Answers?

When I started this blog I should have known I wasn’t going to find the answers I expected or any answers at all, just more questions. So, to what extent is marijuana/cannabis/pot/weed, whatever you want to call it, addictive? Is it only a little addictive like ice-cream with just mild cravings here and there? Or, is it sell everything you own for one more high addictive? However, maybe its neither and maybe its both depending on the person. I explored the world wide web for answers to these questions and got very consistent facts and statistics from many different sources yet I still can’t help but believe they’ve all missed something.

One out of 10 people that use marijuana are dependent. I didn't like this statistic. It seemed to low from my personal experience, but when I read and realized marijuana is the number one used drug in the world, 10% got a whole lot bigger. Alcohol however, is still more used and more abused and i think we can agree more addictive. I wondered in my first post if pot and booze are any different. I don’t know, time will tell. Weed only recently became legal and alcohol has been legal off and on for many years. I contemplated why marijuana didn’t grab me like it did some of my friends. Now I know I’m just the 9 out of 10. Not certain why exactly, but I suspect its a mix of things.

The article from TIME was my favorite, depends how you define addiction. There are much more than physical attributes to addiction. Just because something isn't replaced by excruciating withdrawal symptoms doesn't mean it’s not addictive. I know that to be true. Cannabis is one of those somethings.

All in all I feel my original questions have been answered. Whether that's with statistics or simply more questions, they were answered.