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   From: proto@panix.com   
      
   In article <517ea5fc.31761609@127.0.0.1>,   
    cynic_999@yahoo.co.uk (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?   
      
   Well you know rats will work themselves to death for electrical   
   stimulation of the pleasure center.   
      
   OTOH, there is quite a difference with extremely hard drugs like   
   alcohol that require medical care in the withdrawal period.   
      
   Caffeine produces physical withdrawal symptoms such a headaches and   
   desire to sleep all day as well as all night or merely falling asleep   
   at ones desk. I think sugar does also, but no one notices because   
   everybody around us is maintaining.   
      
   --   
   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)