Posted on 06/24/2018 11:51:48 AM PDT by Mariner
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - For as long as most residents can remember, smoking marijuana has been a part of life here. The fact that California legalized the practice in January went practically unnoticed in this quiet town a half-hour's drive north of San Francisco, where some say the normalization of America's marijuana culture got its start.
For Quintin Pohl and other teenagers before him, smoking pot was a rite of passage. It was a diversion from the loneliness he felt at home when his parents were splitting up and a salve for middle-school angst. It was his entire social life in seventh and eighth grades, he said, when social life is everything.
Even though nearly all his friends were using marijuana and seeming to enjoy it, Pohl said, at some point his marijuana use took a turn he never saw coming: He became addicted.
Many people are unaware of marijuana addiction. But in the public health and medical communities, it is a well-defined disorder that includes physical withdrawal symptoms, cravings and psychological dependence. Many say it is on the rise, perhaps because of the increasing potency of genetically engineered plants and the use of concentrated products, or because more users are partaking multiple times a day.
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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.
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.
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
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
You can't even get a job as a cart cowboy, chasing the silver buffalo across the asphalt prairie, without a clean drug test.
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.
The war is coming, and we have to take every advantage.
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?
"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."
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.
My cousin (early 30’s) is a non-working weed smoker and he believes every wacky notion. He even follows Sovereign Citizen stuff.
“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.
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.
The National Cannabis Growers Association agrees up to 9% of habitual users become addicted.
Quick, ban tobacco. It’s addictive.
we will say anything, make up anything, until the evil weed is banished from this earth. Sessionists
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.
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.
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.
(in b4 demonic possesion)
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