Using medical marijuana

It's been a year and a half now, since I have begun replacing pain meds with medical marijuana. All legal, with a license, blah, blah. It's taken the better part of that year to figure out how to grow, process, use, administer, control strength and dosage, etc., for my new medicine. As I was trying a new  marijuana recipe today, I thought perhaps I should share some of my recipes, experiences, successes, and failures, to help others trying to navigate the switch from fast-acting, precisely formulated pharma to self-grown nature's bounty with all the uncertainty that entails.

Here where I live, in Hawai'i, I received a license to use medical marijuana, like a prescription, from my doctor. All legal. But I couldn't buy pot or seeds or plants, because to buy or sell it is illegal (at the moment). But I can have up to 3 oz. If I can somehow get it. And I can grow up to 7 plants. If I can somehow acquire and start them. After somehow acquiring the raw material, I can smoke it, extract it, infuse it, eat it, anything except use butane to make hash with it. Any other hash reduction is ok.

But, if 64 with constant pain from arthritis and severe restless leg syndrome, I want to be able to move without as much pain, to be able to do things and be active. I don't want to sit in a laz-Z-boy and smoke just to be pain free. Therefore, I've learned many recipes so that I can reduce my plants to edibles, and experimented to achieve moderate doses. I plan to share some on this blog, so, as Rachell says, watch this space! Groan.

I forgot to mention...

The ACTUAL design on the Vera Wang shirt, which can really only be seen when the shirt is all smoothed out, which doesn't occur in nature, i.e., when being worn by a human, is composed of flowers, similar to hibiscus. Go figure. I still like it and will still wear it, regardless of what a cranky man here and there might think or say! Hehe!!!

Vera Wang- clouds or cow?

I really scored at a local clothing swap with this awesome Vera Wang design shirt:

I just thought, cool colors, cool design, long enough for leggings, lose enough for comfort, love art first sight! I wrote it to bridge the other day and a cranky old man called me a cow. He has said much worse in the past; but this time he was ungraciously referring to the print on my shirt. I shrugged it off, as I do most everything else he says, but as I took it out of the wash to hang up, I took another look. Now, I wouldn't really mind wearing a cowprint shirt, honestly, this looks more like awesome colored clouds! Dark, stormy and dramatic. I just don't get the cow feel here. Do you?

Heaven right here in Ka'u

Here I sit, eating fresh pesto plopped into some sour cream for dip with an assortment of veggies to dip for a light lunch. All from the local community garden. Delightful! (As I nurse my sore muscles - hey, that feels kinda good also!)

Keeping powdery mildew away

I've had lots of problems with powdery mildew. For the last few months, however, this product, purchased at Ace Hardware, sprayed on my plants once a week, has successfully kept my plants mildew-free!

I am

As I bask in the afterglow of intense healing and allow the chi to work within me,

I am

.            Both

Extremely vulnerable

.            And

Extremely strong.

As I go out into the world to meet friends, acquaintances, work, I reflect on how both states, together, are okay.