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i am a family physician who was diagnosed with
early mild cognitive impairment(mci) amnestic type on december 21, 2010
this is a precursor to alzheimers disease
because of this diagnosis i have opted to stop practicing medicine
this blog will be about my journey with this disease
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Showing posts with label weed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weed. Show all posts

Monday, January 29, 2018

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

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

weed eater

WEED EATER
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since it was illegal
i didnt ever consume it during the 60s and 70s
well maybe once i did

i made a decision
since it was illegal
i didnt want to get caught with it
and
have it on my record

my ultimate goal in life
was to be a physician
i didnt want anything to prevent that from happening

so
i said no
to the weed

that was
until 7 years ago
when i got first diagnosed

i would sometimes have a several days run of
sleepless nights
mostly because of my taking the alzheimers drug
aricept (donepezil)
which interferes with my sleep
i wake up too early sometimes
like 3-4 hours too early
like
wide awake too early

if i do this several days in a row
it all interferes with my day to day living

so early on
someone sent me edible weed
to help with the sleep
i tried it
it only made me restless like if i had too much coffee
before bedtime

then
a few years later
i tried a vaped weed
it burned like fire when i inhaled it
it didnt work well at all

now
i know there are hundreds of different weeds
some high in thc
some low in thc
but high in cbd

the thc makes you feel good
the cbd is what shows a lot of promise in neurological diseases
many antiweed states have the cbd weed legalized
its the stuff that seems to help folks who have uncontrollable
seizures
especially kids

so there is a component of weed
that shows promise in treating neurological disases
like
seizures
yes like alzheimers disease

two acquaintances have recently used weed
to control the nausea and appetite suppression
from chemotherapy
it also helped with the anxiety

the research is hard to do
since its rated by the us government
right there beside heroin

now
here in california
it is now legal to grow it
although commercially there are a lot of rules attached
to growing it
its legal to possess a small amount
you can even grow some yourself

now here where we live
they are trying to be slow about getting the permits done
so it will be eventually sold in stores throughout the county

weed is not going away
the governments are about to make a ton of money off its sales
local governments are about to have a financial profitable
industry move in

so
ive decided
im ready to particpate
i look at this stuff like a drug
for me its to assist in sleeping at night
maybe helping slowing down the alzheimers disease some
to
make my life better each day

i dont plan on getting high or use it during the day
just an edible at night
so i can
feel rested the next day

it has to be safer than ambien or halcion or those other sleeping pills

i wont use a smokable
that cant be good for the lungs
just an edible for me

its time
we look at this drug
for its positive benefits
to those of us
with neurological diseases
incurable ones most of them

we
folks
have nothing to lose

the organicgreen doctor