Living in California with a medical marijuana recommendation, I have received great benefit from a liquid form of marijuana. (I don't like to smoke) Instead of having to rely on strong sleeping pills that leave me stumbling into the wall the next day, just a couple of drops of liquid THC gets me a good night's sleep. Before, I was lucky to get 2-3 hours sleep. Now I get 6-7 hours and wake up clear headed.
That's what I call valuable medicine!
Now suddenly the feds have declared war on medical marijuana and are closing down the dispensaries. It is legal on the state level but illegal on the federal level. Obama had made a policy of leaving medical marijuana alone but now, the policy has changed.
Where does that leave me? Am I supposed to wander around street corners trying to buy pot??? It's crushing to see how easily my health problems can be just swept aside and medicine that helps me can be taken away.
Anyone else in the Parkinson's community tried marijuana? Even if you haven't or don't want to, please consider how easily and thoughtlessly this medicine has been yanked away. If anyone out there is concerned with this situation, please contact your representatives in Washington and let them know how you feel.

The government up here in Canada has launched a campaign against the Killer Weed being prescribed by doctors. They are making it much harder to get medical marijuana. It's an example of people believing in individual liberty as long as everybody lives exactly the same way they do.
Yes, I find marijuana is excellent against stress and pain and emotional despair. But it grows wild as a weed, and would never be as profitable as whiskey or Mirapex. Besides which, our rulers are quite terrified at the prospect of millions of baby boomer PWP's wandering around stoned. But the boomers are on the way to PD-land, and the music will be LOUD.
So don't tell anybody, but every summer i grow a couple of plants behind the barn.
Weeds, just can get rid of invasive weeds.

There use to be a law in fla. that allowed the use of this plant. They are cracking down for no good reason. If people are in pain, you aught to be able to use what works. If we would legalize it, and tax it, guaranteed we'd be out of national debt. Prohibition didn't work eithor, and neithor will this war on Pot. It's all about money and greed. There needs to be sensible ways of dealing with the whole situation. I can't induldge down here, because our governor, has made war, and decided all those on medicare/medicaid need to get tested. He has now been sued on a state level. I am sorry they are giving you trouble in Ca. the whole issue should be built around compassion for those that hurt. It is a plant, people should be able to use it. It is not addictive, nor does it lead to harder drugs. Think about what they said about drinking during prohibition. I have cronic pain, and I would if I could. ginnie

One of the many sad things about this whole problem is that they are closing down the dispensaries which offer a safe place to obtain marijuana and burning the marijuana crops of US citizens who planted them trusting in the California law that said that it was legal. So... now where will the pot come from? Mexico! We are just handing the whole thing over to the Mexican drug cartels. There is already a nasty crime spree going on around the borders. Now we're going to encourage even more.
Not to mention that the citizens of California voted to legalize medical marijuana... so much for the what the people want. I guess the politicians know best???!!!! We're throwing away the opportunity to collect desperately needed tax money which could be collected on the legal sale of marijuana.
Let's see now... we have tobacco, liquor and Indian gambling casinos. But Californians in pain cannot be allowed to have a simple plant based medicine. But we can smoke til our lungs fall out, drink til our livers explode and gamble our last pennies away. What? Did big brother take a day off when they legalized all of that?
So what's the real story behind this marijuana crack down??? I believe there is some sort of sinister game being played here and I for one want to know what it is.
Let me in on the joke so that I can laugh too. So far I'm not laughing... I'm crying knowing that soon I will run out of the medicine that helps me sleep and stops my foot cramps.
I've phoned and written my senators and representative. I've even phoned the White House. I don't have much faith that my little voice will be heard but, I'm trying. And I am encouraging everyone to try also. If we let them get away with this... what's next?????

I'm not a conspiracy theorist but have to wonder if making pot illegal is a war on consciousness as well.

i have a friend who gets similar results from MM as sinemet but i have to wonder if that may be because he also uses tobacco and the combo of the two is synergistic for pd .

i get a little spacey on pot and treasure clarity so gave it up a long time ago for fear of more memory loss

md

Actually, I've never been a pot smoker. First of all, I don't smoke. Second of all, I hate feeling out of control. I like my wits about me and tend to feel quite paranoid when I have had one drink too many. My college try of marijuana gave me that same paranoid, out of control feeling so, never used it again.
Actually it was my neurologist who inquired if I'd tried marijuana. I was so desperate for sleep and something to fix those foot cramps that I went right out and got my official medical recommendation. I found a dispensary and I must say that the person I spoke with there was very professional, compassionate and helpful. It was a very clean, doctor's office kind of atmosphere located in an office building in a decent part of town. I felt quite safe going in there.
When I explained that I am a non-smoker, they recommended a liquid form of marijuana. It works very well. I know that this isn't curing anything. It's just one small medicine that eases a couple of symptoms. When you have PD, any relief is a huge blessing.
Why do sick people have to beg for a medicine that helps them? Shall I sit on a street corner with a tin cup? At whose foot do I need to grovel?

medicinal use of plants should be sacred in society inmho and if they help us to FEEL better than we journey towards wholeness and isn't that what we are afterr anyway?

why, as a culture are we afraid to acknowledge the value of consciousness shifts triggered by MM? of course the pain annd anxiety relief are infinitely valuable but lets not tiptoe around he unifying and enlightening effects too lest we are scorned by those who think they know better yet never having experienced it. anything can be abused...moderation is my motto! seems like the MM clinics that offer advice and counseling are so very useful in guiding us towards wise and beneficial use.
I'm grateful for the perceptual shifts i've experience from pot - they came with a cost tho as i also became less productive. this may not have happened had i had the benefit of counsel from the very clinics that are being dismantled....one step forward -two steps back....
time to occupy a garden madamelash!!
md

i don't smoke marijiuana anymore because i don't have a source. Moderation is, I agree the only way to go with smoking it. i don't have a problem with a high personality and a regular personality. The point is to relax....put aside the heaviness of life, create pain free moments in time during a most difficult life that we share. It borders on ridiculous that the culture in which we live condemns a plant but condones so many chemicals in all aspects of our life.

if i had a source i'd have some. when was it ever ok in Florida?

meanwhile its been over a year and i am sleeping with the use of other chemicals. but for someone who has always had a mild problem with paranoia and went into 100% paranoia mode during post op delirium, I don't let myself go to paranoia with pot. If you must be jugemental , don't be around people who aren't. acceptance and positivity is crucial for this type of relaxation.

the mexican cartel is winning the battle. our enemies all over the world sell and finance atrocities with drugs. but we break the bank accounts and refuse to help those who legitimately need relief in our own country.

Gosh i'm having trouble seeing the positive in anything lately. rehab hospitals are a little like prison but now i'm allowed to leave for 4 hours. going home to do the laundry tomorrow and get a cookie dough blizzard at Dairy Queen.

maybe i'll score some pot on the street; lol....i could volunteer at the junior high and find some......granny arrested in undercover sting at local junior high. the whole world is on drugs but we must not use the plant or something is "wrong" with us. After all, it's illegal.

When I hear these posts, I get so angry with the system in the country I want to scream and yell. People should not be made to suffer.
Yes, there was a law for a brief period of time In Fla. to let a certain number of people try this under a compassionate law. it was soon voted down, not by us but by those who have the power to do so.
Tax it legalize it, and we would have no national debt. The mexican problem would disapear if it were legalized, instead there are wars and people getting killed over it. We need to have a more enlightened society. This plant has been around for thousands of years, you would think by now we would have learned that it is an exceptable thing to do. Fla. is one of the worst states now with their laws. I take morphine for pain, and I would love more than anything to get off it. I would have tried this plant if given the opportunity, as it is far less damaging than morphine. It just makes no sense to me that they consider pot, more damaging than this drug. It must be about money and power, with the people at the top. I am sorry you all have to suffer. ginnie

I wouldnt smoke it for my pd, but I agree with you..It should be legalize, and taxed..That would put an end to the crime that is associated with smuggling pot into the country

I guess our govt hasn't learned anything from Prohibition..They outlawed alcohol, and it caused crime and violence, and people were still drinking anyway