Weed not being addictive is a myth

[Silent Wolf]

You may WANT it, but you dont NEED it.

That pretty much sums it up. It's like when it's dry. Your gutted because your having trouble finding the weed. But your not getting psyically ill over it such as vomiting, cold sweat, and ect.

[ghosty]

physically no, there's not addiction, maybe some minor side effects, if you are a heavy daily smoker and stop cold turkey for a week, like a headache or something, but mostly its all gonna be a psychological addiction. Your brain knows you like being high, and it's your mind telling you to smoke again. It can be a very hard thing to go against what your brain is telling you, but it's all in your head and can be overcome. I think if a person is worried about being addicted and really wants to quit, they should be prepared for some battles with self-control, and will power, and the head trips that are gonna come from not smoking, but nothing physical. Even if a person should find them self unable to maintain the self-control and will power to quit when they want or need to, there is counseling for that these days and if the person is willing to make an effort should be much easier than quitting something that is physically addictive such as alcohol, tobacco, or unmentionables.

[IanCurtisWishlist]

CANNABIS IS NOT PHYSIOLOGICALLY ADDICTIVE. ANY PERSON WHO HAS STUDIED PHARMACOLOGY WILL TELL YOU THIS.

I think that cannabis use can be likened to watching television. Why don't you all go study some pharmacology and then stop posting such bullshit saying it's physically addictive. You don't get sick without it, which is a physical withdrawl symptom of something like, say, HEROIN.

[Kid Dynamite]

/\/\/\ ian curtis makes good point. I think many people, i for one, smoke weed every day because it has become my way of releiving my boredom. I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing unless you never do anything constructive with your time while high.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

CANNABIS IS NOT PHYSIOLOGICALLY ADDICTIVE. ANY PERSON WHO HAS STUDIED PHARMACOLOGY WILL TELL YOU THIS.

I think that cannabis use can be likened to watching television. Why don't you all go study some pharmacology and then stop posting such bullshit saying it's physically addictive. You don't get sick without it, which is a physical withdrawl symptom of something like, say, HEROIN.

"Sick" is way too vague a term. That is the ultimate question, what consitutes withdrawal? You're angrily telling everybody to study pharmacology but I see no indication in this post that you have either (and I'm not saying you haven't necessarily). But if you actually want a pharmacological example of withdrawal, marijuana use on average causes a 5,000% increase in melatonin levels. Melatonin is a hormone your body produces to make you fall asleep, hence why you get the burnout after getting high. Some people's bodies stop producing sufficient amounts melatonin because the cannabis has been doing it for them every day for a long time. So when they quit, their body needs a few-several days to start producing adaquate quantities again. In the meantime, a withdrawal symptom you get is an inability to sleep.

Decensitization of the cannabinoid receptors may also mean you lose your apetite after quitting for the same reason, your body has depended on the drug for it.

These symptoms don't happen to most people who quit cannabis, they never happened to me, but it does happen to some.

[slipknotpsycho]

"Sick" is way too vague a term. That is the ultimate question, what consitutes withdrawal? You're angrily telling everybody to study pharmacology but I see no indication in this post that you have either (and I'm not saying you haven't necessarily). But if you actually want a pharmacological example of withdrawal, marijuana use on average causes a 5,000% increase in melatonin levels. Melatonin is a hormone your body produces to make you fall asleep, hence why you get the burnout after getting high. Some people's bodies stop producing sufficient amounts melatonin because the cannabis has been doing it for them every day for a long time. So when they quit, their body needs a few-several days to start producing adaquate quantities again. In the meantime, a withdrawal symptom you get is an inability to sleep.

Decensitization of the cannabinoid receptors may also mean you lose your apetite after quitting for the same reason, your body has depended on the drug for it.

These symptoms don't happen to most people who quit cannabis, they never happened to me, but it does happen to some.

happens to me everytime i run dry again (i rarely get it but when i do i'm pretty much high for a week straight all day)

i do have a highly addictive personality...

but i still see them as psychological, rather then physical... to me physical constitutes nasuea, pain, tremors, etc..

[DubSack13]

yes minor withdrawl systems, no addictive. there is a difference.

[sam44]

let this thread die already

[Psycho4Bud]

Somebody play Taps....this one is dead.

Have a good one!:jointsmile: