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If weed gives you the dopamine release that you're addicted to, then there's no real difference to the user. There are also other mental reasons to get addicted, eg, to the escape from a stressful or unfulfilling or depressing reality.

When taking opioids you are also addicted to a dopamine release, just because it affects that more directly doesn't really mean much beyond that the addiction happens quicker and more intensely.

People can and do get addicted to gambling or video games too and those can destroy lives as well. Maybe not as often as heroin, but it certainly does happen.

You don’t even know what opioids do, do you?

Hint; it’s the withdrawal.

Just because something doesn’t have physical withdrawal or isn’t as severe doesn’t mean that it isn’t addiction or isn’t a problem. Your argument is akin to saying that you can’t complain about something if someone else is worse off than you, which is just bullshit. People who are addicted to, eg, gambling, can still have their lives destroyed.

Condescending much? You don’t know anything about me and refuse to understand my point. I’m not equating these things as equal, just that they do cause problems. The fact that you utterly refuse to try to understand what I write and instead resort to name calling tells me that you’re not worth interacting with.