Do you want a higher quality of life? Use Cannabis Daily Says New Brazilian Mental Health Survey

It turns out that in a recent study, habitual cannabis scores far better than non-users in terms of quality of life. The study came from Brazil, where they conducted a cross-sectional study with 7405 participants. 89% of them reported being cannabis users, while 11% were non-users. Within the cannabis group, they divided them into smaller groups, such as “habitual users, occasional users and problem users”. Participants completed an online survey that checked things like their well-being, anxiety levels, and depression scores. Approximately 17% of the participants said they were occasional users, 64% were regular users, and 7.7% said they had a problem with weed.

Here is an excerpt from the abstract of the current study;

Most of the participants were young male adults with at least a high school diploma, employed and without children. The highest quality of life scores were observed among habitual cannabis users, followed by casual users, while both non-users and dysfunctional users had lower scores. Subjective measures of well-being were higher in habitual and casual users than in non-users, with dysfunctional users being the most affected. Poor quality of life, depression, or anxiety were more common among dysfunctional users, but non-cannabis users reported more symptoms of depression or anxiety and a lower quality of life than both casual and habitual users. The results obtained in this study are particularly relevant as they relate to a sample composed predominantly of habitual cannabis users from the general population, a group rarely represented in other surveys. The fact that cannabis use is generally associated with an increased risk of negative health outcomes was not observed in this study. – SOURCE

In other words, the study concluded that people who smoked weed regularly had a higher quality of life than those who didn’t smoke. This is an interesting find, especially since cannabis use typically affects quality of life – or at least it was the basis for maintaining prohibition for so long. However, this study indicates that the habitual – unproblematic user assesses life more positively than the non-smoker.

Does this mean that smoking weed improves your quality of life?

It definitely can! However, if that’s why you smoke, you probably won’t find what you’re looking for. Most of the people who smoke weed use it either as a recreational activity or as a medical protocol. However, you don’t look at the grass and say, “Ah, that’s my luck!”

They may say that cannabis helped them reach X, Y, or Z – but the ascription of happiness is their own life and what they make of it. Cannabis users tend to be more active than their non-smoking counterparts. Maybe it’s because your endocannabinoid system is running at full speed, even if it’s phytocannabinoids that keep things running smoothly. Perhaps it’s because of this endocannabinoid harmony that they have more urges to get out and do things.

We still don’t know – but what we do know is that cannabis users, on average, have a lower BMI than their non-smoking counterparts. This suggests that cannabis is somehow affecting their metabolism or that they are more active. Further studies will show this at some point in the future. For now, we can only judge the data that we see.

Cannabis helps paint a better picture of every activity you engage in. Smoke enough weed and doing the dishes will be a fun thing to do. Lots of people exercise on grass, others do creative things. Most people who smoke weed don’t smoke “just weed”. These are things teenagers do. Adults, on the other hand, use cannabis as a supplement to everything they do.

This could be something that nonsmokers don’t. They don’t have the “pre-workout tooke” to get them into the right mindset or the “let’s bong some creative stuff” to get the juices flowing. Of course, everything I say here is a guess. But as a passionate smoker for more than twenty years, I can speak from experience. When I had to do things I didn’t want, a few puffs from a pipe could lift my spirits and let me trudge through the mud.

Well – as I mentioned earlier – you won’t find happiness in the grass, but you will find that it helps you chase the things that make you happy. If you smoke weed to fill the void, you may find yourself chasing an empty high that masquerades as meaning.

Weed reduces stress and anxiety

The most obvious explanation for why habitual cannabis users have higher perceptions of quality of life than non-cannabis smokers is that cannabis has anti-stress and anti-anxiety properties. Not to mention the THC euphoria, but the mere fact that stress and anxiety are reduced would have an overall effect on the perception of quality of life.

Habitual smokers also tend to be in a habit of consuming. They know their bodies, they know when to smoke cannabis and how much. People actually start smoking less cannabis than more over time. I know a lot of heavy cannabis users in their youth who now only smoke occasionally at the end of a hard day or even a week.

As you get older, you start to change your priorities in life, and sometimes cannabis slips behind “doing important things”. However, if your back is knotted from a stressful week, this sweet golden train can definitely make some anxiety and pain go away.

In fact, I’d argue that existential fear is probably one of the main reasons people smoke weed in the first place. Life can be tough at times and we often face challenges – a little weed will only take the edge off the tough times so you can focus on the essentials as you move on.

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