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<blockquote data-quote="toughlovin" data-source="post: 411459"><p>This is my personal opinion, somewhat based on my own experience. I am not and have never been addicted to alcohol or drugs. (Food is a different story). So I think it depends on the person and on the substance. I think a person who has a tendency towards addiction to drugs or alcohol, the substance may not matter. So I doubt my son can drink or smoke pot in moderation, although he may think he can. BUT I do think there are many people who can drink or smoke pot in moderation. I am one of those people. At this point in my life I don't do any drugs and I rarely drink but sometimes I do. My husband used to have one drink in the evening every night, not a problem. Then due to some weird health issues he had to stop drinking alcohol altogether. It was not a big deal at all for him to stop. </p><p></p><p>So I think certainly alcohol and pot can be used moderately. I think maybe cocaine can.... this is from my own observation and experience 30 years ago... way before crack and other methods of using cocaine were around. At that time cocaine was not considered addictive. </p><p></p><p>Howevery I don't think drugs like heroin, meth, crack, etc. can be used moderately. They are highly addictive. I also think once you are to the point where you are using drugs that hard core you probably already have a serious drug problem. My son was using other drugs besides pot, such as painkillers, but he was not to the point where he needed detox so in his mind he was not addicted.....but he had a serious drug problem and was certainly headed in the direction of hard core use that would require detox eventually.</p><p></p><p>So I can see people saying they can't "handle" their alcohol or maybe pot use. I can't see that comment being made about heroin or meth.... I am not sure anyone can "handle" those.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toughlovin, post: 411459"] This is my personal opinion, somewhat based on my own experience. I am not and have never been addicted to alcohol or drugs. (Food is a different story). So I think it depends on the person and on the substance. I think a person who has a tendency towards addiction to drugs or alcohol, the substance may not matter. So I doubt my son can drink or smoke pot in moderation, although he may think he can. BUT I do think there are many people who can drink or smoke pot in moderation. I am one of those people. At this point in my life I don't do any drugs and I rarely drink but sometimes I do. My husband used to have one drink in the evening every night, not a problem. Then due to some weird health issues he had to stop drinking alcohol altogether. It was not a big deal at all for him to stop. So I think certainly alcohol and pot can be used moderately. I think maybe cocaine can.... this is from my own observation and experience 30 years ago... way before crack and other methods of using cocaine were around. At that time cocaine was not considered addictive. Howevery I don't think drugs like heroin, meth, crack, etc. can be used moderately. They are highly addictive. I also think once you are to the point where you are using drugs that hard core you probably already have a serious drug problem. My son was using other drugs besides pot, such as painkillers, but he was not to the point where he needed detox so in his mind he was not addicted.....but he had a serious drug problem and was certainly headed in the direction of hard core use that would require detox eventually. So I can see people saying they can't "handle" their alcohol or maybe pot use. I can't see that comment being made about heroin or meth.... I am not sure anyone can "handle" those. [/QUOTE]
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