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Architorture23 said:
the article seems to refute this. even if it is not chemical dependence, it is absolutely very difficult for a lot of people to stop using.
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It's because people use it to treat anxiety. So while chemical dependence may not be like using any other drug, the truth is the anxiety is very real and it becomes something people use to cope with it on a daily basis. So yes you're right, it is absolutely very difficult for a lot of people to stop using it. I think, as someone who doesnt smoke pot, that marijuana is still miles better than popping xanax, prozac or whatever other legal shit people use to deal with anxiety. But it's also a fact that there are very very few that can function as potheads and graduate from Tech, student athlete or not. I understand Mills family shit caused him to self medicate daily, and given his background, i assume you dont go to a counselor to "speak about your feelings" and take some prescribed pills. But rules are rules and even if CPJ personally didn't give a shit whether Mills smoked or not, he couldn't give him preferential treatment. Its just a shit situation. And until weed is 100% legal and allowed, you just gotta make sure you dont test positive for thc 3 times.
 
I get wanting to smoke a little weed, or a lot of weed. But you play college football, free education, a starting spot secured, probably more academic help than you'll ever get... put down the damn pipe for like 5 months a year.
 
southendzoneBEE said:
I get wanting to smoke a little weed, or a lot of weed. But you play college football, free education, a starting spot secured, probably more academic help than you'll ever get... put down the damn pipe for like 5 months a year.
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Yea! Take some opioids for your pain
 
Marijuana is less addictive than alcohol? Really?

You guys dont think smoking marijuana has significant negative health effects on the lungs and cardiovascular system?

Some of you guys act like the level of alcohol used by the vast majority is deadly. Why? There are fuckloads of studies showing positive health effects of moderate use, which is the use rate of the vast majority of users.
 
Should be legal, but until it is, you've got to put it down or be sneaky enough to beat a test every now and then. Maybe Tech doesn't give as much leeway as other schools (How are the schools in states with legal weed handling it now?) but 3 strikes is still a fair amount of leeway.
 
GTCrew said:
Marijuana is less addictive than alcohol? Really?

You guys dont think smoking marijuana has significant negative health effects on the lungs and cardiovascular system?

Some of you guys act like the level of alcohol used by the vast majority is deadly. Why? There are ööööloads of studies showing positive health effects of moderate use, which is the use rate of the vast majority of users.
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Occasional marijuana use isn't going to hurt your heart or lungs any more than an occasional cigar. There have been cases of heavy, daily pot smokers getting emphysema at an unusually young age, but no one really knows why this happens to some and not others. As for alcohol, it depends on who you ask. A heart doctor will recommend moderate use but then an oncologist will point out that any amount of drinking raises your risk of cancer slightly. Basically, everything will kill you.

But yes, for those with addictive traits, alcohol is absolutely more chemically addictive and leads to much more self-destructive behavior. I say this as a moderate to heavy drinker with a brain chemistry that doesn't mix well with pot, personally.
 
GTCrew said:
Marijuana is less addictive than alcohol? Really?

You guys dont think smoking marijuana has significant negative health effects on the lungs and cardiovascular system?

Some of you guys act like the level of alcohol used by the vast majority is deadly. Why? There are ööööloads of studies showing positive health effects of moderate use, which is the use rate of the vast majority of users.
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Not all marijuana is smoked, white bread. I hear the chocolate is delicious, from friends, of course.
 
JJacket said:
Not all marijuana is smoked, white bread. I hear the chocolate is delicious, from friends, of course.
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We are in violent agreement here. I see marijuana like cigarettes. A delightful and pretty harmless chemical but with the common delivery method being very harmful.

Of course idiots are making vaping out to be as bad as cigarettes. I'm not one of those.

The addiction is still an issue, but in my opinion becomes largely moot if the harm (smoke) is off the table.
 
GTCrew said:
We are in violent agreement here. I see marijuana like cigarettes. A delightful and pretty harmless chemical but with the common delivery method being very harmful.

Of course idiots are making vaping out to be as bad as cigarettes. I'm not one of those.

The addiction is still an issue, but in my opinion becomes largely moot if the harm (smoke) is off the table.
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Isn't nicotine extremely addictive or something? I'm asking as a smoker to an FDA agent who wrote a bunch of regulations to öööö up the vape industry. I figured you should know.
 
Akinji07 said:
Isn't nicotine extremely addictive or something? I'm asking as a smoker to an FDA agent who wrote a bunch of regulations to öööö up the vape industry. I figured you should know.
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The addictiveness of nicotine is overblown. Think of how easy it is to smoke a cigar once in a blue moon.

A huge amount of the addictiveness is in the habit. Quitters dont know what to do with their hands. They cant imagine a drink without a smoke. They cant imagine a break at work without a smoke.

You probably know a lot of people who only smoke when they drink (party/go out). It was super common back when you could smoke at the bar. Those people were not addicted to nicotine so much as they simply formed a habit.

Its partly why the gums and patches are so ineffective. If the addiction was overwhelmingly nicotine, weaning would be an effective method to quit. And why its common to quit cold turkey. You most easily break a habit cold turkey.

TL:DR Cigarette smoking is a two pronged addiction. Nicotine as a chemical and smoking as a habit. The habit is probably the stronger of the two for most people, but public health typically (wrongly) "allocates" the habit addiction to nicotine itself making nicotine the chemical look worse (more addictive) than it is.
 
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GTCrew said:
The addictiveness of nicotine is overblown.
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This is bullshit. Nicotine is extremely addictive.

A huge amount of the addictiveness is in the habit.
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I quit smoking in 2008. Never once did I miss the physical act of smoking. But I sure did miss that nicotine.

Started vaping again last year, because of a very high anxiety situation, and then kept with it because of a series of additional ridiculous high anxiety situations. I might quit again, I might not, but even in this string of vaping I've never missed smoking. It's always the nicotine.

Because nicotine is ööööing good. Best drug I ever had.

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We are in violent agreement here. I see marijuana like cigarettes. A delightful and pretty harmless chemical but with the common delivery method being very harmful.
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I don't see what's so harmful about the delivery method for marijuana. It's not great for your lungs, but there's no indication it's near as cancerous as tobacco. Tobacco has radioactive isotopes in it.

The worrisome thing about those THC edibles is the dosages. It's slow onset, and you run the risk of eating way more than you should, nor even could you if you were smoking it. If you miss the fine print that says "one dose is a quarter of this cookie, please for the love of god don't eat the whole cookie," then you can end up in a serious world of shit.
 
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