From the youngest age up to late last year, I’ve always been an anti alcohol, smoke, weed, etc person. It stemmed from knowing my biological father was a drugged up, alcoholic who spent years and years in and out of jail. Add the mental health predisposition to addiction, and I wanted nothing to do with it. I wasn’t for or against weed legalization but would never have tried it in a million years, just like alcohol.
I spent 42 years miserable due to stress, anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, and being bipolar. There was no relief from that regardless of how great things may have been going.
But for the past couple years due to all the increasing pain and issues from Young Onset Parkinson’s, I finally caved and got my medical marijuana card late last year. Because when you’re on so many meds and nothing is helping you have to turn somewhere. I avoided going to the dispensary. Then I avoided using what I had bought. Then I continued to resist it. Then early summer I gave in and wow the difference in mindset. While it only helps to a degree, pain going from 18 on the 1-10 scale down to 12 is awesome.
Don’t get me wrong, I still would want age limits and whatnot, but cannabis has so many benefits it should be more legal than alcohol has a right to be. At least when you’re high deadbeats are too out of it to beat their wife. Neither should include driving over certain levels. Neither should be used under age.
I need the pain relief but am not a person that wants to lose control of themselves or lose sense of reality, I don’t use it to get high. Just like if alcohol had pain relief, I wouldn’t be seeking to get drunk; but some days pain requires more and has its effects.
So for pain relief alone it should be more accessible. But then the mental benefits as well.
Even today’s **** storm ratchets down to the point I’m writing about weed, listening to Korn and not even thinking about it. So there is a mental health benefit as well. While you wouldn’t prescribe it for kids and send them to school with a Puffco Proxy, Davinci, or Vessel 510 battery, for the “of age” population it can be helpful. If research of it wouldn’t have been banned since the 60s, maybe we’d have microdose strains with specific terpenes to help in a clinical way without as many side effects as man made drugs.
So you get the medicinal benefits which have been proven time and time again AND you make the cluster **** the world is today a little chiller. I’m not ranting about a neo nazi fascist ruining democracy when I’m high. And Iowa State football games were a lot less stressful this year - not a single Apple Watch blood pressure warning. Maybe some others could benefit from that as well. And if there’s anything the world and Iowa State fans need most, it’s to be a little less stressful.
