Is Medical Marijuana Addictive?

As more and more states legalize marijuana for medicinal use to qualified patients, one of the questions asked "Is medical marijuana addictive?" With opiate medications being highly addictive if abused with significant risks of overdose and withdrawal, it is important to either confirm marijuana having addictive qualities or to refute the notion. The answer is that medical marijuana may have a psychological dependence but it does not produce a physiologic dependence so therefore not a true addiction.

Studies of marijuana users overall show that a large majority do not become long term users. In the 1990's, studies showed that although 31% of Americans 12 years and older had tried marijuana at some point, only 0.8 percent of Americans smoked marijuana on a daily or near daily basis.

It is not unheard of for heavy chronic marijuana users to enroll in a drug treatment program for marijuana dependence. There is a significant difference, however, between a dependence on marijuana and a true addiction -mail order weed online. Are there any symptoms of withdrawal when a heavy or frequent user stops smoking? The answer is - possibly. Some individuals report nervousness and some sleep disturbance - about 15% of the time. But you do not see the sweating, hallucinations, nausea, vomiting, etc that is commonly seen from narcotic withdrawal.

In animal studies looking at high dose marijuana administration, no matter how much of the drug is given, animals do not self administer the drug after cessation. Narcotics are a different story.

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