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Warren Stupidity

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8. " it may be addicting" - no it isn't addicting.
Fri Nov 14, 2014, 11:38 PM
Nov 2014

All the studies so far claiming "addiction" have used data that includes people compelled into treatment programs by the legal system to boost their statistics and/or have resorted to conflating addiction with other behavioral problems where the "cannabis dependency" is a symptom of other underlying disorders. In other words, people with mental health problems self medicating with cannabis. What they can't demonstrate is any actual physical addiction, as one can with opiates, with cocaine, with alcohol, with tobacco, and even to a slight extent with caffeine.

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