Your findings are closer to NIDA although they fou
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Posted On: 12/26/2013 3:48:22 PM
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Your findings are closer to NIDA although they found nicotine to outrank H for addictivity.
I assume you agree with Drs. Henningfield, Benowitz and Perrine, whose table of relative addictivity is commonly cited in reference works, that mj as the least addictive by comparison with any of the substances listed.
Not to mention that the biggest drug abuse problem in America currently is abuse not of illegal drugs but of prescription drugs. It seems the term "ethical drugs" long time used to describe drugs available by prescription only, may be falling to an oxymoron.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm...-about-pot
"For example, in a large-scale survey published in 1994 epidemiologist James Anthony, then at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and his colleagues asked more than 8,000 people between the ages of 15 and 64 about their use of marijuana and other drugs.
" The researchers found that of those who had tried marijuana at least once, about 9 percent eventually fit a diagnosis of cannabis dependence. The corresponding figure for alcohol was 15 percent; for cocaine, 17 percent; for heroin, 23 percent; and for nicotine, 32 percent. So although marijuana may be addictive for some, 91 percent of those who try it do not get hooked. Further, marijuana is less addictive than many other legal and illegal drugs . "
I assume you agree with Drs. Henningfield, Benowitz and Perrine, whose table of relative addictivity is commonly cited in reference works, that mj as the least addictive by comparison with any of the substances listed.
Not to mention that the biggest drug abuse problem in America currently is abuse not of illegal drugs but of prescription drugs. It seems the term "ethical drugs" long time used to describe drugs available by prescription only, may be falling to an oxymoron.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm...-about-pot
"For example, in a large-scale survey published in 1994 epidemiologist James Anthony, then at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and his colleagues asked more than 8,000 people between the ages of 15 and 64 about their use of marijuana and other drugs.
" The researchers found that of those who had tried marijuana at least once, about 9 percent eventually fit a diagnosis of cannabis dependence. The corresponding figure for alcohol was 15 percent; for cocaine, 17 percent; for heroin, 23 percent; and for nicotine, 32 percent. So although marijuana may be addictive for some, 91 percent of those who try it do not get hooked. Further, marijuana is less addictive than many other legal and illegal drugs . "
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