So, Canada Oh Canada

Scrolling through Social Media this morning, I see an article Canada= 2nd Nation to Legalize Marijuana. It's CNN. Interesting how I've come to like CNN more so lately. The ones who will likely be coming here first, and seeing my ramblings, will already know this but... A little bit about me:
I have a brain tumor on my pituitary gland, caused my an accident. Because of this, and my pituitary gland not functioning properly, I've got a slew of other negative health conditions and issues since. Severe Chronic Pain is probably the one that makes life miserable every day my eyes are open.ha.ha.

I live in Wisconsin currently, and thank the gods, we just legalized CBD and it can be sold on the shelves. Anyone else live here or interested in looking this is my favorite spot, for a million reasons....but... its great Fresh Thyme Market and my personal recommendation, for other Chronic Pain sufferers, or anxiety, ect is Charlotte's Web. They sell the Chocolate Mint oil which is quite delicious, and Olive oil, however they just got Capsules in near me as well. They go up to Every Day Plus, which will do you very well, however I'd like to try their stronger version, as I think there's the potential that it might actually completely take the pain away. Which... Really astounds me, as the past few years I've not thought I'd ever say that.

If you haven't noticed this post isn't going the Recreational way, although I do love the occasional tolk. Growing up, typical teenager, ect, Most of us were getting high, or at least experimented with smoking pot. (dear god those people that say "using weed" or "doing pot" kill me) When I got older, as we all do, careers, jobs, life, family, it kinda dies out. It's not usually "I'm an adult and I have a problem with it" It's usually far more along the lines of life getting in the way, career paths that don't align with it, and things of that nature. For me, I got too busy, and I went on a cleanse of everything for a while including alcohol. I was attempting to reach a peak clean system, and as cost free as possible. (Unless your growing, over here, that shit is expensive)

Fast forward a couple years to Accident. Boom. Severe Chronic pain. Seeing doctors left and right. Lost my Job. Hospital every other week if not more. All they could do to help the pain and give me some sort of quality of life was opiates. (Well I had been down that route before and it wasn't pretty) Unfortunately I had no other options. So Throw me into Pain management, which allowed me to go back to some light part time work, but that sure wasn't paying the bills. Month after month, after month go by. I find myself having to take them more and more, and they were not having the same relief. At all. The more I took, and the higher they upped the dose, the more side effects I got. And I knew it had to stop when I started having withdrawals. My personality and mood had changed. I had the shortest fuse, and less than a hair pin trigger, and the pain was still there, still constant, and seemed to be worsening. (It's a thing, and most doctors know about it Look here) Unfortunately for people with Chronic pain we have little options. I just got so upset, and so disgusted, and told the Doctor, (Who was really nice and just trying to help) that I wanted off. So she was going to put together a plan to slowly ween me off. I said Fuck that. Cold turkey. I had been on them a year and a half. Wasn't pretty, but somehow the worst of it was gone in 2 weeks. (I'm not a DR, I do not recommend this at all)

Although I didn't really smoke anymore, I had been closely following the rise of CBD, and all of the good it had done for people. I've always been a supporter of at the very least legalization of Medical Marijuana. I mean c'mon REALLY- MARINOL has been out for YEARS. See. So the idea of removing the psychoactive chemical, THC, and using CBD as a medicine, or daily supplement. Why the hell not? (Different Rant, Different Day) So, here I go, back then it was still Illegal here in WI, and I'm on the website for Charlottes web, like C'mon last ditch effort. Order. Comes like anything else. And it Worked like a god send. I couldn't believe it. I still had pain, but Oh my god. I slept better. I woke up with more energy, my pain was more manageable, I could think clearer. And If I had a panic attack, I'd dose. It worked faster than Xanax or Ativan. And no ill side effects.

So, going back to how this started. Thank you Canada, for being on the fore front of Completely legal Marijuana. And America??? Don't be so greedy. We know you have dark secrets, and former drug ties. Give up the Ghost. People like myself, and much worse across the board can use this medicine. And also, recreationally speaking... C'mon ALCOHOL. REALLY. I'm giving you that "I'm disappointed in you" look right now. Legalize it. Tax it. Nuff Said.

Ta Ta for now.

-SM

It's been a while

This is going to be a multipurpose Blog, covering a variety of topics. I'll be cooking and sharing recipes, rambling, and there's also probably going to be a health theme in here. Politics, There could also be political themes.

 So, WARNING: This could contain healthy material. It could also be controversial. But it's my Blog... So... If you're not OK with that, Don't go further :p


-SM