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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Leah Willingham

They relied on marijuana to get through the day. But then days felt impossible without it

APTOPIX Cannabis Use Disorder Users - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

For the past several years, 75-year-old Miguel Laboy has smoked a joint with his coffee every morning. He tells himself he won’t start tomorrow the same way, but he usually does.

“You know what bothers me? To have cannabis on my mind the first thing in the morning,” he said, sparking a blunt in his Brookline, Mass., apartment. “I’d like to get up one day and not smoke. But you see how that’s going.”

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