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   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 04/29/2013 09:56 AM, Cynic wrote:   
   > On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:20:07 -0400, Walter Bushell    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Are you saying that there is no difference between a physical   
   > addiction and a psychological addiction?   
   >   
      
      
   	Actually that is a dualistic view of addiction or more properly   
   habituation.  The physical component of for example tobacco addiction   
   is quantitatively different if the user is in early adolescence before   
   the brain has matured.  But even then with people who have started   
   before the age of 15 I have seen my tobacco addicted friends manage   
   to quit the use of the drug.   
   	I was in my late 20s before I even tasted tobacco and it was   
   unable to gain a hold on me.   
      
   	I say `habituation' because `addiction' is a word loaded with many   
   negative connotations.   
      
   	later   
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   	It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.   
   	It is by the beans of cacao that the thoughts acquire speed,   
   	the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning.   
   	It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion.   
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)