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rick

This poll is brought to you by my wife, who asked me this very question. The argument is the standard, "You're addicted", "It's not addictive" argument. I know im not the only one who's been here.

Interestingly enough - I went to dictionary.com to see the definition of "habit" and this was there 3rd Definition;

3. An addiction, especially to a narcotic drug.

Guess the terms "habit" & "Addiction" really have blurred.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=habit

Habitually addicted -
Rick

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Greenbud

There was a time when I was smoking once every day, but I stopped that after a couple of weeks. Now I smoke marijuana about once or twice a month on average. I've never considered myself an addict, since I've even gone years without smoking it. I missed it sometimes, but I never craved it.

I have a lot of friends who smoke, and virtually all of them are occasional users like me. Some smoke more than others, but I don't know anyone personally who smokes it all day every day.

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WNB

Heh, I smoke all day every day, and have for years, with the only break being last winter and spring, when I got arrested, and had to quit for several months. But than again, quitting wasn't too bad, so I doubt I'm an addict...just a college student with nothing better to do over the summer than get high and relax

Anyway, I've always defined addiction as something you like to do, that you can't stop when it begins to adversly affect you. I don't think how often you do it really matters.

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Hiz Highness

If we define addiction as habitual use (like before going to bed every night), some would have to answer yes to the poll. However most people I talk to equate addiction with a physical dependence, and later a physical withdrawl when usage is stopped. Most of us who smoke the green have probably had dry periods, or periods where we quit in order to pass a urinalysis test (I recently did 90 smoke free days to get the job I'm currently working). . .

. . .so in that sense no marijuana smoker is really an addict. The body will not adapt to THC, and then suffer when the substance is missing. If marijuana "addiction" caused serious physical withdrawal there would probably be a lot fewer users. I sure wouldn't touch it if I could look foward to delirum tremors, severe abdominal pain, possible death, etc, every time I ran dry.

My thoughts on it, anyway.

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fight4rights

I am pretty sure that at least one of my friends is addicted. When he has a dry period he says “Dude, I haven’t smoked in such a long time. It’s been like 2 days.” He also said he was going to quite until harvest, but he didn’t. he told me later that he had been smoking everyday for about 2 months.

You have to be careful about your use, or it can consume you.

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S2

IMO, in the context of drug use addicted is when the desire for use of a substance overwhelms a person's desire not to. In that instance I have known many people and I have myself been there in the past.

Failing to abstain when you "want to" to pass a drug test for a job you really need to support your family -- thats addiction in my book

StewScum

Well, i wouldn't call your friend who said he has stopped forever and only stopped for two days, is sounds like all he was doing was smoking. When all you do is smoke in your free time, and then you stop, that free time is still going to be there and you will get insanely bored, making the time crawl. If you want to stop, then stop and do something else, like work out or something. Your friend obviously just tried to stop smoking and do the same thing he has been doing while he was smoking, probably nothing.

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Cassius

I answered no, because I took addiction to mean "physical dependence". If you meant something else, your wording was unclear. Actually, it's unclear anyway, so I don't think this poll will be indicative of anything at all except for the vast difference in opinion on what "addicted" means.

cpd92574

well i know a guy who has smoked every 2 hours, every day unless he wasnt in the U.S., for 17 years straight.

i think hes addicted. he said it wasnt hard quitting when he had to (family vacations etc), but if he doesnt HAVE to then he wont.

i myself have pretty much stayed high for the last 10 months. i think that im addicted soley because my reaction when asked was "i could quit if i wanted to!!"

SevenLeafs

Well, by the third definition I would HAVE to say that I'm addicted, because I do smoke Mj as a habit (in reference to ALL the other definitions, well, almost all), but, because of this very reason, because the definitions that apply are more, or outweigh the "addict" explanation, I have decided I am not an addict (though I didn't decide this just now).

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