Friday 26 February 2021

Stop Balancing the Boat & Learn to Swim

 



A lot of us have honed the skill of balancing the rocking boat.

We've learned to twist ourselves this way or that.  We've chameleon'd ourselves into whichever image they say is most palatable or popular in that split second of time. 

We work, live, chat, smile, build, earn and we do it all by steadying the boat with the free hand.  If no free hand exists we use a foot, an elbow, a pinky finger ... any appendage to keep the boat from tipping over & landing us in the drink.

Frankly, I'm done with it.

I don't waste time, effort, or passion to steady boats anymore.

Instead, I learned how to swim & tread water.

The only thing to fear is fear itself.

Monday 22 February 2021

Seizure Disorder Info Links

 

In 2016 I was a Cannabis Counsellor at Canadian Cannabis Clinics in Kingston, Ontario. I presented information about Cannabis for Seizures to our local Epilepsy association. The following is the information I emailed to attendants.  


Canadian Cannabis Clinics site.

https://www.cannabisclinics.ca/


Liam McKnight, Ottawa boy with Dravet’s.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/cannabis-oil-boy-seizure-ottawa-1.3402759


Liam, pic of 10 days after first use.

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/six-year-old-medical-marijuana-user-runs-afoul-of-health-canada-rules


Partial CNN documentary of WEED.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxrKyjeClTk


Anna Conte, Face of Cannabis

https://faceofcannabis.wordpress.com/2014/07/27/anna/


Realm of Caring 

https://www.theroc.us/


Addition links of interest:

Project CBD is one of the best sites for legitimate studies and articles about Cannabidiol. This link is to their section on seizures but you can search for many other conditions that CBD is shown to help. To search for medical condition, click the word "Medicine" in the banner.  Here to help!


https://www.projectcbd.org/hub/epilepsy


Cannabidiol, anti-seizure effects in rats--a study

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/850145


Josh Stanley’s TED talk--so good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciQ4ErmhO7g



Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s CNN special “WEED” full.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/weed/


“The Scientist” Documentary from 2015 about Dr. Raphael Mechoulam’s research into

Cannabis as medicine.  He’s a Cannabis hype-guy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu6FhJIyTEc


Dr. Lester Grinspoon RIP, former head of Psychiatry of Harvard.  Once anti cannabis, now

It’s biggest fan.  Why?  Because it helped someone he loved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEtpxPWjcrw