At this level nobody will want to smoke it anyway because it wont produce the high they desire. Check out this transcript.
HOUSE CALL WITH DR. SANJAY GUPTA
Interview of Dr. Drew Pinsky
Aired March 5, 2005 - 08:30 ET
CNN transcript
GUPTA: Let's get to another e-mail on topic here. Tracy from Texas wants to know, "How addictive is marijuana when compared to heroin? How about when compared to tobacco and alcohol?"
Dr. Pinsky, marijuana's the most commonly used illegal drug.
PINSKY: Yes.
GUPTA: And there's a perception that it's not dangerous and not really addictive.
PINSKY: Right.
GUPTA: What's the comparison?
PINSKY: Let me -- I'm -- it would take too long, I think, to compare to each of those drugs. The fact it is addictive. And it seems to be an opioid mechanism, very much like heroin, very much like the Percocet you just had in the previous piece.
GUPTA: Right.
PINSKY: And the marijuana, I should go through the syndrome, because it's the same in all people. It's someone with a family history of alcoholism about 85 percent of the time, who initially doesn't think much of pot, but somewhere on the third or fourth exposure, as though there's some priming effect on the brain, they suddenly get this intense euphoria. Oh my God, I love this stuff. And that is what they preoccupy about.
From that day forth, they will use every day for somewhere between one and 30 years. During that time, the effects will wear off. They'll start getting depressed. They'll smoke more to try to compensate. And they'll slip into a depression.
At that point, they either come to treatment or they switch to another drug. Typically, amphetamine.
GUPTA: That is remarkable.
PINSKY: And amphetamine reverses the depression. So most of my amphetamine addicts and nearly all are actually marijuana addicts for whom the marijuana stopped working.
GUPTA: Initially they were marijuana addicts and now amphetamine. Really interesting stuff. We're talking with Dr. Drew Pinsky.
Interestingly enough Dr. Drew is for legalized pot.
Marijuana is the most commonly used drug.
After using it a few time the users begin using it every day.
After using it every day for 30 years, the become meth addicts.
That means we should be awash in 50 year old meth addicts. We aren't.
Dr. Pinsky is not telling the whole truth, and I think he probably knows it.