CREATIVE NON-FICTION

Is It Okay to Self Medicate for Queer Doom Scrolling?

I visited my first legal marijuana dispensary

Logan Silkwood
Prism & Pen
Published in
7 min readAug 10, 2022

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A man is trimming a large marijuana plant.
Photo By: Lindsay Fox, Title: “Trimming marijuana plant”, Platform: Flickr

CW: Drug addiction, mental health

Queer doom scrolling has been affecting me more than I had realized or acknowledged before arriving in Colorado and just feeling the relief of being here. Reading these stories…

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Logan Silkwood
Prism & Pen

I’m a polyamorous, non-binary trans man (he/him). I edit for Queerly Trans, Prism & Pen, Enbyous, and Trans Love & (A)Sexuality. Twitter: @logan_silkwood.