Weed is literally 20x stronger than it was back in my day. It exacerbates any existing mental condition and people do become psychologically dependent on it.
This was the pharmaceutical-grade shit from the 'dispensary', two hits and I was a drooling monkey.
I used to get Thai stick in San Fran in the early 80's. we'd smoke some on the way to a Giants game in Candlestick Park and have to look at the paper the next day to see who won the game we were at!
In 1983 I saw Rush perform in Frankfurt with some frens...we had a blob of black Afghani hash. I have no recollection of the concert. It was probably great.
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