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Originally posted by johnny:
Same here. One friend smokes at least 3/4 joints a day, for more than 10 years now. Yet he is not addicted. There are situations that he can't smoke a single joint for weeks in a row (because of work), and that's no problem at all. No withdrawel signs or something. I'm pretty sure you can't get physically addicted to marihuana, but mentally you can. Same goes for cocaine btw, but that's just my humble opinion.
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I voted for legalisation of all drugs. Most of them are less harmful and addictive than alcohol and tobacco, and for those that are harmful and addictive it does not help anyone if addicts and users are criminalised.
I agree with you about marijuana johnny, not at all physically addictive and there is no withdrawal, but can be psychologically addictive - but then anything can be psychologically addictive if you're that way inclined, do we ban shopping because a psychological addiction to it causes some people financial difficulties?
I disagree about cocaine btw, it is physically addictive because regular use alters the dopamine system in the brain (it is self regulating so will produce less dopamine if you use coke regularly) so there is a withdrawal - chemical depression due to longterm low dopamine levels which take some time to regulate back to normal dopamine levels. That's no reason not to legalise it though imo.