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The Person You Become When You Use Isn’t You. Here’s What’s Actually Happening in Your Brain

How marijuana can turn you into someone you don’t recognize and make you destroy what you love most.

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Cody Taymore
Oct 05, 2025
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I need to tell you something about weed that nobody wants to hear.

It doesn’t make you chill. It doesn’t help your anxiety. It doesn’t make you more yourself.

It makes you cruel. Impulsive. Reckless. It makes you say things that aren’t true and do things that aren’t you. It turns you into someone who hurts people you’d die for when you’re sober.

I know bec…

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