I'd recommend quitting entirely. You don't need it and it sounds like you can't help but have an unhealthy relationship with it. IMO like similar things, it's an amazing tool, medicine, and recreation, but it should be removed if it's getting in the way of your life.
I've gone through two weed periods in my life and while I did benefit from the perspective shift, during each period I began to suspect it was interfering with my goals. If you're not meeting your goals, you need to change things until you do meet them. Removing routine consumption of a powerful medicine that's known to affect motivation, attention, and memory (and differently for everyone which is why you can't trust anyone's "well, it works for me") seems like a natural thing to do.
Consider it an experiment and stop consuming it for 6 months while studying your progress on things that are important to you. For me, after about 8 weeks of ending my last "period," I began making progress on my goals in ways that I hadn't before. Weed made my thinking sloppy and I was stuck thinking rather than doing, exploring rather than exploiting.
Everyone that regularly consumes it thinks it's net-good for them (I certainly did). It's worth seriously considering that might not be the case for you and you cannot know until you take a long break and measure your experience.
I really think this is the ticket for me. I don't want to admit it but I think in my case, this thing used to serve me and now I am just having a hard time letting go. I say it helps me with........ But I don't know.
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this thing used to serve me and now I am just having a hard time letting go.
A quote that I first heard in the context of ~psychedelics but nonetheless can still be applied to other areas of life:
"If you got the message, hang up the phone."
I say it helps me with........ But I don't know.
It helps you with not taking full responsibility for your life, I would say. You seem to want to move on but you can only move on if you really want to. It takes courage to look forward and leave your past behind. Fear (of the unknown) is the weakness in all of us.
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This guide was really helpful for me, I would highly recommend it: https://www.uvm.edu/health/t-break-take-cannabis-tolerance-break
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Did you dream up SN on a ride along with the devils lettuce??
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I was free of the devil's produce by then. It was about a year after I took my forever break.
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Seems to have been the right move ser 🫡 we are all thankful to have your clear head working on this place!
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