'mon of course it is addictive, why would you keep on coming back to it baby????

[king kong bong]

i dont appreciate the fucking retard remark.

[beachguy in thongs]

It has long been recognized that some individuals' use of marijuana is characterized by dependence, and that the dependence liability of marijuana is more comparable to alcohol and tobacco than heroin and cocaine. (Hollister, 1986) Compulsive self-administration in animal models is a primary attribute of drugs with a serious potential for abuse. (Cicero, 1992) Animals will not self-administer cannabinoids. (Abood and Martin, 1992; Herkenham, 1992; Mansbach, 1994) A severe dependence liability is also characterized as harmful self-administration, excluding such behavior as heavy caffeine consumption, and subject to influences of set and setting as well as the pharmacological properties of a drug. (Zinberg, 1984; Cicero, 1992)


Advances in neurobiology are redefining the scientific basis for addiction. While courts have ruled that DEA can rely on research studies, or the lack thereof, in its decision-making about the scheduling of marijuana, they have not ruled on the actual issues which determine the proper legal scheduling of marijuana. The discovery of cannabinoid receptor sites, and their relevance to the understanding of the pharmacology of THC in the brain, provides the basis for a new challenge to the legitimacy of marijuana's Schedule I status, a pivotal event in marijuana's eventual legalization.

Marijuana And the Brain
by John Gettman
High Times, March, 1995