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Sorry about your arthritis pain. Have you tried acupuncture? Works good.
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How's this for a reason, Atalanta? My own personal story:
Being a product of 2 lifelong chain-smoking chronic alcoholic parents, I have a pretty good viewpoint from which to observe how those addictions affected their lives. My mother died at 62.
I am now 60 and have never used tobacco, but I have used cannabis daily for over 45 years. I have never even filed a medical insurance claim in my entire life (literally).
I have all the long term research I need to draw a conclusion.
Especially when I compare my life (it's actually a quite good one, you might be surprised) to my 71 year old brother's. He wasn't able to escape the alcohol demon that has run in my family's tree for generations. This is a word for word text I received just 2 days ago about his latest condition, from his step daughter. It is only the tip of the ice burg when it comes to how alcoholism has affected his life:
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Just so you both know, John didn't make it 24 hours in the new apartment without getting drunk. I made it clear to him, when he was sober, that I will not pay his bills, and I will not move him again until he moves to Sterling in July. I will go into the apartment before they lock him out and get my TV, my bed and his scooter. This time he will come out of rehab with Nothing. They can keep his clothes, my dishes, pots & pans, my recliner etc...I'm done. He has to hit his bottom. I will make the house payment on Sterling because the rent check covers it. He's literally going to have to be homeless to hit his bottom or in jail or a nursing home to stay sober. Otherwise, he will be dead in no time. I can't fix him and he doesn't want to fix himself. So sad.
I am SO BLESSED to have found a plant that has helped me to avoid the fate of my parents, grandparents, and brother. The criminal part of this story, to me, are all the folks who believe that I should be in prison for using a plant to help me pull myself up by the bootstraps and make something out of my life.
How's this for a reason, Atalanta? My own personal story:
Being a product of 2 lifelong chain-smoking chronic alcoholic parents, I have a pretty good viewpoint from which to observe how those addictions affected their lives. My mother died at 62.
I am now 60 and have never used tobacco, but I have used cannabis daily for over 45 years. I have never even filed a medical insurance claim in my entire life (literally).
I have all the long term research I need to draw a conclusion.
Especially when I compare my life (it's actually a quite good one, you might be surprised) to my 71 year old brother's. He wasn't able to escape the alcohol demon that has run in my family's tree for generations. This is a word for word text I received just 2 days ago about his latest condition, from his step daughter. It is only the tip of the ice burg when it comes to how alcoholism has affected his life:
I am SO BLESSED to have found a plant that has helped me to avoid the fate of my parents, grandparents, and brother. The criminal part of this story, to me, are all the folks who believe that I should be in prison for using a plant to help me pull myself up by the bootstraps and make something out of my life.
Sorry about your parents. My exes family about 90 % alcoholic. I see that huge damage it does.
You have been smoking pot for 45 years. I am not putting you down, but pot is addictive and it seems you are going to a substance to not deal with the reason/issues why people are addicted to something. ie: alcohol, pot, pain killers, hard drugs, food, exersize.
You have learned to be be an addict, you have chosen pot. Most children who grow up in an addict home grow up to be addicts in something, sadly.
Long term pot smokers can get emphysema and COPD.
Sorry about your parents. My exes family about 90 % alcoholic. I see that huge damage it does.
Thank you.
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Long term pot smokers can get emphysema and COPD.
Please, enlightened one, when will this strike me? I am 60 and I'll put my lungs up to anyone's in my age group. So will I get those diseases at 70? 75? 89? 110?
Inquiring minds would like to know. Oh, and some documentation that does not end in .gov would be nice too.
It does what painkillers do without the heroin addiction.
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