[dilap]

They exist.

Of course, there are lots of people who are totally happy w/ their consumption, and have no desire to change, and/or if they did have the desire, did so.

But people w/ problems really do exist. I've personally known people who wanted to stop smoking, but found it very, very difficult.

(I feel like these stories don't get heard as much because there's a popular perception of weed not being a "hard" or a "real" drug, and so you sort of get laughed at if you say it's something you have a problem with.)

[shocks]

What does w/ mean?

[pstuart]

with

[shocks]

Oh, okay. I genuinely thought it meant 'without'. Thanks for clearing up the confusion.

(I wonder if it was really worth trying to save those two letters?)

[dilap]

It's more a stylistic thing / linguistic tic than about the savings in characters. Without would be "w/o". Like, "I'm going to the dance, w/ or w/o you."

Or imagine an album titled "W/ or w/o you". Has a nice look to it. Also, check out the Google results for "w/ or w/o you". Impressive expansion on the part of Google.

(Edit: I originally said it saved three letters, but of course, that was me forgetting to count / as a letter. :)