Keep toking, but get a vaporizer. Pot, according to the prohibs, will mess with your hormones (i.e. make men grow breasts, cause infertility, blah, blah, blah) and your mind (make you schizo). Of course, there have been recent studies that totally disprove their lies.

The effect does not go away! You can be happy and sexy forever- as far as I can tell. I'm 59 and have used cannabis for 40 years. The main problem was lung hassles, but that cleared up with getting a vaporizer (2 weeks after getting it, the lungs were fine!). I don't know what your financial situation is, but the little Vapor Brother's I have is worth every penny of the under $150 I spent- and years that I hit poverty level are good years! I'm rather frugal, to put it mildly! (I love my job even though the pay is lousy and I'd rather do it than a better paying job! I'm still the crazy hippie- I just toned down the wardrobe.)

Well, I'm slightly bipolar (mood swings) and pot is the best thing I've found. You will have to learn the difference between indicas (sleepy and sexy) and sativas( higher energy, but with the risk of paranoia in some folks). Most street cannabis is indica dominant, so you shouldn't have any trouble there. My hubby is a chronic depressive and loves the sativa called C-99. I prefer indicas usually.

Pot will not help with hot flashes (ya can't have everything, sigh!), but for the depression and lack of libido, you can't beat it! I'm in a mild depressive stage right now- it's just enough where I'm sleeping 9-10 hours a day(when I'm manic, I need about 5-6 hours) and getting the housework done is hard. So, I had a toke yesterday, put on belly-dancing music and danced through it all! I remember a quote from MANY years ago where a Jamaican said that ganja was whatever you wanted it to be- you could smoke it to make work easier or to sleep or make love. It was good for it all. He was right!

As for your son, just bring up the medical aspect of it. Since he isn't totally adverse to the idea of pot, it shouldn't be a problem. (My two kids are basically "straight edgers" and disapprove of their pot smoking Mama- but they don't get migraines or have arthritis, or are menopausal, either. They love me anyway. ) Just google up a few papers- try cannabis abstract hormones (or menopause). There is a lot of (non-American) research out there! And if any other herb had this many medical uses, it would be called a medical miracle! But the DEA is convinced it is the "devil's weed".

If you can, dear, get yourself to a sane state. I'm in California and am a "legal" user. It is veryeasy for anyone with a legit medical problem to get "legal". You bring in a copy of your medical records to a cannabis specialist, pay the nice doctor after the exam and lecture, and walk out "legal". I grow in my spare closet- better quality control and I know that it is absolutely organic. Also, I dislike the idea of paying the price of gold for some dried medicinal flowers! (I remember $10 ounces and $65 kilos)

Good luck and keep toking!-Granny:hippy:
Storm Crow Reviewed by Storm Crow on . Perimenopause, depressions & cannabis I need some help and advice. Quick history: I have been chronically depressed for about 10 years and have been on various medications over the years. I currently take Wellbutrin XL and just 1mg of klonopin a day. I had a hysterectomy a little over a year ago. I kept my ovaries. I had to have my right ovary removed in October due to a grapefruit sized cyst. Since all of this my sex drive has tanked. I mean TANKED. Since all this it seems my depression has increased. I have Rating: 5