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When I need something to ease my pain during the day, I turn to a marijuana that is a sativa.

Sativa has a relaxing effect on me.

It is able to relieve my pain and relax, without making me sleepy or drowsy. I don’t get a high, which is something I am grateful for since I have a young child. I made the mistake once, when I didn’t look at the label closely enough, and I used indica in the middle of the day. I am so glad my little one was in school that day, because I was useless. I couldn’t wake up, even when my husband got home with our daughter. He told her that mommy wasn’t feeling well and he made supper. I was up to put her to bed, but I went right back to bed once she was settled. I haven’t made that mistake since that day. I watch closely as to what kind of marijuana I am using throughout the day. My daughter only goes to school twice a week, and I can’t imagine what would have happened if she had been home that day. I now buy sativa and I use it to make gummies or cookies that are kept out of her sight. When I’m in a lot of pain, I’ll eat a couple gummies or a cookie and within an hour, I am back to my old self and able to be the mom I should be. I can’t do anything to cure the pain, but thanks to marijuana, I can ease the pain and still be wide awake throughout the day.

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Last week, I accidentally pulled out my Indica marijuana flower.

• It wasn’t until I smoked a bowl that I realized I had used the wrong marijuana.

Indica makes me high truly quickly and after that I get incredibly sleepy. I have already fallen asleep halfway through the hallway to my study room, when I have used Indica marijuana. I asked the budtender for various distinct blends of marijuana. I wanted one that would help me to go to sleep and another that would just ease the pain through the afternoons. I had a hard time remembering which marijuana was which, until I remembered that S is for sativa and sunshine. It sounds deranged, but I am getting older and my memory needs jogging every once in a while. Last week, I didn’t even know about which marijuana I was using. I was in a lot of pain and I just grabbed the first thing I had. I will confess that the indica was able to help with the pain, but I ended up sleeping for numerous hours. I woke up groggy and a bit dizzy, because the marijuana was not totally out of my system. I made a mental note that should I ever need to smoke mairjuana in the middle of the day, I was going to need to make sure I was picking up sativa. I am just happy that my spouse was there to help me get into bed safely. Without him to guide me to the bed, it could have been a disaster. On the other hand, it just gave him something to laugh about whenever he thinks of me leaning up against the wall, sleeping.

Purple haze

Last week, I accidentally pulled out my Indica marijuana flower.

It wasn’t until I smoked a bowl that I realized I had used the wrong marijuana.

Indica makes me high fast and then I get extremely fatigued. I have already fallen asleep halfway through the hallway to my family room, when I have used Indica marijuana. I asked the budtender for 2 distinct blends of marijuana. I wanted one that would help me to go to sleep and another that would just ease the pain through the afternoons. I had a difficult time remembering which marijuana was which, until I remembered that S is for sativa and sunshine. It sounds crazy, but I am getting older and my memory needs jogging every once in a while. Last week, I didn’t even know which marijuana I was using. I was in a lot of pain and I just grabbed the first thing I had. I will divulge that the indica was able to help with the pain, but I ended up sleeping for about 4 hours. I woke up groggy and a bit dizzy, because the marijuana was not totally out of my system. I made a mental note that should I ever need to smoke mairjuana in the middle of the afternoon, I was going to need to make sure I was picking up sativa. I am just ecstatic my spouse was there to help me get into bed safely. Without him to guide me to the bed, it could have been a disaster. On the other hand, it just offered him something to laugh about whenever he thinks of me leaning up against the wall, sleeping.
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Last week, I accidentally pulled out my Indica marijuana flower.

It wasn’t until I smoked a bowl that I realized I had used the wrong marijuana.

Indica makes me high fast and then I get severely sleepy. I have already fallen asleep halfway through the hallway to my bedroom, when I have used indica marijuana. I asked the budtender for many distinct blends of marijuana. I wanted one that would help me to go to sleep and another that would just ease the pain through the days. I had a strenuous time remembering which marijuana was which, until I remembered that S is for sativa and sunshine. It sounds silly, but I am getting older and my memory needs jogging every once in a while. Last week, I didn’t even know which marijuana I was using. I was in a lot of pain and I just grabbed the first thing I had. I will admit that the indica was able to help with the pain, but I ended up sleeping for about four hours. I woke up groggy and a bit dizzy, because the marijuana was not totally out of my system. I made a mental note that should I ever need to smoke mairjuana in the middle of the day, I was going to need to make sure I was picking up sativa. I am just happy my husband was there to help me get into bed safely. Without him to guide me to the bed, it could have been a disaster. On the other hand, it just gave him something to laugh about whenever he thinks of me leaning up against the wall, sleeping.

 

 

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Last week, I accidentally pulled out my indica marijuana flower.

It wasn’t until I smoked a bowl that I realized I had used the wrong marijuana.

Indica makes me high very quickly and then I get incredibly sleepy. I have already fallen asleep halfway through the hallway to my study room, when I have used Indica marijuana. I asked the budtender for two distinct blends of marijuana. I wanted one that would help me to go to sleep and another that would just ease the pain through the mornings. I had a strenuous time remembering which marijuana was which, until I remembered that S is for sativa and sunshine. It sounds silly, but I am getting older and our memory needs jogging every once in a while. Last week, I didn’t even know about which marijuana I was using. I was in a lot of pain and I just grabbed the first thing I had. I will admit that the indica was able to help with the pain, but I ended up sleeping for about many hours. I woke up groggy and a bit dizzy, because the marijuana was not totally out of my system. I made a mental note that should I ever need to smoke mairjuana in the middle of the day, I was going to need to make sure I was picking up sativa. I am just happy my wife was there to help me get into bed safely. Without her to guide me to the bed, it could have been a disaster. On the other hand, it just gave her something to laugh about whenever she thinks of me leaning up against the wall, sleeping.

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Last week, I accidentally pulled out my Indica marijuana flower.

• It wasn’t until I smoked a bowl that I realized I had used the wrong marijuana.

Indica makes me high very quickly and then I get extremely sleepy. I have already fallen asleep halfway through the hallway to my bedroom, when I have used Indica marijuana. I asked the budtender for two distinct blends of marijuana. I wanted one that would help me to go to sleep and another that would just ease the pain through the days. I had a hard time remembering which marijuana was which, until I remembered that S is for sativa and sunshine. It sounds silly, but I am getting older and my memory needs jogging every once in a while. Last week, I didn’t even think about which marijuana I was using. I was in a lot of pain and I just grabbed the first thing I had. I will admit that the indica was able to help with the pain, but I ended up sleeping for about four hours. I woke up groggy and a bit dizzy, because the marijuana was not totally out of my system. I made a mental note that should I ever need to smoke mairjuana in the middle of the day, I was going to need to make sure I was picking up sativa. I am just glad my husband was there to help me get into bed safely. Without him to guide me to the bed, it could have been a disaster. On the other hand, it just gave him something to laugh about whenever he thinks of me leaning up against the wall, sleeping.

 

Purple haze

I used to be a craft beer fanatic.

It was learned from all of my friends in my 20s who were obsessed with getting unique beer from all over the country. We weren’t worried about getting beer with the highest alcohol percentage, as it was more about the flavor and the unique effects that each variety would yield. Nowadays I have the same mindset about cannabis that I used to have about beer. I’m not concerned with finding cannabis with the highest THC content, and that’s for a host of different reasons. First of all, THC is not the only active component found in the cannabis plant. Some know about CBD, CBG, and perhaps CBN and CBC, but who knows about terpenes like myrcene and limonene? Terpene profiles are unique to each strain and account for the different subjective experience compared to a different strain. If you take two different batches of a single strain, one batch might have less THC but a higher terpene percentage than the other batch. For me personally, I would rather take the batch with a lower THC content if it meant more terpenes. The subjective experience is more enjoyable for me. Someone might chase a high THC level and pass up amazing batches of the same strain because they’re not thinking about terpenes. This is why I don’t chase THC levels with my cannabis purchases and would rather see a full lab report before buying something if I’m not able to see the products before I pay. Sadly in my state you can’t open your jars of cannabis flower products before leaving the store, which makes seeing a lab report all the more important if you’re trying to find exceptional batches of marijuana.

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When I started smoking cannabis in the late 1990s, there was still a major stigma around the plant.

• I had to hide it from my parents even after I graduated from undergraduate college.

Only a handful of my college friends used the plant in the first place, which is a far cry from the 2020s now that we have major celebrities being open about their frequent cannabis use. These days you can get on the internet and in seconds have megabytes of information about cannabis, its effects, and its long and assorted history. But when I was first starting out as a marijuana smoker, everything I knew about the plant I had to learn from friends and acquaintances or from clandestine books. Some people might have heard about the Anarchist’s Cookbook and its infamy as a guide on amateur bomb-making, but it’s just one of hundreds of other famous books that were published by underground companies working within the grey areas of the law. My marijuana grower friend first learned how to grow the plant from one of these books, and he bought it at a head shop with his other books on cannabis. Although he works in a legal marijuana market for a reputable cannabis producer, he cites the information gleaned from those books as his foundation in growing cannabis. One of those books was called the Marijuana Growing Bible, and I ended up buying a copy at one point. That’s where I learned about the history of landrace sativa and indica strains, along with the often forgotten ruderalis category of cannabis plants.

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This year I will be spending much of the holidays at my parent’s house up north.

They have several spare bedrooms in the finished basement and always invite my siblings and I to stay for a few days for both the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.

I generally like seeing and spending time with my parents, but staying in their house can be really stressful. My dad is always drinking a lot and the two of them like to pry in our personal lives and cast doubt and scrutiny. I don’t like feeling interrogated at a family meal, but that is normal in their household. On top of the uncomfortable feelings, they’re also extremely anti-cannabis and have been for as long as I have been alive. Since I’m a daily cannabis user, it’s hard staying in my parents’ house knowing that I can’t bring any marijuana products with me. However, this year I’m bringing a few cannabis vaporizer pens with me because they have botanical terpenes inside instead of cannabis-derived terpenes like a full spectrum vaporizer cartridge. The latter smell like marijuana flower products so you can’t really hide using one. But with the botanical terpenes, your vapor smells like candy or fruit. All I had to do was go to the bathroom and exhale the vapor into the ceiling vent with the fan turned on. No one said a word and I didn’t receive any weird looks either. I drank with the rest of my family so they assumed I was simply intoxicated from the wine instead of being on a drug like cannabis.

 

 

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I’m excited to visit my buddy Greg next week.

• He moved out west after we graduated from college and I haven’t seen him since.

When he invited me to stay with him at his apartment for a week and turn it into a mini-vacation, I couldn’t say no. I had never traveled farther west than the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas, so I was eager to fly over the rocky mountain range during my airplane flight. Since it was an afternoon flight on a clear day, I saw a lot more of the mountains than I expected. Even though I had a layover that made the trip take 10 hours in total, it sure beat driving that distance instead. One reason for my trip was getting a chance to try cannabis from a recreational marijuana market. My home state still lacks any form of legal cannabis, neither medical or recreational. Technically I can order CBD and hemp products over the internet, but they aren’t a good substitute for traditional cannabis in my opinion. Therefore, I was excited to shop in a recreational cannabis store for the first time in my life. I was eager to try cannabis flower products, edibles, and vaporizer cartridges. Although the selection at the recreational cannabis store was impressive, the prices nearly gave me a heart attack. I was used to paying as much as $50 for an eighth of an ounce of cannabis flower products on the black market in my home state. After taxes, the same amount of cannabis flower buds from the recreational weed store was $75! It was phenomenal marijuana, but I’m not sure it was worth paying a 50% markup.

 

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