Smoking marijuana to treat mental illness has the power to change lives
Julien is showing us around his family’s idyllic eco campsite, just outside Canterbury in Kent. He points out the fire pits for campers, rain-flushed toilets, and the glamping field that’s brimming with luxury teepees every summer. Then he sits down on one of the picnic benches, pulls out a baggie containing Girl Scout Cookies, a high-Indica strain of cannabis, and rolls a spliff.
As he sparks it, Julien explains how since the age of 15, this is how he’s tried to manage his mental health. Now 20, Julien has been entirely free of the self-harm, violent behaviour and suicidal thoughts that plagued his younger years. For the last 18 months things had been looking up. That was until he was arrested for cultivation and charged with intent to supply, which has thrown his progress into jeopardy.
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