On 03/08/2010 07:15 AM, Mimi Gallandt -> Ross Cassell wrote:
 MG> 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.

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

No, I have several friends who have long ago stopped using marijuana who
have said they were addicted to it. They weren't using by rote, they had a
physical need to get high.

 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
 MG> 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.

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

There is no proof that pot has any effect on pain. The high may mitigate
pain to some extent, but it does not actually relieve pain.

Ed

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