I really wanted to start a LONG time ago, but just couldn't reconcile the legal threat. Then, I discovered that I have arthritis, and Our Benevolent Government has decided that I should be allowed to be productive, and not hassled about my preferred pain medication.

Now, with my Super Duper Gub'mint Permiss'n Slip in hand, and kept on my body at all times (can't tell you where I securely store it while I sleep, cuz that'd weird y'all /out/ ), I can grow 15 plants, and keep a respectable amount of 'personal' after a harvest, to get me thru to the next harvest...

The HARD part is getting thru the /first/ gardening and harvest phase..! [I still have another month to six weeks to go! Mehupe!]

I can't hate the way things are up here, but evidently some people south of our border seem to think that the streets here in TO are running with weed, and that one can pretty much buy it anywhere.

I have a friend who works at one of the busiest downtown grocery stores, who said he had a customer come up to him a coupla days ago and ask him where they kept their weed, in a low voice. After giving his head a shake, my friend realized that the customer /must/ have said "wheat" (what was my friend thinking?), and so he said: "Aisle two, right below the baking goods..."

To which the dear customer leaned in /closer/ and said (even more quietly): "Noo, man, where's your /weeeeD/..."

My friend, ever the stalwart customer servant, replied: "Uhh, that's kind of illegal to sell up here, I'm not sure where you're from..."

"The States..., like, New York, man..."

"Ahh... well, contrary to some rumors, weed is still illegal here, but it's not too hard to get if you have a medical thing for it, and I think the dispensaries up here recognise US medical MJ papers for that sort of thing..."

"Aww, daaaaayummmmmm... My friends were fuckin' lying to me, man..."

"Bummer. Good luck finding some..."


Life can be interesting in the Grocery Store sometimes.

(c)C :chainsaw: