I've seen more and more harrowing reports about American addiction crysis in the past several years, do you think that has or will have little to do with pot?
Yes it has very little to do with pot. The crisis is of opioids: painkillers prescribed by doctors a little too easily, and scores of people get addicted to these substances.
Not just that--a family of opioids which never should have been approved for general use by the FDA.
It's well documented, the shenanigans that the drug companies used to get these drugs approved, and to get doctors proscribing them for everything.