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Old 10-06-2007, 04:03 PM  
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yeppers.

But it's different than with alcohol. Alcohol tolerance is usually coupled with addiction, as it damages receptors.

Pot doesn't damage receptors so much as it clogs them up, and marijuana tolerance is usually the result of the brain's effort to maintain equilibrium without the adversities of addiction... some would say the brain is preprogrammed to handle THC, and it sorta directs the THC to the spots that it'll allow THC build-up to take place after awhile.

The only relation that pot types have to tolerance levels seems to be in the amount of THC present in the varietals.

Here's an interesting article on the subject of marijuana tolerance, if you're inclined to read up on the subject:

http://www.ukcia.org/research/gettman3.htm

So that you know where it's coming from, the guy that wrote it's a regular author for High Times, and is a Ph.D. that has made his life's ambition the legalization of marijuana.
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