Welp. This definitely explains why I quit cannabis cold turkey out of the blue last month. Just woke up and was like “I’m good.” It was my favorite way to escape until I stopped wanting to escape and I wanted to build a world around myself that I don’t need to escape from.
I wanted to not drink, but I was wracked with nerves and just needed to pass out. Ugh, it is SO FUCKING BORING to talk about this shit. Maybe people wouldn’t get so addicted to things if they knew how fucking tedious it was. Did D.A.R.E. cover this? A substance problem is the opposite of crazy drama and destruction. It’s like being a hamster on a w
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I explained to her that any drug that stimulates our reward pathway the way cannabis does has the potential to change our brain’s baseline anxiety. What feels like cannabis treating anxiety may in fact be cannabis relieving withdrawal from our last dose. Cannabis becomes the cause of our anxiety rather than the cure. The only way to know for sure i
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