is marijuana physically addictive?

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yes

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i wish i knew the true answer to that. i'm gonna say no. i have an addictive nature yet i only smoke one or two joints a week. and if i skip out it's no big deal. i get it might be habit forming or one may use it often to treat certain illnesses, but i don't think if you take away a users stash that they would get all "squirrely" like a heroin user or crack head.

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NativePortlander1970 Best Comment

No, Cannabis does not affect the portion of the brain that is affected by physical addiction, like how most substances do. However the liklihood of a psychological addiction can affect roughly 9% of heavy users. I forget exactly where and when I read that, but it was in a scientific journal where the financier paid a university biomedical department a shit ton of money to denigrate Cannabis, only for them to discover a myriad of healthy benefits from casual use. The same things happened to Richard Nixon when he commissioned the Shaeffer Report in the early 1970's, and when the late 1940's mayor of New York, Fiere (spelling?) LaGuardia commissioned his own study, and discovered the 1937 Marihuana Tax Stamp Act was full of lies.