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by Shindi 1275 days ago
> I have 1 - 3 glasses of wine a night to relax after putting my child to bed.

I'm sorry but I have to acknowledge that 1-3 glasses a night by yourself is a lot of drinking. I was the same way with weed. It didn't have any major affects on my life until I quit smoking and I realized my life was way better without it.

I'm some random idiot on the internet so feel free to ignore my take, but finding ways to relax without alcohol will make your life so much better.
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herbst 1275 days ago
We are going slightly off topic here, but may I ask how your life turned better without weed?

When Corona made availability a bit harder I quit last year for several months. But to my surprise I wasn't more productive, wasn't more focused all I got was getting more moody and easier to distact.

I came to accept that weed is self medication against my ADD and depression that works better than I actually expected.

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Shindi 1274 days ago
No worries, this really depends on the person and their smoking habits. I know for me I was smoking almost daily, using it to cope with founder stress in unhealthy ways, using it to run away from problems. For me personally, weed has the effect that it makes me super lazy, and that effect lingers for a couple of days, which made me more stressed.

Cutting weed definitely made me a ton more anxious for the first month, but after that I felt more motivated, more linguistically fluid.

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