Anthony, J.C., Warner, L.A., & Kessler, R.C. (1994). Comparative epidemiology of dependence on tobacco, alcohol, controlled substances, and inhalants: Basic findings from the National Comorbidity Survey. Experiential and Clinical Psychopharmacology Go read.

Oh look ladies and gentleman. We have someone who didn't do weed and paid attention in school! Good for You! :D

You obviously didn't pay attention in school. Do you know what grammar is?

Obviously you cannot read or have some form of dyslexia because there is simply nothing wrong with the above statement. If you were trying to hurt my feelings it didn't work. You can try again after you finish reading.

Nice edit. Still wrong, though.

You realize I don't really care. In fact I'm just here because there are so many of you butthurt in this thread. Its really easy to mess with any of you.

[quote]Its really easy to mess with any of you.[/quote] Don't make excuses.

Go ahead keep going I'm just sitting here laughing at you. Keep taking your time to reply to the comments I care nothing about.

Yeah f[i]u[/i]ck you and your gay sources. This is a bullshit statement I don't care what any conservative study says. This shows how out of touch some people are.

Read facts and draw your conclusion based off of them. Go do research and design a study if you see a flaw in the results collected by another scholar. You cannot refute studies because they simply don't agree with what you would like, that isn't how it works. Damn the internet is thick, this is why I try to stay away from these posts. I will not be responding to any more of this crap.

You have no knowledge on what marijuana does. Here are a few things I do know. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know marijuana is not addictive. I know that it is a central nervous system depressant, much like alcohol. As a matter of fact, THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, tetrahydrocannican[b]ol[/b] is in fact an alcohol, if you know your junior organic chemistry. Ethanol (drinking alcohol) is an addictive substance because it causes you to think less, which can relieve stress by reducing your thinking capacity. When it wares off, you think about thing again, except with a hangover, which is why you drink more, to keep you from thinking. THC does the opposite. It make your mind wonder. It doesn't stop you from thinking. It relaxes your muscles, and allows you to observe your thoughts from a different perspective. Alcohol totally nullifies your thoughts. THC has nothing to do with dopamine or serotonin, the key chemicals in the brain that give you pleasure and satisfaction, which is you mess with, will make you an addict. Which leads me to a comparison with [i]stimulant[/i] drugs. In comparison with nicotine or cocaine, both extremely addictive substances, these work also the exact opposite of THC. They stimulate dopamine receptors inside of your brain and make you feel good. When your brain realizes that the dopamine in there is waaaay too high, when the drug wears off, the brain will further restrict dopamine inside of your brain, causing withdrawal. THC does not do this. Smoking weed is like watching your favourite TV show. Sure, you can binge watch it all day every day, but eventually it gets boring, and you could easily stop at any point. But since it fu[i]c[/i]king cures cancer, why would you? No hangover the next day, no addiction. Why is it such a menace?

Addiction plays a large mr part than simply dopamine flood, structures such as the insula and NAC are important in understanding specific addictions and are affected by NT receptors but are still not completely comprehended. Also THC(really impressed you spelled that out) primarily has an effect on dopaminergic neurons(that is in the NAC, not VTA.) Also it is a scientific fact that excess cannaboids in parts of the brain are detrimental to long term working memory(the hippocampus specifically)

Well, in contrast with [b]real[/b] addictive drugs, THC doesn't come close to stacking up with those. Maybe it might cause memory loss, but people smoke weed all their lives and are healthy, as opposed to tobacco. I do agree that I dislike the weed culture, but it is [i]not[/i] addictive. No matter what perspective you look at it as. When you get a kill in Halo or Call of Duty, your brain releases a little dopamine, you feel good when you get at kill. Should we ban video games because they [i]can[/i] cause addiction? F[i]u[/i]ck no.