can you get addicted to pot ?!

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Pot is not physically addictive, but it can be psychologically addictive. It is a calming drug. If you are anxious, it calms. You get addicted to the calm, not the drug. Pot does, however, have some health downsides, ie lung illnesses, like any smoking. If you want facts, you should be visiting the National Institutes of Health site and researching research studies, not consulting yahoo, you yahoo.

As Marcus already correctly noted, it is not physically addictive, but it is psychologically addictive. Physical addiction is generally defined as habitual use of a substance to a degree that the sudden withdrawal from it will generate physical withdrawal symptoms. These symptoms can be serious enough that in the case of some substances, such as alcohol and barbiturates, or perhaps even heavy daily doses of benzodiazepines, they can even be life-threatening. These do not represent the majority of cases in which habitual drug use has become a problem, so personally I regard the physical addiction definition as the more limited and less relevant. In addition, there's a tendency in drug abusers to think that because their drug of choice is not physically addictive, they're safe and their drug isn't really that dangerous. That is na?ve. Even with the drugs that can cause dangerous physical dependency, most of the trouble is probably from people who don't even have that degree of dependency. For example, this is just a guess, but probably most drunk driving is done by people who could quit cold turkey without the withdrawal effects being even close to life-threatening. In any case, physical addiction just means that sudden cessation of use of the substance can cause physical withdrawal symptoms. That's all it means. The distinction between physical and psychological addiction in real world terms causes more confusion, I think, and misunderstanding than clarity. The important thing is how much influence, particularly adverse influence (as judged by not only yourself but those close to you), the drug is having in your life. Gambling, no matter to what degree, for example, can never be physically addictive, but it can be a horrendously destructive addiction just the same. Finally, every individual varies in their degree of resistance to true addiction. There are many daily users of alcohol, heavy drinkers basically, who nevertheless do not really qualify as true alcoholics even in the psychological sense because they have not (as yet) lost control over their ability to stop drinking once they start, or will be able readily to swear off drinking and stay away from it should it ever once induce a destructive consequence in their life, whereas a true alcoholic will go through one such destructive consequence after another. You sound like someone who perhaps was fortunate enough to have resistance to a true addictive hold on you from the marijuana; but that doesn't mean you would have maintained such resistance forever nor that it would always have been so easy for you to set it down and walk away. But, personally, I commend you for doing so. I'm just of the opinion that using any drugs, including alcohol, for recreational purposes entails far more risk and detriment to self and society than the pleasure that is derived from them is worth. But obviously not everyone agrees with me or Ciudad Juarez would be as peaceful as any park in some Small Town, U.S.A. on a Sunday afternoon — well, or at least say, as safe as Denver maybe.

BA Psychology and various.

You can get a psychology dependence on it if you use it for self-medication reasons. That takes a long time, though.
I'm actually doing an article for the school newspaper on pot O_o. Which is actually what I should be doing now instead of being on Yahoo answers xD.

Really, you can get addicted to anything.

It's not addictive physically, but a long time user such as yourself can become addicted mentally. You just won't feel the withdrawals for as long as someone quitting another substance. A daily smoker who has been smoking for over a year will go through a single day withdrawal period. That's it.

It is not physically addictive in my experience, but people do react differently to drugs. Some people seem to develop a mental addiction to marijuana. I have never heard of someone becoming physically addicted to cannabis.

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Psychologically, yes. Physically, no.

I've been smoking for around 2 years too... and I know my shizzle.

Just say no to drugs. No need to alter your reality or damage your brain. Idiots use and sell drugs. Try the real world.....something more constructive.

Uncommon sense.

no but u can get addicted to feeling of being high but it is less comon of an addiction

Wow.

No.

Well homie, I say props for stopping. It's not the best thing for your health ha
As for it being addictive, I have heard countless times that it is NOT addictive. So you are safe there.
It isn't like legit cigarettes stuffed with nicotine which your body would crave.
HOWEVER it could have an extremely negative effect on your health.
I learned about the singer Max Bemis, of Say Anything, who was bi-polar and he was unaware. He was a huge lover of weed and one day the combination of being too high and bi-polar sent him over the edge! He had a mental break down and he started believing life was fake and scripted (like the Trueman Show with Jim Carey). He got beat up so bad he was sent to the hospital. Pretty interesting story I think but I just used it to stress the point that it has it's dangerous sides

Stay off it man, good luck