And then I realized I liked weed a lot.

Thats when my desire to smoke weed started, and then I started smoking weed for a while.

And then started getting really dependent on it, and thats when I realized that I had to stop.

Justin Bieber

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I dont think its bad.

Its just that for me, it can be a dependency.

Biebers marijuana abuse was only one addiction he was fighting.

Hailey chalks up her husbands experience with drugs as how he self-medicated his troublesome issues with anxiety.

Biebers situation with drugs eventually became dire.

He put in the work to change, however.

Trading illegal drugs for antidepressants helped him get out of bed in the morning, he says.