Well first and foremost i would like to thank the people who choose to visit and give me advice on this post as im not sure i will get it anywhere else.
Here is a brief history to help give you a better understanding of my thought process.
When i was five i was bending a fishing pole on the ground in my room. it snapped and as i was looking down at it shards of fiberglass rocketed into my left eye. After many surgeries it was decided that i would loose most the use of that eye. so for my entire life i would have only one working eye.
over the years my one eye tried to compensate for both and became rather strained as a result. my vision faded and obviously at that point i needed glasses.
after having had glasses for most of my life i was struck with another massive blow. I was in high school and was diagnosed with glaucoma.
The doctor explained to me that i would need surgery to try and gain control of the pressure that was slowly destroying what was left of my left eye.
I asked if there was any major side effects and was told their was not. so i got the surgery in my junior year of high school. Needless to say the doctor lied. I was left with a massive lump on my eye. and crippling pain most of the time.
Not only that but i was told later that i still would have to take massive amounts of eye drops for the rest of my life. and even then the pain continued.
As i graduated high school and found myself in the real world workplace (wildland firefighter) i quickly found that the manditory eyedrop usage and one a month eye doctors visits simply would not work into my life very well.
i literally would have to stop my life because of this bullshit. so i stopped taking my eyedrops.. stopped going to the eye doctor. and generally stopped worrying about my eye.
Needless to say i was under alot of pain for a while.. but it lessened after a few years. the pain was still very much present. just tolerable (i imagine my body simply got used to it)
Now that brings us to nearly current day. a few months ago (im 26) i decided to smoke pot for the first time in my life. i was never against it or anything like that. i was simply never really interested in it. but over the years my natural curiosity got the best of me i guess. I want to stress at this point i had literally no idea that it could have helped my medical condition.
So one day i tried smoking. Now the actual high itself was not what i cared about. It WAS THE RELIEF!!!!!! it felt like a huge huge amount of pain left my body. and for the first time in a long time my head actually felt free of pain.
I was even more surprised to find that this effect lasted until the next day.
At that point i was talking to my friends about how much it helped my pain and that is when they started telling me about its medical uses.
I naturally got curious and figured i would look into it.
Now i have never really done anything "wrong" in my entire life. i never have broken any laws and never been in any trouble. i never felt the need to really. i live by the book cause thats just the way i do things. I mean the prospect of coming here and asking this question almost makes me feel like the police are gonna beat down my door.
so for me the prospect of getting in trouble for pain relief really hung me up.. but like i said after much research i found that i can actually seek relief and not break any laws. and that makes me happy. hence why im now here asking.
So i guess my question is.. how do i get started.. i mean i live in northern cali.
and really want to get myself legal to smoke as soon as possible. Im sure my doctors have volumes of my medical records and i have a glaucoma implant card. im just not sure what i need or who i need to visit to make myself legit.
so thats it really. I would really like to get myself pain free and to me this looks like the safest and most convenient way for me to do that.
once again thank you for visiting this post and any information you can provide is more than helpfull.
Here is a brief history to help give you a better understanding of my thought process.
When i was five i was bending a fishing pole on the ground in my room. it snapped and as i was looking down at it shards of fiberglass rocketed into my left eye. After many surgeries it was decided that i would loose most the use of that eye. so for my entire life i would have only one working eye.
over the years my one eye tried to compensate for both and became rather strained as a result. my vision faded and obviously at that point i needed glasses.
after having had glasses for most of my life i was struck with another massive blow. I was in high school and was diagnosed with glaucoma.
The doctor explained to me that i would need surgery to try and gain control of the pressure that was slowly destroying what was left of my left eye.
I asked if there was any major side effects and was told their was not. so i got the surgery in my junior year of high school. Needless to say the doctor lied. I was left with a massive lump on my eye. and crippling pain most of the time.
Not only that but i was told later that i still would have to take massive amounts of eye drops for the rest of my life. and even then the pain continued.
As i graduated high school and found myself in the real world workplace (wildland firefighter) i quickly found that the manditory eyedrop usage and one a month eye doctors visits simply would not work into my life very well.
i literally would have to stop my life because of this bullshit. so i stopped taking my eyedrops.. stopped going to the eye doctor. and generally stopped worrying about my eye.
Needless to say i was under alot of pain for a while.. but it lessened after a few years. the pain was still very much present. just tolerable (i imagine my body simply got used to it)
Now that brings us to nearly current day. a few months ago (im 26) i decided to smoke pot for the first time in my life. i was never against it or anything like that. i was simply never really interested in it. but over the years my natural curiosity got the best of me i guess. I want to stress at this point i had literally no idea that it could have helped my medical condition.
So one day i tried smoking. Now the actual high itself was not what i cared about. It WAS THE RELIEF!!!!!! it felt like a huge huge amount of pain left my body. and for the first time in a long time my head actually felt free of pain.
I was even more surprised to find that this effect lasted until the next day.
At that point i was talking to my friends about how much it helped my pain and that is when they started telling me about its medical uses.
I naturally got curious and figured i would look into it.
Now i have never really done anything "wrong" in my entire life. i never have broken any laws and never been in any trouble. i never felt the need to really. i live by the book cause thats just the way i do things. I mean the prospect of coming here and asking this question almost makes me feel like the police are gonna beat down my door.
so for me the prospect of getting in trouble for pain relief really hung me up.. but like i said after much research i found that i can actually seek relief and not break any laws. and that makes me happy. hence why im now here asking.
So i guess my question is.. how do i get started.. i mean i live in northern cali.
and really want to get myself legal to smoke as soon as possible. Im sure my doctors have volumes of my medical records and i have a glaucoma implant card. im just not sure what i need or who i need to visit to make myself legit.
so thats it really. I would really like to get myself pain free and to me this looks like the safest and most convenient way for me to do that.
once again thank you for visiting this post and any information you can provide is more than helpfull.
