A Facility Giving Marijuana to People With Addiction Has Had a Major Shakeup After It Felt ‘like Walking Into a Cloud of Smoke’

The treatment was unconventional. People addicted to everything from alcohol to opioids were given the option of using marijuana to help deal with withdrawal symptoms from their former drugs of choice. But nearly a year after the facility, a Los Angeles-based rehab center known as High Sobriety, opened its doors, a consultant to the operation started to notice problems. "It was like walking into a cloud of smoke," Sherry Yafai, the facility's new clinical director,…