Thanks for the ping.
While I detest CNN, in this one instance they got a story right. One of their rare “stopped clock” moments I wager.
Before I started using cannabis in 2015 I was severely depressed, eat up with anxiety & I weighed 289 lbs courtesy of zero energy or drive to do anything remotely resembling physical activity, let alone exercise. I was on multiple medications for depression, anxiety & insomnia. I was miserable & so was my wife who had to endure my unpredictable moods & by her own admission walked on eggshells for many years due to my illness.
I started using small amounts of cannabis daily in Feb 2015, By the end of 2015 I was off the antidepressants. By the end of 2016 I was off the benzo’s for anxiety. By the end of 2017 I was off the insomnia meds.
As I got better in 2015 I became aware of my physical body again & immediately started a low card diet & began walking every day. Since I began using cannabis in 2015 to this very day I have lost 93lbs of flab & I walk over 130 miles a month now on average. Physically, I’m in the best shape of my life since I was in my early 20’s & my mental state is vastly improved. After many years of my mood being in the ditch I am now able to experience joy & happiness once more.
Since Florida’s voter driven MMJ program came online I have had the opportunity to meet some incredibly awesome people. The majority of them are Trump supporters, no less. I see & hear from other patients who talk about how much better their lives are since they began using cannabis medicinally.
I’d love nothing more than to see some of FR’s vocal cannabis prohibitionists come to our town & meet me & these folks whose lives have been changed dramatically for the better by using cannabis to treat their ailments & diseases. Even more, I’d like for them to hear 1st hand my non-using wife’s account of how cannabis has helped me & by extension improved our life together in a wonderful way.
For many of us walking this earth cannabis is a wonderful medicine. Period.