Quoting Malcolm from 22:10, 31st Jul 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manc ... 924860.stm
(sorry about yet another BBC News link by the way)
That's truly staggering. Six, eight and nine year olds? You hear of fourteen year olds smoking weed but this is really something else.
You've got to ask yourself why people are starting on it that early, let alone starting on it at all. For the record, I'm 20 and have never once taken any illegal substances. These people are aged six and doing it enough to become addicted, although people say you can't get addicted to cannabis.
Thoughts on this?
Quoting mhuzzell from 21:25, 1st Aug 2007
Well, sure, you can get addicted to anything. I am addicted to the internet; I get antsy if I can't check my email and facebook and such regularly.
But there is a BIG DIFFERENCE between psychological addictions and physical addictions. I am also addicted to caffeine, for instance, which is a physical addiction. If I don't have my coffee/tea/whatever in the morning, I am slow, confused, can't think straight and sometimes get withdrawal headaches.
Other physically addictive substances include nicotine, cocaine and heroin.
NOT marijuana.
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Quoting mhuzzell from 21:25, 1st Aug 2007
Well, sure, you can get addicted to anything. I am addicted to the internet; I get antsy if I can't check my email and facebook and such regularly.
But there is a BIG DIFFERENCE between psychological addictions and physical addictions. I am also addicted to caffeine, for instance, which is a physical addiction. If I don't have my coffee/tea/whatever in the morning, I am slow, confused, can't think straight and sometimes get withdrawal headaches.
Orly?Quoting mhuzzell from 21:25, 1st Aug 2007
Other physically addictive substances include nicotine, cocaine and heroin.
NOT marijuana.
Quoting Big X from 00:46, 2nd Aug 2007
ok, you tell that to one of my JBH friends who didnt have ajoint for 2 dyas after smoking pretty much everyday for 3 years, woke up sweating, seeing stuff and feeling very ill. so he smoked up and felt fine and went back to bed
Quoting Frank from 02:02, 2nd Aug 2007
I don't see how the above qualifies as strictly a physical addiction rather than a psychological addiction. I call bad science on your reasoning.
Quoting Frank from 02:02, 2nd Aug 2007Orly?Quoting mhuzzell from 21:25, 1st Aug 2007
Other physically addictive substances include nicotine, cocaine and heroin.
NOT marijuana.
Yup.
Quoting novium from 16:01, 2nd Aug 2007
So, the fact that pot is used with the intention of screwing with brain chemistry makes me think it falls more into the physical addiction category.
Quoting novium from 16:01, 2nd Aug 2007
it chemically effects your brain, doesn't it?
Quoting Daniel from 16:10, 2nd Aug 2007
Yes, but then nearly everything effects your brain from the food you eat to how much excercise you take.
Quoting Frank from 02:02, 2nd Aug 2007
I struggle to see, though I'm no medic, psychologist or otherwise suitably researched person, why the above couldn't be a psychological addiction. I mean, it isn't unfeasible to imagine that one's mind could subject themself to being slow, confused, unable to think straight and stress oneself enough to induce a headache. I don't see how the above qualifies as strictly a physical addiction rather than a psychological addiction. I call bad science on your reasoning.Orly?Quoting mhuzzell from 21:25, 1st Aug 2007
Other physically addictive substances include nicotine, cocaine and heroin.
NOT marijuana.
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Quoting Malcolm from 22:10, 31st Jul 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manc ... 924860.stm
(sorry about yet another BBC News link by the way)
That's truly staggering. Six, eight and nine year olds? You hear of fourteen year olds smoking weed but this is really something else.
You've got to ask yourself why people are starting on it that early, let alone starting on it at all. For the record, I'm 20 and have never once taken any illegal substances. These people are aged six and doing it enough to become addicted, although people say you can't get addicted to cannabis.
Thoughts on this?
Quoting UanarchyK from 17:32, 7th Aug 2007
I feel that that Western civilization really overlooks the health dangers associated with alcohol. Feel free to prove me wrong, but it seems like everything I've read which objectively compares drugs shows that alcohol is significantly more damaging than marijuana in both direct health effects as well as consequences from induced behavioural changes.
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