Moving to warmer, cannabis friendly climate
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Editor,
In regards to Boone’s column last week: I am a 73-year-old man who has lived the last 15 years with many of the same problems and pain he described in his article in the March 2 Journal. I have a spine with multiple compressed discs and bone spurs trying to self-fuse. I have severe neuropathy in both feet as well.
I hadn’t had a decent nights sleep in years. The NSAID I had been taking for years only damped the pain and was starting to damage my kidneys. My doctors were willing to prescribe narcotics but warned about the chance of addiction and side effects that might turn me into a zombie.
I decided to look at cannabis as an alternative. I found out I had been lied to my whole life. I found out that the medical effectiveness of cannabis goes back thousands of years. I found out there are strains that are very low in THC and that I do not have to get “high” to receive the medical benefits for pain that cannabis offers.
I applied for and received Montana med. card and was advised by the wonderful people at the dispensary to try their CBD oil. With great trepidation, after all, this was the much touted “devil weed.” I took six drops that and evening and waited. Two hours later my pain was eliminated, not just damped, but gone ... What I would have given to know this 15 years ago.
Like everyone else I have a conundrum, what do I do now?
Well, I have decided I cannot live in a state controlled by people with little compassion and less common sense, I’m moving to Arizona.
I will sign the initiative but I am done with a legislature whose actions are as cold as the Montana weather.
Anyway, thank you for your article.
LeRoy Buchholdt
Ronan
