Anecdotally, most users maintain marijuana isn’t addictive. The medical community concedes addition is relatively rare (affecting 1 in 10 users) but it does happen. Either way, some people opt to take ...

Despite these dated perceptions, MWS has now been accepted by the clinical community as real. It has even made it into the most recent edition of the DSM, the DSM-V published in 2013. According to the ...

Research by a group of scientists studying the effects of heavy marijuana use suggests that withdrawal from the use of marijuana is similar to what is experienced by people when they quit smoking ...

Many people report experiencing symptoms of withdrawal in-between use of medical marijuana, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Medicine. In addition, around 10-percent of the ...

Whether or not an addiction to marijuana is a risk of the drug has been widely debated, with the general population typically believing that cannabis does not have addictive qualities. However, talk ...

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Marijuana has a lower potential for abuse than other drugs that are subjected to the same restrictions, with scientific support for its use as a medical treatment, researchers from the U.S. Food and ...

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