Our Beyond Chronic interview with Laurel Dewey, author of the new novel Betty’s (Little Basement) Garden, continues as Laurel discusses (not) getting high on medical cannabis, a traveling propaganda circus, and her outrage at parents who give their children truly dangerous drugs. David Fiedler: So we’ve been sitting here for over half an hour talking about […]
Our Beyond Chronic interview with Laurel Dewey, author of the new novel Betty’s (Little Basement) Garden, continues with some of Laurel’s experiences with teaching and practicing herbal medicine, and details of how medical cannabis is practiced in Colorado. Old Hippie: I think in a lot of ways, it’s everyday people like Betty who will discover medical […]
A while back, someone came up with the clever title “Super Size Me” and made a film about what happened to their body and health after eating nothing but McDonald’s for a solid month. Then Doug Benson riffed on that with “Super High Me” and got blitzed out on marijuana for a month with absolutely […]
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 […]
Readers — especially readers — you’re in for a real treat over the next few weeks. About six months ago, a mysterious individual started writing to me here on Beyond Chronic, making some very astute comments on some of my posts. We eventually began corresponding by email, and sharing our knowledge and love of cannabis. She […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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” […]
Cannabis, used as a medicine, is unlike most other medicines. Not just because it can help people with so many different conditions, not just because a bunch of ignorant or corrupt politicians have been insanely suppressing it for 75 years, but because it’s absolutely necessary for the patient to take an active role in his […]