To Keval about smoking pot

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Keval wrote:

 

>> Back in my party-animal university days in the early

>> 20s (my 20s that is, not the 1920s!!), I tried pot...

>> Of course you can't have a spiritual experience when

>> stoned, but don't tell the bhang-puffing sadhus in

>> Varanasi!

 

 

 

Dear Keval and all ~ I, like many of my generation (I suspect I am a bit

older than most here), was surrounded by pot smoking friends. I tried it, but

after one or two tries, I quite because it hurt my throat and made me cough a

lot. I also had several encounters with psychedelics. My first "trip" was

wonderful, but not that different from my own experiences that I had already

been

having on my own, just ratched up a notch or two. But each one was

successively worse in terms of context, surroundings, etc., and I would get very

frightened, so I quit that stuff pretty fast.

 

No one responded to what I posted about the medical use of marijuana ... but

I have used it in this way. Sometimes, due to my illness, I am too nauseated

and too bloated to feel like eating. Because of this, I lost a lot of weight

much too quickly. So sometimes this little plant makes it possible for me to

feed this body.

 

Some states have passed laws allowing the medical use of marijuana ~

California, Oregon, and more recently, I believe, Rhode Island. However, it is

unfortunate that these state laws are pre-empted by federal law, and so even in

these states there have been "stings." In California, a few years ago, two women

were busted. They ran a hospice like dwelling, specifically for people with

AIDs and other illnesses, to be able to come and find some relief through

marijuana (their facility was not a full-time one oriented to people close to

death). I'm not sure what happened to them, except that a short time later, I

read they were still running their facility.

 

I also think it's quite a shame that our drug fearing elected officials are

so blinded by their single-minded stance against marijuana, that even growing

hemp for other purposes is not allowed. This is sad because it could save a

lot of trees.

 

I have to admit I was somewhat astonished to learn of the "bhang puffing

sadhus."

Blessings ~ Linda