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Originally Posted by jimthefiend
Addiction is addiction. No OFFENSE.
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I agree, but being addicted to turning the doorknob isnt as destructive to yourself as being addicted to smashing your fingers with a hammer.
And since the argument in questions isnt "is addiction an addiction?", but rather "could it possibly be true that cannabis is less harmful than alcohol?" your point is semi-irrelevant. I agree though.
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Originally Posted by Forest
an adiction is an adiction. the "drug of choice" does not matter
some may be more detrimental to your health or property but all can take some people to the same place weither its alcohol heroin weed pill ect ect
I know plenty of people who have had a harder time getting off weed then quiting other substances
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Oh yes, as do I. And I have seen people that only drink during the weekends and only once a month do a lot dumber, destructive and regrettable things than people that smoke up on a daily basis. We werent really discussing wheter or not cannabis or alcohol is easier to shake off in case you get fully addicted.
I should state that its impossible to have your body become physically addicted to cannabis however, so any addiction is purely mentally, whereas you get both physically and mentally addicted to alcohol. That goes hand in hand with how much harsher alcohol degenerates your body btw.
What was being said, however, was that being addicted to cannabis is less destructive than being addicted to alcohol. Both to yourself, but especially to your surroundings. And i stand by that.
Yes, there are the wild stories of one person doing X and Y under the effects of Z, those stories are irrelevant as we are not discussing absolutes. If i had said "NOTHING bad ever happened on cannabis" and you said "once something bad happened on cannabis", then it would have had merit.
Think of the 95% percentile payment system we pay bandwith under and filter out the 'wild' and 'unheard of' stories.