I'm Just a Middle-Aged House Dad Addicted to Pot
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#2One of my coworkers just quit cannabis after having an addiction for several years. Her and her (unemployed) husband were spending upwards of $300 a week on it, more than 40% of her pay. Had never been able to save for a house or anything, they had to buy in $50/$100 lots as they had so much trouble with money.
Forced herself clean on a holiday (that her parents paid for) and she's doing so well, it's great to see.
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#3One of the upsides of legalization is that a lot of the false claims made about marijuana are going to come under heavy scrutiny.
Some of this will be good for marijuana enthusiasts, but some will be bad.
I've lost count of the times I've been told by marijuana fans that marijuana is not addictive, and that smoking it is not bad for your lungs. I expect both of those myths to be refuted in the coming years.
In particular I expect to see studies demonstrate a link between marijuana smoking and lung cancer, followed by years of denial by marijuana producers and smokers, similar to what happened with cigarettes.
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#4Is a lack of self-control the same thing as addiction?
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#5Is a lack of self-control the same thing as addiction?
Lack of self control is absolutely a symptom of addiction.
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#7One of the upsides of legalization is that a lot of the false claims made about marijuana are going to come under heavy scrutiny. Some of this will be good for marijuana enthusiasts, but some will be bad. I've lost count of the times I've been told by marijuana fans that marijuana is not addictive, and that smoking it is not bad for your lungs. I expect both of those myths to be refuted in the coming years. In partic…
Of course, I think the issue here is that inhaling burnt particulate into your lungs is generally not wise.
I don't doubt cannabis addiction is a real issue, just like alcoholism. Still, there are safer ways to ingest it, hopefully those will become more popular.
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#8Actually, you're an asshole who likes pot and uses it as an excuse to behave badly. My drug use history reads like War and Peace and I don't have any aggressive or obnoxious episodes that I feel terrible about because I always considered that no matter what strange thing I put in my body I was responsible for for my own behavior, inebriated or not.
This person needs help, and the first thing they need to do is take responsibility for who they are.
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#9Is a lack of self-control the same thing as addiction?
see thats the thing, when people want to talk about another behavior they don't like, saying addiction is fine, in the context of "friends, families and obligations are neglected for this one thing"
when people want to defend something, they rely on a stricter medical definition about how reliant the body becomes on another source of chemical it would have otherwise produced. This is something that marijuana doesn't satisfy, it is currently accepted that the brain doesn't stop producing its own chemicals, so therefore "you can't get addicted to marijuana", but
With gambling addition, video game addiction, etc, there is no debate about whether this is self control issues or whether there is a drug that offers a chemical that your body now stops producing. its a self control issue, we colloquially call that addiction.
the marijuana scene has needed to draw distinctions to get this far, now its time to quit the semantical debate and help with a solution that doesn't involve locking up parents and taking children through child protective services.
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#10I saw multiple of my most talented high school friends lose their spark to pot. They’ve now made about 2 years of progress in 20 years’ time.