Kid posts picture of himself at a Snoop Lion concert and thanks Snoop in the title for letting him enjoy his "legal medicine." This rustles a lot of jimmies in r/trees (self.SubredditDrama)
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The title itself seems to piss a lot of them off and comments like this abound. OP gets ripped apart in each one.
180 comments submitted at 16:00:54 on Aug 28, 2013 by Hu_dat
B-B-B-B-But weed's not addictive!!! I can stop whenever I want to!!
Man, this is stressful. Anybody got a joint?
It's not physically addictive. You can get mentally addicted to it like most anything else.
So what you're saying is it's addictive?
Yes, but in the same way that riding a motorcycle, using Reddit, and watching television can be addictive.
It's nothing compared to physical addiction.
By that definition of addictive, everything from eating to sleeping to playing tennis to singing is addictive. Anything anyone could become mentally dependent on is addictive meaning everything is addictive.
So you are saying is it's addictive.
Really great contribution, man.
Dude, what I'm saying is that your definition of "addictive" is so broad that it could include literally anything. So, I guess by your definition, sure, it's addictive. So is riding a bike, cracking your knuckles, and eating chicken nuggets.
> sure, it's addictive
Thanks dudemanbro, I'm glad we could agree on something.
I'm not going to give you any comments beyond just this one, but you're fucking wrong, you know it, and you just want to argue semantics so that you can avoid admitting that you're wrong.
How weird, because I have multiple people admitting that I'm right.
Edit: And one of those people includes you.
http://i.imgur.com/CkwwUpn.png
It's not in the sense you're making it out to be. It's addictive like any habit but as for biologically addictive it is not.
So, it's addictive.
Got it.
It's not addictive intrinsically as a substance it's addictive as a habit (as much as any other habit can be). That's a pretty large fucking distinction. So no, it's not addictive. There are no withdrawals or biological side effects from the cessation of smoking.
It's not cocaine-addictive, it's World-of-Warcraft-addictive. So it's not chemical dependency, it's psychological. But it's still a dependency.
It's a dependency in rare sitations of long term use where the habit itself is largely the cause. It's not a dependent drug the vast majority of users can cease at any point without any psychological or physical side effects.
I understand what you're saying and I agree. But you're saying that the word "addiction" is inaccurate, and I disagree. As others have mentioned, you can be addicted to gambling. There are no chemicals there, but it's still an addiction.
I'm not saying it's inaccurate, I'm saying merely stating "it's addictive" is a false misrepresentation of the drug. The user I was talking to is trying it make it seem like it's an intrinsically addictive substance when it is not. There can be an addiction resulting from use but it's largely habitual as a result -- not chemical
I get withdrawal symptoms when I go without weed for over a day. They're mild, but they're definitely there. I'd consider my habit an addiction 100%. It's not that big a deal--compared to other addictive substances, this stuff is about as mild as it gets. I get bitchy, restless, and lose my appetite. Meanwhile my sister gets full-blown DTs when she comes down from an alcohol binge and becomes a total mess.
Despite the (relatively small) negatives that come with it, I've found it works better than any antidepressant I've ever taken. That's what I use it for, and the withdrawal symptoms are much lighter than the antidepressant I'm currently weaning off of.
Gambling has no withdrawals or biological side effects from the cessation of gambling, and yet 'gambling addiction' is still possible.
Just admit it's addictive and move on. I'm not going to judge you for being an addict.
Gambling isn't a drug either. There's a rather large difference in chemical and habitual addictions.
To the APA and the new DSM-V... Hmn...
This is the textbook doctors and therapists use to figure out if you have a disorder in America.
There's 7 criteria and if you meet 3, then you are an addict.
Gambling is under substance abuse. Marijuana has had some changes as well.
The dsm is largely for billing purposes it's not the textbook doctors and therapists use to determine illness. You usually need the code to receive any payout from insurance companies (especially in the US) .That's why it changes every x amount of years. By no means is it the end all be all of the field and is heavily criticized in the community and regularly are disorders and conditions removed entirely or merged into other conidtions. At best it's a subjective collection of the most aggreed upon charactristics of conditions for medical treatments at a particular point in time. That textbook used to list homosexuality as a mental illness for example.
fuck that dude, no it's not addictive the way that playing a videogame is, it's a mind-altering substance which makes it intrinsically more addictive than any other habitual activity.
> fuck that dude, no it's not addictive the way that playing a videogame is, it's a mind-altering substance which makes it intrinsically more addictive than any other habitual activity.
Sorry to tell you this but different chemicals have different reactions on the body. Cannabis usage is associated with addiction levels much lower than that of even massively used drugs like caffeine.
it might not be metabolically addictive, but a mind-altering substance is more addictive psychologically than other things because you (some) will use it as a crutch to cope
Citation for that overarching claim?
An analogy that may or may not work:
If we take Gotye's assertion that "you can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness" to be true, while we certainly can say that some people do appear to become addicted to sadness, it would be a big jump to simply claim that sadness is addictive.
You're a prick.
So my brain isn't biological, got it. Wait, am I part bionic? Not a cyborg?
Are you seriously failing to see the difference in a chemical reaction from a drug and the psychological addiction of a habit?
I'm pretty sure my psychology is a product of my biology.
^^Acutally ^^I ^^just ^^wanted ^^somebody ^^to ^^call ^^me ^^Psychotron.
No but you can lick one half of my grinder if you like?