Legal or Illegal, Cannabis Is Still Addictive
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Legal or Illegal, Cannabis Is Still Addictive
Dr. Pier Vincenzo Piazza: Addiction is a vague concept that is generally used to define a pathological drug taking. There are different levels of severity of this pathological behavior. The mild condition is mostly characterized by an escalation in drug intake that goes from a sporadic recreational drug use to a more sustained and regular drug intake. This behavior starts becoming a problem for...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2378-8763,2378-8763
DOI: 10.1089/can.2015.29004.rtd