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you have obviously never experienced severe weed withdrawals lol. or, respectfully, done any actual investigation on the issue. it's simply not up for debate whether weed is physically addictive, it is. the idea that it wasn't was just kept afloat for years by stoner cope (speaking as a 10yr stoner myself). weed does have dopamine reinforcement. you can fiend for it. the withdrawals aren't dangerous in any direct sense like with alcohol or heroin, but they are real physical effects.
I mean I used it constantly from like 18-22 and quit easily after a week of insomnia that I just took first gen antihistamine sedatives to overcome.
It was easier to drop than world of Warcraft, it has no physical component at all. Even caffeine causes splitting headaches and brainfog.
I think most people who feel that weed is addictive haven't actually messed with addictive drugs like nicotine, opiates, benzos, meth etc. The only difficult thing about weed is how you structure your life about it, aka the habit. That's true of any avoidant behaviour though.
If you spin it (mix with tobacco) you'll fuck yourself but that's because if the nicotine.
it doesn't matter whether you "feel" it's addictive or not, it's a matter of scientific consensus. you are arguing in favour of ignorance and common misconception, universalising your singular personal experience with the drug. again respectfully urge you to perform more investigation before speaking
I can see papers basically exploring habit forming conditioning and some theoretical speculation about cannabinoids possibly enhancing addiction to other drugs. What specifically are you talking about?
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3606907/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9110555/
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/cannabis-use-disorder
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/marijuana-weed-withdrawal
Have you read these? I just read through about half of the first one and it's not very convincing. The severity of symptoms is extremely mild and they don't have comparisons to cessation of other drugs or habit forming activities.
It's sedating, and withdrawal of a sedative is associated with increased excitation sure. But we need to meaningfully differentiate the difficulty you have sleeping after abruptly stopping exercise or trying to sleep in the middle of the day from persistent and disabling neurochemical changes. Like the it's not clear that the irritability or whatever is separate from the withdrawal of any other pleasurable activity.
The number of people they describe having severe enough symptoms to continue use across the studies reviewed is around 3%. I suspect you'd see more impressive numbers for coffee lmao.
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Yeah, that's persuasive.
Just leave her alone, she doesn't want to carry on the convo and that's worth respecting.
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