I’m sorry to hear about your dad, but I’m glad that it’s working for him!

I felt the same exact way as you until I was put into a situation where I had to use for medical reasons myself, and started studying neuropsychology in Uni (honestly, all epileptic medications are like lobotomies in pill form and are ancient; I’m still taking an anticonvulsant, it’s one of “the newest ones” & was discovered in the 70’s in Japan, Zonisamide, and they don’t know even know how it works/its’ method of action, but studies back up its efficacy in epileptics). It’s the only one I can tolerate and even then, the side effects suck.

I still seize on it sometimes like I seized on every anticonvulsant, but adding cannabis seriously reduced the number of seizures I have (some made my seizures worse..), but this drug I’m currently using is also prescribed off-label to celebrities in Hollywood for quick weight loss as anorexia is common side effect.. it’s also referred to as “dumb drug”, as it literally makes you forget words and shit mid sentence sometimes. I literally don’t get hungry anymore unless I smoke, I weigh 130 pounds, and I work out pretty much daily. I couldn’t gain weight if I wanted to. Most Pharma pills are the devil imo lol.

But even recreationally, I can understand it every now and again - I honestly do think it’s more healthy for you than alcohol through all my research - seriously look at fMRIs of alcoholics vs controls, it’s scary what drinking long term will do to your brain in 5-20 years. Even if you don’t think you’re a heavy drinker. It turns your brain into a shrunken sponge that looks dehydrated lol. Two or three beers a day for 20 years will affect you.

It’s ironic to me how the most dangerous drugs (cigs and alcohol) are legal. It’s a well known secret the natural drugs are usually the safest (some can kill or harm you like nightshades or cocoa) which is why I brought up the poppy plant too - it’s so stigmatized, but that only happened after the Harrison Narcotics Act (which stigmatized cannabis too - hemp can be used for so much, from medical purposes to building structures, to making paper or even clothing, cannabis was an economic problem and even after the act was passed, presidents and other powerful folk were still allowed to grow cannabis on their properties whereas it became the “devils lettuce” for the rest of the population. Thomas Jefferson owned cannabis fields, and in his diary would write about drinking opium tea before bed while reading as part of his routine).

The upper class felt the poor were too stupid to have access to opiates and it would affect their work production (even though it wasn’t, this is all in that medical textbook chapter I just linked you to), so it was only available to the rich or upper middle classes, and it still is that way even with restrictions in an “epidemic”.

The worst thing about the poppy plant is how addictive it is, and how hard it is to quit once addiction has formed. But other than that - no long term brain damage, outside of the rare case where you have a heavy user using hard opiates like heroin or fentanyl, which even then, only caused a slight shrinkage in the frontal lobe which is theorized to be responsible as to why addicts will steal from and betray loved ones (the frontal lobe is important for judgement and decision making as well as many other things). But after remission, opiate addicts can return to a normal life and be happy again after time. The same can’t be said for meth, cocaine or alcohol/benzo addicts who literally fry their dopamine/GABA receptors.

God did I get off topic. lmfao, sorry for the essays, I could talk about neuropsychology for days.

But I doubt m7 is a heavy cannabis user lol, it’s pretty rare. And those who are, usually have a lot of things they’re self-medicating for.