I Quit Weed and Lost Two Friends. I Don’t Regret It.
Marcus and I had been mates since we were nineteen. Jay came in a few years later through work. Both of them smoked. I smoked. That was, if I'm honest,...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Weed and Anxiety: How Cannabis Causes the Very Problem It Seems to Solve
If you use cannabis to manage anxiety, you've probably noticed that it works — for a few hours. What's harder to see, from inside the pattern, is what's…
Best Supplements for Weed Withdrawal: Melatonin, Magnesium and More
Supplements won't do the work of quitting for you, and they won't eliminate withdrawal. But some of them do make specific symptoms meaningfully easier to get…
Quitting Weed and Weight: Will You Gain or Lose?
When people ask about quitting weed and weight, they usually expect one of two things: either they'll gain weight because they won't be getting munchies…
I Thought Weed Helped My Anxiety. It Was Causing It.
I have two kids under five. My evenings, by the time they're both asleep, look like the aftermath of something. Toys everywhere. A sink full of cups. My brain…
Quitting Weed After Years of Heavy Use: What to Expect
If you've been smoking heavily for five, ten, or more than twenty years, quitting weed after long-term use is a different experience from what most articles…
I Quit Weed After 20 Years. No Big Moment. No Drama.
Twenty-two years. Every day, sometimes more than once. I worked in trades — plumbing, mostly — and weed was just part of the rhythm. Mornings before work…
Quitting Weed With ADHD: Why It’s Harder and How to Do It Anyway
If you have ADHD and you've been using cannabis for years, quitting weed with ADHD feels like a completely different animal than what most quit guides…
