There really isn’t much of a recipe for a broken heart. We all find our own tools, our own strategies, on a path that’s rarely straightforward… or easy. “Heartbreak is a life experience that you have to go through, no matter what,” says Florencia Alcaráz, journalist and columnist for ElDiario.ar, whose ongoing work about relationships, sexuality, and love in a post-feminist era will soon be published on paper. In that sense, can weed assist heartbreak? Could it pull us out of the doldrums of love? When we light up, is there life beyond love?
“I suppose a good way to survive heartbreak is to survive, right?” says Iván Chausovsky, a psychology graduate from the University of Buenos Aires and author of Aforrismos: A un click del amor (Aphorisms: Love a Click Away) and Amar es arder en preguntas (To Love Is To Burn With Questions).
“If you’re not seriously unwell, you get through it. They’re inevitable moments in life and, dare I say, essential. Analysts work a lot with angst. First, there’s the material issue, the loss of the other person. And then, grief moves: what did I mean to the other person? What did I lose? Did I lose something of myself? To me, in some way, grief is wonderful. But when we’re down bad, it’s really bad,” Chausovsky continues.
In that sense, the use of psychoactive substances isn’t always advisable. “I wouldn’t go so far as to say weed is a reliable ally in heartbreak. I find that vague, inaccurate, and dangerous. You have to think about the person, and the type of cannabis,” Chausovsky warns. “Weed doesn’t give you anything you don’t already have. It doesn’t make you better, it doesn’t pull something …
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Author: Hernán Panessi / High Times
