Dec 15, 2021
Tackling the complex (but necessary) conversation about cannabis and mental health can get difficult, but it's a topic Jay Shifman is passionate about. He's the founder of Choose Your Struggle, a platform dedicated to ending the stigmas surrounding mental health and substance misuse and promoting honest and fact-based education. In this episode, Jay gets candid with his mental health struggles, and the way stigmatization makes the journey to recovery that much harder. On the flip side, he also talks about his recovery, his organization, and how cannabis has become a part of his self-care routine. Jay discusses the changes he’d like to see concerning drugs in society, and the way we can do a better job navigating the conversation moving forward.
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