I am dual diagnosis. Recovery/ Recovered Alcoholic for twenty years. I have had slips on pot in sobriety though. Three months and stop for a year. A little here a little there. Stop 8 months. I am not re addicted to it but there is a potential for it. Actively using I was a pot head 17 years. In the end I would use it to try to quit everything else. That only worked so long because it didn't pack a big enough punch and tolerance built up. Back to drinking. So I think it could lead to harder drugs if it quits working. In my case anyway. Weed is kind of a grey area. If you say your addicted and wanna quit then I think you should. There is no big physical withdrawal from it. Some how you have to break the addictive pattern of the whole process. Thinking about it getting it, play with it, roll it, smoke it. There is one thread about alternative to MA on here.