When I wrote the article about my first year as a medical marijuana patient, it got the attention of the folks at The 420 Times, and they had their feature writer do a (really cool, IMHO) interview with me, which you can read here. (Yes, I know I write for them, but the coincidence of […]
Yesterday I made a post on Reddit commemorating my first full year as a medical marijuana patient, and referred readers to an online copy of The Marijuana Papers, a book written by David Solomon in 1966 and which has been long out of print. This book was instrumental in convincing me to try marijuana in […]
Today marks twelve months since my first legal toke (as well as a year and a day since my first post on /r/trees). Status: Depression: gone Arthritis/Body aches: gone High blood pressure: gone Anxiety/panic attacks: gone Snapping at people for no damn reason: gone Side effects noted: happier in general, high sometimes, feel younger almost […]
Q: What methods of smoking worked best for your depression? What caused you to turn to cannabis for help with your depression? Any tips? A: What got me to try cannabis was literally a throwaway remark from a friend of mine about how I lived in a MMJ state. That made me snort with derision because […]
Well, here’s the way I see it…and no disrespect to anyone who “just smokes to get high”…because there’s nothing wrong with that… If I was just smoking because it was fun or I liked to…it’s really no different than anything else you like to do (movies, drinking, concerts). If you can no longer afford it, […]
I’ve been pretty depressed for longer than I care to think about, and I’ve been through quite a litany of drugs that either made me more depressed or took so much of my energy that I was sleeping 16 hours a day, which is almost the same thing in effect. Then someone gave me the […]