My experience was that weed made me accept not dealing with anything. It often made stuff worse but also allowed me to just accept that. It wasn’t fun and any claims of self medication was just an excuse not to stop.

After I did stop for a few years and actually dealt with my shit, I can now use weed guilt free. Now it’s actually nice when I use it because I’m not using it to lie to myself.

Most my stoner friends back then we’re like my pre healthier self too. That’s the problem with weed imo