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Cannabis is the addiction the rest of the world tells you isn’t an addiction. The doctor smiles, the friends shrug, and the person using it tells you with absolute certainty that they could stop tomorrow, sometimes quitting for forty-eight hours to prove it before using the proof to carry on. Modern strains, resin and dabs are nothing like the cannabis their parents may have tried.
The most common shape of it is what’s missing rather than what’s there. There aren’t always crises, just an absence: the person you knew retreating into the same chair and the same routine, with sleep, motivation, anxiety and presence quietly changing, and in harder cases paranoia and a person you no longer recognise.
The posts below are from people supporting a loved one with a cannabis problem. Some are parents whose adult child has stopped showing up to their own life. Some are partners trying to articulate what’s wrong when nothing looks dramatic from the outside. Some are people who used to smoke themselves and saw something in their loved one that worried them in a way their own use never did.
Reading these won’t make the situation simpler. But it can help you stop second-guessing whether your concern is reasonable.
Hi I feel so alone, this is the first time I’ve written about this, my son at 16 started college and also started cannabis, he’s 19 now and I am at a loss, his room is dirty and messy, I have refused to clean it anymore, he knows not to…
First time here Son (33) addicted to Cannabis, has a wife and 2 children, rents his home. We, my husband and I (not his father) have bailed him out financially more times than I can count. He has lost jobs although currently in work. The…
Long post, apologies in advance…. Most of last year was consumed by worry about my 21year old son’s use of cannabis (and other substances). It came to a head in September when he became borderline psychotic. This terrified him, and over…
Living at home. Spends all his universal credit on cannabis and then is in debt again to dealer before he gets his next money. House rule is don't bring it to the house and don't smoke it in the house. He keeps smoking it in the night and…
My daughter has come bac k home after being in a long term. Almost 2 years relationship, which she discribes as emotionally abusive. We lost her 24 year old brother my son to a cocaine overdose in 2024 which has had a devastating effect on…
Finding every day a struggle. Our son is 19 and adopted as a baby. He has severe ADHD and is not working. He is getting more desperate each day for cash to buy cannabis. I am his appointee for DWP and Universal credit. I'm thinking of…
Hi I am reaching out to see if there are any support groups in the Manchester area. My son had adhd, currently not taking g medication as he is no longer doing apprenticeship and is just smoking weed. All communication between us is…