My mental state has significantly improved since I started smoking weed, I can tell you that. Really helps to unwind after a stressful time at work, or when I've been dealing with the family's bullshit for a little too long. I also have clonazepam that I take, but I usually try to stay with weed, since it's safer and works better for me than Klonopin, cigs, or alcohol ever have. My mother only doesn't like that I smoke because it's illegal. Not cause it's bad, or wrong, or whatever, but because it's illegal here. If my Reefer Madness era mother can get over the weed hate, so can you mother fucker.
Excellent, Lesbunny!
Yeah, my dad wouldn't even consider it (for his cancer or for his pain) because it is still federally illegal, regardless of him having lived in a medically-legal state, and cannabis showing significant promise for treating/reversing the kind of cancer he had!
For me: in a matter of a year and a half, between hemp CBD (nowhere near as useful/functional as cannabis-derived CBD, as there's less cannabinoids and terpenes in hemp CBD), and more recently, medical cannabis, I have managed to eliminate:
7.5 of the 10mg of Norco I took every 6 hours (i.e. I still take 2.5mg every 6 hours)
ALL 1200+mg of Neurontin (for seizure activity)
ALL Valium and Klonopin (for PTSD)
ALL muscle relaxers (for back/neck spasms, as well as it giving an extra assist in sleeping more than 30-45 minutes at a time during the night)
And I do NOT spend my days high. The dose needed for me to do all this is lower than perceptible threshold for the cannabis high, or just barely touching it (which is good, because I don't actually like the cannabis high). But any high I DO feel is still far less brain-fucking than all those pharmaceuticals (in other words: I can think more clearly than I could with all that in my system).
A sublingual concentrate every six hours (2mg THC and 5mg CBD [extra 5mg CBD at bedtime]), and I'm good. Plus, UNlike the Neurontin (where the seizure activity just kept getting worse, needing more meds as time went on), the cannabis helps me recover more quickly after over-use of my brain. [For those who might doubt this: the US government took out a
patent on CBD
in 1985 for its neuroprotective qualities - yet still has kept cannabis "Schedule 1" which states there's "no medical use" for whatever is deemed schedule 1. Based on head injury studies on mice (can't ethically do it with people), if I'd had access to high dose CBD/THC IMMEDIATELY in the EMS vehicle or on being taken to the ER after my accidents, I might still be able to fucking work, or at least socialize in person or on the phone.]
An amazing fact? Once one's endocannabinoid system is tuned up, one actually needs LESS of the cannabinoids to get the same healing effects!
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