Calming Effect

Cannabis is famous for its calming effects, and as the world we live in grows ever increasingly more violent and horrendous atrocities create the news weekly, sometimes it feels that we all just need to calm down a bit. From covi19 stress to road rage and everything in between it seems the world is only getting meaner. Could this potentially be a side effect of life or a by-product? Is it from the medications we take to help us deal with life or what we eat?