>>510321088 (OP)THC is a drug, obviously. Insulin is a drug. Caffeine is a drug.
Yes, it's addictive, although it has a lower addictive threshold than many other things. Sugar is addictive. Gambling is addictive. Masturbation is addictive. How could weed not be addictive?
Part of the problem is that when you become addicted to things over time, it fucks with your perceptions so that you're slowly justifying worse and worse shit. You can't trust someone to say they aren't insane, because part of being insane is being out of touch with reality.
In a way, things with lower addictive potential, particularly those which don't do a lot of harm in the short term, are the most insidious addictions. Part of the reason I stopped doing cocaine was because unlike most of the other drugs I've done, I felt I NEEDED more INSTANTLY. When I started smoking weed, it was whatever. But then it became a habit, and then an everyday thing, and then an all day everyday thing.
Mostly I was using weed as a coping mechanism for my shitty life, but that doesn't mean I wasn't addicted, and it was certainly maladaptive.
Whether you become addicted to something and to what extent usually depends on your own biological, psychological, and sociological disposition (like me smoking weed as a coping mechanism, or someone having a genetic predisposition to alchoholism). Some drugs like crack are not possible to use without becoming addicted, though, due to the sheer strength with which they affect your brain's dopamine levels (which is actually somewhat independent of pleasure, meaning a drug could theoretically bring you no pleasure at all aside from relief of the desire, yet you would still feel an intense pull).
Would love to stick around and talk about it more, but I need to go to bed, so I'm just laying it here
