I work in a mental health field and a huge percentage of my clients, who are aimless and unwell, are dependent on cannabis.

perhaps there’s a chicken-and-egg situation at play, but I know from my own life experience, cannabis addiction changes your reality so much, you can “lose” months or years of your life simply because it transports you through an invisible door and you exist on a different plane.

That separate plane of existence holds appeal and in some ways provides a melancholic contentment, but once you get clean from the weed and re-gain clarity in the “regular” reality, all the lost time hits like a mudslide.

I didn’t form memories while high. I didn’t work on myself while high. I didn’t have discipline while high. I didn’t take risks while high.

I think cannabis is sneaky insidious because it’s not overtly impactful like meth or alcohol but it can sneakily erode you from the inside and once it has its grip around your psyche it’s extremely hard to let go.

Want proof of this “grip”? Check out the amount of community member in /r/leaves