It’s really sort of sweet how my mom will be excited to get her treat a few times a day.
- That treat is actually medical marijuana.
But it comes in the form of cannabis gummies. And she just loves the taste of those cannabis gummies. We’ve added medical marijuana to my mother’s treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. I’ve explained that the treats are cannabis gummies and she has had sort of weird response when she’s been lucid. She kept looking at me and asking if she was now a pothead. It does happen to be a bit ironic that she’s using cannabis products at this stage of her life. My mom was always after me when I was in highschool about the dangers of weed. Of course, I have used cannabis products responsibly for all of my adult life. She just chose not to acknowledge that fact or she simply didn’t care. When medical marijuana was first on the ballot years ago, my mom was all for it. She believes that if medical marijuana can ease suffering then it should be legal as medical marijuana. So I sometimes wonder if she really understands that what she advocated for is now helping her. We started adding the cannabis gummies to help her not be so terrified when she was just completely confused and disoriented. It was almost like a magic bullet. While she still gets disoriented and confused, she’s much more calm about it. It’s almost as though she just isn’t worried any longer about the whole mess. Mom is at the end of her life and I’m just really happy that medical marijuana will help her ease into passing on without all that fear.