I should be more diplomatic in my choice of words. In fact you could probably just insert the word "dependence" for every time I typed "addiction" and there wouldn't have been such polarizing responses. I tried to use the word 'addiction' in a context that it would perhaps not have all the baggage and stigma that comes to mind when thinking 'meth addiction'. Simple words are not boogey-men, but that's how people respond sometimes.

I meant that a weed 'hobby' is benign. It often doesn't require revision or prohibition and certainly not rehab, in the same sense that coffee dependence wouldn't require those things.

I also tried to de-segregate physical and psychological addiction. What does it matter what kind of an addiction it is? The point is what deleterious influences abound and how your relationships to people and to life are affected? Fortunately with weed, those are usually not even considerations.