Ross Cassell -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 RC> Hello Ed!

 RC> 07 Mar 10 18:22, you wrote to Mimi Gallandt:

 MG>>> Point of order: Pot is not addictive.

 EH>> Yes it is. If it wasn't, there wouldn't be so many people using it
 EH>> illegally.

 RC> It doesnt have the addictive qualities of other drugs, such as most
 RC> opiates or nicotine.

Possibly Ed is confused between habit and addiction the former being a
action that is done by rote, the other is a physical need.

 RC> Having smoked POT way back in my youth, I did not feel any need to have
 RC> to have it in my system and paid no consequences when I didnt get it, as
 RC> I only did so socially at parties and such, unlike cigarettes, where a
 RC> physicalpenalty is felt when the body gets deproved of nicotine.

 RC> The addictiveness is just the high, but the addiction is not chemically
 RC> induced, only the want of the person to be high.

 RC> I would imagine that those taking POT medicinally for pain, dont even
 RC> feel the high part.

After my surgery the doctors gave me all the narcotics I needed. As a
result most pains I have these days are better served by aspirin.

-- 
L'Chaim

Mimi

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