Freedom from Cannabis Addiction is a Grass Roots platform dedicated to the specific needs of people in recovery from cannabis addiction. Our intent is create a space for people to speak about the specific social and environmental aspects that affect our lives which is specific to socialization of women: as well as BIPOC and LGBTQI+ people. People who have a complex, variable predispositions for addiction; as well as specific environmental and social conditions which significantly affect women, and people who are BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+ as well as gender variant people.

Our goals for this platform is to write an anthology of stories as the foreground to addiction medicine research studies specific to cannabis addiction. Many people realize that specific underlying issues of trauma lead to cannabis use as our survival and means of coping. Predispositions for addictions are more complex due to specific social conditions including sexism, misogyny, racism, racial and ethnic trauma, anti-Semitism, ablism, lesbian discrimination, homophobia, biphobia, gender identity, gender dysphoria, and transphobia, etc. These issues have contributed to higher levels of depression, low self-esteem/self-worth, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, other mental health issues, learning differences, medical issues and/or disabilities. The disparities for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ people and women are often complicated by the outcast of society, families, and sometimes with-in their own recovery communities.