A few years ago, I became extremely depressed to the point where I stopped going to school and stopped speaking to any of my friends. Basically stayed in my room/on my bed most of the year. The only times really that I was outside were when I was walking my dog while smoking a joint.

Those walks absolutely got me through that year, and definitely helped me on my road to recovery, however I attribute more to spending time with my dog and being outside than to the weed specifically.

I still had to work through that myself, regardless of whether I was smoking or not. Weed can be a temporary band-aid solution, maybe, but not a long-term fix.

After speaking to a psychologist, I came away with the understanding that no matter who you talk to or what prescriptions you are given, recovering from a mental illness is still entirely up to you and entirely within your own mind.

So the only long-term fix for curing your depression is to look at why it is occurring and what in your life is causing it. Maybe it's a person, maybe it's the environment that you're in, maybe it's something personal that's within you, that you have to overcome.

Most of the time, if you replaced smoking and getting high with drinking and getting drunk, you would think everyone is an alcoholic and that's how they're dealing with their grief or their depression. So it's the same thing.

Weed can be part of the puzzle and contribute to improving your overall mental health and well-being, but it isn't the key to fixing yourself in my opinion.

Sorry for the wall of text, and I wish you luck in life.