[Biscanna]

What's most ironic is that drugs like Rimnobant, a cannabinoid, would be used to treat this "addiction". Yeah. You take Rimnobant and it fills your cannabinoid receptors and blocks psychoactive cannabinoids from entering. You couldn't get high if you tried.

As with anything that can give pleasure, there are a small number of people for any given substance that will abuse it, and they will have some issue as a result. Be it sugar, caffeine, adrenaline, masturbating, McDonald's or cannabis, statistically there will be few folks that can't handle all the pleasure-seeking. Ever been to the south after visiting the not-south? With respect, you'll see the result of a lot of pleasure-seeking and folks not being able to deal with it properly...in the form of an obesity epidemic. Other familiar forms are caffeine-rage/habitual asshole office behavior, guilt, depression, habitual thrill-seeking that leads to regular injury, etc. There are 12-Step programs for all of these people. It's human behavior - some of us will need help and the substance/activity is secondary, there are underlying issues. Point is, there are a handful of people out there that have a problem with pot and it escapes them. That's really unfortunate.

It's great to have treatment available to anyone that needs it for whatever reason. One problem is that this statistical handful of people end up being interpreted by mass majority folks that don't understand statistics or basic math. They read 68 people needed treatment for cannabis-coping issues last year and suddenly the voting consensus and public opinion is that cannabis will lead everyone down a dark road of addiction. The same folks never consider the reality of facts like, how many people choke on a glass of water and die, fatalities each year from taking aspirin, or licking a moldy sponge in the sink.