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Is Daily Intake Of Cannabis Suggestive Of Addiction?
Question: Hi there, I am a 21 year old male who uses about a half a gram of cannabis every day. I've been doing this for 4 months now. I have a full time job 9am to 6pm and am wondering if this cannabis use makes me an addict and if there's anything I should be worrying about? One of my family members keeps calling me an addict so I just want a professional opinion.
Brief Answer:
Yes it is an addiction
Detailed Answer:
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Use of cannabis for a period of one month despite the known adverse effects is clearly indicative of abuse and may lead to addiction if no intervention made on your part. To clarify I like to inform you that cannabis is one of the most common addiction across the world and difficult to get free from it. Many of the individuals with cannabis abuse develop variety of psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia.
In my view it is high time to stop it altogether as the benefits with its use are very limited but the side effects and toxic effects list is exhaustive.
I hope this helps you.
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Yes it is an addiction
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Thanks for using Healthcaremagic.
Use of cannabis for a period of one month despite the known adverse effects is clearly indicative of abuse and may lead to addiction if no intervention made on your part. To clarify I like to inform you that cannabis is one of the most common addiction across the world and difficult to get free from it. Many of the individuals with cannabis abuse develop variety of psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia.
In my view it is high time to stop it altogether as the benefits with its use are very limited but the side effects and toxic effects list is exhaustive.
I hope this helps you.
If you have any further query, I would be glad to help you.
If not, you may close the discussion and if possible you may rate the answer for my future patients.
In future if you wish to contact me directly, you can use the below mentioned link:
http://doctor.healthcaremagic.com/doctors/dr-ashok-kumar/67386
Thanks and regards.
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