Listen, it doesn’t matter what they say or do not say.
Nothing in MJ is physically addictive. Nothing.
They might believe they can’t live without it, they might believe they can’t relax without it, they might believe they can’t sleep without it, but they can.
Someone who has been physically addicted to a substance, such as myself with the substance being alprazolam, knows the difference.
When you are a user of a substance, and your lack of access to that substance or act of quitting use of that substance presents you with a very great chance of literal death, that is when you are addicted.
And even in that state, it is in one’s greatest benefit to endure, find a way to survive the withdrawal, and quit.
If you want to know what true addiction is, take a bunch of benzodiazepines every day at large doses for several years, and then stop. Then you will know.
Do not do what I suggested above. It can kill you. I just said that to illustrate the difference.
You have your own definition of “addiction” which is useful to you... but is incorrect. Addiction withdrawal does not have to result in death to carry the label “addictive”. Though one could stretch that definition to a NY to LA direct flight— in which the nicotine addicts became rather combative as their dose wore down. By way of explanation. The clinical definition is quite different than yours. But, if it gives you comfort and allows you to survive.... fine.