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Well it seems your point is that you need cannabis to function. This alone doesn’t make it addictive. Needing it because you used it previously is the definition of addiction. Also the two aren’t necessarily always mutually exclusive. A pain patient could need opiates for an injury and at the same time be addicted. The case for addiction is generally that there is some actual withdrawal and for marijuana users that is not the case. A neat little study was performed wherein several habitual recreational cannabis users were gathered and administered regular doses of THC for an extended period of time in a hospital. Then all of them were administered a now banned drug named rimonobant, which blockades the brain and body’s cannabinoid receptors. The patients were then observed for symptoms of withdrawal and to the surprise of no one familiar with the drugs actual effects, none were noted. Not restlessness, insomnia, or irritability. I think a lot of people make the decision to abstain in times of change and stress in an attempt to be “all there” for important decisions or actions in life. Now they are facing trials, in many cases actual legal trials, without a stress reliever. That could be confused easily with withdrawal.