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Marijuana addiction is real. Those struggling often face skepticism. (web.archive.org)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That last bit is not accurate. Search those terms with “is x real?” or “x controversy.” There is absolutely a debate rn about what constitutes addiction, and those things are regularly brought up.