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Marijuana Addiction

Many of us have smoked pot back in high school and maybe in collage, at some point in time we just kind of grew out of it and moved on with our lives. This is the way most drugs are, some can use them for awhile and walk away and others can not get out of the grip of the drug and become addicted.

I know Pot or marijuana is considered the gate way drug and not something people really have a problem or become addicted to but everyone is different and many people do develop a strong addiction to marijuana. The stats below show the increasing amount  of people going in for treatment for marijuana addiction and the increase over the last 10 years.

From 1996–2006, the number of admissions to treatment in which marijuana was the primary drug of abuse increased from 192,918 in 1996 to 289,988 in 2006. The marijuana admissions represented 11.7% of the total drug/alcohol admissions to treatment during 1996 and 16.1% of the treatment admissions in 2006. The average age of those admitted to treatment for marijuana during 2006 was 24 years.

^Source Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration,  February 2008.

The reason for the increase has been speculated to the increased potency of the drug. Several new varieties of marijuana have come into the market in these years and the potency is as much as 100% stronger then it was back in the 70s and 80s. With this increased potency the possible addictive qualities and also increased.

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