I actually have a
funny one: There was finally a "government-approved" research
study done as to the
addictiveness of
pot. The headline, of course, read "MARIJUANA PROVED ADDICTIVE"; thankfully, I
read more than
headlines.
The research involved
three groups of people: Group A, who'd never
smoked pot; Group B, the
occassional users; and Group C, the
raving junkies. All three groups were given a
doobie a day for a month, then cut off
cold turkey and asked to
record their symptoms, if any, of
withdrawal.
In order to see the
humor here you have understand that
Jerry Garcia himself might not have
qualified for Group C. I don't know where they got these guys, but each of them had to have smoked pot A) an
unbroken average of once a day for the last
five years, and B) a total of more than
5,000 times--that's one a day for THIRTEEN YEARS. So these guys were
mad potheads.
Group C, who'd probably only
volunteered to get some
free ganja, were the
only ones who experienced
any withdrawal symptoms at all--and those were "
mild to moderate" and completely gone before the 28 days of the
experiment were up.
So yeah, "MARIJUANA WAS PROVED ADDICTIVE", just less so than
coffee,
chocolate, or
sex. And as far as that "
keep it on the schedule one list" crap goes, you show me an "occassional" coke user who can do it once a day for a
month and then have NO
withdrawal symptoms at all. Like I said, you couldn't do that with coffee--you'd be twitchin' like mad.
Oh, and in my
personal opinion, no, it's not
physically addictive. I've done it for long periods of time and dropped it for long periods of time, and the biggest
symptom I ever had was thinking, "Man, I'd rather be stoned." So
psychologically, yeah, everything is
addictive, especially if it's fun. But as to the
quote-unquote-scientists who let
Uncle Sam purchase that headline...I feel your pain, and I know that if you'd produced a
study proving
marijuana to be at the very most
minimally physically addictive, your work would have just been
thrown out. But please
quit selling out. You guys are making it very hard to
spread any Truth around here.