I call BS.
Addiction can be physical or psychological or a combination thereof.
My good friend was diagnosed with COPD. He has been a pot smoker for 30 years. Hard to tell how much he smoked, since he did bongs and joints, but he was just about always baked.
Even after being put on oxygen, he still would try to sneak joints and bong hits. His roommates, fearing he would cause a fire or explosion from the oxygen, had to resort to hiding all of the lighters and making sure someone was around just about 24/7 to stop him from lighting up.
Once he realized he wasn't going to be able to smoke anymore, he became obsessed with enhanced baked goods.
Sure sounds like addictive behavior to me...
It’s not.
He just wanted to be high. For whatever reason, he prefers that state of mind to his normal state of mind.
It doesn’t have a single thing to do with a addiction, he is making a conscious choice, and at anytime he could consciously choose to do otherwise, but he doesn’t.
When you are actually addicted to a substance, you have no choice. You either get your dose, or you are going to die, and it will not be an easy death.
That is what actual addiction is. That is when you are a slave.
You get your dose, or you die.
It matters more than food. It matters more than water. It doesn’t matter more than inhaling oxygen, but I guarantee you that the addict is thinking about his dose more than he is thinking about oxygen.
Just because someone is doing stupid things like trying to smoke through oxygen tubes does not mean he is addicted.
It just means he is behaving stupidly.
The question I would ask him is why is it so important to run from a sober state of mind?
What is it that occurs in his sober mind that he is trying to hide from by being stoned?