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Exactly. So, essentially if you smoke too much weed and become comatose/near-comatose you will not be able to do anything other than lay on the couch. Which is how amotivational syndrom happens.. If however, you do not smoke yourself into a dysfunctional state you will avoid the perils of the amotivational syndrom.

I think there's a dosage where cannabis actually makes you more functional by making things more interesting and killing pain/anxiety.

I really think a lot of people misinterpret "weed is healthy and good" as "SMOKE AS MUCH AS YOU PHYSICALLY CAN ALL DAY EVERYDAY". And that almost always leads to dysfunction. At some point you will pass out or become paralyzed by hallucinations, so again, dosage does matter in functional vs non-functional addicts' cases.

And I should add that weed is very forgiving in this case, again, if you were to do the same "take as much as I can!" thing with Aspirin or opiates you would die. With weed, you just pass out and eat everything.

I really feel like many people do not know the basics of pharmacology or neurochemistry and try to make intelligent arguments based on hearsay and anecdotes. And it pisses me off a little bit. Omfg, seriously, there's a reason medicine is usually packaged in specific, very precise containers.

I think that's the whole reason hard drugs are illegal -- because people are mostly ignorant when it comes to drugs. It would be like giving chainsaws to 3-year old kids.