thetourist
11-30-2008, 06:44 PM
Little background info might be in order I guess.
I'm 26 and married, I smoked cannabis from age 17 to 24. I have a lung disease called sarcoidosis, so now smoking is completely out of the question since I have only one fairly decent lung. The transplant specialist in St. Louis told me they think I'll need a double lung transplant in 2 or 3 years. So smoking is definitely out of the question.
BUT, it's still edible ;) I make firecrackers when I want some, but I want to start making THC pills. There are reasons for why I want to grow my own and make the pills.
1. Due to the prednisone that I've had to take over the years it has worn down on my bones, my bone density test that came back showed that I've lost a good bit. And because of that my body just aches constantly, I take about 1600mg of Ibuprofen a day for that (Morning and night).
2. The medication I'm taking, Cellcept and Paxil, the paxil is because I've been having major depressive episodes because of my disease. It sucks being 26 and not being able to take a shower without gasping for breath. And I think the combination of both of them has severely decreased my appetite, in the past 2 months or so I've lost weight I didn't need to lose. I think I'm down to 115lbs, I just can't finish a meal no matter how hard I try to stuff it down and I don't eat enough.
So those are my only two problems really, everything else that comes with the disease package can be dealt with.
Now here's the MAJOR problem.
My wife has never tried marijuana, she's been curious and almost took a hit from her uncles joint while we were at their house. She's talked about how she would be interested in trying it but she would be too afraid of a random drug test.
The main reason she does not like the idea of marijuana is because it's illegal. Which is understandable, and I don't want to go out and buy it from some stranger and I don't want to sell it. I want to grow a couple plants and make the THC pills. That's it.
But I don't know how to run this by her, I don't know if she would be ok with it or not. And I want to use marijuana to take myself off Ibuprofen and I don't want to take any type of codeine (I end up take them all too fast, I have a problem with those). Marijuana also makes me eat like a mad man, I stuff everything in site into my belly. Overall I'm pretty sure I'd be a healthier person if I made the THC pills, or just made the firecrackers. I could put the weight back on and I wouldn't be destroying my body with chemicals.
So does anyone out there have any suggestions on how to talk to her about this? Has anyone else had to go through something like this?
I would hate it if this turned out to be something that she would leave me for.
I'm 26 and married, I smoked cannabis from age 17 to 24. I have a lung disease called sarcoidosis, so now smoking is completely out of the question since I have only one fairly decent lung. The transplant specialist in St. Louis told me they think I'll need a double lung transplant in 2 or 3 years. So smoking is definitely out of the question.
BUT, it's still edible ;) I make firecrackers when I want some, but I want to start making THC pills. There are reasons for why I want to grow my own and make the pills.
1. Due to the prednisone that I've had to take over the years it has worn down on my bones, my bone density test that came back showed that I've lost a good bit. And because of that my body just aches constantly, I take about 1600mg of Ibuprofen a day for that (Morning and night).
2. The medication I'm taking, Cellcept and Paxil, the paxil is because I've been having major depressive episodes because of my disease. It sucks being 26 and not being able to take a shower without gasping for breath. And I think the combination of both of them has severely decreased my appetite, in the past 2 months or so I've lost weight I didn't need to lose. I think I'm down to 115lbs, I just can't finish a meal no matter how hard I try to stuff it down and I don't eat enough.
So those are my only two problems really, everything else that comes with the disease package can be dealt with.
Now here's the MAJOR problem.
My wife has never tried marijuana, she's been curious and almost took a hit from her uncles joint while we were at their house. She's talked about how she would be interested in trying it but she would be too afraid of a random drug test.
The main reason she does not like the idea of marijuana is because it's illegal. Which is understandable, and I don't want to go out and buy it from some stranger and I don't want to sell it. I want to grow a couple plants and make the THC pills. That's it.
But I don't know how to run this by her, I don't know if she would be ok with it or not. And I want to use marijuana to take myself off Ibuprofen and I don't want to take any type of codeine (I end up take them all too fast, I have a problem with those). Marijuana also makes me eat like a mad man, I stuff everything in site into my belly. Overall I'm pretty sure I'd be a healthier person if I made the THC pills, or just made the firecrackers. I could put the weight back on and I wouldn't be destroying my body with chemicals.
So does anyone out there have any suggestions on how to talk to her about this? Has anyone else had to go through something like this?
I would hate it if this turned out to be something that she would leave me for.