Mental health and cannabis

"cannabis can reward by enhancing positive feelings and can also be relieving insofar as it can almost immediately take away the experience of uncomfortable emotions. But evidence-based psychological treatments of many psychiatric conditions involve the learning of skills to confront and engage with difficult emotions, not avoid them. If cannabis is being used to avoid uncomfortable emotions, thoughts and memories, then it can lead to the development or worsening of symptoms. In other words, repeated temporary relief from psychiatric symptoms by using acutely-mind altering substances is not therapy, and in fact, often runs counter to therapy." Scientific America