My First Week Quitting Weed: What I Actually Experienced
Everyone talks about quitting weed like the hard part is making the decision. Nobody really talks about what happens after: the first night, the third day, or…
Quitting Weed: I Had No Idea It Was Ruining My Work
I used to have a theory that I did my best work slightly stoned. Not blasted, just enough to loosen things up. I designed logos and brand identities, and I was…
Quitting Weed While My Partner Still Smokes: How It Actually Went
The first thing I noticed was the smell, the way you notice something that’s always been there once you’ve decided you don’t want it anymore. The flat smelled…
Quitting Weed at 42: What 20 Years of Daily Use Actually Cost Me
I wasn’t what most people picture when they think of someone with a weed problem. I had a career, a mortgage and a life that worked, at least on the surface…
Quitting Weed as a Woman: What Nobody Warned Me About
The morning I decided to quit, I spent about two hours reading everything I could find about what to expect: forum posts, Reddit threads, a couple of medical…
I Lost a Year to Weed and Couldn’t Name One Thing I’d Done
Around Christmas of my second year at university, I tried to remember what I’d done since September. Not highlight reel stuff, just anything: a conversation…
One Year Without Weed: Real Talk
A year ago today I smoked weed for the last time. I didn’t know it was the last time when it was happening, I just stopped after that and didn’t go back. My…
Quitting Weed After 15 Years Daily: One Last Joint, My Story
I started smoking at twenty-six and smoked every day for fifteen years. There was no crisis that made me stop, no health scare and no ultimatum. I just turned…
I Thought Weed Relaxed Me. It Was Emotional Numbness.
I told myself for years that cannabis helped me relax, and I believed it completely. Exams, deadlines and a social anxiety I hadn’t fully named yet all felt…
I Quit Weed and Lost Two Friends. I Don’t Regret It.
Marcus and I had been mates since we were nineteen, and Jay came in a few years later through work. All three of us smoked, and if I’m honest, that was most of…
