What Is the Definition of Addiction, Is Marijuana an Addictive Substance?
Question by lizzie: what is the definition of addiction, is marijuana an addictive substance?
do you feel it should be legalized? can you explain your answer
Best answer:
Answer by Damien
There’s psychological addiction and there’s physiological addiction. Technically they really boil down to the same thing but they’re different to a degree.
Marijuana is not addictive. Think of it this way, it’s comparable to being addicted to cupcakes. They’re tasty and pleasurable therefore your brain releases serotonin and dopamine. You associate cupcakes with pleasure so you have them again if you get the chance. But there’s also consequences to eating cupcakes, like getting fat. So you’re still able to rationalize and weigh the pleasures and pains of eating cupcakes and make a decision when you’re faced with cupcake peer pressure. Same thing with Mary J. Just like some people are overweight, some people are potheads. That doesn’t make the substance bad, it implies a hedonistic personality type.
Answer by Pez
The other guy who commented above is absolutely right.
The definition of Addiction is that you will experience withdrawal if you don’t get whatever ur addicted to. Withdrawal is physical things like, sweating, lack of sleep, hyperactivity, delusional behavior … Because the body is craving for the substance it is addicted to. This is called Psychical addiction.
Then there’s the so called “Psychological addiction” which is such a bullshit term… because it’s not addiction. “Mildly habit forming behavior” should be the word used… Anyway…. Psychological “addiction” is like not having internet for a few days… ur not addicted to the internet, ur not gonna experience withdrawal from not being online. It’s just a thing you do regularly and it’s been embedded into your everyday life… The same with too much pot smoking… If it is embedded into ur everyday lifestyle ur gonna smoke it, because it’s as normal for you as brushing ur teeth… ur not addicted to it.
I used to smoke pot every day for about 2 years… and then I realized that i had to get better grades the last year in college, so I only smoked it like once a month…. It wasn’t at all hard to quit smoking. I didn’t even experience anything psysical… like lack of sleep or sweating. I just decided to not smoke everyday and it worked fine…. That would’ve never worked with tobacco
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