IGemini

500 potshop grams says he was a cigarette smoker in addition to weed.

k20

You're on!

... now what?

Equilibrium

isn't dopeamine supposed to make you feel good? by what he says about quiting pot would make you feel like you were on coke.wtf?

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Noeone

I think this is just the result of him not being exposed to real addiction. I know real addictics, I've watched people I know spend sleepless nights sweating, convulsing, and pucking all becuase they missed a dose. Now some people do have a habbit but in all reality it is nothing more then a tv addiction. Honestly you show me one pothead who is suffering from real withdrawl.

Right now I'm on sebatical till sunday. (although I did just get two oz's in from my dealer but, lets just say I got a good price on them and have plans for one maby both of them) So needless to say I am sitting on top of an ass load of weed, do I crave a joint? No. Hell the only thing I crave right now is a mountain dew.

Now I have an addictive personality, so when I'm arround off topics I have to be careful, but I smoke weed almost daily at times and then I'll just stop, to save money for something, because the whole town is crawling with fuzz, I might be subject to a piss test, I just don't feel like trying to find some, or what ever.

No cravings, no cold sweat, no vommit, no me on the celing spining it's head arround, nothing. I feel worse if I've missed a tv show I like then if I haven't smoked pot. I'm even talking about those two months where I had absolutly no weed what so ever. (wanted a new mobo and cpu, ended up blowing it on a really nice rifle)

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michaelbation

ok here's what i have to say: My Theory

this guy may sound like he knows what he is talking about if you don't know how neurons work. i think his intentions are innoscent, but he needs to do more research. first of all dopimine is only one neurotransmitter, there are hundreds probubly more that help the brain communicate, not just dopimine.

second, im sure most of you already know this, but THC will stay in your system for about 3 weeks (not a few days as this guy seems to think) . this is because THC is fat solubile, body fat absorbs it. therefore the THC receptors in the brain will still have a supply of THC without gettin that high feeling. After a few weeks of not smoking your brain no longer wants THC because it's gotten used to getting less and less "doses" of it as the supply in the fat runs out. this is why nobody gets addicted to pot.

but don't take my word for it, (although i have done the reasearch) find out for yourself as this guy said.

SpliffMan420

That guy is such a prick hes acts like pot smokers are completing unable to stop smoking and that theorys a load of bollocks if you ask me hes says he know how that feels i seriously doubt that anyway hes sad and instead of making Theorys he should lose the monobrow

Lucid-Dreamer

i know 2 people addicted to it... they almost always have it and get in a bad mood when they dont have it. it kinda sad i think.

SacredJellybean

There's a difference between being in a bad mood and becoming ill when you don't get your fix. I only got in a bad mood in my newb days (and this only lasted a few hours the next day).

Nowadays, if I don't have it, I don't have it. The extent of my bad mood is slight and temporary disappointment, and I don't let it affect my other interests/responsibilities. Just yesterday morning, my room mate passed a joint my way, but I said "Nah, I've got class soon" (the last time I smoked prior to that was the night before). That, and the fact that I'm on break, were more than enough reasons to decline. Something tells me that if pot were truly addictive, rather than "habit-forming" or whatever euphemism you may choose, I'd have dove for that joint. More than that, I'd probably steal his weed when he leaves it out in the open. I'd spend all my food and rent money on pot, and do nothing but get high all day. As stated, it's all about maturity and self-discipline (unless, perhaps, the "addictive personality" theory is cited - I'm not sure about that one).

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pretendo

lmao, ok this is the only thing i can compare marijauna use too, sex......and/or masterbation. its pleasurefull and not chemicly addictive you like it so you do it, i took psychology last semester and in the chapter where it speaks about drugs it says plain and simple "marijauna IS NOT physicly addictive."