[quote]Makavali wrote:
Marijuana isn’t physiologically addictive.[/quote]
I don’t know. It’s not a crutch I’ve had to rely on. Though, seeing a number of potheads ruin their lives, I do wonder. Be it, lighting up in an employer’s bathroom (getting themselves fired), getting high before college classes (wonder why they’re struggling), putting their entire family in legal jeaporady, etc…I can’t help but wonder why they’re driven to take such risks just to feel and look goofy.
[quote]Sloth wrote:
Makavali wrote:
Marijuana isn’t physiologically addictive.
I don’t know. It’s not a crutch I’ve had to rely on. Though, seeing a number of potheads ruin their lives, I do wonder. Be it, lighting up in an employer’s bathroom (getting themselves fired), getting high before college classes (wonder why they’re struggling), putting their entire family in legal jeaporady, etc…I can’t help but wonder why they’re driven to take such risks just to feel and look goofy.[/quote]
Because they have a psychological addiction which is different from a physiological addiction.
Possibly their addiction is actually to self destructive behaviour not to the drug.
[quote]Sloth wrote:
Makavali wrote:
Marijuana isn’t physiologically addictive.
I don’t know. It’s not a crutch I’ve had to rely on. Though, seeing a number of potheads ruin their lives, I do wonder. Be it, lighting up in an employer’s bathroom (getting themselves fired), getting high before college classes (wonder why they’re struggling), putting their entire family in legal jeaporady, etc…I can’t help but wonder why they’re driven to take such risks just to feel and look goofy.[/quote]
Science back it up. Psychologically addictive, yes but then again those people were always going to get addicted to something. Better the “drug” that never killed anyone than something like alcohol.
[quote]Sloth wrote:
Makavali wrote:
Marijuana isn’t physiologically addictive.
I don’t know. It’s not a crutch I’ve had to rely on. Though, seeing a number of potheads ruin their lives, I do wonder. Be it, lighting up in an employer’s bathroom (getting themselves fired), getting high before college classes (wonder why they’re struggling), putting their entire family in legal jeaporady, etc…I can’t help but wonder why they’re driven to take such risks just to feel and look goofy.[/quote]
Science back it up. Psychologically addictive, yes but then again those people were always going to get addicted to something. Better the “drug” that never killed anyone than something like alcohol.
[quote]Sloth wrote:
Makavali wrote:
Marijuana isn’t physiologically addictive.
I don’t know. It’s not a crutch I’ve had to rely on. Though, seeing a number of potheads ruin their lives, I do wonder. Be it, lighting up in an employer’s bathroom (getting themselves fired), getting high before college classes (wonder why they’re struggling), putting their entire family in legal jeaporady, etc…I can’t help but wonder why they’re driven to take such risks just to feel and look goofy.[/quote]
Science back it up. Psychologically addictive, yes but then again those people were always going to get addicted to something. Better the “drug” that never killed anyone than something like alcohol.
[quote]Sloth wrote:
Makavali wrote:
Marijuana isn’t physiologically addictive.
I don’t know. It’s not a crutch I’ve had to rely on. Though, seeing a number of potheads ruin their lives, I do wonder. Be it, lighting up in an employer’s bathroom (getting themselves fired), getting high before college classes (wonder why they’re struggling), putting their entire family in legal jeaporady, etc…I can’t help but wonder why they’re driven to take such risks just to feel and look goofy.[/quote]
Science back it up. Psychologically addictive, yes but then again those people were always going to get addicted to something. Better the “drug” that never killed anyone than something like alcohol.
Methinks it’s causing you to multi-post…Lay off it for a bit.
[quote]Sloth wrote:
Makavali wrote:
Marijuana isn’t physiologically addictive.
I don’t know. [/quote]
You should have stopped right there.
[quote]lixy wrote:
Sloth wrote:
Makavali wrote:
Marijuana isn’t physiologically addictive.
I don’t know.
You should have stopped right there.[/quote]
Why?
[quote]pittbulll wrote:
I would say they are asking for a black market
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Yeah, I think you’re right at that level of taxation. There is a clause in the bill stipulating that the levels could be adjusted in order to maximize state revenues and minimize illegal activity.
[quote]Sloth wrote:
lixy wrote:
Sloth wrote:
Makavali wrote:
Marijuana isn’t physiologically addictive.
I don’t know.
You should have stopped right there.
Why? [/quote]
People who don’t know seem to be the ones making the decisions. I was surprised at just how many of my friends smoke pot, I’d always assumed I was one of the few potheads that wasn’t a total moron.
[quote]Makavali wrote:
Sloth wrote:
lixy wrote:
Sloth wrote:
Makavali wrote:
Marijuana isn’t physiologically addictive.
I don’t know.
You should have stopped right there.
Why?
People who don’t know seem to be the ones making the decisions. I was surprised at just how many of my friends smoke pot, I’d always assumed I was one of the few potheads that wasn’t a total moron.[/quote]
I’m getting the impression that even though I said “I don’t know,” (which, oddly, was even quoted) people are reading my post as an arguement that Pot is physiologically addictive…
Please, stop. Again, I don’t know why people take the risks I’ve seen, and throw away so much to feel and look goofy. I simply said I wonder…
Does pot make people defensive and paranoid?
[quote]Makavali wrote:
Sloth wrote:
lixy wrote:
Sloth wrote:
Makavali wrote:
Marijuana isn’t physiologically addictive.
I don’t know.
You should have stopped right there.
Why?
People who don’t know seem to be the ones making the decisions. I was surprised at just how many of my friends smoke pot, I’d always assumed I was one of the few potheads that wasn’t a total moron.[/quote]
By the way, I’m using “pothead” in the same vein as one would use “alcoholic.”
[quote]Sloth wrote:
I’m getting the impression that even though I said “I don’t know,” (which, oddly, was even quoted) people are reading my post as an arguement that Pot is physiologically addictive…[/quote]
Not at all, it just seems funny that you’d say you don’t know, then proceed to hand out an opinion on it.
Throw away what? You don’t know every pot head, and generally sepaking the ones who you know are stoners are the ones who are lazy and going nowhere (pot or no pot)
Not me personally, but I can’t speak for everyone. I’d assume it has a lot to do with people not being able to be frank about their use.
[quote]Sloth wrote:
Makavali wrote:
Marijuana isn’t physiologically addictive.
I don’t know. It’s not a crutch I’ve had to rely on. Though, seeing a number of potheads ruin their lives, I do wonder. Be it, lighting up in an employer’s bathroom (getting themselves fired), getting high before college classes (wonder why they’re struggling), putting their entire family in legal jeaporady, etc…I can’t help but wonder why they’re driven to take such risks just to feel and look goofy.[/quote]
Newsflash: people are stupid.
The phenomenon is hardly restricted to those who use marijuana.
[quote]tom8658 wrote:
Sloth wrote:
Makavali wrote:
Marijuana isn’t physiologically addictive.
I don’t know. It’s not a crutch I’ve had to rely on. Though, seeing a number of potheads ruin their lives, I do wonder. Be it, lighting up in an employer’s bathroom (getting themselves fired), getting high before college classes (wonder why they’re struggling), putting their entire family in legal jeaporady, etc…I can’t help but wonder why they’re driven to take such risks just to feel and look goofy.
Newsflash: people are stupid.
The phenomenon is hardly restricted to those who use marijuana.[/quote]
Seriously. I knew kids who flunked out of school because they couldn’t put down the video controller, or who got fired because they just didn’t want to come into work. I also know kids who excelled academically and live busy, productive lives despite regularly using pot.
[quote]Makavali wrote:
Sloth wrote:
I’m getting the impression that even though I said “I don’t know,” (which, oddly, was even quoted) people are reading my post as an arguement that Pot is physiologically addictive…
Not at all, it just seems funny that you’d say you don’t know, then proceed to hand out an opinion on it.
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Those weren’t opinions. They were facts.
[quote]Sloth wrote:
Makavali wrote:
Sloth wrote:
I’m getting the impression that even though I said “I don’t know,” (which, oddly, was even quoted) people are reading my post as an arguement that Pot is physiologically addictive…
Not at all, it just seems funny that you’d say you don’t know, then proceed to hand out an opinion on it.
Those weren’t opinions. They were facts.[/quote]
Though you can’t say it’s a fact that weed caused their problems, and that they wouldn’t have had those problems either way.
[quote]eigieinhamr wrote:
Sloth wrote:
Makavali wrote:
Sloth wrote:
I’m getting the impression that even though I said “I don’t know,” (which, oddly, was even quoted) people are reading my post as an arguement that Pot is physiologically addictive…
Not at all, it just seems funny that you’d say you don’t know, then proceed to hand out an opinion on it.
Those weren’t opinions. They were facts.
Though you can’t say it’s a fact that weed caused their problems, and that they wouldn’t have had those problems either way.[/quote]
I think as Bill Clinton says " what is your definition of addiction"?