“Cannabis Allowed Me to Beat Alcoholism”

The internet is always a huge depository for great stories. Reddit has become an outlet for everyone that has found cannabis to be their salvation, the plant that has allowed them to break free from dangerous addictions that would otherwise have ended their lives. These testimonies are more important now than ever; they are examples of overcoming a problem that show the therapeutic and psychological properties of the plant.

Many of the stories recount how the plant helps people to overcome alcoholism. That of DenRec420, a resident of Colorado, is a good example. Aged 26, he was an alcoholic and had lived in a family where some fellow members suffered the same problem. Three months ago he acknowledged his illness and wanted to put a definitive end to it. The situation had reached crisis point: he suffered from insomnia, psychosis, and dissociative personality disorder which made him forget about important periods of his life, therefore his doctor warned him about a possible premature death.

Thanks to legalisation in the state where he lives, he has been able to access the cannabis that has allowed him to be himself again. He even works in a dispensary and says he is happy. Although still receiving treatment, others such as Trueself1 state that he has been drug free for almost a month thanks to the same procedure.

The story of 13goody13 is similar. He is 40 years old and has been battling with alcohol for more than 20 years. His addiction led to him losing lots of jobs and family problems, so he took the decision to begin smoking cannabis, even when faced with the lack of cooperation from those around him. He now says he is grateful to have found salvation through the product. “I would be dead without it”, he states.

Another of the stories being held on the network, Trueself1 explains that for 12 years he consumed Speedball, a combination between heroin and cocaine that took away his will to live. Since he began to consume cannabis, he says that he has been able to calm his difficult emotions and appreciate the “wonders of the universe” that he had tried to forget for more than a decade. He only smokes one cannabis cigarette in the afternoon and says that it is the most effective antidepressant. He knows because he has tried pharmaceutical products that did not help him at all and only caused annoying side effects.

These stories should be used as examples in order for governments to become aware, relax and definitively get rid of their prohibitionist policies. There are an increasing number of examples of the benefits that this plant has for those that most need it.