This is just a quick post to inform people in California who care about medical cannabis that there is now someone running for the U.S. Senate that has your concerns in mind. Dianne Feinstein has worked against the interests of sick people in California for long enough! Please vote for David Levitt on Tuesday, June […]
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This Would Be The Day That I Died
It’s exactly one year since I had a massive heart attack and double cardiac arrest (and no, I’m not originally from Gallifrey), which was triggered by food poisoning from some badly-stored sushi. Everything in my life (other than finances…oh well) has gotten better since then; even my outlook on life, but especially my health, since […]
Medical Marijuana and Dental Hygiene
No, using cannabis won’t rot your teeth. It won’t help your teeth specifically either. But some of us have developed poor dental hygiene practices. In my case it was due mainly to being unable to floss my teeth (NSFL alert) because of blood dripping down and causing the floss to slip out of my hands. […]
Of Cannabis Edibles And Overdosing
It has occurred to me that some people might just get the wrong idea. After all, I’ve written at least half a dozen stories here about various of my adventures involving overdoses of Medical Marijuana edibles, which left me in various states of highness, generally in the double digits (AKA “tripping balls“). I’d like to […]
World’s Best Instant Chicken Pot Pie: With Pot!
OK, I guess I’ve wanted to do this for over 40 years, so I can finally update my bucket list. When I was a teenager, my mother bought these little frozen thingies you could throw in an oven that were called “chicken pot pies”. Being recENTly turned on to all the hip lingo, I thought […]
Can You Smoke Like A Patient?
In my travels across the planet and the Internet, I’ve run across any number of people who smoke marijuana regularly and get high, but are using cannabis for what are essential medical reasons. In other words: social anxiety, panic attacks, insomnia, calming, chronic pain, depression, etc. If you’re one of these people, I believe you […]
We Are Patients, Not Potheads
(Note: This article is dedicated to LAD, who has selflessly helped me many times, in far more important ways than she can imagine; and to Norman Smith, a patient now facing death because a bunch of ignorant bureaucrats don’t know the difference between patients and potheads.) I use marijuana several times a day. Every day. But I am […]
Another Exciting Saturday Night At Old Hippie’s House
So there I was, heading for the refrigerator for turkey or something. I had been sitting at my desk for hours, quite focused on doing some writing and web programming, and I had forgotten all about that fun activity known as “eating”. This was bad, because apart from any of my other medical woes, I […]
Stoned Again…On Cookies
Make that the teeniest, weeniest little fragment of a cookie. I had been looking through the refrigerator drawer where I keep my baked goodies when I ran across a sealed foil package. I instantly knew what was in there, because I had acquired it at the 2010 Cannabis and Hemp Expo, but I had plenty […]
Old Hippie Tries Narcotics
Just kickin’ the old gong around… Seriously, though, I didn’t enter into this decision lightly or even for fun. It happened that a tooth I had a root canal done on a few years ago went “bad”, so now I had to endure (as well as pay for) an extraction on top of the “fun” […]