If you are a drunk or a drug user coupled with Cognitive behavioral therapy, weed can be helpful to save your life. If you run from emotions though thats another story. They promote smoking it because it kills your brain. Its been a month and a half after 20 years of using it near daily. I am literally retarded. If you need to use it, Juice it or eat it raw. Thats the way it is heals the nations. The master jesus healed others with the holy anointing oil, which contains fragrant cane aka Kaneh Bosom. Cannabis. It seems to be why he was killed. Only the priestly caste could use it, he decided to help the poor. Cannabis cures cancer. It is medicine. Smoking is not medicine. If you can control or moderate and its a religious in moderation can be good. I have addictive personality disorder, I obsess and compulsively use substance to alter my emotions and have no control. I cannot safely smoke pot. Its nasty anyway. Smells like shit when its burning. Juicing, eating the fresh leaves and buds best way to get medicine. Rick simpson oil cures cancer and keeps you young. Edibles are to hard to judge for it to be feasible. Best rush I ever had was a gram of good hash consumed and not decarbed at all. Better than any shot of drugs I took. In the end you can not overdose on it, so if it helps do not stop. If it stops working try reality.