| Marijuana addiction treatment is difficult for a number | | | | components. Marijuana is the only hard drug that stays |
| of reasons. If you are struggling to quit smoking weed, | | | | in your system for long periods of time. THC and its |
| it may not be your fault. There are a number of | | | | metabolites are fat soluble compounds. That means |
| different factors that combine to make marijuana | | | | that they remain in your fat tissue and stay there for |
| addiction treatment difficult. | | | | many months. That is why it is so hard to pass a drug |
| The first problem is the programs themselves. Most | | | | test on weed. |
| drug rehabilitation treatment programs are designed | | | | These compounds are also responsible for the lack of |
| after the Alcoholics Anonymous model. AA works for | | | | focus, mood swings, & cravings to smoke more weed. |
| some people, but for many more it does not. 45% of | | | | As you smoke more and more, the amount of these |
| 1st time AA members never make it to a second | | | | compounds stored in your body increases and you |
| meeting. 95% do not make it past their first year. This | | | | may begin to develop a tolerance to marijuana. You |
| recovery model is based upon the Christian | | | | will need to smoke more and more to get the same |
| Temperance Movement, which helped bring about | | | | effect that half a joint used to give you. This becomes |
| Prohibition in the 1920's & 30's. So the rehab program | | | | a vicious cycle that draws you deeper into |
| you are following may be flawed, & if you are a pot | | | | dependency. In order to break this cycle you will need |
| smoker the CTM may not be the best place to get | | | | a detoxification program to remove these compounds |
| your recovery model from. | | | | from your system. |
| Another problem is the strength of the marijuana itself. | | | | The final hurdle to marijuana addiction treatment is that |
| The marijuana you are smoking today contains twice | | | | smoking weed has become a lifestyle or culture that |
| as much THC as what the hippies were smoking in | | | | you have adapted your life to. Think about it, most of |
| the sixties. In fact, from just 2000 to 2010 the THC | | | | your friends probably smoke as well. You probably |
| content in marijuana has doubled. But most marijuana | | | | spend a good portion of your time figuring out where |
| addiction treatment programs today are relying on | | | | your weed is going to come from, and worrying about |
| information from 20 or 30 years ago that says | | | | keeping your pot smoking hidden from your family and |
| marijuana is not an addictive drug. It is not the same | | | | your employer. It has become a part of your life and it |
| drug now as it used to be. | | | | is hard to adjust back to the way you were. You will |
| The third problem for marijuana addiction treatment is | | | | need to change the way you think about marijuana if |
| the unique properties of marijuana's active | | | | you are going to quit. |