I enjoy watching this show because its real.  However, I have never seen an intervention on a person addicted strictly to marijuana.  Is it because the topic is too controversial, is it not considered a serious drug? After all this years can't this Emmy award winning show finally attempt to do an intervention on a person only consumes marijuana? I think it would be a very interesting episode.  

My favorit line is "Stoners spend a few hundred a year that could have gone in the retirement account. They don't put the mortgage up their nose." haha

It was the twin Italian boys. I think their names were Marcella and Sebastian.

They relapsed and started doing Xanax and heroin.

Stoned people don't beat up their wives. They look for their Pink Floyd album and Doritos.

I am sure the recovery industry would regard that as a progressive, terminal, and incurable disease, like they do with shopping, video gaming, and indebtedness, but it simply is not.

The problem is that marijuana is illegal in most cases. That gives the recovery industry ammo to spin their tales about its evilness, and does make it far more glamorous and enticing that it actually is.

Marijuana mostly is just an enormous time waster. People should be doing better things with the time they spend stoned.

Would you please cite sources of "big liquor" and exactly what they do to be "largely responsible for the illegality of marijuana"?

I would assume that you have some primary sources and are just not concocting a faith promoting rumor for the AA faith.

First of all, I don't appreciate the hostility.

Second the information is out there, do your own research. Look up the history of hemp / marijuana. Especially Willian Randolph Hearst's part in putting a stop to the hemp industry. Even today the tobacco, liquor and oil companies spend millions of dollars promoting the dangers of marijuana. Hemp is a danger to all their industries. 

Thirdly, I do not nor have I ever been a member of AA. I do not advocate for AA. I advocate for what works best for the client. If the client feels AA helps them then I help them find where meetings are being held and ensure they have ways to get to meetings. If they want AA, we offer a variety of classes stressing other methods of recovery.Most of the classes are about changing behavior, discovering the reasons behind addiction. They are all nonsecular classes and I never mention a higher power. If during group a client brings up God, that is their right just as other's rights to disagree with them. Makes for some lively groups.

And fourth if I was advocating for AA then I would be saying hoow evil and bad marijuana is. Instead I believe that it has many benefits and is actually far less damaging than alcohol.

Decon, sometimes you sound senisble and then you go off on a tangent and wind up sounding like Glenn Beck on one of his Nazi rants.

Anything... anything to get around to the same mantra of the dangers of the recovery industry. We get it already. How much do these sites pay you for the incessant plugging? I hope a lot because they're getting a lot of airtime from you.
Bravo Chinzak - nice response. BTW doesn't matter what you cite information wise though, the responding post will again be the same mantra. Oh they'll be direct changes to conform to answering your post but we'll get these sites shoved in our face yet once again. Anyway, right on brother. ~Peace