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   From: proto@panix.com   
      
   In article <517e566f.11396281@127.0.0.1>,   
    cynic_999@yahoo.co.uk (Cynic) wrote:   
      
   > Alcohol addition (alcoholism) has physical withdrawal symptoms.   
   > Canbis addiction does not.  It is very likely that canabis addiction   
   > is *only* psychological - i.e. it is the same as addiction to gambling   
   > or even thumb-sucking, and as such more akin to an OCD than to what we   
   > normally think of as addiction.   
      
   But psychology has a substrate in chemistry, including   
   neurotransmitters and neuronic signaling. Someone deep into maryjane   
   my have trouble functioning when in withdrawal. Same as coffee, the   
   first 6 months to a year is the hardest and the withdrawal should only   
   be attempted in period where one does not have responsibilities such   
   as a job requiring thought.   
      
   --   
   Gambling with Other People's Money is the meth of the fiscal industry.   
    me -- in the spirit of Karl and Groucho Marx   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)