Originally Posted by: Cryptic Excretions[QUOTE=bigbuda][QUOTE=Cryptic Excretions]
It said often addictive, not always addictive. It alters your nervous system just like chemical drugs and alchol do. People with drinking problems don't catch phrases like "drug users" or whatever, instead they've coined "alcholics" but the end result is just the same. They're victim to a mind altering substance. I just fail to see why people go to lengths to make things seem so different when the resultsare the same. Smoke/drink/shoot-up/etc = not sober.

Its because of the fact that its active compounds arn't "toxic".You can't "overdose" on cannabis...you would pass out before you could light another joint.

It gets lumped in unfairly with deadly substances that physically destroy lives.