Hiya Sue,
My grandmother had Alzheimers and now my mom is in the throes of the same....it is an insidious and heart breaking disease....it's not a question of if with me, more likely a question of when....I am heavily researching the info out there in hopes of proactively treating myself in advance...any info that you can reveal would be much appreciated.....
Shawnee, I can give this course to any someone I choose, free of cost. If you'd be interested PM me. I'll need an email address. I'll be putting together the course info and starting a new thread dedicated to it. In your own case, I believe your own protocol (I'm assuming you have one?) should be sufficient to keep your brain safe. This is the disease that frightens us more than just about all the rest, eh? To lose the ability to recognize loved ones and feel safe and secure in your own skin......... Yeah, let's do what we can to put a halt to this one.
Again, there are a number of courses I've paid for that I can gift to individuals. Anyone interested simply needs to contact me and we can work it out. We're trying to spread the word that cannabis isn't something we should fear, but something we should embrace. We're doing that one class, one student, one friend at a time until the perceptions have finally changed.
There's a great phobia in some aspects of our western culture about things that make us feel good- ie- sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Medicine is medicine. And medicine should taste bad. It's all good till it makes you feel good, or at any rate- 'too good', then we start to frown upon it. Kind of what got us into this mess and turned cannabis illegal in the first place.
Well put Weaselcracker.
Weisel,
I just signed on a new patient, 79 years old, with no experience with cannabis....extreme pain...administering dry gel caps....in sitting down no feelings of the cannabis but pain relief is achieved....until he gets up....trying to balance this is a real challenge....really want this to be a positive experience....
May I ask, are you using a high CBD strain with him? My daughter's gained significant pain reduction, closer to "pain elimination" when she's medicated properly, which is all the time with her capsules, with no adverse effects to her sense of balance. We use a 1:1 up to a 2:1. The 2:1 works well for breakthrough, using a vaporizer. Three tiny inhalations does the trick with amazing consistency. The 1:1 caps are her maintenance protocol, and they're doing over 90% of the workload now.
I'd always equated the THC as the necessary component for pain relief, and it's turned out to be the CBD that works most effectively. If you think about it, that makes perfect sense. The majority of the aches and pains we develop as we age are due to inflammation and oxygenation, both things CBD counteracts. Of course, we now know that it's the synergistic interplay of cannabinoids and terpenes from the whole plant that gain us the greatest advantage for healing.
This is one BIG argument along with cigarettes.
That is what it is all about..
I love to see when people are willing to try!
So do I AngryBird. So do I.
There are some ideas about human nature that play into these thoughts and might explain some why we sometimes fear 'the good thing'.
We, as living creatures on this planet, are driven at a very core level by the basic desire to thrive and survive. For millions of years this programming has been beaten into us and every one of the creatures we evolved from. Even when we were single celled organisms flagellating around in the goo, we were living in a world that imposed this core lesson upon us. Only those of us that learned the lesson best survived to impart those lessons into our offspring both biologically and socially. These concepts have developed over the eons along with the brain size of some crazy overgrown mammals to form what we currently refer to as 'humans'. Then, those crazy mammals use that oversize brain to form something more than a pure reactionary based system of behavior and try to apply that new 'thinking' bit to the world around them... including themselves. Of course, they currently seem to be working on some of the first versions of this configuration.... perhaps the first one tried on the planet, so there appear to be some basic challenges remaining... one of those challenges being dealing with the remnants of their previous reactionary based system.
My strange rambling point being that we have some basic biological programming that needs to be controlled or contained less they cause us damage. Alcoholism might be an example of this. The general rounding of humans when high fat diets are available might be another symptom.
So... maybe the 'great phobia' is a necessary thing. Maybe. I suspect the ages will have to answer the question in our stead. It might be better to shed the reactionary behavior traits... or it might be what's keeping us on the planet.
Man, the garden's being well appreciated this morning!
We're stuck in survival mode. We figured out how to survive, for the most part. It's time to evolve past that to the stage where we realize that the whole purpose of even being here is to love and be loved in return. Then we can treat each other like the extension of ourselves and the cosmos at large we really are and stop these petty power plays our species seems hell-bent on perpetuating.
Good morning everyone. It warms my heart to wake up and discover scintillating conversation going on in the yard.
Let me roll out of bed now.
Well, there's that too. Lol!
Do they travel well.....