One drug that isn’t used more frequently is marijuana, and that exception is revealing. Unlike cocaine and opiates, marijuana is not a drug of escape or euphoria. Marijuana merely intensifies what you’re already feeling. PMS feels bad, and a drug that intensifies the feeling isn’t going to be attractive. Moreover, marijuana doesn’t produce the same sort of addictive cravings as nicotine, alcohol, cocaine, and other drugs, so a lessening of overall self-control wouldn’t make a marijuana user more vulnerable to those kinds of temptations.
