Anybody else getting high today?

[mr.vang]

kids..

[stevofthahill]

Severely jealous of you guys. I used to smoke strictly for recreational purposes and to help me sleep but about four years ago I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. We'll just say it's a really shitty(no pun intended) chronic condition to have.

I'm not sure why, but it was only recently(back in december) that I had a severe flare up and finally discovered the medicinal purposes of marijuana. I hate to be a poster child, but I absolutely am one for the benefits of using medicinally. When I'm in a flare up and have severe abdominal cramping/pain/nausea smoking or vaping is the ONLY thing that will help me cope with the pain and give me an appetite.

Because of my condition, I cannot take conventional pain pills, prescription or OTC(i.e. NSAIDS fuck up my liver and cause ulcers, tylenol does nothing for me, and vicodin or anything else just fucks up my digestive system because of the codeine). But a single rip from my bong will INSTANTLY make the pain go away. I'm counting down the days until I can get my medicinal card and purchase it legally. Should be soon considering everything went "live" a few weeks ago.

Happy belated 4/20 guys, I think i might take a good rip from this tonight to have a good nights sleep.

[Killacortes]

yup. right now.

[Rsully70sev]

My sympathy goes out to you Steve, while my anxiety has nothing on your ailment, I definitely I know what you mean about taking pills, I know personally I don't like popping xanax and wasting my whole day glued to the couch. It really does take a toll on our health with adverse side effects. I'm glad you can find relief through a more holistic method.

Justin-You really in Petaluma?

[bsop]

Pulled my seats, found a roach infestation under the rear. Debating smoking them out.

[Justin B]

Yes sir! Lately I've been kind of camping at my shop in Novato though, it's right down the street from my full time job so its working while I build my 88is dd. Check out my project thread if you have not seen it...but yeah, my wrecked e30 vert is in my driveway in petaluma, at my parents house.

[stevofthahill]

My sympathy goes out to you Steve, while my anxiety has nothing on your ailment, I definitely I know what you mean about taking pills, I know personally I don't like popping xanax and wasting my whole day glued to the couch. It really does take a toll on our health with adverse side effects. I'm glad you can find relief through a more holistic method.

Justin-You really in Petaluma?

It really changed my outlook on everything regarding use medicinally. But I know it sounds all hippieish and shit, but I would much rather intake a natural substance into my body over any pharm drug any day of the week. I hate the "preventative maintenance" medicine I have to take daily to keep my flare ups and body in check.

It also helps me with stress which is a huge factor in my health. So for anyone that says "we're just druggies who want to get high" you can kindly go fornicate yourself with a large metal pole. Trade shoes with me for a day when I'm in the midst of a sever flare up and I guarantee your opinion would be swayed. In December, for all intents and purposes, I was a week away from being dead because my flare up was that severe. Couldn't eat anything because my body would reject everything...even water. It would reject it anyway it could find, whether that meant vomiting or being on the shitter constantly. After a two week dose of heavy antibiotics and a two month regiment of steroids(which I fucking hate btw) I was able to get my body back in check. However, the only thing that helped with any of these pain/nausea/vomiting symptoms was marijuana.

So to say I'm a little biased from first hand experience would be an exaggeration haha.

BTW any of you Cali guys gonna be in Pasadena for Bfest? I have a feeling a r3v smokefest should be in order

[Justin B]

Was going to, if my car was done. Not even close...

[Rsully70sev]

I really feel like your story should be documented. Really though, that's an amazing story, and a perfect example of it's medicinal properties. I applaud your will and good hearted spirits.

I really wish I would have had my car back by then, unfortunatly I'm restricted on driving at the moment. I would have brought a trunk full for us to puff haha. I wish Mesa wasn't six hours from San Diego, I'll be down that way in July.

Here's a few more pics, just took a donation for six ounces from the Green Cross. Enjoy

[JayDee916]

Pulled my seats, found a roach infestation under the rear. Debating smoking them out.

Dude my e30 has a chronic roach infestation too. If you smoke 'em out it attracts more.

[416stroker]

Here's a few more pics, just took a donation for six ounces from the Green Cross. Enjoy

Fixed

[Rsully70sev]

[416stroker]

dont need anyone getting in trouble

[Sensimillatech]

It really changed my outlook on everything regarding use medicinally. But I know it sounds all hippieish and shit, but I would much rather intake a natural substance into my body over any pharm drug any day of the week. I hate the "preventative maintenance" medicine I have to take daily to keep my flare ups and body in check.

It also helps me with stress which is a huge factor in my health. So for anyone that says "we're just druggies who want to get high" you can kindly go fornicate yourself with a large metal pole. Trade shoes with me for a day when I'm in the midst of a sever flare up and I guarantee your opinion would be swayed. In December, for all intents and purposes, I was a week away from being dead because my flare up was that severe. Couldn't eat anything because my body would reject everything...even water. It would reject it anyway it could find, whether that meant vomiting or being on the shitter constantly. After a two week dose of heavy antibiotics and a two month regiment of steroids(which I fucking hate btw) I was able to get my body back in check. However, the only thing that helped with any of these pain/nausea/vomiting symptoms was marijuana.

So to say I'm a little biased from first hand experience would be an exaggeration haha.

BTW any of you Cali guys gonna be in Pasadena for Bfest? I have a feeling a r3v smokefest should be in order

My sophmore year in high school my stomache began to act insanely strange. I was get sick back door or front door EVERY morning. I often got such bad cramping I would break out sweating and I was required to lay down. I was late for class everyday for the first 6 weeks of school until my stomache got much worse, I started getting sick more and more. I couldnt eat, and my stomache got so bad that I had to be put in home hospital for a year while I went through months of doctors checking out my stomache... I was accused of being anorexic, told I was malnuturished and told i was underweigt. After 14 months and many diets (no glueton or dairy, no spicy or junk foods or soda), blood samples, perscription drugs and mis diagnoses I saw a new doctor. My new doctor told me I had a severe case of IBS. The perscription drugs i was given by my old doctor gave me migranes, and werent even for what i had; they were for chrones disease. So I decided I wasnt going to take any medication and I was going to suck it up and just figure out how to deal with it by eating only certain foods. which worked, but all i ate was oatmeal, rice, chicken, and other really reallly plane food. So I got my diet down, and I went back into school. My senior year in high school I tried something I never thought I would try, I charged my first bowl. After my smoking we got carne fries with sour cream... now at the time, carne fries was a gaurentee sickness for me no matter what. I ate the whole order of fries, and I was 100% ok. I was amazed, so I started smoking secretly... and i didnt miss a single day of class since I started, my teachers asked me what I was doing that made me feel so much better and look so much better. I lost my pale color. Soon after, my mom asked me how I hadnt missed school in a month, this was unlike me, I had 26 absences in one semester. I sat my mom down and told her I didnt want her to freak out, that I didnt want to lie to her, and that i was trying to handle this the most responsible way i could (I was 17) and I told her. She was supportive so I went and got my med card so I wouldnt get shit on by the 5-0 for have a gram. I graduated at 6'1 122 pound, I am now 6'2 and between 145 and 150.

I still smoke, now I smoke multiple times a day and I have selected my major in college towards horticulture specilizing in industrial crop production. I want to own a few medical marijuana collectives that I could sell meds for a fair price at, that I would produce. There are people out there it helps, its just the amount of people who abuse the system mask the benefits. I use it for recreational use as well, but I use it for medicinal much much much more than recreational.

[z31maniac]

My new doctor told me I had a severe case of IBS.

Ugh, welcome to the club. I was diagnosed with that my 2nd year in college. It's amazing the way something like that affects your life (not that it's up there with Chron's disease, sorry to hear that steve, good friend of mine in college was diagnosed with it as well).

Thankfully I was able to get it under control without the use of drugs (legal or illegal).


Anyone scoffing at the medicinal use, with the anti-inflammatory/anti-convulsant compounds in the plant, it's great for many different symptoms. And to those who say, "They are getting high with it" I say, "So what?" Why should people who are sick or ailing be denied something that can improve their quality of life? Make them feel better?

I work with a woman who wakes up everyday and pops Vicodin for her chronic back pain from a horrific car wreck. Why is this deemed OK, but not someone who needs a joint to ease their pain, is not?

Read up on the history of drug laws, those of you that haven't.