Drugs

Say one night you get a massive craving for ice cream, but you have none in the freezer. The closest store is half an hour's drive away. If you decide to make the normally unreasonable trip to get ice cream, does that mean you're addicted?

Put that to an every day, hell, make it even every week, scenario, now does that mean you're not addicted?

I wouldn't want to argue semantics or psychology, because I'm no expert in neither fields, I just feel that something's off when one chases his craving consciously on a frequent basis. I'm not even factoring in the mental/physical dependence.

The ice cream example would most closely refer to spontaneity, which, as you suggested, is far from addiction. However, if you have ice cream more than 3 times a week with your buddies WHILE finding it tough to afford it yet choose to prioritize it anyway, yes I do think you have an ice cream addiction.

For example, I like computer activities. I engage in such activities frequently. I go out of my way (e.g: saving money to buy computer parts, delaying meals so as not to disrupt my on-going business, etc..) for such activities. I acknowledge I am addicted to the computer, to a certain degree.

I don't really mind how often, hourly even, anyone smokes; but to go out of one's way to keep said habit sounds like addiction to me, and attempts to excuse oneself from such accusations only strengthen my beliefs.

What boggles my mind is how NO ONE, ever, is addicted to weed. It's such a wonderful thing, it relieves your pain, physical or mental, it makes you feel awesome, it makes everything awesome. Yet NO ONE, ever, is addicted to it, to any degrees, including acceptable ones. Smells fishy to me, if you ask.