This line fron the article is exactly why I'm skeptical. I had to sit through tons of middle school and high school programs that lied to me about the physiological effects of marijuana. This article itself opens with an anecdote about one individual, but fails to identify any academic study suggesting physiological addiction because... There is none.

Psychological addiction is real. There's a reason that in most places any gambling advertisements have to include a warning and a hotline. The problem is that these sensationalist articles never make the distinction between psychological and physiological addiction. This article mentions when the case study first tried marijuana, but fails to detail the circumstances of her life, her personality, and other factors that can contribute to psychological addiction.

Add in that the medical marijuana industry is trying to replace the very physiological addictive (and profitable) pain medications... Add that to the years of lies in schools and media... Forgive me for not trusting this BS at all.

[–] nogrub 1 points 1 year ago

i started smoking because i have mucle pain every day (muscular disbalance) basecally my mucels are to short and i because i liked the affect. it's been around a year and a half in that time i noticed beleave it or not (i don't care) my memory got better and i'm much happier mostly because i don't have to take pain killer that often. if i don't have any other than not being able to be very active(because of pain) i don't notice it to much of curse i sometimes then think it would be nice to smoke one but that dosen't happen to often. at least for me being a stoner and being lazy dosen't apply at all i'm a mechanikalengeneer (i did an apprenticeship) and now i'm doing a second one as a programmer.

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