That nerve got hit again today and I decided to do something about it.
You hear the argument all the time that we need to protect the youth of our nations from the "dangers of cannabis."
In what universe is cannabis a danger to anyone? Certainly not this one, on this planet where we've ramped up stress levels in every conceivable way as we also orchestrated the most insane deconstruction of the food nutrient values through "modern" agricultural methods that ultimately became driven by profit. This has resulted in our foods being deficient in the building blocks of cannabinoids, making the job of healing your body almost impossible for the strained and undersupplied endocannabinoid system.
Barring a miraculous realignment of the plant's social, political and agricultural systems we have a solution right before us. Cannabinoids and terpenoids found in cannabis speak to the body's healing system in a way that's functionally identical to what the body would do on its own, if it could under these intense pressures.
My contention is that cannabis is really a basic nutrient, and my question is what is wrong with helping your body heal with the ingestion of additional cannabinoids? There's no chance of either fatal doses or addiction. The reality is that cannabinoids help the brain perform at a heightened level. That's precisely why your body produces them. It just can't keep up right now, so we supplement.
The big problem socially is this fear of feeling good that I've never been able to comprehend. We celebrate feeling good when we get drunk, but vilify a better, clearer experience that won't have you crashing your vehicle on the way home from the gathering.
But I've been wondering, how old were you when you started getting high? Our limited Prohibitionist teachings of what cannabis was doing for us forced us into this construct where it became a secret thrill. All we thought we were doing was getting high. Ha! Fooled us. Every puff was dumping cannabinoids your body was starved for.
I'd bet my life most of you started in the early teens, when hormones drive the system crazy. One of the jobs of the ECS is to balance the hormones. If your body can't produce enough cannabinoids because the building blocks are missing you're going to need support troops to step in, don't you think? It doesn't surprise me now that my husband started smoking at the age of 13 and continued daily consumption except for the miserable 8 years I made us stop because I thought it was hurting him.
Someday I'll forgive myself for that. Right now it feels like my heart's being ripped out. He took up drinking after a few years into that dark stage, and he died three years after I saw the error of my choice and let him go back to cannabis.
I'm curious now. How old were you when you started? Why did you stick with it? It's not like it was easy to come by, was it? How often did you get access? I was fascinated to learn Dale had managed to keep a continuious supply from the age of 13. He was resourceful. Eagle Scout. Always prepared. Lol! It blew up our family budget as a married couple. I can't imagine procuring it on a regular, dependable basis as a teenager.
I'd like to hear your stories. Simple as that. No real agenda beyond curiosity and a desire to find a way to get our culture past this bump in the road. We all turned out ok. Didn't we?
You hear the argument all the time that we need to protect the youth of our nations from the "dangers of cannabis."
In what universe is cannabis a danger to anyone? Certainly not this one, on this planet where we've ramped up stress levels in every conceivable way as we also orchestrated the most insane deconstruction of the food nutrient values through "modern" agricultural methods that ultimately became driven by profit. This has resulted in our foods being deficient in the building blocks of cannabinoids, making the job of healing your body almost impossible for the strained and undersupplied endocannabinoid system.
Barring a miraculous realignment of the plant's social, political and agricultural systems we have a solution right before us. Cannabinoids and terpenoids found in cannabis speak to the body's healing system in a way that's functionally identical to what the body would do on its own, if it could under these intense pressures.
My contention is that cannabis is really a basic nutrient, and my question is what is wrong with helping your body heal with the ingestion of additional cannabinoids? There's no chance of either fatal doses or addiction. The reality is that cannabinoids help the brain perform at a heightened level. That's precisely why your body produces them. It just can't keep up right now, so we supplement.
The big problem socially is this fear of feeling good that I've never been able to comprehend. We celebrate feeling good when we get drunk, but vilify a better, clearer experience that won't have you crashing your vehicle on the way home from the gathering.
But I've been wondering, how old were you when you started getting high? Our limited Prohibitionist teachings of what cannabis was doing for us forced us into this construct where it became a secret thrill. All we thought we were doing was getting high. Ha! Fooled us. Every puff was dumping cannabinoids your body was starved for.
I'd bet my life most of you started in the early teens, when hormones drive the system crazy. One of the jobs of the ECS is to balance the hormones. If your body can't produce enough cannabinoids because the building blocks are missing you're going to need support troops to step in, don't you think? It doesn't surprise me now that my husband started smoking at the age of 13 and continued daily consumption except for the miserable 8 years I made us stop because I thought it was hurting him.
Someday I'll forgive myself for that. Right now it feels like my heart's being ripped out. He took up drinking after a few years into that dark stage, and he died three years after I saw the error of my choice and let him go back to cannabis.
I'm curious now. How old were you when you started? Why did you stick with it? It's not like it was easy to come by, was it? How often did you get access? I was fascinated to learn Dale had managed to keep a continuious supply from the age of 13. He was resourceful. Eagle Scout. Always prepared. Lol! It blew up our family budget as a married couple. I can't imagine procuring it on a regular, dependable basis as a teenager.
I'd like to hear your stories. Simple as that. No real agenda beyond curiosity and a desire to find a way to get our culture past this bump in the road. We all turned out ok. Didn't we?