Cpappa27
Well-Known Member
I take care of my mother who is very ill. Many conditions are consuming her, such as; hypertension, COPD, insomnia, loss of appetite (she weighs 99 lbs), colon cancer survivor (chemo therapy and radiation was performed to treat this illness back in 1985), she has severe depression, chronic arthritis, severe back pain, and hypothyroidism. I asked my mom to smoke a little weed about 6 months ago. She smoked it and she was at the beginning a little skeptical on the outcome. The first night she told me she slept amazingly. She had stopped taking sleeping meds and starting taking a couple hits off the bowl a week later. She told me that the numbness sensation she had in her lower extremities was gone or not as noticeable. She stopped taking the meds to reduce the numbness! Her appetite increased ten fold and her weight gain in one month was 8 lbs to 107 lbs. Before the weed she was steady at 99-101 lbs for 2 years. Her depression has decreased significantly and motivation for life has returned big time. I was never a believer in marijuana as being a cure all drug per say but I know how much it has changed my mom. I take care of her on a full time basis and unfortunately I live in the only New England State where it is illegal for marijuana to be used by such patients. I had even asked her PCP about the possibility of marijuana, and I was shot down before I could even get a sentence in. The doctors are sales people for the prescription medical companies and that's why they make so much. I am growing a few plants for my mom because I believe I can do it for one, and because I don't want to have to drive into a ghetto constantly to pick up weed. Not only because of the dangers and hassle of doing so but because the quality of weed is not as beneficial as a strain that is made for medical purposes. I just hope that if and when I get busted by police that they will understand why I am doing what Im doing and not immediately charge me as a criminal. I have a great job with amazing pay and I don't need to sell drugs to make a paycheck and nor will I. I just want the best for my mom and that's the bottom line. She wiped my ass when I couldn't now I need to help her, and make her quality of life better as much as I can!!!