Hi Chris,
I guess I was speaking from personal
experience.
Ed
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From: "Christoph Reuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > I don't consider pot a drug. It's not addictive.
>
> It is addictive (see below). Or why else do you think
> there are Marijuana Addiction Treatment Programs like
> http://www.solutions4recovery.com/marijuana.htm ?
>
> Denial won't solve problems -- on the contrary.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/marijuana0331.html
>
> Looks Like Marijuana's Addictive
> More Evidence in Study
>
> W A S H I N G T O N, March 31 - Troubled teens who use marijuana can
> quickly become dependent on the drug, Colorado researchers report.
>
> More than two-thirds of teens referred for treatment by social service or
> criminal justice agencies complained of withdrawal symptoms when they
> stopped using marijuana, Dr. Thomas Crowley of the University of Colorado
> and colleagues reported.
>
> "This study provides additional important data to better illustrate that
> marijuana is a dangerous drug that can be addictive," Dr. Alan Leshner,
> head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which paid for the
> study, said in a statement.
>
> "It also identifies the devastating impact marijuana dependence can have on
> young people and highlights the fact that many both need and want help
> dealing with their addiction," he added.
>
> Crowley's team at the university's Addiction Research and Treatment Service
> studied interviews, medical examinations and social histories of 165 boys
> and 64 girls aged 13 to 19.
>
> More than 80 percent of the boys and 60 percent of the girls were
> clinically dependent on marijuana.
>
> When asked, 97 percent of the teens said they still used marijuana even
> after realizing it had become a problem for them.
>
> Eighty-five percent admitted their habit interfered with driving, school,
> work and home life, while 77 percent said they spent "much time" getting,
> using or recovering from the effects of marijuana, according to the study,
> published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
>
> Most also said their problems started before they started using marijuana.
>
> "About 825,000 youths were arrested and formally processed by juvenile
> courts in 1994," Crowley said in a statement.
>
> Negatives Tests, High Risk
> "About 50 percent of these youths tested positive for marijuana at the time
> of arrest and many fit the profile of the teens in this study, making them
> at high risk for marijuana dependence," he added.
>
> "The challenge now becomes to develop highly effective methods to treat
> high-risk adolescents dependent on marijuana," Leshner said.
>
> President Clinton's anti-drug leader Barry McCaffrey said 50,000 young
> people seek treatment for marijuana dependence every year.
>
> "This important study underscores what drug treatment professionals have
> long recognized: that marijuana is a dangerous drug, and its use can lead
> to severe consequences for vulnerable young people," McCaffrey said in a
> statement.
>
> Drug abuse experts say the problem is a physical, not a moral one and say
> drug addicts should be treated like anyone else with a disease rather than
> jailed.
>
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> See also: http://www.marijuana-detox.com/m-addiction.htm
>
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