I recently aquired my Drs. recommendation here in California. I smoke nightly after dinner and after washing the dishes (around 7:30).

I find I'm pretty high for about an hour and then I'm totally relaxed until bed (around 11). One big upside is the way I awake refreshed each morning and ready to go. Pain-killers from the past often made me feel groogy and kind of 'hung over'.

One downside is I can't medicate during the day and be a functioning member of society. I may do it during the day if it's the weekend and my wife is out (don't want to be a stoner around her).

Yes, Indicas are for Pain and Sativas are for brain. Hey, I just made that up! I do keep a sativa around in case I'm doing something physical, but am experiencing pain - yardwork, etc.

I'm a male, age 53.

@ Surfer. thanks for the input. BTW, welcome to NT and I have burning, numb, crampy, cold feet that hate shoes.

Since you are in CA, did you go to a local dispensary? And were there a lot of varieties? Did you cannabis have a particular name?

Plus, did you smoke or vape? Do your dispensaries have edibles?

so many questions...

Didn't we used to have a member of this site several years ago that used it regularly?

Probably! If you can find it, I would appreciate reading it (again).

I honestly don't remember if I had heard of all the actual crazy names of MJ until now and specific details.

BTW - I know I am thanking all the input but I want to repeat, thank you each for being so precise in your responses.

Hi,

I'm with you on the shoes thing. I have a pair in the back set of the car that I have to return. I had fooled myself into thinking I could wear them.

Yes, I've been to a few dispensaries and they have a ridiculously large variety. The average place has about 25 strains and a big place will exceed 50. There appears to be a low patient/stoner ratio, lol, but I really don't care. Everyone's nice and they try to be helpful.

Hmmm, names: Skywalker, Kush, Strawberry O.G., Herijuana -actually bought this once, sounded like a painkiller to me.

You know, my take on mj as a medicine comes back to - does it kill pain or does it just give your mind something different to do? And either way, does it matter, as long as it works?

And thank you for the welcome!

Jim takes about 1-2 really deep hits off his vaporizer and then leaves it alone. He truly uses like its medicine which I am happy about. He finally found a vaporizer he loves but was quite costly...$300, but it doesn't burn the mj and releases the cannabinoids as well as THC. THC tends to be the compound that makes you stoned, whereas cannabinoids go to source of pain. And score! It uses a tiny bit of mj which saves us big. :-)

I am very very interested in this study and if you don't mind can you ask the persons in charge if I may follow the study? I need studies to back up our claim trying to pass our bill here in Illinois. We go back in the fall to try again. :-)

I had to do some looking around. He was on Neurotalks parent form Brain talk. His name was GrassMan I don't know how to copy a URL but just google Brain Talk , go to the MS forum and do a search for Grass Man. The first post I found for him says he died a couple of years ago. If I remember he was quite disabled with his MS and most of his life was lived on his hospital bed and his lap top in his home. I do know that if he took a lot of his medicine his posts could get quite crazy.

@Sandy. I will definitely ask Pat about being able to follow the study in progress. The response has been small. I would not have known about it except a friend pharmacist told me about it. With our governor stepping in to stop it, I am not sure how everything will play out. The director assured me that this study will be conducted as planned.

I will not receive any cannabis until August/September.

One to two hits from a vaporizer appears to be a good starting number. My vaporizer is the same as yours, Sandy. DS said it was one of the best on the market, not even available anymore and it also uses a small amount.

Since I am legal, I just wish I could purchase "off the street." I have no clue how to do that. My DD has a friend that is a pothead. I cannot buy from him since his parents do not know he smokes and it would be unethical to buy MJ from him.

I need some grown-up cannabis friends!

@doydie. I googled like you suggested. He was growing his own. Thanks.