I Thought I Was Relaxed. I Was Just Numb.
I told myself for years that cannabis helped me relax. I believed it completely. I had exams, deadlines, social anxiety I hadn’t fully named yet, and at the…
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, most of…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
