Weed the mytgurl!

I decided to go out with my husband to run errands regardless of how I felt. It was nothing special. We planned l to pick up groceries, cat food and cannabis. The stores we went to were close in proximity. I had been feeling dizzy and nauseous for the majority of the last few days and walking had become quite difficult. Once we arrived in the area where the stores were located my husband stopped in front of the cannabis store knowing that I had not been able to walk with ease for the last week. He decided to wait there instead of parking at the grocery store as I would have to walk a distance back. 

I picked up my cannabis order and made my way out of the store to our Jeep. I am slow and walk with a cane making me feel like an old lady, especially on this day. Once I opened the door to the vehicle to sit down, my daughter makes an angry remark about a couple of older ladies who had walked past me while making my way to the car. They were unpleased with my inability to walk independently, or so that is what my daughter thought. Her explanation: that they had glanced over at me disgustingly. I am not surprised by their ignorance and lack of kindness and empathy. I don't blame them if we are being honest. I am not here to prove to anyone but to my doctor that I have medical issues. To be honest, they were most likely upset about the fact that I walked out of a cannabis store. People simply don't care to know more about cannabis and its medical properties if they don’t need to use them.

 

I recently watched the movie "Weed the People" about young children crippled by life-threatening cancers. Once I saw the benefits these children had using medical cannabis, I realized how much we don’t know about cannabis. Here in Canada, cannabis is legal across the land. I am thankful for this freedom as it gives me the capability of functioning at approximately eighty percent of an average person's capabilities by being able to access cannabis and medical cannabis anywhere in Canada. I still have symptoms that do not change anymore such as the undying feeling that I will not make it to the washroom on time; and yes, there were times I didn't make it on time. I am in my forties so it's embarrassing and I feel a lot of shame when it happens. It’s also very funny and I laugh about it when it happens to help me feel better about myself.

 

During my search, I came across a video about an older man living with Parkinson's. He is learning to take medical marijuana to treat his daily tremors and other symptoms caused by this debilitating disease. Extraordinarily, he looks coherent and normal within fifteen minutes. I'm amazed that he was able to find a strain that worked for him. It took me more than a few combinations and varieties before I found the cannabis that worked for me. I also know which ones don't work by throwing me into severe depression and causing me some serious anxiety issues. No thank you. The biggest symptom that cannabis helps with is reducing my nausea and stimulating my appetite. I have been experiencing difficulty swallowing that started a couple of years ago. Since then, it has gotten worse. Shortly after I smoke cannabis, I can feel what I can only explain as a ball in my throat slowly making its way down and I suddenly feel the urge to eat. I also found that it reduces my sense of taste; which enables me to be hungry and eat something delicious without inducing the urge to vomit. Oddly, my sense of taste has been heightened and I must eat bland food such as bare toast or oatmeal with nothing in it.

 

I have tons of research to do on this since I noticed these stories are over five years old. The trend that I observed from watching these videos is that patients are having to teach other patients. This is a failure on the government’s part. These people should have had a medical professional with them when accessing cannabis and introducing it for the first time. The videos talk for themselves and this particular one, "Medical Marijuana Patients Have More Questions Than Answers on Treatment" came up while I was looking for other videos of patients free from symptoms. At the beginning of the video, you are introduced to a patient who experienced positive effects from cannabis use after her chemotherapy treatment. She said that when she went to the dispensary, she asked about cannabis’ interaction with her current medication, she was shocked when the dispensaries assistant did not know if the cannabis would interact with her medication and that it shouldn't be a problem. I was flabbergasted at the response she got. The video does indicate that some companies actually have a licensed pharmacist on hand but in the United States cannabis is still a Schedule 1; therefore making it difficult for companies to access government funding for medical cannabis and research on its potential positive and negative effects is not going to happen just yet.