I think marijuana is addictive the same way Mahalo Answers is addictive. You can get hooked to anything from food to the internet, gambling, sex, etc.
There's no evidence that marijuana causes a physical addiction, though (as alcohol, cigarettes or painkillers can cause). It can very well cause a psychological/emotional dependency like anything else can. But you won't see people writhing in fits of withdrawal because it just doesn't happen that way.

So I do believe that marijuana addiction as this pervasive social evil is definitely conservative propaganda. I guess they can't focus on the more serious problems of painkiller addiction or alcohol addiction as their poster boys like Rush Limbaugh would then be contributing to the social evil.
It's easier to blame it on kids. I have to confess I find the marijuana PSA's hilarious especially when i think that I went to college with people that smoked every day and they graduated with honors, got great jobs and got into amazing grad schools. I could never smoke very much, though. It flared up my asthma.
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