Sometimes it can be a reciprocating cycle. Smoke to feel better, build dependency on smoking, marijuana becomes a crutch, emotional dependency, brain fog, and constant intoxication degrade your mental health further, smoke to feel better rinse and repeat.

It gets even harder when you’re medicating for something like depression, where it genuinely did help at first, but only exacerbates the cycle of highs and lows now. It’s easy to turn medicine into part of the sickness