The Training Session That Made Me Quit Weed: An Athlete’s Story
It was a Tuesday in October. I’d trained that same circuit every week for two years. I knew what my legs should feel like at the halfway point, what my lungs…
Weed and Testosterone: What Cannabis Really Does to Your Hormones
Questions about weed and testosterone come up regularly among men who use cannabis, and the research, while not as clean as headlines suggest, does show…
My Relapse After 6 Weeks — and What It Actually Taught Me
Six weeks clean and I thought I had it. I didn’t have anything. I just hadn’t been tested yet.
How Weed Affects Your Memory: Short-Term Effects and Long-Term Damage
Anyone who has used cannabis regularly knows the feeling of walking into a room and forgetting why. Or losing a thought mid-sentence. The relationship between…
30 Days Without Weed: The Journal I Never Planned to Keep
I didn’t plan to write any of this down. I just started typing on my phone when I couldn’t sleep and then I kept going. By the end I had something close to a…
Weed and Sleep: Why Cannabis Ruins Your Sleep Quality Over Time
The relationship between weed and sleep is one of the most misunderstood aspects of regular cannabis use. Most people who use cannabis to sleep feel like it…
Quitting Weed Changed My Life — But Not the Way I Expected
I didn’t have a breakdown. There was no rock-bottom moment where I looked in the mirror and decided to change. I just stopped. And then I waited for my life to…
I Quit Weed for My Kid. Then I Realised It Was Also for Me.
My son is four. He’s the kind of kid who notices everything. What you’re wearing, whether you seem distracted, whether you actually laughed at the thing he…
Does Weed Cause Depression? What the Research Actually Shows
If you’ve used cannabis heavily and regularly and you’re wondering whether it has something to do with the flatness you feel, the low motivation, the sense…
What Nobody Tells You About the Second Month of Quitting Weed
Everyone warned me about the first month. The sweating, the anger, the not sleeping. I braced for it and it came and I got through it. By day thirty I was…
