PHOPL2G: Official Discussion Thread

[Hydro-Soil]

Patients Helping Other Patients Learn 2 Grow!

Hey All,

So..... A year ago I started from scratch with nothing but the knowledge I'd gained from OG and CW back in the day and that icmag existed. It's been a bit over a year,of one step at a time, on no budget and with a lot of setbacks and things are just beginning to turn around. I had an idea that I wanted to share with everyone and see how it flies.

Either this harvest or the next I'm going to have a bit of additional medicine and my thoughts have run toward questions of what would be most appropriate way to dispose of it. Having just come through an extremely difficult startup process myself, thoughts of supplying a patient with meds for a few months while they get setup themselves came to mind.


I would like to:

- Screen potential patients for safety and ability
- Provide cheap or free meds for a period of time while they use that money to buy equipment
- Mentor one patient at a time on how to grow and assist through at least 2-3 crops until they have abundance themselves
- Teach them how to screen their own patients
- Repeat


I'm in Southern California and would prefer to start with someone local (for gas reasons) I'm looking for ideas on the screening process as to what would be the most appropriate? Though I'm really good at determining if someone is compatible with the direction I'm headed, I'd like to have the process repeatable by others who may or may not have that talent.

Suggestions??

 

[Oldmac]

Hello Hydro-Soil,

First off, I applaud your idea of helping others. This is what I've been doing for abt 20 years now, long before anyone coined the term "medical" mj.

I started by working with a cancer group that supported patients with their fight with the disease and the treatment's for the disease. A few years later I starting working with a hospice group working with dying people, many of whom I met in the first group. I have been providing mmj to patients for free thru these groups. But I work with the individual patients and depending on circumstances visit them regularly, daily if neccessary.

My biggest problem has been family members of sick people who either steal or borrow mj meds. Plus in the hospice set up, the PA's and nurses would not help to account for my meds, because they were illegal. That has changed for the better in the last 5 or so years, but can still be a problem.

I have helped to set up grows for other cancer, hospice, aids etc groups in near by towns where I could not stretch myself. I still provide cuttings or small plants to many of these.

I really like your idea of working with someone to make them self sufficent, and getting them to pay it forward. I wish you great success, it could be very rewarding karma wise.

 

[Payaso]

This is a great idea! I believe there a lot of growers that would love to help others grow, learning is the key to success, and independence for medical patients.

Bravo!

 

[Hydro-Soil]

Donated 2 clones to be given away the other day, at my favorite dispensary.