If you can be "psychologically addicted" to anything, then why label marijuana specifically as "addicting"? We don't label wintergreen mints as psychologically addicting, even though some people will routinely crush a bag of them in one sitting. It seems that we're misattributing the human, habit-forming parts of ourselves (or possibly our need for pleasure) as a negative-characteristic of marijuana, and I don't think that's being genuine to the problems.

Articles like this only further the demonization of marijuana and give cause to ban it.

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it's still a thing. Gaming addiction and porn addiction is only psychologically addicting, yet nobody ever argues against those terms.

[–] PostmodernPythia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That last bit is not accurate. Search those terms with “is x real?” or “x controversy.” There is absolutely a debate rn about what constitutes addiction, and those things are regularly brought up.