Hamster Lewis said:
I also wldnt define MJ as addictive.....sure when I go without I get cranky but that is just me being a lil Beotch. Bottom line not smoking MJ wldnt make me sick or anything. Jmo
That's a physical addiction, there's a mental addiction to it once you use it for a lengthy period of time, as well if you're using it for a reason, like to kill pain because you'd rather not take opiates, that adds to the mental addiction when you're subconsciously telling yourself you actually do need it.
I don't think it's constant amongst all people, but there's still an air of addiction with anything that people choose to continually do. After all "old habits die hard"
That said. There are comparable qualities between marijuana and tobacco. They both produce tar when burned. You can alleviate this with a vaporizer. They both produce somewhat similar calming effects, albeit in very different ways. Tobacco is highly addictive in cigarette form because of increased nicotine levels and the other additives in it.
One thing I notice because of the way I smoke my bongs (with a pinch of tobacco at the bottom of the bowl) I get a bit of an extra kick since I don't smoke cigarettes normally.
After about 5 years of doing this, I started to notice that I subconsciously stopped wanting to smoke weed if i didn't have a cigarette around to pinch some tobacco out. That in itself is a testament to the addictive qualities of tobacco. I've never smoked a cigarette whole in my life, never once, but if i'm using my bong, I won't smoke without some tobacco now.
Now that I have my volcano, when I go without using my bong for a week I cough up a lot of the tar that accumulated from the bonging. The real difference between the effects of smoking cigarettes as opposed to marijuana; Tobacco closes the capillaries in your lungs restricting the amount of fresh oxygen they take in, whereas marijuana opens the capillaries and does the opposite. If you can intake the THC without burning the plant matter itself (vaporizer) there are virtually 0 negative health effects aside from whatever the delta9-thc is already doing to you.
jonesfarm said:
If you think you're addict to cannabis problem is more likely due to you than the drug .If you can't stop using I suggest that you attend an NA meeting. This is not intended to be a sarcastic response to your post.The twelve step program does not focus on the substance,rather it addresses the mind set of the addict.
The idea being that the addiction is a symptom not a cause .The reason you can't stop is rooted in an inability to cope with your inner demons.
This is true of people that turn to drugs as a way to cope with the problems they have in their life they can't mentally cope with, like losing a family member, losing your job, house, livelihood, Not the person that had a long day and just feels like taking it easy on his recliner with a joint, a bag of doritos and a 2L of coke.
