I use cannabis medicinally
I have had anxiety issues since I was a kid.
Seeing a therapist has helped me a lot, but I also used to take some medication to keep me calm. I was very excitable and prone to mood swings, and the pills helped to even me out. After a while I started resenting the flat, empty feeling the pills gave me. Was it better to have highs and lows, or just always have the same sense of vague nothingness inside me? I got off the pills, and started experimenting with medical cannabis instead, with rip-roaring results! The pills made me feel dull and empty, but on the other hand cannabis had quite the opposite effect. After a few tokes of cannabis I didn’t want to stay on the couch, I wanted to go out in the sun and experience the world around me. It wasn’t that cannabis altered my mind, it’s that it allowed me to stop worrying and stressing, and just enjoy the moment. Life is hard, other people are awful, and the future is uncertain, but when I smoke a little medical cannabis I can stop worrying about all of that, and have fun with what I am doing. With cannabis in my life I am more active, more social, not to mention I sleep so much better. I wake up feeling recharged and refreshed, and usually don’t smoke any more cannabis until later on in the day, or the evening. I don’t stay high all the time, which would make it less special, I just use cannabis medicinally, as it should be!