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A puff of this, and the world transforms into a colorful kaleidoscope of dancing patterns and waves of sound; a sip of that, and the muscles in your body relax like jello.
We know different drugs make us experience the world around us in very different ways — and their after-effects are often nowhere near as pleasant as the immediate results they produce.
So what exactly are these drugs doing to prompt these feelings?
[Ed. Note: the rest of this article is infographics.]
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What 5 Popular Drugs Including Weed and Booze do to Your Body and Brain
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @02:51PM (5 children)
This is some dare stuff. Look at the weed graphic. Extended heavy use leads to addiction... oooh. Except quitting weed after extended use is relatively easy. Quitting nicotine or coffee is much much worse.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @06:27PM
All are just equal easy to leave at the begining before trying, just say no to all.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @08:52PM (3 children)
So weed doesn't give you physical problems when you quit. That isn't everything.
Weed users sort of lose their will to... do much of anything really, except smoke more weed. Life becomes meaningless. Initiative disappears.
I'd call that an addiction.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @10:43PM
Weed users sort of lose their will to... do much of anything really, except smoke more weed. Life becomes meaningless. Initiative disappears.
Is there scientific consensus that weed turns people into depressed husks?
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Friday March 10 2017, @02:19AM
I disagree from first- and second-hand experience. I stopped 15 years ago, no problem except for the nicotine withdrawal. When I consumed, I successfully worked on my computer science master while working 40h a week, and the reason I stopped was because my girlfriend that time asked me. (No, she was not insisting or anything.)
So: I was performing well, I obviously wasn't addicted and I obviously still had other interests. I was just a little less stressed out, more calm and thereforr enjoyed my work more.
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(Score: 2) by dry on Friday March 10 2017, @05:14AM
You're confusing psychological addiction with physical addiction. Lots of things are psychological addicting, even reading Soylent news and internet use in general. Shit, I see people so spaced out, staring at their phones (facebook?) that they walk right into traffic. Seems that one of the biggest killers now is caused from being distracted by the phone while driving.