Evan, you stated that you were sent to Whitmore because "your mother thought you were addicted to pot; and because you were defiant."
Do you think that you needed to be at Whitmore for 14 months to be where you are today?
You have a job, right? You seem to be getting along OK with your family, right?
Don't you think that having a bit of time to grow up could have brought about these changes without the drastic step of your parents placing you in a "treatment facility?" And that is what Whitmore was licensed as--a treatment facility.
It doesn't sound like YOU considered yourself a defiant pot-addicted teenager.
What really changed, except the fact that you grew up, and perhaps matured into a more responsible young man? That was going to happen with time ANYWAY.