When I had medical marijuana prescribed to me, my only fear about taking it was the fear getting high.
I didn’t want to walk around high all day long.
I had a lot of responsibilities while watching my grandchildren throughout the day. After the grandkids at home, I worked. I put two days in working from home, take care of my husband, make all the meals, and clean my house all after the kids got home. I don’t have time to sit around and get high all day long. When the doctor suggested the marijuana for my arthritis, the first thing I asked was, ‘If this was going to make me high?’. The doctor told me it all depended on the type of medical marijuana I took. He suggests I get something that had more CBD than THC, but I didn’t know the difference. That’s when he suggested I talked to the marijuana dispensary pharmacist. He said that he/she could recommend something that would help with the pain and not make me high or sleepy. I was really hoping he was right, because there was no way I would want someone to come into my house and think that I was high will take care of my grandkids. My kids would yank their babies out of my house quickly, and would never allow them with me again unless they supervised them. I don’t like the idea that there’s so much stigma on me, even though the marijuana I use is medical marijuana. I’m going to need to keep everything that is associated with CBD out of sight.