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Marijuana addiction is real, and rising
Washington Post via SF Chronicle ^ | June 24th, 2018 | Christine Vestal, The Washington Post

Posted on 06/24/2018 11:51:48 AM PDT by Mariner

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To: Lagmeister

In dealing with addict’s and alcoholic’s I believe there’s 3 types of addiction. Physical, mental and social with mental and social being the harder to overcome.

I like one of the comments above. Smokes pot for 25 years but was never physically addicted. Again not all addictions are physical.


21 posted on 06/24/2018 12:58:59 PM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: Mariner

If the politicians were honest they would legalize the cultivation of marijuana for personal use. That would take the wind out of the sails of the cartels.

Unfortunately, there is no graft money in that.


22 posted on 06/24/2018 1:02:36 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: Mariner

Look kids
It’s not about smoking anymore
Or vaping. Nothing like that
It’s all bout the CHOCOLATE
and my philosophy is you need to take every third or 4th day off
Just to appreciate how good it is
And I’m not in pain.
For those that are. It’s miraculous


23 posted on 06/24/2018 1:14:22 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Slyfox

That’s too bad
But it’s not the weed that made him a loser
He’s just decided to be a loser that’s all
Smoking dope or drinking is just a SYMPTOM


24 posted on 06/24/2018 1:16:47 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Mariner
What does Wal-Mart and other employers know that the legalize pot people don't?

You can't even get a job as a cart cowboy, chasing the silver buffalo across the asphalt prairie, without a clean drug test.

25 posted on 06/24/2018 1:18:04 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
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To: Slyfox
He has never married, in elementary school he tested out with a genius IQ, but he has wasted his entire life on weed.

When I look back over the years, what I think of as a waste of a life is at least half of the time I spent earning a paycheck.

26 posted on 06/24/2018 1:18:06 PM PDT by Wissa ("Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult." - Michael Corleone)
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To: ifinnegan
Their desire to multiply their stupidity will, thankfully, reduce our casualties.

The war is coming, and we have to take every advantage.

27 posted on 06/24/2018 1:40:11 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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What does Wal-Mart and other employers know that the legalize pot people don't?

You can't even get a job as a cart cowboy, chasing the silver buffalo across the asphalt prairie, without a clean drug test.

What do the successful software companies I do and have worked for know that Wal-Mart doesn't? None of them do drug testing.

Should we ban everything Wal-Mart doesn't want its employees doing?

28 posted on 06/24/2018 1:45:11 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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The article's text contradicts the title's "rising" claim:

"The percentage of people who become addicted to marijuana - estimated at about 9 percent of all users, and about 17 percent of those who start in adolescence - also has been stable."

29 posted on 06/24/2018 1:48:07 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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Sadly, I have know teenagers that were provided alcohol by adults, and eventually they were used for sexual purposes when they were gotten drunk by the adult scum bags. Yes, there are plenty of scum bags that prey on naive teens. Do stoned kids have more will power then drunk kids? I had to intervene several time to keep my kids away from bad folks in their teen years. Now you are going to tell me that the same scum bags are not going to use easier to get marijuana for the same nefarious purposes? Edibles, vapes and really strong THC content really scares me and teens that will fall victim.


30 posted on 06/24/2018 1:56:18 PM PDT by BeAllYouCanBe (Until Americans love their own children more than they love Nancy Pelosi this suicide will continue.)
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To: Slyfox

My cousin (early 30’s) is a non-working weed smoker and he believes every wacky notion. He even follows Sovereign Citizen stuff.


31 posted on 06/24/2018 2:01:59 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Jeff Chandler

“If the politicians were honest they would legalize the cultivation of marijuana for personal use. “

Cultivation for personal use is legal in CA and NV.

The new medical proposal in OK legalizes cultivation for those with a doctor’s “permit”.

There may be others, those are just the ones I know about.

It is the right answer for legal marijuana. And a killer for both of the cartels...government and Mexican.

To legalize the sale and use of the finished product, but make cultivation illegal is hypocrisy of the highest order.


32 posted on 06/24/2018 2:09:12 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Yaelle

Actually it is. Plus the teens that are using it also tend to drink and use other drugs.

The THC levels in the pot available these days is high enough that teens ate in fact getting addicted.


33 posted on 06/24/2018 2:09:45 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Lagmeister

The National Cannabis Growers Association agrees up to 9% of habitual users become addicted.


34 posted on 06/24/2018 2:11:28 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Quick, ban tobacco. It’s addictive.


35 posted on 06/24/2018 2:22:31 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: Mariner

we will say anything, make up anything, until the evil weed is banished from this earth. Sessionists


36 posted on 06/24/2018 2:25:04 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Exactly. I dropped four cigarettes on a rainy day in a local park, decades ago. Two days later, I went back and picked them up and dried them out.


37 posted on 06/24/2018 2:28:55 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: Mariner

The “war on opioids”, better named the “war on people with chronic pain”, has caused doctors who no longer care for the patient but only their staying out of trouble with the DEA to take patients off much needed pain medication that is the only thing that allows them to function any where near a normal life. So now they either choose suicide, and many have, or they turn to street drugs, including mariguana.


38 posted on 06/24/2018 2:39:59 PM PDT by TonyM (UPS)
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Government sponsored drug addition, gambling, illegal immigration... one wonders what those of America’s Greatest Generation, who fought and died to protect us from Germany and Japan, would think of all this.


39 posted on 06/24/2018 2:41:18 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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(in b4 demonic possesion)


40 posted on 06/24/2018 2:43:31 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Donate to Mike Flynn's legal fund: https://mikeflynndefensefund.org/)
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