When it comes to work it’s all about dealing with the back
ache. And, when it comes to using mota, it’s all about making that back ache go
away.
I didn’t get back into using cannabis again because I had
something wrong with me. It just came into my life in a happenstance kind of
way and I was happy to have the time and be in the right place to rediscover
it. To light up without the fear of the cops breaking down my door was a very
good thing, indeed. As time passed I got further away from casual, recreational
toking, and instead, found myself using the good plant as a sleep agent, as a
pain relief tool, as an aid to reducing stress and a way to increase the joy
and pleasure of food and company.
Certainly, the one thing I didn’t see coming in the midst of
this cannabis renaissance was a back ache.
Many folks talk about work being a
pain in the neck. For me it’s all about pain in my upper back. At the library I use an old oak chair for all my day to day desk
work. No padding, no wheels, no tilting action, no swivel, just four legs, a
seat and a back rest. Nothing fancy. Nothing ergonomic about it, just a plain wood chair rescued
from the work room. When I first got here I had big, black fancy desk chair,
typical office drone kind of thing. Somehow I kept slipping out of it. I would
sit down and then slide. After a while it just got to be so ridiculous that I stuck
in the corner and advanced to this old straight and narrow device. I have to
think, after three or four months, that it just isn’t working either.
20 some odd years ago I got t-boned in an intersection, four or five days before Christmas. I got hit hard but managed to walk away from the accident. At the time I thought I was okay, didn’t even file a claim against the gal who hit me. Instead, what I got, years later, was soft tissue damage that has never really ever gone away. For a while it manifested itself in neck pains, sometimes so debilitating that I got notes from my doctor to stay home and heal. The City of Seattle even explored getting me a different desk but the desk was part of a historically important building. The desk had to stay, so this employee moved on. Years later that old injusy still flare up, but now instead of my neck they've moved on to my shoulder, something that helps to keep me from sleeping on left side at night. And how, just to add insult to injury, it seems to have found its way into my back. Coincidence? Maybe. I am betting, though, it’s just the chair.
So the chair was the reason I used as I went out in search for CBDs this weekend to help supplement my daily THC tincture dosing. My old stash was just about gone and I
surely wasn’t going to take a drive back to Mendocino to pick up a new supply. I did take a trip to
Loveland last week to check out a store I had read about online, Mad Mountain
Wellness. They were in the midst of changing owners and so the stock was down
to about nothing. I figured I would go back on payday, see if the changing of
the guard would lead to a restocking of the shelves.
Never made it back but I
did stumble on something even better and for that I am thankful.
As things go I didn’t even go into Organic
Alternatives in search of a CBD product. Instead, I was on a different misson, I was seeking out shops that
carried Sweetwater Teas. I had just applied to the company and felt it would be
best to try out their products ahead of time, just in case I was lucky enough to score an
interview. What made their product so interesting to me was not only the
quality of their website but the focus of their product. What they currently have
out are three different infused teas…black, green and mint…with a max load of
2.5 mg of THC in every brewed cup of tea. Now, I am not opposed to folks wanting
to blow their cranium with high doses of THC. Please, knock your socks off, if
that is what suits you. But since I have been back in the game I have been always
looking for those lower dose strains. I like today’s quality but I really want
is yesterday’s buzz. So, when I read about Sweetwater, I had to say yes to what
they were selling and wanted to try out a bit of their product, just to see if
it would speak to me as much in person as it did in the ad.
But before I could get there I had to experience the joys of
the establishment I had stepped into. I know it is the way of the world now but
man, did I love the look of Organic Alternatives! Blonde wood, nice lighting, a
great entry desk, helpful staff, a great looking back bar, loads of jars of
herb to entice you but even better, pre-weighed and nicely packed grams to take
home once you went through their well thought out selections. All the weed was
similarly priced, a bit high end but all organic, well cured and pretty in
their respective pouches. As I talked to the budtender he finally got the gist
of what I seeking out. Teas didn’t go over well there but they had a product in
stock, after dinner mints, that had a 2.5 mg dose packed into each little
dulce. Now, that was a sale, along with a gram of Trinity. What really rocked
my world that day was their medical desk, situated right behind the recreation
desk, best of all, packed with the Stanley Brothers CBD flagship strain, Charlotte’s
Web! I picked up a one-ounce bottle to try out. The price was steep but the
pedigree couldn’t be better.
I didn’t expect to expand my cannabis horizons after that
but somehow my partner read into my notes and hints and let us wander, after a
day of magic shows, second handing, Indian food and museum explorations, to
Boulder where I was given a couple minutes to see if Stillwater was really,
truly in stock at The Farm. Sure enough, in their well-appointed waiting room,
was a glass case, part of given over to a display of the cool and delightful
product I was seeking. The Stillwater website was intriguing enough, but the cylindrically
round tins packed full of tea magic were even better looking in real life. I
perused the Farm’s menu board, thought twice about picking up some grams of Purple
Hawaiian and Pineapple Thai but instead proceeded on to the sales floor and finalized
my quest: two cans of tea, one green, one mint, in a nifty logoed bag, ready to
take home and play with. What a happy man, what a great time to be alive in the
world of legal cannabis!
So, after a full day of exploring the Front Range my partner
and I went home and brewed up a couple cuppas, both of us coming on to the low
dose of THC right after sleep set in. The tea was pleasant and the high
negligible, just what the patients ordered. But this morning the CBD dose was
just what the doctor would have ordered had he given me a script. I took a
dropper dose along with my dropper of tincture and, unlike the product I have
been nursing all year long from Fort Bragg dispensary, this one delivered. I finally
felt that grand feeling of warmth and relaxation I have been looking for in a
daily CBD regimen. I came to work fully expecting to face a busy day and,
instead, was given a day’s reprieve my fellow supervisor. So, here I sit,
straight up in my old library chair, and cherishing the fact that that nagging
back pain has gone to visit someone else for a while. My back, apparently still
a bit tweaked from that long ago accident, took a holiday today. Happy days,
indeed.
No one ever said that good health comes cheap. Today I woke
rested thanks to a decent cup of tea, a well thought out product designed for
folks who really want to partake in the joys and promise of cannabis but who don’t
want to get blasted every time they play. Well, that tea was dandy but not for
every day consumption. Just can’t afford that kind of diversion in my budget on
a regular basis. But the Stanley Brothers’ Charlottes Web? I have made up my
mind that product will be a regular line item for purchase on pay day. I know
that coupled with exercise, a good diet and plenty of sleep, pain, anxiety and inflammation
will be something out of my past.
We are very, very lucky to be living in times like these. I
am very, very fortunate, to have the bucks to buy these products, to be living
in a place where they can be bought legally and freely. I am happy to have a
job right now that doesn’t pee test me and pays me well enough to afford these
luxuries.
Maybe I shouldn’t call them that. Let’s make that necessities.
A backache isn’t something we come into this world with. With a bit of
mota we can make that kind of thing go away. Just call me a believer.
Salud
CW Hemp! Thank you, Charlotte's Web!
https://www.cwhemp.com/
Stillwater Teas!
http://stillwater.life/home
Organic Alternatives! Such a lovely place!
http://organicalternatives.com/?age-verified=63c829615d
Sensible brownies!
http://www.thecannabist.co/2016/10/20/pot-brownies-microdosing-edibles/65719/
Maureen Dowd's NY Times story. Freak out!
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/opinion/dowd-dont-harsh-our-mellow-dude.html?_r=0
A follow up to that tale:
http://www.thecannabist.co/2014/06/04/was-maureen-dowd-warned-about-edible-marijuana/13113/
Hilarious take on the Dowd story!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/03/take-that-maureen-dowd-i-ate-90-servings-of-thc-and-lived.html
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