(December 20, 2008 at 5:42 pm)Meatball Wrote: CoxRox, the people you described are not "addicts" of marijuana. Marijuana isn't any more of an "addiction" than reading is, or exercising. It feels good, so people like to do it. There's no physical reliance going on.
When you say you are "very anti-marijuana", do you mean you personally don't use it, or you think it should be outlawed, and nobody should use it?
Maybe it's not addictive in the way other drugs and substances are e.g nicotine, heroin (although there seems to be conflicting ideas about that), but my experience in Scotland was quite 'horrific' and disturbing. There were no redeeming features about using this recreational substance. I can see that this situation was extreme and bears no resemblance to someone who takes the odd joint to relax etc. I've read a good deal of articles regarding the physchological effects of it on the brain, and that is what puts me off it the most. I'd rather not take the risk. Alcohol, on the other hand has got redeeming features, it is a 'food' in a sense and if taken in moderation can benefit digestion etc. As the law stands in Britain, marijuana is illegal and I am happy about that. They should make cigarettes illegal too -do the smokers a favour, well maybe that is going too far.
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