These statistics are woefully misleading. The Leading study the NSDUH is talking about didn't even have a user bracket set up for those that smoke once a week. Also known as the minimal use bracket which make up an estimated 12-15 percent of the smokers. This leads to the heavy users bracket or those that smoke every day in large amounts to throw the results of the entire test. The issues that are described for instance psychological addiction normally only happen in this heavy user bracket, or imagine this, people that abuse the substance. The fact of the matter is you have to be heavily misusing cannabis in the first place to even become attached to it unlike every other scheduled one drug. ( with the acceptation of lsd ) We don't punish everyone in the united states that drinks because alcoholics exist. Why would we go punishing cannabis users when the only people getting addicted are misusing it. I shed no tears over people that smoke the ridiculous amounts of the heavy user bracket and then get "mentally addicted"