Hello everyone and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.

So for today's episode, I'm going to talk about something sort of personal that I'm going

through but completely with the hopes that it could be used by others either immediately

or down the road or maybe you listening don't really relate but you know somebody else

who's going through it that might relate and that is centered around basic mental

health issues like anxiety, depression, etc.

Recently I've well you know first and foremost some may may not know but I've been a long

time marijuana smoker so all through my 20s, starting in my late teens, all through my

20s, I was a daily marijuana smoker and as I got older you know I just stopped doing

for me what it used to do as my spiritual practices got deeper I started seeing it more

as a chain, as a unhealthy habitual sort of compulsion more than the benefits you know

allowed for so like the negative started outwing, the benefits started becoming more conscious

of just wanting to not have to depend on any chemical whatsoever to get through the

day or you know like when you're smoking marijuana on a daily basis it can be really easy

like if you're just like in a bad mood to just erase that bad mood by going and smoking

right instead of dealing with the bad mood or maybe interrogating that feeling and seeing

what's underneath it etc.

So after a long time of smoking and then an extended period of time where there's attempts

to quit and the desire to quit was was ramping up.

I recently you know after the loss of our pregnancy decided that I'm completely done with

it completely and you know if you put something in your brain for 10, 12 years every single

day and then you take that thing away from your brain you're going to go through a process

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