{"id":13693,"date":"2025-03-26T11:31:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13693"},"modified":"2025-04-17T12:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T19:02:25","slug":"addicto-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/03\/26\/addicto-weed\/","title":{"rendered":"Addicto-Weed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/wellness\/weed-more-addictive-cannabis-dependence-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Inside Hook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is Weed More Addictive Than We\u2019ve Been Led to Believe?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Turns out cannabis dependence is real \u2014 and recovery doesn\u2019t follow the usual script<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/author\/lauren-vinopal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LAUREN VINOPAL<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/weed_1500x1000.jpg?fit=1200%2C800\" alt=\"A vibrant field of cannabis plants with bright green leaves reaching toward a clear blue sky. We take a look at what the science says about weed addiction.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Where should we draw the line between use and overuse? \/ Jonah Reenders\/Bloomberg via Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As a millennial, I\u2019ve seen the reputation of potheads elevate from burnouts buying incense and Grateful Dead shirts at the mall to successful adults who don\u2019t drink but enjoy unwinding and having a good time. The legalized cannabis era has even cultivated a surprising conversational common ground. That family member you\u2019re hoping doesn\u2019t bring up politics at dinner? They\u2019d love to talk gummies instead.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, ever since I was a teenager (buying incense at the mall), I\u2019ve heard the same refrain over and over again:&nbsp;<em>weed is not addictive.&nbsp;<\/em>To be honest, that never felt entirely true. I mean, just because my high school friends could make gravity bongs did not make them experts on this topic. Admittedly, we had no clue what we were talking about. As for the weed-smoking community outside my circle of friends, there are over 360,000 users in the subreddit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/leaves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">r\/leaves<\/a>, an online group for people trying to quit or seeking support in their recovery, who would beg to differ with the assessment that cannabis is not addictive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/wellness\/weed-more-addictive-cannabis-dependence-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Inside Hook<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Inside Hook Is Weed More Addictive Than We\u2019ve Been Led to Believe? Turns out cannabis dependence is real \u2014 and recovery doesn\u2019t follow the usual script BY\u00a0LAUREN VINOPAL As a millennial, I\u2019ve seen the reputation of potheads elevate from burnouts buying incense and Grateful Dead shirts at the mall to successful adults who don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}