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Marijuana Special Report
Recent research with primates shows evidence marijuana is addictive

A recent article from NewScientist.com says that US scientists have shown that primates exhibit the same behavior when given the active chemical from cannabis as they would if given similar doses of morphine and cocaine. This gives us the first real evidence to support the long debated argument of whether marijuana smokers can become physically addicted or not.The article goes on to state that, "proving that marijuana is addictive like cocaine or even nicotine has been difficult." But, goes on to explain that this is the first time that research can back those in the rehabilitation community that have witnessed the ravages of abuse of the seemingly "harmless drug".

The latest attempt at this research by Steven Goldberg at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Maryland, gave monkeys as much THC as one would get from a single administered dose via inhalation every time they pressed a lever. The monkeys got up to thirty injections of THC in one hour.

Elena Kouri of Harvard Medical School points that the study may give addicts a ray of hope, because for the first time ever we can tell addicts who are struggling to quit that it is not a lack of willpower, but an actual physical addiction that causes the propensity toward failure.

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