4. Substance Abuse
Unsurprisingly, the LGBT population is disproportionately affected by addiction and substance abuse. Even worse, there are very few treatment programs that are particularly welcoming or helpful to them.
While everyone’s journey to recovery is different, recent research suggests that cannabis can help curb drug addiction.
When these studies become more accepted in the mainstream and legalization follows suit, it will become one of the ways cannabis legalization helps the LGBT community.