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Re:Marijuana addiction is real, and rising by chimeracoder on Friday June 29, 2018 @03:55PM (#17427348)
> Actually, the notion that pot isn’t addictive is the street wisdom, or was when I was growing up. This is in contradiction to the reality.

No, it's not in contradiction to reality; it's the results of clinical research. To the extent that "addiction" is a relevant term in colloquial use (it's neither a DSM-IV diagnostic criterion nor a formal pharmacological term), marijuana is not known to induce practically significant symptoms of physical dependence.

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Re:Marijuana addiction is real, and rising by hsienmaneja on Friday June 29, 2018 @04:03PM (#17427431)
Copy that. Getting into semantics, from the descriptions here, one could describe the withdrawal symptoms to be physically/practically significant for some cowards.
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