i relate to this all too well,

however, this doesn’t mean that all of us (stoners) are lonely and depressed and move states just to get our next fix

This is what a co worker (his name is mike by the way and i just wanna say from the bottom my heart fuck you mike) said about Stoners today at work and i was pretty offended, being a dad with PTSD, anxiety, depression, OCD, chronic insomnia, and ADHD (yah i’m pretty messed up, officially diagnosed with all of these conditions too) I can honestly say weed has made me the dad i always wanted to be, I talk to my kids, make them laugh, they learn good life lessons from me and i’m always at any event of theirs, i support them in whatever they do and non of this would be possible without weed, before i would stay copped up inside afraid of flashbacks or anxiety attacks in public, I was afraid i’d mess up with my kids, i wouldn’t sleep and honestly felt like an alien living in my own household, had my friend from college not finally convinced me to try cannabis i genuinely believe i would’ve taken my own life by now, it is still an ongoing struggle my wife knows i smoke but it’s scary, i don’t want my kids to think of there dad as a druggy with a ton of problems i want them to see a perfect role model, a hero almost (and yes i know every hero has their kryptonite but i refuse to let my kids see me in a negative light like this) and what also scares me is that where i live i can still be arrested for this, i can lose my job, i can lose my kids, i can lose my car, everything. gone. Psych meds only made me worse, counseling didn’t work, cannabis saved me and yet it’s not recognized as a saving tool rather s tool of destruction that turns people into lazy, fat, useless druggies who eventually move onto heroin and kill people (yes it’s insane that people still think this) and yet i know that, atleast in my case and from stories i’ve heard from others, over a million people too have found true relief and help in this plant

If my kids weren’t in school and my family didn’t live so close, i would seriously consider it time to move to Cali and ditch these shitty virginia laws and coworkers

TLDR: Weed Good, Laws Bad