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May 15 2013 08:12pm
Quote (PesChye @ 15 May 2013 21:04)
I don't understand what real argument works with pot. Everyone smokes it here, some all the time, some on the weekends, some like twice a year.

It's not lethal

It has no major negative health effects

It's not addicting

Alcohol is worse, it's been proven.

These things are facts.

P.S. I am not a drug addict, I have no addiction.


Are you saying alcohol isn't addictive?
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May 15 2013 08:13pm
Quote (thundercock @ May 15 2013 07:08pm)
In the study, it says that they had 4000 participants, but only 49 could actually stop smoking...


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May 15 2013 08:15pm
Quote (Cellmat @ 15 May 2013 23:42)
Are you saying alcohol isn't addictive?


Alcohol is addicting.

Physically and Mentally.

Much worse than marijuana, with so many more terrible health effects.

Kills more in a single day than marijuana has ever killed.

Just to clarify.
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May 15 2013 08:16pm
Quote (PesChye @ 15 May 2013 21:15)
Alcohol is addicting.

Physically and Mentally.

Much worse than marijuana, with so many more terrible health effects.

Kills more in a single day than marijuana has ever killed.

Just to clarify.


Which has what to do with marijuana being addictive?
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Quote (Cellmat @ 15 May 2013 23:46)
Which has what to do with marijuana being addictive?


Nothing, as marijuana isn't addicting .

I'm just using it to make a point, people wanna hate on pot, while alcohol is so much worse.

hypocrisy.

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May 15 2013 08:19pm
Quote (PesChye @ May 16 2013 01:18pm)
Nothing, as marijuana isn't addicting .

I'm just using it to make a point, people wanna hate on pot, while alcohol is so much worse.

hypocrisy.


Everyone wants to hate on cancer when AIDS is worse :'(
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May 15 2013 08:23pm
I used to smoke pot on a daily basis, and I decided to quit one day and I had no withdrawls whatsoever and haven't smoked since.

I only smoked because of the people I was around, not because I had a craving to smoke. I never once felt like I needed to get high.
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May 15 2013 08:33pm
Would like to read the actual research and not the IBTimes regurgitated material. Seemingly, the way they defined "addictive" is much too broad. Any repetitive behavior when stopped could then be defined as an addiction.
The common cause seems to be stress, which isn't controlled for. These seem to be the results when a stress reliever is taken away. Replace "marijuana" with any relaxing ritual and you will likely get the same results of the study when such a ritual is taken away.
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Quote (CoheedAndCambria @ May 15 2013 09:33pm)
Would like to read the actual research and not the IBTimes regurgitated material. Seemingly, the way they defined "addictive" is much too broad. Any repetitive behavior when stopped could then be defined as an addiction.
The common cause seems to be stress, which isn't controlled for. These seem to be the results when a stress reliever is taken away. Replace "marijuana" with any relaxing ritual and you will likely get the same results of the study when such a ritual is taken away.


That makes a lot of sense from my perspective. I never smoked to relieve stress or to relax, it was more to fit in.

I am far more addicted to relaxing on my computer and posting on d2jsp than I ever was to pot.
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May 15 2013 08:43pm
yes, it is addictive
how addictive? not very
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