Sounds like cigarette addiction then.
And it is an addiction no matter that you don’t die from withdrawals. It just means it’s not as dangerous a substance to begin with, compared with drugs like heroin, coke and meth.
So imo pot can be addictive. Why are they legalizing one potentially addictive substance and at the same time trying to get everybody off of another, one that’s been legal for centuries?
You make the interesting point about the addictive struggle, and what’s required to become addicted.
Nicotine does have physically addictive properties as well as psychologically addictive properties.
However, neither of those aspects is as strong as people think they are.
It took me all of three days to stop smoking after 9 years and finishing at 2 packs a day.
I decided to stop, and then I stopped. I bought one pack of nicotine gum to help, and it helped a lot. I still chew gum to this day even though I quit cigs 18 years ago, but I only chew sugar free gum, not nicotine gum.
If you want to know what actual addiction is, then talk to someone who has been taking valium or xanax every day for years and cannot quit without facing a torturous death.
As far as why they are legalizing pot, I have a few theories. My first would be to say that people who smoke pot do not deserve to be in prison for smoking it or possessing it.
I’d also say that certain left wing powers realize that for whatever reason, the high of THC makes one more pliable to their left wing philosophies. I don’t know why that it is, but it is.
As far as why are they so active against cigarette smokers at the same time, they are utter shameless hypocrites who only want people doing what they want them to do, and nothing else.