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My daughter has an anxiety disorder. She's struggled with it all her life. The pharmaceuticals dispensed for this are dangerous, in my opinion, but she's had no tolerance for them anyway and at 33 she'd accepted that this might be her fate and she'd have to fall back on Vallium or Xanax for desperate times. Then she finally decided to try cannabis therapy. Friday night she had her first dose, using a vaporizer. Her anxiety level's been at 3-4 since then, with regular dosing. She says when she's home that's typically at a 6-7. This is in her "safe zone".
Today she made her first trip out of the house medicated. Not high, because this doesn't get her high at all, one of her prime concerns. She medicated before she went out. This is a repost from my grow journal. As you read this remind yourself that this protocol is illegal where we live. How insane is this?
Today she made her first trip out of the house medicated. Not high, because this doesn't get her high at all, one of her prime concerns. She medicated before she went out. This is a repost from my grow journal. As you read this remind yourself that this protocol is illegal where we live. How insane is this?
Update about the daughter's protocol.
My daughter lives in a world where she swims in a sea of anxiety. Her extreme sensitivity to any medications has made it impossible to find a maintenance drug to help her live with some relief from this emotional onslaught. I've know for years that cannabis might be the drug that would give her the highest quality of relief with the least amount of side effects. Finding out she was sensitive to sativa-dominant strains and possibly THC made it more challenging, but now we can choose from strains like the Criticals I'm growing, which are a balanced ratio of THC:CBD, reducing the euphoric effects while providing the medication in CBD form that we believe would be most beneficial to her.
The Med GOM 1.0 that she's testing out now can exceed that balance and come closer to 1:2 THC:CBD. The relief she's experiencing with this strain is nothing less than miraculous. She's offered to author her own testimonial on her day, but I'll tell you that she spent the morning traveling by bus to see her doctor, and then following up that trip with a grocery run through the local Target as she waited on the connecting bus home.
This is the point where we typically have me walk down to meet her so she can survive the trip through Target without a panic attack. She usually has one anyway, but at least I'm with her.
This morning, as she was preparing to leave the apartment and the tremors of fear began she decided to take her morning dose. Why not? She's confident now that euphoria is not a concern, so now she sees it as medication. What surprised her were things like the absence of her nervous sweats, which always start on the way down the stairs so that by the time she hits the streets there're beads beginning to run down her face. Her bus trip was non eventful. The visit with the doc casual and relaxed. By the time she got through the rest of her morning and was on that connecting bus on her way home she realized the prevailing attitude for her day out was not panic but an uncustomary nonchalance.
This is unbelievably good news for her mother.