173
Marijuana addiction is real. Those struggling often face skepticism. (web.archive.org)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/science@lemmy.world
108 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

You can be addicted to the feeling of mellow and high that marijuana gives you, that’s psychological addiction. It’s the same as how you can become addicted to eating oreos. You can stop eating oreos or smoking weed and physically be fine, no withdrawals. But psychologically, you may feel the need to go back to it.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    If you can be "psychologically addicted" to anything, then why label marijuana specifically as "addicting"? We don't label wintergreen mints as psychologically addicting, even though some people will routinely crush a bag of them in one sitting. It seems that we're misattributing the human, habit-forming parts of ourselves (or possibly our need for pleasure) as a negative-characteristic of marijuana, and I don't think that's being genuine to the problems.

    Articles like this only further the demonization of marijuana and give cause to ban it.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Because it's still a thing. Gaming addiction and porn addiction is only psychologically addicting, yet nobody ever argues against those terms.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •