Today's marijuana is many times stronger than the marijuana of even a decade ago; and with increasing potency comes increasing addiction and increasing social problems.

Marijuana addiction is real. Just ask the 15% of people entering a drug-abuse program that reported Marijuana as their "preferred" drug of abuse. To some, the growing number of people smoking pot may be distressing – primarily to parents, many of whom may have had some experience of their own with the drug. Yet, the times have changed. The plant and its consumption is not what it used to be back in the good old hairy days of Woodstock.