Regular Marijuana Users Score Higher on Quality of Life Tests Says New Study

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Regular cannabis uses scored the highest quality of life points on a new mental health study
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Reginald Reefer, today at 12:00am
It turns out that habitual cannabis scored far higher on a quality of life assessment than non-users in a recent study.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022395621007123?via%3Dihub) The study came from Brazil
where they conducted a cross-sectional study with 7405 participants. 89% of them claimed to be cannabis users where
11% were non-users. Within the cannabis group, they divided it into smaller groups such as, “Habitual users, Occasional

Users, and problem users”. The participants answered an online survey that checked for things like their well-being,
anxiety levels, and depression scores. Roughly 17% of participants claimed to be occasional users, 64% habitual users
and 7.7% considered they had a problem with weed.
Here’s a snippet from the Abstract of the actual study;
Participants were mostly young male adults, with at least high-school education, employed, without children. The highest
scores for quality of life were observed among habitual cannabis users, followed by occasional users, while both non-users and
dysfunctional users presented less favorable scores. Subjective measures of well-being were higher among habitual and
occasional users than among non-users, whereas dysfunctional users were the most affected. Poor quality of life, depression
or anxiety were more prevalent among dysfunctional users, but non-users of cannabis reported more depression or anxiety
symptoms and less quality of life than both occasional and habitual users. The results obtained in this study are particularly
relevant because they refer to a sample predominantly composed of habitual cannabis users from the general population, a
rarely represented group in other surveys. The fact that cannabis use is generally associated with increased risk of adverse
health outcomes was not observed in this study. - SOURCE
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022395621007123?via%3Dihub)
In other words, the study concluded that people who smoked weed regularly had higher quality of life scores than those
who weren’t smoking. This is an interesting find especially since cannabis use is typically said to decrease quality of life –
or at least this was the basis for sustaining prohibition for so long. However, what this study points out that the habitual
– non-problematic user views life in a more favorable light than the non-smoker.

Does this mean that your quality of life will increase if you smoke weed?
It certainly can! However, if this is the reason you’re smoking you probably won’t find what you are looking for. Most
people who smoke weed, use it as something they do either as a recreational activity or a medical protocol. However,
they don’t look at weed and say, “Ah, this is my happiness!”
They may say that cannabis helped them achieve X, Y or Z – but the attribution of happiness is their own life and what
they make of it. Cannabis users tend to be more active than their non-smoking counterparts. Perhaps it’s because their
endocannabinoid systems are running on full, even if it is phytocannabinoids keeping things running smoothly. Perhaps
it’s because of this endocannabinoid harmony (https://cannabis.net/blog/medical/amazing-facts-about-your-
endocannabinoid-system) that they have more drive to get out and do things.

That we still don’t know – but what we do know is that cannabis users on average have a lower BMI’s than their non-
smoking counter parts. This suggests either that cannabis somehow influences their metabolism or that they are more
active. Further studies will reveal this at some point in the future. For now, we can only judge the data that we see.
Cannabis does help paint a brighter picture on any activity that you are doing. Smoke enough weed, and cleaning the
dishes become a joyful thing. Many people work out on weed, others do creative things. Most people who smoke weed
don’t “just smoke weed”. Those are things that teenagers do. Adults on the other hand use cannabis as an enhancement
to whatever they might be doing.
This might be something that non-smokers don’t do. They don’t have the “pre-workout toke” to get them in the right
mindset or the “let’s do some creative stuff bong” to get the juices flowing. Of course, everything I’m saying here is mere
conjecture. But as an avid smoker for more than twenty years I can talk out of experience. When I had to do things I
didn’t want to do – a few tokes from a pipe could lift my spirits and let me trudge on through the muck.
Now – as I mentioned earlier – you won’t find happiness in weed, but you will find that it helps you to pursuit the things
that make you happy. If you smoke weed to fill the void, you may find yourself chasing empty highs posing as
significance.
Weed Reduces Stress and Anxiety
The most obvious explanation for why habitual cannabis users have a higher perception of quality of life than non-
cannabis smokers is because cannabis has anti-stress and anti-anxiety properties. Not to mention the euphoria of THC,
but the mere fact that there is a reduction in terms of stress and anxiety would have an overall effect on the perception
of quality of life.
Habitual smokers also tend to have a routine in consumption. They know their body, they know when they want to
smoke cannabis and how much. People actually begin to smoke less cannabis overtime rather than more. I know of
many heavy cannabis users in their youth that now only occasionally smoke up at the end of a hard day of work or even
a week.

When you get older, you begin to prioritize life differently and sometimes cannabis slips way in the back of “important
shit to do”. However, having that sweet golden toke when your back is in knots due to a stressful week can definitely
melt away some anxiety and pain.
In fact, I would argue that existential anxiety is probably one of the major reasons why people smoke weed in the first
place. Life can be hard sometimes and we are frequently faced with challenges – a little bit of weed just takes the edge
off the hard times, allowing you to focus on what’s important as you push on through.
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