Klompen
Active member
So I want to start off by saying that I am not here to bash CBD, or say its snake oil or anything like that. I'm certain it has medical value and I have nothing against the people breeding strains that are all CBD.
That said..... CBD, in many regards, is so disproportionately hyped and accepted because it doesn't get you high. I can get legal CBD. I can vape it, and it helps me with some things. I can eat it and it also helps me a little. Its still not anywhere near as medical for me as smoking even a very weak type of bud.
So, for the last year I haven't had access to bud at all. We've been through some very hard times and there were a few reasons(mostly financial) that we had to give it up. We, my partner and I, were heavy smokers and it helped us a great deal with digestive problems as well as some other serious health issues ranging from nervous system problems to gout. The year I have been without bud has been something like torture for me. I don't get as much done, I hurt everywhere, I've gained significant amount of weight, and I've been pretty low energy. Yes, CBD helps with this a bit, and I've had some around for the last couple of months, but its still not the same.
I was going through some stored items and found a few old bags of plant trimmings. We're talking very low quality genetics that weren't very strong to begin with, the material is all fan leaves and larger bud leaves, and its been stored badly for maybe 5 years or more. Half the stuff that was in there got bugs in it and they destroyed it, but a little survived. The other day I rolled a J out of some of it just as a "for the hell of it" sort of thing. I was not expecting much. I felt better physically and mentally than I have at any point in the entire last year. I came home really hungry and laughing at things and just felt way more "myself". I wasn't particularly high. Like I said, weak shit, but it was like having a really good old friend come back to visit(only unable to get very close to them).
Its a little upsetting to think I have such a small supply of the stuff, but hopefully by next spring I'll have some produced. My life is really missing something important without it. I'm tired of feeling like the walking dead. I just hope that CBD getting in the door at least lays the path for THC and the rest of the plant to follow. No one who truly benefits from this wonderful plant should ever have to be without it. It "getting you high" isn't an unwanted side effect: Its the medicine doing exactly what some of us need it to. Its a gift to mankind and should be appreciated for what it does for us on so many levels.
That said..... CBD, in many regards, is so disproportionately hyped and accepted because it doesn't get you high. I can get legal CBD. I can vape it, and it helps me with some things. I can eat it and it also helps me a little. Its still not anywhere near as medical for me as smoking even a very weak type of bud.
So, for the last year I haven't had access to bud at all. We've been through some very hard times and there were a few reasons(mostly financial) that we had to give it up. We, my partner and I, were heavy smokers and it helped us a great deal with digestive problems as well as some other serious health issues ranging from nervous system problems to gout. The year I have been without bud has been something like torture for me. I don't get as much done, I hurt everywhere, I've gained significant amount of weight, and I've been pretty low energy. Yes, CBD helps with this a bit, and I've had some around for the last couple of months, but its still not the same.
I was going through some stored items and found a few old bags of plant trimmings. We're talking very low quality genetics that weren't very strong to begin with, the material is all fan leaves and larger bud leaves, and its been stored badly for maybe 5 years or more. Half the stuff that was in there got bugs in it and they destroyed it, but a little survived. The other day I rolled a J out of some of it just as a "for the hell of it" sort of thing. I was not expecting much. I felt better physically and mentally than I have at any point in the entire last year. I came home really hungry and laughing at things and just felt way more "myself". I wasn't particularly high. Like I said, weak shit, but it was like having a really good old friend come back to visit(only unable to get very close to them).
Its a little upsetting to think I have such a small supply of the stuff, but hopefully by next spring I'll have some produced. My life is really missing something important without it. I'm tired of feeling like the walking dead. I just hope that CBD getting in the door at least lays the path for THC and the rest of the plant to follow. No one who truly benefits from this wonderful plant should ever have to be without it. It "getting you high" isn't an unwanted side effect: Its the medicine doing exactly what some of us need it to. Its a gift to mankind and should be appreciated for what it does for us on so many levels.