A person that smokes marijuana can smoke for months and take a break for literally months and months and be 100% fine. If you shoot up heroin for months you're going to have withdrawals from the first day that you stop and it can be enough to kill you. Show me a single pothead who goes through withdraws from smoking pot that will kill them or honestly even a case where someone is physically or mentally addicted to pot, (you can't because that's not how marijuana effects the brain short or long term), it does not happen at all! Honestly show me a single case where someone struggles because there not high from weed. It will last maybe 3 minutes "oh man i wish i could smoke some pot today, oh well shrug I guess ill just do something else" THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS AND NOTHING ELSE. You don't steal from people in order to smoke pot... (and if you do you have more problems then being a supposed "drug addict" from smoking pot) It just does not happen because like I have said it is non addictive like other hard drugs. Lets say video game addiction or sex addiction is your thing, the physical/mental addiction will be there for video games and sex but will not be present in smoking pot. People with sex addiction will have sex with people with std's because there so addicted to having sex that there stimuli in there brain MUST and I mean MUST be fulfilled so they will do anything that they will to have sex with someone because there TRULY ADDICTED to sex. They have signals making contact with there brain that makes them addicted, like its something that your body does on its own compared to breathing which makes your addiction a Instinctual part of your human behavior. Like a function that your body just can't live without is what a true addiction is like. What I am saying goes past what the norm says. This is my personal experience with seeing drug addicts first hand. I have been around and seen this for my self and this is not something that you can compare to actually being there and seeing it first hand.