What does it mean to be physically and mentally addicted to weed??

Question

people say weed isn't bad because no one gets "physically" addicted, only "mentally". can anyone tell me what the difference is?

Answer 1

Physically Addicted means that your body needs it everyday or you will go into withdrawals. Mentally addicted means your mind makes you want it everyday !

Answer 2

if you smoke enough to go through withdraws afterwords then youre addicted to it ive heard the same thing about it not being physically addictive meaning you shouldnt get sick when you stop just pissed off because you think you need it if you are getting sick after or during being intoxicated on marijuana i would say that either it was laced with some other garbage worse than weed or you have some sort of allergy to it

Answer 3

mentally addicted is when you want it, physically is when your body is so use to it that if you stop you will become very sick (withdraws).

Answer 4

As you know, a physical addiction is where the chemicals of the body change in such a way that deprivation of the foreign substance causes withdrawal symptoms (i.e. nervousness, shakiness, seizures, sickness, and even death) Some drugs create a mental addiction where you feel like you need it because of the effect is has on you but there is no chance of any of these side effects from suddenly stopping the chemical.

Weed does this (I know from first and second hand experience.)  It is a depressant, calming the person, making them feel a certain way (not to mention the oral fixation it creates.)  Stopping can be hard because you want to keep doing it, you like the feeling you got from it, and you are unaccustomed to not doing it. Kind of like people who bite their nails... only... a bigger desire.  It can be hard to stop because a person can feel dependent on that feeling. But once stoped (even cold turkey) there are no ill side effects and the negative side effects of the marijuana (i.e. anxiety or paranoia, laziness or lack of motivation, excessive hunger, reduced memory, lack of concentration, etc.) go away, often within a day or so (some effects may take a little longer while lung damage is repaired by the body and memory functions retur to their former glory) with only minimal "withdrawal symptoms" such as a sudden yet temporary drop in appetite and irritability.

Weed is a social drug.  Smokers can smoke alone, but prefer to smoke in groups, seeking out other people who smoke and there is a big community feeling and a sort of underground-club mentality.  It's like a big, esoteric collective that is anything but exclusive. This is one of the reasons it's considered a "gateway drug." Not because if you use weed you automatically get into bigger, badder stuff, but instead because of the community thing. Smokers seek out other smokers so there are a lot of drug users they end up around, putting themselves into the circle of influence.

Another aspect of weed is, many people say since it's all natural, it must not be bad for you. But think about this:

Poison ivy is very harmful and vrey natural. Would anyone smoke that? Not unless they had a death-wish! Same thing with sionide. Very very poison, very very natural (in fact, sionide is found in apple seeds in small quanitites!)  Smoking anything (or consuming burnt stuff or breathing in saw dust or grass clippings or smog) can cause cancer.  So no hard evidence has turned up that marijuana 100% causes lung cancer, but burning materials causes carcinogens, so introducing them so heavily into the lungs can very much cause lung cancer. Not to mention, marijuana produces a very sticky tar like substance (that won't wash off of anything!! I even tried boiling it out of this thing I wanted to turn into a vase... didn't happen! Once it's there, it's there!)  In fact, if you breathe out the smoke into a towl from weed and do the same thing with cigarette smoke, you will leave a brownish yellow stain on the towel and it is darker from the weed smoke.

Not to mention it stains teeth like no body's business!