Chronic Relief - A True Stroy

About a year ago give or a take a month, a lady called my bosses office, Jamie Balagia, to schedule an appointment to meet with him to discuss some questions she had regarding a book she was in the process of writing regarding marijuana and some legal questions surrounding the issue. Little did she know she was calling the office of San Antonio Norml. Jamie and I met with her and filled her ears with over an hours worth of our rambling non stop chattering, but we helped open her eyes to a world she did not know existed.

What interested me was her story. The reason she had become interested in cannabis is because her mother was dying of lung cancer (she had already passed by the time she had met with us) and asked for cannabis to ease her pain, and as a dying request she not only asked the family to get cannabis for her, make cannabis edibles for her, but eat the cannabis with her also. I thought this was a lovely story.

When I asked her what she thought about marijuana growing up, her answer was "This is your brain...This is your brian on drugs, any questions?" She was raised in that era. Staring at the TV during that commercial in the 80's and in the classroom during D.A.R.E., a statically useless possibly harmful program. This experience with her mother led her to create a creative on-line guide to medical cannabis for the terminally and chronically ill called Chronic Relief, and at first she was just going to write a book of delicious cannabis edible recipes, but as she researched the medicinal value of the herb she became angry it was not legal and that the recipes she was creating for sick people unfortunately could not be sold in you local mom and pop store or anywhere for that matter (at least not here in Texas). The more research she did the more she wanted to educate people. She created her facebook page, and she is still in the process of completing her book.  She is still a "closet marijuana" activist, she is trying to decide whether to use her real name or pen name when she publishes her book. See she also owns her own private consulting business in the business world "What would her conservative friends think?....what would the people at church whisper?.... what would her client's think?" More than likely over half would be very proud of her and almost all would learn something. Fear sometimes traps us from being our "highest" potential.

And if it's illegal to cook our own cookies, pesto, brownies, candy, garlic sauce...then we might just get  a hold of someone else's that's just too potent for us. And end up like this POLICE OFFICER in the video below: