







15 thoughts

  1. You bet! I’m fifty-six years old, and ever since I’ve been in the state-authorized medical marijuana program, my health has improved tremendously. I’m as fit and frisky as a spring lamb on a sunny day, frolicking in the field, kicking up its heels at some butterflies that are dancing in a warm breeze, under crisp blue skies…

    Oops! Sorry, euphoria can be a “side-effect” of cannabis use, and of good health itself.

    1. mark, i am 59 this year. consumed cannabis for 32 years. all that time (of course i was younger) i always felt good even with back, neck damage, it was my mind that kept me spirited even tho my body was not always up to the task. i give that to has kept me spirited and industrious. 7 yrs ago my job began hair testing. slowly, that spring in my mind went away. i know we change as we get older but i firmly believe that i would feel like you do now if i were allowed to consume the ‘remedy’ ….

      1. I empathize deeply. Although I understand that it’s none of my business, I would respectfully encourage you to aggressively look for ways to separate yourself from that policy –quit, retire, find a new job — whatever it takes. I do understand that’s usually easier said than done! And I know there’s gonna be a price for dumping your job, and that it’s often more than most people can pay. That’s the real crime, right there: forcing people to choose between their health and their job.

        But remember, if you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything! Less money but better health is a good deal, in disguise.

  2. Country music legend and NORML advisory board member Willie Nelson is 83 years old and will be playing in Austin Obtober 9th at ACL. This man has arthritis and yet he is healthy and spirited enough to play the guittar for a living! God Bless you Willie! Ill be at a NORML educational event for Marijuana reform down in San Antone but Ive been to a couple of Willie’s picnics and they always feel like home.

    If we shall require any more evidence marijuana consumption makes us more productive after age 50, take alook at NORML’s advisory board;

    …and may we forever hold our peace.

    1. To my knowledge Willie Nelson has not been busted for years now. It’s getting so I don’t feel safe in the streets.

      1. I knoooow! How will boss hog ever make payroll if he cant keep catching ol Willey? It was like an episode of roadrunner (but the smoke wasnt from the road dust).
        Truth is the federal money dried up a while back in Hudspeth county Texas where they kept stopping Willie and Snoop Dog for that matter. Turns out ol Boss Hog Sheriff of Hudspeth was only arresting Willie for the federal quota. Soon as the grant dried up, so did the arrests. At least there’s something our legislators can reach bipartisan agreement on; no more federal prison contracts!

  3. The 2014 Surgeon General estimate of cost to US economy of tobacco-related (oops I almost said -assisted) disease, $289-bil., included over $150-bil. from job absenteeism… now this study shows increased employment and work hours in MMJ states— could it be partly because more seniors are SUBSTITUTING MMJ for tobacco?

    Just as “Patients report using the product as a substitute for prescriptive medications”, also “Alcohol, heroin and tobacco use declines following passage of an MML”. That decline in tobacco use then leads to increased work hours.

    May I add another speculation: while one recent estimate was that worldwide 94% of tobacco use was via the $igarette format, 5% cigars, 1% pipes, cannabis users are already 15% into Vaping (which you CAN DO with a flexdrawtube oneheater– thus switching to cannabis but not to the Joint may have helped some seniors also get rid of Puffpaper Monoxide and 4221 combustion toxins?

    1. Yeah, pretty soon “Big Marijuana” will have older generations running around enjoying life, exercising and throwing away their prescription meds! What is this world coming to?!!

      1. Thanks, @Julian, your thought is mostly correct but you misspoke– not Big Marijuana (500-mg Hot Burning Overdose Monoxide Paperpuffin Joint) but Little Marijuana (25-mg vapetoke of sifted herb in flexdrawtube oneheater) promotes vitality, exercise, achievement– and $aves a $#!+load of money.

      2. Thanks Mexweed, though I guess I have to use more emojis to convey sarcasm… 😉

  4. Personal use of cannabis shows all the truth. How different would our world be today if the truth and not somebodies profits garnered the media? How many americans would respect each other and authorities if their efforts were based on the truth and not disruptive controls used like an overreaching parent?

    1. Yes.

      Without getting all mystical, or making an appeal to the supernatural, let me just say this: Truth is like oxygen for the human soul, which will suffocate without it, eventually.

      Marijuana prohibition is founded on lies, and justified and perpetuated by lies. To believe these lies, to accept these lies as truth, is to be deceived. A soul in these circumstances will suffocate; the soul dies, and the mind separates from reality. Individuals like this will say, “Who’s to say what’s true? Who’s to say your beliefs are any better than mine?” But, the problem with that is, just because one believes a thing, doesn’t make that thing true.

      Yet there is hope, because Truth can breath new life into one’s soul, and it can help to heal the mind, which has been cracking under the pressure of living in a state of delusion.

      And, absolutely! –cannabis can promote and facilitate that healing! Consequently, it can play a part in making the world a better place in which to live.

      1. I’m using the word “soul” here in a non-supernatural sense of the word. I am referring to a fully integrated “self.”

Leave a Reply