Potheads amazingly can, if they try, clear up and knock it off. The psychological addiction is very, very powerful though. It's almost impossible for a pothead to get off for more than a year.
My test for toxicity on the internet is simple ~ elicit feelings of paranoia. Never fails. A year?
Nonsense. According to research cited by the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine, of all those who have ever used marijuana only 9% ever became dependent (the corresponding figure for alcohol is 15% ).
Funny, I don't recall ever having "to try." I didn't experiment with pot. I had a fully funded research project going! lol
I was a stoner in highschool, in fact we used to go out during the break during the night drivers education classes, between the classroom lecture and the movies they'd show, and get stoned. We'd occasionally get stoned during the day as well. Heck, the guy I used to buy pot from would accept personal checks from me! But that was 30 years ago.
I decided that smoking pot and drinking was keeping me from doing things that I wanted to do, so I simply stopped using pot. I didn't have "to try." I just stopped. I never felt the need to start using it again, either. And I had lots of offers over the next few years.
Mark