know someone with a 'script?

[headymoechick]

anyone know anyone with a real prescription?

here in NY it's really rare (I don't even think doctors CAN prescribe it)
but my next door neighbor has one. She's really sick with an inoperable brain tumor and MS. She gets hers from Roswell Park.

I've never smoked any because I would feel so guilty using up her meds when they are the only thing that works.

She's got loads of pain pills/ patches- you name it, but pot is the only thing that releives her head aches.

[Jointman69]

my uncle had one because he had lung cancer and they gave it to him to stimulate his appetite after chemo and for pain, along with pills. Sadly he passed away.

[seamonster66]

I knew a woman who worked at the green cross in Seattle....she shared some of the stuff with me a few times, it was high quality

[Jack_Straw2208]

the green cross?

[seamonster66]

that was the medicinal marijuana group in Seattle at the time...this was probably 1998 or 99, not sure if they are still operating

[PokeSmot]

when you turn one of these in, what the hell do they give you? like a bottle of weed, or a bottle of joints, or what?

[headymoechick]

my nieghbor gets a big pill bottle full of prerolled joints. From what I've seen, it looks like they grind everything up, seeds, stems and all and roll it.

[CubanB]

One of my good buddies mom has a perscription in CA. She has a lot of plants growing and always has an ass load of weed. She used to send us special rice krispie treats.........yum yum yum.

[mtnhighgirl]

A friend of mine has the largest exemption in Canada. He can have 3 pounds of weed on him and can grow 35 plants at a time. He has had adrenal cancer for about 30 years.

[oOflyeyesOo]

Damn, why cant I know someone like this. WAIT I do hah my dads friend who was in veitnam and A land mine went off and guess got tons of shit in his eyes and now he is blind and I think he gets it prescribed or something and I have smoked with him a few times, he tells good storys.

[shaba]

my nieghbor gets a big pill bottle full of prerolled joints. From what I've seen, it looks like they grind everything up, seeds, stems and all and roll it.
The stems are the best part! If you ever split the stem of some bud down the middle and scrape out all the white powder (THC) and sprinkle it on top of the ganja and roll it up, it gets you extra blazed.

[mynameisjake07]

my mom has ms and was considering it, until they found out i smoked, damn!

[Peace Attack]

My cousin has MS and I think she would benefit from it, but we live in Massachusetts and medical marijuana isn't legal here.

[headymoechick]

It's weird because medical marijuana isn't legal here either, but I think my neighbor gets it from Roswell anyway because she is dying no matter what and she has so many ailments that just wreck and ravage her body with pain. I don't envy anyone with a prescription because you have to have something wrong to have it. At least things are (hopefully) moving foreward and marijuana will be offered in more states soon to the people who really need it. I can't wait for the result of the Supreme Court case with Angel Riech (sp?).

[stephaniesomewhere]

whats that court case about then?

:)

[headymoechick]

It's HUGE! I don't feel educated enough to tell the whole story, but I DO know that the case is being decided and it will come down to whether or not the federal government can override something that has to do with medical treatment in a state, even if that treatment/ substance is federally illegal. It will have a huge impact on the legalization. If she doesn't win, and our government can go anywhere and arrest you for pot, legalization efforts will be squashed and we'll have taken a big step backwards, but if she wins, states will have the free will to dispense marijuana to patients. I think most states have not done this, because they seen a problem on the horizon like this one. I highly suggest reading through the High Times archives and familiarize yourself with the case. not that it matters in Australia, but it's a huge deal here.

[stephaniesomewhere]

thanks!! sounds interesting so I will check it out...you know what happens there does have an effect here, even if it is just on attitudes and the like due to the influence of the American media here.
:H

[headymoechick]

that's strange. I don't know much about your country. I should learn some more about it. It seems like America with the seasons backwards and funny animals to me! I would love to go there someday. It's a continent I have not yet gone to.

What is the attitude towards medical pot there? Is there a decent amount of decriminalization?

[mynameisjake07]

hey headymoechick do you have a website on this case?

[Orsino2]

My grandma had a perscription. She had a few cases of cancer and lots of pain combined with diabetes, back problems, tumors... etc.

[Orsino2]

Oh, and I knew a guy in his 70s who had cancer and he didn't believe in taking pills or anything, so he just smoked MJ all the time. Nobody really bothered him about it.

[headymoechick]

there's some great articles at www.freedomtoexhale.com/raich.htm that discuss Angel Raich and her case against the Supreme Court

[Payaso]

I went to California last year and got my prescription from a doctor in Lake County. I was visiting Eddy Lepp at the time, interviewing him for an article I wrote in the latest issue of International Cannagraphic magazine (I was also the editor at the time...).

Eddy Lepp has a large ranch that he generously let medical patients use as a place to grow their weed, as part of his ministry. It is his religious belief that smoking cannabis is a religious duty, and that cannabis is medicine for sick people.

The Federal Government thanked him for this by confiscating some 32,000 plants from his fields and he is now facing four life sentences and fines. We are trying to help him beat these unfair charges.

But back to the question, when I visited the doctor in California, he asked me what I wanted to use cannabis for. I told him I have high blood pressure, and that it seems to work better than the pills. He checked me out, wrote the prescription for me, and said "you'd best stop taking them damned pills if you're going to use cannabis, as your blood pressure is now too low."

So that's my experience. Whenever I don't have cannabis I feel uptight. With it I feel relaxed and confident.

Peacefully,
~Payaso