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Get addicted to cannabis: You might spend more $$$ per month than you would like to

Get addicted to alcohol: Die a very painful death over a two-month period as multiple organs shut down.

Get addicted to tobacco: Die a very painful death over many years as you develop cancer and try to fight it.

Get addicted to cocaine: You will definitely spend more $$$ per month than you would like and will probably die of a heart attack by the time you are 50

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The two biggest 'pot heads' I know both had a severe illness from smoking weed and both of them refuse to acknowledge it's the weed doing it. It's a debilitating condition, they vomit all day, go into shock and have to get thrown into hot showers regularly to ease the pain. I'm sure it's not as common as alcoholism but good god, it doesn't look fun.

[0] https://www.cedars-sinai.org/health-library/diseases-and-con...

> Get addicted to cannabis: You might spend more $$$ per month than you would like to

I can tell you are addicted to cannabis because you are way downplaying addiction to it while exaggerating the other substances. While cannabis will not kill you it can still destroy relationships, make you stupid, and waste 40 years of your life. That sort of behaviour can rub off on your kids too, so when they're adults and also addicted to cannabis and playing it off as "I just spend more money than I'd like", that's on you.

While AFAIK no one had ever died from cannabis use, to be entirely fair, isn't there some impact of long-term use on brain functions? Plus some effect on the lungs if smoking (though, of course, there are other means of consumption).

Also, most certainly it takes somewhat longer than a couple months of alcohol abuse for the liver and other organs to start failing.

Probably most dangerous part is the munchies. If you don’t plan ahead you can eat way too many calories over a long time period and get the usual health issues of that

> Also, most certainly it takes somewhat longer than a couple months of alcohol abuse for the liver and other organs to start failing.

Yes, I meant once organs start failing it still takes about two months to die.

Alcoholics can survive pretty long, way longer than two month.

Until their organs start failing, then it's a rapid - but not rapid enough - cascade. I've watched a loved one die this way and it's horrific.

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