it was willies day

IT WAS WILLIES DAY

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last friday was willies day
4/20
he is so closely linked to this day
that i think he should just make it his official
birthday

looking at him though
i dont think he has many 4/20s left in him

im sure this year as he celebrated the day
he felt different about this one

the fda is about to or may have already approved
a new cbd product for use in folks especially kids
who have hard to control seizures

now cbd stands for cannabidiol
the ingredient in marijuana that doesnt make you high
but it has effects that are becoming important in treating
neurological diseases
like
seizures
anxiety
maybe some use in things like alzheimers disease
parkinsonism als ms
there is a lot of research going on with these diseases
and cbd

now old willie
he is a walking lifetime experiment of how this stuff
controls anxiety
that boy he aint anxious or uptight at all
proof
the cbd works
they dont need a better experiment than this

the new cbd drug is called epidiolex   
its an extract from marijuana
thats purified
then patented
so they get all the money for selling it
it went through the research and fda approval process

it apparently works
in controlling those childhood seizures that nothing else
will control

if you dont like this being approved
please crawl back under your rock

its a life changer for parents who have to watch their
kids have those seizures

one problem is
a month of the stuff will cost them or the insurance company
or whoever pays for it
a lot of money

$2500-5000 a month for the drug

i see folks figuring out ways around this
like
in states like california and colorado
i see folks figuring out in the medicinal clinics
how to get the cbd at a cheaper price

this stuff will cost more than my aducanumab for alzheimers
durg if it makes it to the market

somehow
this doesnt seem right to me

another thing willie will be happy about is the fact that
california now has legal marijuana in the state
in fact
willie will be selling his own brand here soon

the local cities the local counties the states
are excited for the increase in revenues
now
the feds should be excited also
since folks who grow market transport sell the stuff are all going
to make more money
pay income taxes
even investing folks and banks are starting to handle the money
and
yes they will make money they will be paying taxes
a lot of them

this is all money that before the legalization was not being
paid in taxes
millions and millions of dollars

a $50 purchase of marijuana will cost $61.93
thats $11.93 of taxes
like
7.75% local state and local sales tax
15% state excise tax
$1.15 state cultivation tax

thats all money that goes to taxes that werent paid before
you paid your dealer the 50 bucks
he paid no taxes on it
he paid no income taxes
all lost revenue

plus
some dispensary owners make over a million a year
paying state income taxes at about 6%
paying federal income taxes at about 30%+-

someone is making a killing off this
it seems to be the government is doing quite well for itself

so
i know willie celebrated on friday last week
4/20
hes stoked for sure

i will add
i know a lot of folks who use this stuff for medical reasons
like
anxiety chronic pain chemo side effects sleep nausea
appetite improvement neurological diseases like
ms als alzheimers parkinsonism seizures
just to name a few

yep
its time we all get on willies team
there is good to be had in all this

the organicgreen doctor

mary jane how youve changed

MARY JANE HOW YOUVE CHANGED

this is the best honey 😉

recently i was visiting an acquaintance who is a gardener
and
wanted my advice on some of his garden issues

now he has a nice system he uses for his garden
he makes his own worm compost
well the worms do all the work
by his recycling food scraps to the worms

inside he has a dark room from his old photography day
he has grow lights
he starts all his veggies from seeds

you know what else i grow
what i said
cannabis

he is a retired professional with a neurological disease
he raises it for his own use

as he was showing me his harvest in his baggies
i looked around suspiciously
listening for sirens
thinking
man he better be careful
he gonna get busted if he gets turned in
to the man

then
i remembered
its all legal here in california
you can grow 6 plants
only one can be grown outside
thus
the inside darkroom with grow lights

i guess its like a tomato
it tastes better if you grow it yourself
pluck it off the vine
eat it fresh
buying at the store isnt quite the same
so
i guess it is with
mary jane
ie reefer grass pot weed herb cannabis or mj

it must be better if you grow it yourself
its all fresh
it just is better i guess if its yours

i thought about all this a lot after seeing his garden set up

so
i decided to try the mary jane again for sleep
getting some from medical dispensaries that is for sleep
the dose is on the side of the box
1-5 at night 1-2 hours before bedtime
if you are a regular mj user you take 5 it says
if not if you are a novice
take 1-2
so
i took 1/2 at bedtime last night
since the night before i had a sleepless night

well
man on man
i went on a 6 hour ride
up and over and through and over and under
my dreams
it was like a super aricept dream
those vivid ones i get from aricept
just really accentuated
not violent or scary
just non stop
my brain was still going full speed when i woke up
this morning
in fact it was trying to get out the front door
when i reached out and pulled it  back

i slept for 7 hours
but
i sure as hell dont feel like it
i fill sedated like this morning

then
i got to thinking
you know what
i didnt even think about the interaction the mjs
thc and cbd probably had with my aricept (donepezil)

it reminded me of the interaction that the indian herb ashwagandha
had when i took it
it was the most godawful disturbing dream
so violent
that i have ever had
i slept a good 7-8 hours
but
i felt like what happened in my dream was real
it disturbed me for days
again it probably was the interaction of the ashwaghanda with mj

so
my guess is
that interaction with mj and aricpet(donepezil) is what will be
keeping me from using mj for sleep

dang it
just when it got ok to legally use it

i do hope
that our government will allow the research that needs to be
done on this drug
so it can be properly used in medicine
it seems to be useful in some neurological diseases
it may help slow down the progress of alzheimers disease
we know it helps with seizeures
chemo patients use it for nausea and for improving their appetite

this all seems sort of weird surreal in a way
that we can use it here but not say in texas or arkansas or mississippi

but
in the meantime
the law changed here
now the local governments will be getting a lot of tax
revenue from its legal sale
they got
zero revenue before
plus
they had to pay for all those folks getting thrown in  jail
costing us taxpayers millions each year

it all seems good to me

the organicgreen doctor