56 year old fart Veteran outta luck these days?

Hellooooo,

Hi and no high for lack of bud so here's my lot in life....

Please try and overlook my sooo last week lingo ok?

I called the MMJ whatever office last week and tho they're nice enuff folks...the answers were depressing.
I'm a 56 year old Vet with ''bionic'' eyeballs now due to extensive surgery pulling eyes from their sockets, stitching badly torn retinas and long recovery times and now just had the left lens replaced.
So the good news is I still have my eye sight and even better than ever before.
Yesterday was another post op check-up and well...go in next week due to unexpected inflammation.
So drops every few hours and shit 'til next week.
In time will get contacts or glasses to see 20/20 hopefully.
Have had glaucoma for atleast 25 something years and will always have this.
Back in 1983 I had emergency laser for waaay high eye pressure (52+) and after the work, smoked on occasion thru the weeks and never had pressure above normal (12 to 19ish)
The doc back then never saw such ideal pressure in his 30 something years.
My sister has it too but she does drops and inserts and almost yearly laser for her eye pressure in glaucoma.
The only diff was I smoked some weed and when I told the doc he scoffed me off.
Things have changed yes!
But still, the stigma against MMJ among the doctors is ever present.
The docs state bad idea and drops are alot better and stupid to smoke when meds do better yadda yadda.
I was on Ty3 for several years for joint pain and a few years ago just went cold turkey and stopped taking pain meds.
Got too frustrating on meds that up and down each day and becoming a cycle to get ''up'' then at night take generic Valium to get ''down'' to sleep.
I never was a med freak really and I used to be able to manage pain with mental games.

A couple a years ago my Texas lady friend moved in with me here in Albuquerque so she could go to the Alamogordo school for the blind, get on SS disability and such.
She smoked sometimes and her life long friend had some always so we smoked.
In this time my regular eye check-ups were always the ideal 12 in pressure.
That was then and now here I am.
My new, year old, 20s something neighbors smoke some and I got some dirt weed with a kazillion seeds and crap but hey...it smoked and after many hits got a mild buzz.
Been awfully iffy on and off but I smoked to keep my eye pressure ideal and until recent when I've not had any smoke for weeks and weeks here and there...my eye pressure went up quite a bit.
Basically, my neighbors are cool enuff and all but don't follow thru on what they say.
Getting some bud soon and weeks later still none and if they do it's always little if any for me once his boss gets his and their couple of other close friends gets theirs.
And my neighbors once again spaced me out and didn't follow thru, which has become the norm with them and I've just flat out had it with them thinking any dirt weed or even low-mid will be had.
They ask for favors and I jump in to abide in any way I can.
They leave town for days or longer and they know I will care for their pets well and never fail them.
Their best friend however never does and she gets first dubs on smoke and I am left out...again.
No matter really...just filling in my situation some.
Thank you.
Whining here I guess but it really irks me this generation of theirs seems to be alot of talk and little walk.
I even paid them more than enuff to pay for my token amount and even theirs just as a thanks and for the time and hassle of getting any weed.
I'm not rich and on a fixed income but no matter...I always show appreciation when I can.
They go to UNM so it's not like they can't know the stoners that are so abundant.
Guess I'm an old fart with old fashion ways.
I do what I say I will do and do so as soon as I possibly can.
I never leave anyone hanging and atleast keep them up to date if I can't follow thru as easy or fast.

I was soooo encouraged when fat Bill made into law the MMJ use.
And when he insisted the bud was to be made available I was ecstatic!

The VA is Federal and will not go along....kinda understand this, for now anyway.
But when I called UNMH I just knew they would due to the indignant and street druggies and what all.
Nope.
The lady said they won't script for medical mj but I can ask around and eventually find a doctor who would.
When I asked about Med MJ to be available says Bill?
She laffed at me and sarcastically suggested I find me a drug dealer to buy my weed from.
And she was serious.

So here I am and last week was encouraged and wonderfully motivated to get MMJ papers going and get a ''card'' for my use.

I ask around and no one has any or they just don't want to.

Talked to a guy at the desk when I was at the hospital and he said atleast half the staff smoked and he knew several who always seem to have great smoke.
Soooooo.
I asked like the beggar I have now become and he finally took my phone number and left it at that.
I briefly told him I understood the problem of staff selling to any patient but that I was cool and what takes place is never mentioned and I'd meet any time and place just to get hooked up.
I get the feeling I shouldn't be waiting by the phone.:(

I even went across the street when I saw a neighbor I've waved at a couple a times in the last year.
A chit chat and asked and he was like sooo cool about it and would take a drive and see what was going around and be back in the evening for me.
Well...past noon and not a peep.

WHY go thru the 10s of 12s of phone calls to even try and get a doctor to help with the MMJ card bit when I can't get hooked up???

Back in the 70s it was so easy to score and now it seems near impossible.
I was young then and older now but WTH??
When I was younger it was pretty cool to smoke with an old fart and they usually were grateful enuff to pitch in more than their share when we scored for them.
Do I hafta cut my ponytail off and get a buzz cut or what???

I am thinking maybe if I went to the UNM area and stood in front of the Frontier with a cardboard sign saying....will pay for good bud!
Even let my ponytail down and look like a throw back hippie might help.....

Grow is in but not until I get thru the steep learning curve and get seeds and all.
Meanwhile......feeling like an out dated idiot here.

Sincerely would appreciate any kind advice and for real making any local friends.

Thanks!

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Grow is in but not until I get thru the steep learning curve and get seeds and all.
Meanwhile......feeling like an out dated idiot here.

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we got 'cheat sheets' in the grow forums:...maybe, we can make you independent again...:thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Dutch Pimp

we got 'cheat sheets' in the grow forums:...maybe, we can make you independent again...:thumbsup:

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~SIGH~

Thanks Dutch.

I've been hunkered down lurking and reading til all hours on here.

StinkyAttic has great posts on her grow wisdom and others as well.

I looked over my rented duplex here and get even more depressed.

I can see a 2 to 4 plant grow doable but not as soon as I'd like.

Need to keep at the learning curve, take notes for a list of what all to buy and lights and on and on.
Where to buy and stuff.
There's the budgeting to save too and right now I have property taxes on my vacant land to come up with the money for and though I am ok money wise kinda sorta...the time now for a couple months is tighter than ever.

Even so, to take in the info needed...buy seeds from across the Big Pond and hope they arrive and then expect myself to have a great 1st grow is not getting done this weekend.
Any harvest would be a few months from now at best.

What to do in the interm??

I just don't get it nowadays.

This current smoking generation seems like they can only think of themselves and to hell with anybody else.
Honestly pisses me off to no end when people say they'll do something and either have no intentions are just blow it off because it's not all about or for themselves.
A temp mail carrier scored for me the best bud I ever had in my life and he doesn't even smoke.
But alas, the guy he knows got a paying job and since, doesn't call him back.

He was the only saving redemption I saw in this 20s something generation and gave me hopes.

Dashing hopes that's for sure.

I just do not get it.

Used to be no big thang and now it seems like I was looking to hook up for a pound of crack the way these moronic paraniod stoners keep it to them little selves.

Getting my hopes up and counting on yet one more to help me out and then left like the groom at the alter really hurts, sucks and just pisses me off now.

The neighbors now are on my shit list.:mad:

This Thanksgiving when they ask me to care for their pets they can check them into a pet hotel and pay up their sorry butts.
Let 'em have the feeling of being let down for a change!

(I'll be the soft heart for the animals and care for them while their gone anyway but I feel like telling them to kiss my ass and F off).

I understand your pain, man, and wish you the absolute best of luck- no doubt you've got a nephew who seems a bit forgetful at family picnics to help- but this site can't show posts that can even be construed as solicitation of a controlled substance, so please be judicious in the content of your posts.
Growing indoors is easier than you probably think. Please come join the grow crew!

Places stoners hang out........rock concerts, wild country music concerts, ice cream shops, head shops, beach, bars. Maybe everyone you approach thinks you are the fuzz. Most people will share if they are in public and you ask. Take a trip to Toronto and go to some coffee shops and buy some seeds then you'll be self sufficient. They even have a stoner boat trip you can get high on while in Toronto. there's always Amsterdam too. You'd love that i know I would.......

Thanks for a gentle kick Stinky.
I am outdated but a fast learner so sure thang to keep my whining in line with the rules.

Back in the early 70s until 1981 I lived in Ventura/Santa Barbara and the high life was eazzzzy enuff.
Now with Cali being 'legal' mmj...the dreamy thoughts I could walk into a store and buy/try an assortment of samples even is a joyfully mixed blessing.
Being here and the medicine there makes it ruff as y'all know.

I can see down the road a bit growing will be the best all around thing to do but for now there's just no way.
My bad.
Living in a 2 bedroom duplex is good enuff but for now I got every nook and wall filled up.

I restore/build up Art Deco lamps for a hobby and the place has the lamps sitting, hanging, hung everywhere and with the kitchen eating area looking like a lamp shop after Dorthy and Toto went wild...this place is past crowded.
Since this last year of eye problems and all I've not done any work on the lamps with period parts all about so things are a mess.
Another month or so of healing the eyeball to go Lord willing.
Good thoughts aleast are when I make room, clean up and sell off several lamps I will have the monies to get growing.
This will take a couple three months so there's hope floating down the way.

Think I'll make up a cardboard sign and string it on my shoulders and take a stroll up and down Central Ave by the university!
Doberman on her lead and me with the surgical guard patched over my eye.

LMAO.
Either I'd do pretty good or get busted trying with my sign outright asking, pleading pitifully so for bud.
Could make it into a news event and get on the TV with pleas to get this city and state on the ball with growers and dispensaries.

Know most the places pretty much but don't fit in all that good.

My guess is my age??
A 6'2'' pony tailed 56 year oldfart just ain't a 20s something kinda guy.:wtf:

But yah... more than one was later known to have been thinking I was fuzz or something.:wtf:

I dunno.

What the hell any narc would want with a $50.00 ''bust'' walking ticket just doesn't make any real life sense.
Traffic stop in a uniform is a sure bust as likely as not but I just can't see a narc working on an ounce or less.
On campus maybe but even still not at all likely.

If I was ''rich'' I'd already been driving west to the Gay Bay area to get the medicine going along.:cool:
Maybe even north to the Mile High.

I've been outta the loop for nearly 2 decades having jobs that required the european lottery twice a year atleast.
I got pigeoned holed alot for my long hours hard at work and my tail probably pissed of many a creeps as well.
Now I'm good to go and will easily qualify for the mmj card but why bother getting one now when there isn't a way to get medicated?

Think I have a thought here!

Do a training on my Dobe for her to sniff out bud and THEN take a stroll around UNM!:D

Pitiful aren't I??

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Originally Posted by LolaGal

Places stoners hang out........rock concerts, wild country music concerts, ice cream shops, head shops, beach, bars. Maybe everyone you approach thinks you are the fuzz. Most people will share if they are in public and you ask. Take a trip to Toronto and go to some coffee shops and buy some seeds then you'll be self sufficient. They even have a stoner boat trip you can get high on while in Toronto. there's always Amsterdam too. You'd love that i know I would.......

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haha. Only thing wrong with the drug dog idea is that you have to use MJ to train her to sniff out MJ. According to my friends in the state pen (guard types) all you do is put a bag of MJ somewhere and make a game out of finding it. The dog then learns to sniff it out 'cause its a fun game for them to find it.

It's none of my business, but maybe you should chill out. Walking around with a sign sounds a little drastic. Ask your physician for a prescription of Marinol. Tell him you're thinking about walking around with a sign, maybe that'll shock him into prescribing if he thinks you're about to be arrested. Like Stinky says, can't talk about getting hooked up on here, it's against the rules. Good luck to you. Stay out of jail!

Was one of a few thots I had...many to follow no doubt.:D

My lady Doberman was going to be a jail cell sniffer if I didn't adopt her and more than glad I did.
Dobermans are too intelligent and sweet to be sniffing cells imo.

She has been my lady for over 5 years now since adopted at 1 1/2 yrs old.
Knows over 60 commands...verbal and sign.

Easy to teach to sniff and yessss....gotta have bud to sniff bud.

Rats.

Aw well....chill is right.

My docs are at the VA and they aren't allowed to write anything off the formularies.
Being a Federal hospital kills alot of good stuff but they have the best in care in both the public and private sectors.

I did find a local doctor online for here so in time will get thru the paper work for my MMJ 'card'.
For now there's not any places open like in California, Oregon, etc. and Canada so no reason to hurry up getting one....unless there's a reason unknown by me to do so.
I'm sincerely excited about being here with y'all to learn the currents and get caught up to snuff on the many changes and improvements for the medicine.
To learn how to grow indoors and all.

Sooooo...surreal seeing all the pics of plants and buds.

To imagine walking into a place with all of it at hand's reach to choose from is mind boggling.

Someday.

Someday.:smokin:

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Originally Posted by LolaGal

haha. Only thing wrong with the drug dog idea is that you have to use MJ to train her to sniff out MJ. According to my friends in the state pen (guard types) all you do is put a bag of MJ somewhere and make a game out of finding it. The dog then learns to sniff it out 'cause its a fun game for them to find it.

It's none of my business, but maybe you should chill out. Walking around with a sign sounds a little drastic. Ask your physician for a prescription of Marinol. Tell him you're thinking about walking around with a sign, maybe that'll shock him into prescribing if he thinks you're about to be arrested. Like Stinky says, can't talk about getting hooked up on here, it's against the rules. Good luck to you. Stay out of jail!

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I warned you, another member warned you. You need to read the site rules in regards to posting contact info, ESPECIALLY in a thread in which you are soliciting pot. This is CLOSED.