[Magdalen] Medical cannibis applications.

[James Handsfield]

First of all, Allan, you need to take care of yourself.  If you don’t take care of yourself, you will not be able to care for your wife.  I speak from experience.

What you are experiencing is horrible.  I encourage you to find a caregivers support group you can attend.  I’m sure one of the Alzheimer’s associations will have something in your area.

I also suggest seeing a psychiatrist who can provide appropriate medication to help you.  I’ve been taking Prozac for over two years now.  Pot is untested for the most part, and we all know what alcohol can (and will) do.  Alcohol is a depressant and in the long run will only make things worse for you, so I support your decision to quit drinking scotch.

I know it doesn’t feel like it, but you are living through a holy time.  I’m just beginning to understand that for myself.  Marcy’s illness and death sent me into a near Dark Night experience, with many questions and no answers.  I’m coming to know that I have no idea about God.  The only evidence I see that God even exists is that love exists, intangible as love is.  My spiritual director tells me that I have now gone deeper than the cloud of unknowing and closer to God.  I think she may be right even though I don’t really understand it.

You have my prayers, Allan.

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Education is its own reward, both for the individual and for society.

Jim Handsfield
jhandsfield at att.net

> On Feb 21, 2017, at 11:21 PM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The law in California is subject to county and city restrictions. In this
> city and county, manufacturing and sale of cannabis products is forbidden,
> even for medicinal purposes, I am allowed to grow six plants in a
> restricted space such as inside my house. I don't know if my enclosed
> atrium with a front door qualifies.
> 
> Although my caregiver has agreed to drive me to Los Angeles County if I
> ever feel a need for pot, I haven't yet gone to the trouble.
> 
> February 1, I decided that I should quit drinking scotch by the glassful as
> a reaction to the stress of living with my wife's steadily worsening
> Alzheimer's. The idea of trying pot is attractive, but I'd probably get as
> addicted as I once did to cigarettes long ago and now to Scotch.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:32 PM, <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Well done to California, Vermont and Massachusetts. Sounds like a plan to
>> get through the next four years. We only have two more years of "farce and
>> fisticuffs" but will probably need a lot more than green wonderfulness to
>> survive it.
>> 
>> Sally D
>> 
>> On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 at 8:45 PM Charles Wohlers <
>> charles.wohlers at verizon.net>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> We wondered (well, for maybe for a couple of minutes or so) why there
>> were
>>> all these grow lights in the basement left by the previous owners when we
>>> moved in to our current home in VT.
>>> 
>>> Chad Wohlers
>>> for just another hour, now that I'm shoveled out in
>>> East Bridgewater, MA USA
>>> chadwohl at satucket.com
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ME Michaud
>>> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2017 12:49 PM
>>> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Medical cannibis applications.
>>> 
>>> We'll find a way to cope :-)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://www.masslive.com/business-news/index.ssf/2017/
>> 01/million-square-foot_marijuana_growing_massachusetts.html
>>> 
>>> On Friday, February 10, 2017, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Working in land use as I do, and being taken aback recently at just HOW
>>>> MANY applications are coming through for medical marijuana businesses
>>>> (both
>>>> cultivating and selling), I expressed my surprise to my boss recently.
>>>> She
>>>> replied with what should have been obvious to me:  other states may
>> have
>>>> led the legal way in recent years, but many of those states do not have
>>>> all
>>>> or in some cases even any of the necessary agricultural conditions to
>> do
>>>> the growing, like we obviously do.  Other states have to do
>> work-arounds.
>>>> We, all we need to do is plant and we're up and running.  And I bet we
>>>> also
>>>> have to hire more security than would otherwise be expected.  Field
>> upon
>>>> field of lush green wonderfulness.  Wink wink.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Allan Carr