just to add a little substance to the gist of what junglen and exit said...if you're gonna be using a benzodiazapene like xanax for help sleeping or anxiety in place of weed, you should be informed and cautious or else you may wind up with a worse addiction on your hands. If you develop a physical dependency on xanax, it's really difficult to stop using (you can read numerous horror stories on the yahoo benzo group) and you'll have bigger problems becoming SNE!
Chec
this link for some natural sleep aids, and if you do go the pharmaceutical route, find a longer-acting benzo like klonopin (talk to an MD) and be very vigilant about dosage.
Anyway, I support all efforts to minimize/reduce drug intake and might move in the direction of greater sobriety in 2009 myself, although I find that making bets on the matter just complicates things.
And happy new years bitches, congratulations shaun ****ing deeb