On living with cannabis
Natasha AKA The Healthy Hashhead is a writer and nutritionist with more than seven years experience writing about cannabis with articles published in Cannabis Business Times, Merry Jane, Ministry of Hemp, Sensi Seeds and more. Today, she’s on a mission to rewrite cannabis stigma with hard questions, education and creative solutions.
Her cannabis journey began 30 years ago when she discovered hash was a gateway to her imagination. As a young writer, it served as a vital tool for creativity. However, like any young user, she often abused cannabis, using it to run from responsibilities, anxieties and life. But a lack of access kept her use in check. Her binge-drinking was more of a problem.
This changed when she quit alcohol in 2014. Then cannabis became a crutch, a conduit for sobriety. But it wasn’t enough to burn up excess energy. So, she joined a gym. What followed next was a ten-year journey into the world of fitness and nutrition that transformed the relationship with her mind, body and soul.
Though she’d integrated cannabis into a healthier lifestyle, she still had questions, chief amongst them, could she live without it?
In 2017, she started writing for the cannabis industry, hoping to find like-minded souls who also had questions about their use. Instead, she found people who celebrated daily use. At first, the lack of judgment was a breath of fresh air, a license to use as frequently as possible.
She started cooking with cannabis in 2018, making breads, muffins and cookies, learning how to use it to treat her irritable bowel syndrome, curing her worst symptoms, belly bloat and constipation.
In 2021, she certified as a sports nutritionist to help spread knowledge on healthy ways to consume cannabis, asking what healthy use of cannabis looks like. By 2023, she learned that for some people there is no such thing as healthy use.
Today, she understands that cannabis is not for everyone. And while she supports a legal marketplace that makes access easy, she knows it’s dangerous unless it’s also accompanied by education and guidelines that outline why, when and how to use cannabis.
On The Healthy Hashhead, she provides that information from the perspective of a 30-year veteran user and industry insider, drawing on her struggles to inform her insights and sharing tips on how she changed her relationship with cannabis.
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