Is Marijuana Addictive?

The evidence clearly indicates that long-term marijuana use can lead to addiction, but are there negative consequences?

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Stay tuned for Does Marijuana Cause Health Problems? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Does-Marijuana-Cause-Health-Problems) next, but I have a whole treasure chest of cannabis videos that are going to be dribbling every month or so until the end of 2019. If you want to see them all now, I put them all in a DVD (http://bit.ly/cannabis_webinar).

Here’s the last two I did: The Institute of Medicine Report on the Health Effects of Marijuana (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/The-Institute-of-Medicine-Report-on-the-Health-Effects-of-Marijuana) and Researching the Health Effects of Marijuana (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Researching-the-Health-Effects-of-Marijuana).

Speaking of parallels with the tobacco industry, check out:
• Animal Protein Compared to Cigarette Smoking (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/animal-protein-compared-cigarette-smoking)
• American Medical Association Complicity with Big Tobacco (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/american-medical-association-complicity-big-tobacco/)
• Big Food Using the Tobacco Industry Playbook (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/big-food-using-the-tobacco-industry-playbook/)
• Collaboration with the New Vectors of Disease (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/collaboration-with-the-new-vectors-of-disease/)
• How Smoking in 1956 is Like Eating in 2016 (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-smoking-in-1956-is-like-eating-in-2016)

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