Medical marijuana

My sister got on medical marijuana for back pain. She now lives for pot and is essentially an addict. I think her personality changed as well. I wouldn't recommend it.

Not sure but someone told me that legal marijuana is far more potent than it was when it was sold on the street.

THC (the substance in marijuana that causes the high) can cause psychosis in certain individuals at any amount or in a large enough amount for many if not all people. Chronic use can worsen anxiety and depression. From experience I can tell you certain strains are prone to causing panic attacks and dissociation.

It's helped me with insomnia though and sometimes appetite issues. My BMI at a point was about 16 and I would probably still be there or lower if I didn't smoke, eat, and sleep a couple times a week for a little. My biggest issue is PTSD, but I have pretty severe manic/psychotic episodes at times. High doses of edibles and sativas will make me really anxious and my heart rate will skyrocket, but I like a hybrid or an indica that can calm my racing mind or sedate me enough to sleep. I don't have a medical card and it's not legal recreationally but in every border state/province it is and it's not like it's a long drive to ANY of our borders.

Here it can be prescribed medically for opioid addiction, interestingly enough. I guess it's harm reduction.

It's not so much that legal marijuana is more potent than street marijuana, it's today's marijuana is more potent than 70s marijuana. Much like today's blueberries are sweeter than before selective breeding took place. I can assure you NH weed is still illegal but it will kill you way before MA's legal weed will (mostly because it's laced with fentanyl, xylazine, formaldehyde, etc.)

Well said!...Ive had my card for 14 years. Learning is the key.

I don't think I had a problem when I smoked around 2013 and 2018 for a while. I wasn't psychotic and didn't cause me any anxiety. I was buying it online from a place in CA which is now gone and I went to NYC to buy it when you could find it on Craigslist.
They might disqualify me because I'm BP.
Last year I was buying from chronicguru which is legal because it has no THC but has THCa (non psychoactive and precursor to THC) but it doesn't cause a "high", only an altered state which was kind of strange.
I felt very relaxed when I came down from cannabis and I loved listening to music while high. I miss that.

I had a friend with her card for chronic pain who ended up having a manic episode and got hospitalized. Idk if she got diagnosed bipolar, but she didn’t get her script taken away because of it but she does have to be more careful now—no dabs/flower only now, be choosey with strains, etc.

I got approved! In less than 5 minutes. Dr didn't ask me anything! There are about 8 dispensaries within couple miles from here.

I hope it works for you!

It used to work for me as a sleep aid (edibles or capsules). Now it doesn't work anymore, and instead it causes me this weird and very unpleasant subjective perception of a rapid heart rate, but objectively measured parameters are normal.

I wonder what other form of cannabis I should try to avoid this odd side effect.

This is not a simple answer.
I would keep away from any edible that dosent have the strains in it(most never say)

You want the most Indica for sleep and pain use.
Now the side effects you are feeling is from the Turpins, thats why knowing what you take is essential.
Think of THC as the rocket fuel, but the turpiens is what steers it.
I buy my flower and see what works. Then I make my own butter, tinctures, oils with it.
No heart palpitations, paranoia.

I ended up having the same experience where I’d feel like my heart was racing but my heart rate would actually be like 70bpm with edibles. I can smoke fine I think mostly because it’s a lot easier to fine tune the dose since one hit generally does less than one (gummy, chocolate piece, whatever) and you don’t have to wait hours to figure out “I might need more to actually sleep.” I can only get illegal edibles right now or out of state recreational dispensary ones that usually are quite strong for someone with little tolerance, but since it’s illegal here and I’m in an apartment that’s my option so I would go for the tinctures or a physically larger form of edible to fine tune dose a little better (easier to more accurately divide a chocolate square into 1/8ths than a gummy for example).

I’ve been trying to work with my pdoc to not “have to” go that route since technically it’s against my CD, but if I can’t get my sleep back on track I’d rather sleep and eat than get psychotic. A CD revocation not sleep deprived, malnourished, and balls to the wall is a lot better than one while all those things. I’m not really supposed to take NSAIDs right now either and I’m in hella pain so I’ve been eyeing the menu for things that are good for pain, sleep, and appetite haha. (Idk why Ayotte wants to make it hard for me to sleep and eat but that’s another discussion).

Like davOD said Indicas tend to be friendlier to people with panic and way better for sleep. Sativas will wake a lot of people up and get the thoughts going (sometimes too much so).

I didn't have paranoia. I had that subjective rapid HR sensation. So you had the same, MB. I will try buying flowers and making my own edibles. Since I like cooking, this might in fact be perfect for me.

Just know that can be a potent process

I will have to be cautious

I had an odd reaction.

Here is is... I don't think marijuana works for me. At all. I had zero reaction to it at all... and if I did, it was more like anxiety than relaxation.

I tried edibles, I tried vaping. I tried different strains... nothing seemed to happen.

The only thing I noticed was a few times I thought someone slammed my front door (I was asleep) but when I got up at 1 AM, no one was there and there was no evidence of anyone moving the door.