Cassady, you’re spot on with how it affects the energy! You really know your stuff!
I use cannabis regularly in small doses for other reasons. And sometimes edibles, which REALLY heightens the telepathic/energetic link.
I don’t think it’s been a crutch for me. In fact, the heightened ability to identify energies between us (and in myself) makes it far easier to do so when there is no cannabis influence.
It’s like, off cannabis you’re on a noisy street. You can hear a faint melody playing, but it’s hard to hear. On cannabis you go into a quiet library where all you hear is that beautiful melody. You’re able to focus on the notes, how it’s arranged, and how it makes you feel. Then once off cannabis again you go back onto the noisy streets, but it’s much easier to identify the melody buried in the noise because you’ve become so familiar with the tune.
It also makes it easier to do the healing work for the same reasons, the ability decipher your own energies makes it easier to follow back to root causes.