TryptamineScape, please don't feed--or administer in any other fashion--cannabis to your mom without her knowledge. If we're ever going to get anywhere with cannabis as a respected choice for medical help, adults need to make up their own minds to use it. We don't advocate stealth cannabis administration, just like we don't advocate people smoking out their pets, either. You don't know how it will act on her with any certainty, and it's not an ideal medicine for everyone, particularly not for someone with advanced diabetes, heart disease or hypertension. She sounds like she very likely has some serious circulatory challenges with which to contend, and cannabis probably isn't well indicated for someone like that. It's not a wonder drug for everyone, you know. I wish more people would be wise enough to realize this.

You say she's being given medicine for "needless things," which is an alarming conclusion for you to draw unless you're her physician. Sounds like she has some serious health issues if she's taking medicine to keep her blood sugar and her blood pressure down. I'm guessing if she has nosebleeds, she may also be on some form of anticoagulant to help her avoid an embolic stroke, but some anti-hypertensives can cause nosebleeds, too. Please don't encourage her to go off those medicines just because you think she's on too many. Without what she's taking, she would likely be in much worse shape or possibly even disabled or dead. Encourage her to talk to her doctor(s) about simplifying her regimen of pills, and if there are any she can spare, then she needs to taper off the medicines according to their directions. There's a lot of prejudice, misinformation and suspicion about antidepressants going around these boards, which I think is unfair to those millions of folks for whom they work well.

Gandalf, there you go again. You can't possibly know what is helping his mother and what isn't because you're not her doctor and you're not the patient in this case. I'm all for alternative therapies when they work--particularly exercise and meditation for depression--but Tryptamine's mother and someone with concrete medical training need to make up their minds about that, not strangers on a cannabis board.