Hi Disclosure,

I don't hate pot in any way shape or form. Gummies, smoking, etc.. Several of my friends (and one niece) use gummies to calm anxiety, or panic attacks. One uses it for arthritis pain, and another is currently using it for chemo nausea.

To me, smoking is no different than drinking a beer, or taking a pain medication. It's good stuff. It just isn't for me.

I told the story of my friend because he experienced this with very strong pot. Perhaps it was the chemicals they sprayed on it? Who knows? He did test the theory (multiple times) and it would happen each time.

Lynda

PS Funny story -- My brothers would smoke a joint while walking the trails at my father's country house. It kind of backfired on them as several seasons later, the hillside was suddenly blooming with pot plants.

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I don't know what the sudden HATE for all things cannabis in
: recent months is, but I for one am fed the eff up with it.

: AND, do we REALLY believe anything the "American College

: of Physicians" has to say...?? Cmonnnnnnn...

: I've been a medical cannabis user since 2015 when it became
: legal in my state. I am in late-stage Lyme, survived a
: cancer diagnosis in 2018, and I use it for pain control and
: sleep. I never use it recreationally. I can't. It makes me
: sleepy and rather non-functional; what's the point of using
: recreationally if you can't function?

: That said, I've noticed an uptick in people claiming to have
: PSYCHOTIC EPISODES after using...what's the term...?
: "High potency"? "High concentration"?
: Yes, frens...THAT'S WHAT YOU GET WITH MEDICAL GRADE WEED.
: Illegal weed is often full of adulterants depending on
: where it's grown; it doesn't have the controls and careful
: cultivation that medical grade weed does. So if you hit a
: bong or do a dab or some shatter that has come from weed
: grown in carefully-controlled conditions so as to emphasize
: some aspect of potency (there are so many different THCs
: and CBDs that it'd make your head spin) and you're used to
: street weed, it's gonna hitcha different.

: It would appear to me that there are some novices out there
: trying medical grade for the first time and then freaking
: out because of the strength. Let me tell you...if it didn't
: have that strength, it wouldn't put me to sleep past the
: pain in my joints and back. And don't get me started on how
: strong it has to be to overcome the nausea brought on by
: breast cancer and treatment, which I had to endure for TWO
: YEARS. They make suppositories for just that kind of thing,
: to help when all you wanna do is barf and you absolutely
: cannot take a drag off your vape pen.

: Further, RSO (Rick Simpson Oil) is being credited for keeping
: my liver functioning while undergoing treatment. My doctors
: have told me to never, never run out of RSO. I take it
: nightly, prophylactically. After everything I've been
: through with Lyme, I can say with certainty that RSO has
: kept me from losing my liver.

: There are always going to be anecdotal stories about how
: someone "had a psychotic episode and had to go to the
: hospital." While I don't know these people, I do know
: their type: They're weenies. Also known as wusses, pussies,
: lightweights, etc. These people shouldn't use anything
: stronger than an aspirin for anything. And yet it wouldn't
: surprise me if they had a psychotic episode while indulging
: in THAT.

: My solution is to laugh at these people. They probably
: wouldn't know a psychotic episode if it hit em in the nose,
: and they somehow can't wrap their heads around the notion
: that MEDICAL GRADE WEED IS **SUPPOSED** TO BE STRONG. Hence
: the term "medical grade." The worst thing that
: ever happened to our state's medical cannabis laws was to
: allow recreational-use. It changed our dispensaries and
: gummed up the works; what used to be a pleasant experience,
: going in to a dispensary and getting one-on-one attention
: for current physical problems and which strains will
: address each one, is now an aggravating standing-in-line
: interminably, waiting on some greasy, slovenly bum-looking
: person to get their grimy bills out for their rec purchase.
: Ugh.

: Suggestion to those who can't handle med-grade: Stay off the
: weed. Just...don't indulge. Stick to your Bud Lite and
: White Claw. We who NEED medical grade weed in order to have
: a normal life with restorative sleep and liver protection
: do NOT need you infiltrating the airwaves & bandwidths
: with your fearmongering borne of wussiness. Just stay off
: it...and stop whining to anyone who will listen, because I
: fear that one of these days, they'll bend the ear of just
: the right person and there goes our ability to even
: purchase medical grade.

: ~A.