So let’s take this back to many a day when wasted. I would spend hours setting up my bedroom with fans and canned air fresher to combat the fat ass Dubey that I had rolled. I remember leaving the room after smoking one to only come back to only realise that the entire upstairs corridor stank out! MISSION FAILED. I didn’t have a balcony or a big ass window but tried none the less to work with the room and create an Amsterdamesk Smoke-Free CoffeeShop environment. Things would be great, they really would and I put that down to the great weed I’d be smoking. This was complete zen, in my place of choosing everything was perfect…. right up until my mother bursting into the room shouting obscenities at me. Occasionally, during the summer with everybodies windows open, my smoke would go around the house and enter my sister’s bedroom. I’ll never forget how she ended up screaming at the top of her voice outside the window at midnight “STOOP SMOKING CANNABIS!!, IT’s ILLEGAL, I’m CALLIN THE POLICE!!” Now I was high as fuck, but hearing her voice echoing around the neighbourhood her shouting at the high of lungs was kinda a buzzkill.
THEN ALONG CAME MEDICINAL MARIJUANA
On the 19 Oct 2009 in America the U.S Justice Department announced that federal prosecutors would not go after medicinal users and distributors who complied with state laws. Back then nobody really knew what was going on, as under US Federal Law weed was still illegal even in states that legalised it hence we saw an explosion of dispensaries being stormed into my large teams of DEA. However almost a decade later, it seems that this is actually real and I watch YouTube videos with people referring to their ganja as ‘medicine’ which is a testament to how times have changed.
When Actually Was Marijuana used as Medicine
The earliest mentions of medicinal use go back to 2900 BC Chinese Emperor Fu Hsi References Marijuana as a Popular Medicine that possessed both yin and yang. Then again 2700 BC according to Chinese legend, the emperor Shen Nung (also known as Chen Nung) who was considered the Father of Chinese medicine, discovered marijuana’s healing properties as well as those of two other mainstays of Chinese herbal medicine, ginseng and ephedra.
Do Your Parents Believe That You Use This As “MEDICINE”
As a sufferer of severe Sleep Apnea, I was diagnosed very late and despite owning a CPAP machine I’ve been unable to use the machine and benefit from it and hence my Sleep Apnea remains untreated. I quit cannabis for about 6/7 months, only to discover that my sleep was heavily impacted. I would wake up at random intervals throughout the night i.e 1.30am, 3.30am, 5am, 7.30am, 8.30am. This would drive me absolutely crazy, as I was literally unable to stay under as my sleep apnea was actively waking me up. My ENT specialist initially prescribed me many different meds, which I found to be overpowered or far to strong, and when I researched online I found that side effects of some of the pills where just not worth it. Alas I moved back towards smoking weed and I found specific strains of cannabis to be very effective in helping me sleep, as THC was medically proven to be conducive to breathing. However, I would find explaining this to my parents an uphill struggle. Whilst the drug remained illegal in the UK for all purposes, my family were not convinced of its medicinal value and just called me a JUNKIE and A DRUG ADDICT. My sister showered me with “You’re GONNA DIE, and it’s because you’re a DRUG ADDICT” and over emotional sentiments, which then weeks later I found my parents reading off the same script, which doesn’t surprise me as BITCHING about me in my family is almost a TRADITIONAL pasttime! Alas i’m on my own with my believes (shared by the entire world) but till then I draw my curtains, and get the fans ready for sadly my illiterate parents choose to deny any positive fact of its medicinal value, and my sister is just stubborn and must win & be right regardless to any cost.
HERE are the following countries have legalised cannabis for medical use as of 2018. When the FUCK is UK gonna be on the list???
- Argentina
- Australia
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Israel
- Italy
- Luxembourg
- Macedonia
- Malta
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Peru
- Poland
- Romania
- San Marino
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- Uruguay
- Vietnam
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
