Cannabis Helped My Depression And Post Traumatic Stress


Cannabis Helped My Depression And Post Traumatic Stress
 
Trigger Warning: This article discusses self-harm, suicide, and bullying.
If you’ve met me in person, you might not realize that I suffer from severe, chronic depression. Depending on what I’ve worn, you might not think someone so outgoing and openly dorky could possibly be hurting. If you’ve only read my writing, then you’ve only seen the confident, self-reliant side of myself I show to the public. Let me remove my digital cardigan and disabuse you of your assumptions.
I was bullied mercilessly as a child. When I wasn’t isolated and alone, I was being picked on. I was bullied at Girl Scouts, at camp, during sports, during bell choir practice, and everywhere else I had to interact with my age peers. No one, not a single adult, ever stepped in to help me.
 
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http://www.ladybud.com/2013/10/15/cannabis-for-depression-and-post-traumatic-stress-relief/

Oklahoma woman won’t give up trying to reform state’s marijuana laws

By Jaclyn Cosgrove

 

LITTLE AXE — Few Oklahomans could rival Norma Sapp’s efforts to legalize marijuana.
She drove a motor home across the United States, serving as the support vehicle for a friend who was riding his one-eyed paint horse, Misty, across the country to raise awareness of a message: “Cops say legalize marijuana, ask me why.”
She has walked the marble hallways of the state Capitol more times than she can remember to advocate for changes in Oklahoma’s marijuana laws.
And she ran for a state House office in the 1990s — and quickly learned she didn’t want it.
 
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http://m.newsok.com/article/3892682?nextArticle=1

Mama Medicine

by Harvest McCampbell
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Kat Brewer could tell a thousand stories. The story that she is most passionate about concerns one thing and one thing only—getting the medicine to the people. Her life’s work, which is really a labor of love, is about “providing safe access, reasonable prices, and no-cost medicine to those in need.”
Like many of us, she smoked pot recreationally back in her 20’s and she experimented with other drugs. She gradually drifted into hard drug use and addiction. Then as an IV drug user, she contracted hepatitis C, a debilitating and chronic condition that causes inflammation and pain throughout the body. She knew a few people who went the interferon route to treat their hepatitis and also read what was available on the Internet. She found that while the interferon truly helped a few individuals, most people seemed to gain little benefit; while others had unpleasant and sometimes dangerous reactions.
Around the turn of the millennium Kat began hearing stories about the benefits of medical marijuana. She read a few articles in newspapers and magazines and then looked for more information on the Web. What she found sparkled with a ray of hope. While every natural remedy may not work for every person, from her personal experience she truly believes in “the power of the medicine.”
“When I would hit a cycle where the hepatitis was active, I would throw up every morning. I had mild to intense body aches, a low grade fever, I just felt crappy. I knew something was up for about ten years before I was diagnosed. Then when I was first diagnosed I went through a lot of depression. This disease is not only chronic, it can be fatal. Facing the idea of an early death is very depressing. The medical marijuana was much more helpful for all of my symptoms than anything prescribed by the docs. And it absolutely relieved my depression. Medical marijuana is the best antidepressant there is. I attribute the fact that I am still here today and that I am as healthy as I am to this medicine. Marijuana is truly the Tree of Life.”
 
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http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/14/18744883.php

Emperor of Hemp – Watch Documentary Free Online

This documentary chronicles the life of Jack Herer and his struggle for awareness and enlightenment of cannabis sativa, a.k.a. marijuana or hemp. His research into this plant culminates in his writing The Emperor Wears No Clothes: The Official Hemp Bible. He dedicated his life to educating people about the history and many utilization’s of hemp, the conspiracy against it, and ending marijuana prohibition.
 
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Nevada lawmaker seeks pardon for medical marijuana cardholders convicted of pot possession

  • THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

 
A Nevada lawmaker says he plans to introduce legislation requiring the state to grant pardons to medical marijuana cardholders convicted of the possession or sale of marijuana.
Sen. Tick Segerblom told the Las Vegas Sun (http://bit.ly/18ZnU2T ) that the measure would be a way to forgive Nevadans who operated under a vague law governing medical marijuana and inadvertently became criminals.
 
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http://www.tribtown.com/view/story/f21a456118104e4eab9cfde82a375e77/NV–Medical-Marijuana-Legislation

Q&A: With medical marijuana, new jobs, attitudes

The Associated Press
 
CHICAGO — Patients with serious illnesses such as cancer will be able to legally use medical marijuana in Illinois when a new law takes effect next year. But that’s not the only change the state is likely to see.
The 19 other states that already legalized the medical use of marijuana also saw thousands of new jobs and shifting attitudes about the drug, says Robert Calkin, a longtime medical marijuana advocate and president and founder of the Cannabis Career Institute. Calkin was in Illinois for a series of seminars for entrepreneurs interested in working in the industry. He spoke with The Associated Press about what Illinois can expect as its law rolls out in 2014. This is an edited transcript.

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