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.

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

Trauma is Running the Show Right Now--How Safe Do YOU Feel?

 

Before the Viet Nam war the Water Buffalo used to graze around the Opium plants, totally uninterested in them.

But when the bombs began to fall, those same Buffalo began eating those plants until they were completely intoxicated.

Fast forward to today and the Covid-19 pandemic is being marketed to be as devastating as the Viet Nam war.

Humanity obviously hasn't learned anything and we still leave those in need to squander for themselves.

What's keeping our many traumatized, chronically ill, and/or recovering neighbors and loved ones from making their way to the Opium plants, the crack houses, that place on the corner that always has dope?

And it's easy to tell yourself that those people don't matter--those people don't effect you or your life ... but they do!

Trauma drives the city bus now--the school bus too!

Trauma wields a badge, tazer, and quota for arrests.

Trauma decides your health, your script, your allowance, your future everything.

So as the fear mongering--true or fabricated--ramps up, what's keeping us from saying fuckit and diving headlong into those substances that will take the angst away?

The buoys in the water are no more, the lifeboats only carry the already wealthy, the life preservers are only programmed to help certain humans -- not all humans.

Today is Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath day and tomorrow is Sunday, the Christian Sabbath day.

To those of you who follow a faith, I ask you:  what have you done today to walk in the ways of your Prophet?

Cannabis Law Reform: the Realpolitik Version

Published by Roottie.com and then sold or transferred to MsJane.co who does not credit me for writing this article on their site.

According to vocabulary.com the word realpolitik came directly from German and literally means "practical politics."  Another online source describes it as 'politics or diplomacy based primarily on considerations of given circumstances and factors'.  As in, half the story then? Pretty much!  To me Realpolitik sounds counter to the theory of relativity since this way of thinking all but requires that you do not compare situations to others elsewhere present or past.  Realpolitik is basically governing with blinders on.  

I see it in the way our politicians are looking at Cannabis law reform and our youth.  I mean, we're so worried about our kids ingesting this safe plant, while at parties their peers are snorting percs, coke, or oxy's instead!  Even the fact that so many college and university students are taking Ritalin is a reason for worry. How about the keggers on campus.  Do you think our youth are drinking responsibly?

While our government wants to keep Cannabis out of the hands of our youth, I want the canna that will inevitably get into the hands of said youth, to be grown safely and ethically, and purchased in a regulated storefront.  Our leaders have to realize that they cannot mandate personal choice anymore than they can stop recreational experimentation! 

Realpolitik thinking doesn't look at the big picture though, as the macro view often confuses issues and muddies viewpoints.  If they were real about protecting the kids, they'd stop allowing alcohol companies to advertise to them.  They'd stop big pharma from pushing their poison pills on them.  And they'd go back to giving daily gym classes and teaching cursive writing!  

And what's it all for in the end, to simply avoid party opposition?  Why is our Government lying about the real reasons to regulate Cannabis?  Because the big picture shows the need I mention above and they're not ready for that shit-show.  Big pharma all over the globe needs to be taken down, Big alcohol too.  Even tobacco smokers get more respect than Cannabis smokers in tenement buildings and on the street.  

In the end I see Realpolitik for the smoke-show that it is.  Highlight this to cover up that and influence the masses.  Comparatively speaking, Cannabis is the safest recreational substance you could ever offer our youth.  Over-ingestion of water has killed more people than over-ingestion of Cannabis.  

It's 2017, we have a balanced parliament, but how real are we?

Anxiety, the Friend That Never Leaves You

 

I was just putting together alllllll the instances growing up where I suffered from unknown stomach issues.

There were several times in elementary school that my mum came to the school but then left & the "I miss my mummy feeling" in my stomach was absolutely gutting.  It happened before Hockey practices --I was the first girl in the town to play hockey with the boys.  It happened the first few times I slept over at friends' houses too.

There were times during my early 20's where the dull achey nausea was so bad, I'd force myself to vomit to try to make it go away.  It happened before work if/when I was unhappy with my job. It happened on the way to a stupid meeting in Kingston that I wasn't eager to attend.

Now I see that it was allllllllllways ANXIETY & my body's reaction to the fight/flight/freeze instinct.

It's interesting really to look back & remember those times & then realize EXACTLY what that was all about.

Oh the things I'd do then if I knew what I know now.

(Imagine the plants I could've grown on Hutching's Road!!!!!)

So ... in the words of Aldous Huxley, "Experience isn't what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you."

I don't have kids but I see & hear about the anxiety kids are feeling.  Some are dx'd heavy psych meds.  Others avoid school, dreading their life every Sunday because that day means tomorrow they go back to school.

I see adults with these issues too.  I'm here to suggest & urge you to try cannabinoids.  I am here to help.

Yesterday I got my CRA GST remittance papers.  In the first year of me being the owner/operator of Canna Clarity, I haven't made enough to remit GST.

I revel in the fact that though I've only printed one invoice for counselling, I have most definitely helped my fellow humans feel better, dose better, grow better, love themselves-forgive themselves-hype themselves better.

We live in a world that quantifies success differently than I do and differently than most of the people I call friends.  For many, success is never feeling the gutting "I miss my mummy feeling".  To me, success is understanding what it was all about and realizing the message it told me.

Today I begin to listen to my gut.

Pfizer .... Not So Trustworthy!!!!!

 

Half the world is trusting Pfizer for this vaccine.

Yet .... Pfizer has some unethical practices in its past.

Please read HERE.

Evolution of a Pandemic

 

It started with the Bat, hatin' on that dirty creature.

Then it evolved to the wet markets, the flea markets where people buy & sell food.

From the dirty creature to the sadistic human, that blame easily moved.

From the wet markets to the entire country, we now label them all.

Blame blame blame.

Over here, we're not allowed to feel that bigotry so we blame one another.

The mask must be on no matter what, who, or why.

Over regulation makes regulators of us all & so yes, we are all on the blame high-alert.

Now, differences of opinions separate us further.

If you or someone you love are in healthcare, you see all other opinions as insane.

Insane on one side

Correct on the other

Separate separate separate

And I am as guilty as anyone else on all accounts & more.

I whiplash myself when I see someone without a mask on yet I question the point of wearing them when there's no regulation on what you make your mask out of.

I just wish PEER REVIEW still mattered.

But now, not all Medical Professionals are being heard in the same way.

Separate separate

Blame blame

To all ... ALL Healthcare professionals, thank you for being the frontline in this.

To all delivery, transportation, food service, minimum waged workers and so many others ... I appreciate you.

Don't stop discussing this.

Don't stop talking.

Mask on or off, we have to peer review.

Before it's too late.

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