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Originally Posted by Dan40
Buzz,
I don't agree with you much, but do here. Some people are much more susceptible to habit and/or addition than others. Drugs provide the 'escape' that some "require" in their lives. Pot might not be 'addictive' but that escape is addictive for some people. And all the other drugs get progressively worse.
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Hey - even night and day have some common ground around sunrise and sundown Dan!
I feel strongly about the psychological addiction vs. the chemical addiction to some of the milder drugs like pot and tobacco. I quit cigarettes cold turkey at age 38 after smoking steadily starting in my early teens. I finished my last pack and never looked back. Afterwards, I experienced no shakes, withdrawal or mood swings. The hardest part was deciding what to do with my free hand when I was out talking and social drinking. The cigarette was such an ingrained part of my person that for a while, I had to keep my hand in my pocket for lack of anything better to do with it once it no longer held and flicked and gestured with a cigarette.
With alcohol it's very similar. I like beer and wines and I have a particular love for champagne. I like the taste of my preferred brands and have no desire to drink for the sake of getting drunk. If I am out and there is nothing that I like to drink, I won't endure beer or wine that doesn't taste good and I will be quite content to drink water. If someone ever invented a non-alcoholic beer that actually tasted good, that would work for me.
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I tried pot, it gave me vertigo and made me upchuck. My logical mind said, "How many laws should we break and how much money should we spend to get vertigo and throw up?"
Solved that drug problem.
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I hope that didn't happen at a party in front of the big boobed blonde you'd been dying to ask out for a date! Talk about crash and burn!
That logical mind or the will to use it is what many seem to lack when it comes to drugs.