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A friend was oscillating between drunk & sober... She told me that her neighbor had offered to smoke up with her.

"You're going to, right?"

She protested that she might need to take a drug test. I replied that she was never going to be able to keep a job like she was (she'd lost 3 jobs over the course of a year on account of not being able to cope with "stress" without the assistance of the devil's drink).

She smoked up with her neighbor and got her medical cannabis card a few months later. She's doing much better now. Art therapy has been a big breakthrough, but cannabis got her stable enough to get to the studio.

She got a CBD vapor pen for my girlfriend, who had methadone-induced alcohol dependency. My girlfriend said the CBD really helped control the anxiety which she'd been using the alcohol to self-treat. This CBD pen got stolen from her before she was arrested, which might've been fortunate because that would've been more charges (prosecutors gotta prosecute, to justify their salaries).

I think CBD [1] is the most beneficial portion of "medical marijuana". Never used it myself,

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabidiol

There are some good prescriptions, but mostly the latest patent medicines are just palliative drugs that don't actually help much. Drug companies gotta hustle [2], to pay their investors...

[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hustle

parent tcj_phx 9 years ago

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