I don't think I could keep the neighbors from smelling the smoke...

I usually just vedge out in front of my computer...

Then go to bed and get a nice night's sleep...

and enjoy the lack of pain in my knees for the next couple of days.

(I use a low-THC, high-CBD strain; kills the inflammation and lets me function well for several days as the areas are not being constantly irritated and inflamed.)

Give me that good old THC for that flair of creativity!

Though Cannabis makes a great entertaining drug, we don't get high because its fun, or because reality sucks and while we might joke about being ''stoners'' this is some serious medicine that's been held in the dark, there is a social stigma related to using weed.

Most people, smartly smoke it at home, away from neighbors, and out from under prying suspicious eyes because of the bad press weed has gotten over the years. We aren't drug addicts, nor does one become addicted like one does with nicotine. While its funny to watch people smoke a bong, and cough, laugh etc, this drug has a powerful way of combatting what ever thing ails us.

Because Federally it carries a prison sentence, this is not the thing a veteran is going to smoke while on the VA campus. Because of strict Federal laws each of us are potentially OUTLAWS by the DEA and other drug agencies. This is a scary thing, and some won't even indulge knowing that at some point in time, a DEA agent might slap cuffs on us and throw us away in some federal prison (or god forbid some Jeff Sessions for profit prison.)

Using it is like playing with a loaded gun. You might use it for your glaucoma but it doesn't mean the FEDS are going to look the other way, like the local cops do now. So each of us know that its often better not to say anything to anyone, even with a doctor's recommendation.

Imagine going to the local Dispensary, only to find its RAIDED by Trump's goons, and they throw us all for purchasing it, having it in our possession, or being nailed as one who might be included as a part of a group, for "selling" and distributing Marijuana. No one wants to spend the week in Jail or having to go to trial because you were caught in a sting. Even being at a dispensary can be dangerous, if the FEDS swoop in and attempt to shut the place down, taking all the weed for evidence.

Truthfully, would you trust DONNIE TWO SCOOPS, not to have his goons swoop in, when they find their FOR PROFIT prisons are not full enough? Many would rather go and suffer than spend one minute going to a dispensary, with the chance of coming out and finding the DEA there ready to arrest the people on the premise.

Reminds me of the time, I saw cops waiting for people to come out of a bar, to arrest them for public drunkenness! Oh sure they could be out investigating some real crime down the street but the people of the bar, were just easy pickings...a chance for the city to make some extra money in fines, by arresting all the people out in public technically drunk.

Would the DEA do this? I would not put anything past Jeff Sessions. Those for profit federal prisons will not fill themselves..and its a dick enough move, for them to make some personal profit by busting medical patients who made the wrong or "bad choice".

Most of us want to be off those drugs, the doctor prescribes because they have nasty side affects. Weed won't have that.. but if it cuts the funding out from under the Pharmaceuticals companies, they might demand that Sessions arrest these "dope fiends" and get us all back on their products, since they don't have any part in making profits from selling Cannabis.

When our US government thinks that the weed sellers are making more money than they should --than either they want to control the sale of "medicine" by cutting out the small guy or by golly force them out of business by having LAW ENFORCEMENT officers put a stop to it.