Most of the gentlemen in our family have struggled with clinical depression.
My Grandfather was a notorious alcoholic for more than two decades before he finally quit.
My uncle followed in his footsteps & is still drinking heavily to this day. Although our dad is a higher functioning alcoholic compared to his sibling, he still drinks to self-medicate. With all of this precedent in our family, almost everyone expected me to take up drinking at some point in time. However, when I first tried alcohol in college, I didn’t like it at all. It provided me the “spins” & made me really nauseous whenever I drank it. Instead, I preferred cannabis if I was given the choice of a single or the other to consume & abuse. I smoked so much marijuana in college that our friends used to ridicule me for it. But after I graduated, I slowly lost all of our weed dealers & finally quit once I had our first child. But now that wholesale cannabinoids are legal if they’re derived from hemp plants, I have a renewed interest in cannabis for medical use. The thing that stopped me from smoking cannabis bi-weekly was the constant sedation & lethargy. However, the new scientific processes in producing isolate extracts of numerous cannabinoids in the hemp plant has changed everything. Some of these cannabinoids can provide therapeutic effects with fewer disadvantage side effects. CBC is notable because it lowers depressive symptoms in users when it is taken in conjunction with other cannabinoids & terpenes. This entourage effect is exploited as a means of treating long term physical & mental health concerns.