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Is Marijuana Addictive?
Steven Wishnia - AlterNet, 22 Aug 2011

One of the main criteria for defining problematic drug use is continuing to get high even in the face of negative consequences. But if getting arrested is one of those consequences, responds Fred Gardner, “that’s a function of prohibition.” Many marijuana users see risking arrest to grow, buy and smoke the herb as defying an unjust law, not a symptom of addiction.

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