Drugs

It would be interesting to see research on how weed relievs pain or treats illnesses.

I've smoked a couple times to relieve eye stress and headaches. It's pretty good actually.

Used to smoke weed to cope with my depression. It helped.

I was ready to quit, as I didn't need it to feel happy anymore, but a friend called me up one night asking if I wanted a few hits of his shotgun bong, I was thrilled to be getting one last smoke in before I quit for good. Long story short, cops rolled up, caught us smoking in his girls car, we were "arrested", parents informed. That night I found out my parents are cooler than I give them credit for.

Lately I have been wanting to get back into it. I find it increasingly harder to be happy.

I find it hard to believe you actually felt happy and not more depressed as your regularity increased. Weed is naturally a depressor of the Central Nervous System and only leads to more depression. The only way I see it working is that in your depression you only felt you could cope with it when high.