[ SECRET POST #2665 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2665 ⌋

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Comments

[ansela_jonla]

So basically the stoner version of a functioning alcoholic? They'd fail a roadside breath/drugs test, but you'd never know it from their behaviour?

[tabaqui]

Except that pot and alcohol affect people very differently (and different people differently), and i've never in my life met a pot 'addict'.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think daily use of pot necessarily indicates that someone is at the level of an alcoholic.

My personal experience is in, well...daily use of alcohol. There are many weeks where I'll have a few drinks every night. However, I am not an alcoholic, as indicated by the following two points:
a) I have no chemical dependency. I do not experience any adverse symptoms when I do not drink.
b) I don't have any compulsion to drink. If, for some reason, I can't (medication; training for a race/obstacle course; or, hell, just deciding to put the extra cash toward something else), then I don't, and it doesn't feel like a hardship. There are also weeks or months where, for no real reason, drinking just doesn't appeal to me (the recovering alcoholics I've known tend to find this concept particularly astonishing. It's as if I have a super power).

There can definitely be a fine line between abuse and responsible use of a substance, but I don't think that daily use is necessarily it. Also, while it is possible to develop a psychological dependency on pot, it's somewhat rare. I'm probably in more danger than tabaqui's friends.

I can also say that, having known someone in college who I would say absolutely did have a psychological dependency on pot, I don't think her friends fit the bill. He was awful during that period. It wasn't just that he was consumed with smoking; he was quick to anger, incredibly rigid in his thinking, and nearly incapable of empathy. Kicking the habit turned him back into a normal human. It also gave me an appreciation for the difference between "heavy smoker" and "problem smoker."