I’ll never forget one time I was living in Las Vegas listening to a talk radio show on a conservative station named KDWN and the subject was whether or not marijuana was addicting and a pot-head called in extremely angry and abusive to the radio host and claiming loudly and with great emotion that he (the pot-head) KNOWS that pot is not addicting because he’s been smoking it every day for 10 years and he KNOWS he’s not addicted.
I don’t think it was a put-up job or satire or sarcasm. I think pot really does make people that stupid. That guy really believed that his 10 years of daily pot smoking somehow QUALIFIED him to say that pot is not addictive.
That’s like saying people who drink alcohol every day for years are not alcoholics - it is ridiculous to think either are not addicted.
That behavior illustrates another aspect of pot use. It precipitates psychotic disorder. I don't think it can be determined yet what the exact connection is--does pot cause it? Does pot induce the disorder to show up faster in people who were going to get it anyway?
In any case, pot causes brain damage, which is apparently permanent.
I knew people that said exactly that. I do think it falls more inside the realm of mental addiction as opposed to chemical like some alcohol addictions can be.
I don’t care if that STOP sign still says, “STOP.” Eventually, you’re going to have to move along.