THE PROBLEM IS: thinking that marijuana's a problem.

Before this guy (below) was into hard drugs, his parents had sent him to rehab, as an early teen, just because of marijuana (well, alcohol, too). Rehab is not somewhere you want to spend your early-teen years.

My son Jesse??s drug and alcohol use started around age 14 and by 15 he was smoking marijuana daily. He had no motivation and school fell to the bottom of his ??to do? list. We forced Jesse into treatment, however, it was a very short stay
Jesse in 10th grade.
and he was soon using again. Jesse also began using other drugs ?? you name it, he tried it.

By age 16 Jesse was using crack cocaine and shortly after became addicted to heroin. His life became a living hell and so did ours. I guess you could say we became addicted to our addicted son.

It sounds like they were addicted long before their son's addiction began.