The New Job

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I've alluded to The New Job during the last couple of months, so here it is. I'm writing for a company called Weedmaps and their websites: marijuana.com and cannabis.com. I'll also be helping to edit other material. It's full-time. I'll be posting several times a week -- interviews, columns, interesting stories that are all related to medical cannabis and human interest. The marijuana.com website is up and running and is an important resource for all things marijuana-related. The cannabis.com site is a work in progress, and eventually my writing will primarily be featured there. I can't begin to express how grateful I am for this job to have come my way, how perfectly it works out for me both financially and flexibly. I will work from home. If Sophie has a bad day and needs to stay home, I can still work from home.  Praise Jesus and hallelujah! Or shall I say praise Cannabis! The irony isn't lost on me that I am still a person who hasn't "partaken" in nearly thirty years, that I got this perfect job because of the often torturous path to healing for Sophie, that I can now parlay my skills into educating and inspiring other families to look at cannabis as a healing plant.

My first article, an interview with a wonderful writer, mother and dear friend and compadre is up today. You can read it here:

Making THCa at Home: An Interview with a Mother


Please leave a comment on the site if you feel like it. And I'd really love it if you'd give me some ideas and suggestions for future interviews, articles and so forth that I could work on. Like everything else in life, it's a grand collaboration, and I wouldn't be here if it weren't for you.

Medical Marijuana, CBD Update, Realm of Caring, Weedmaps TV and Vanity

Last month, right near the 19th anniversary of Sophie's diagnosis of infantile spasms, I had the great opportunity to tell our story to a crowd of folks at the Realm of Caring fundraiser. Here's a video which features some clips from my own speech but also from some of the other families, as well as the phenomenal Dr. Bonnie Goldstein who is working with many of these children with refractory epilepsy, as well as other illnesses. She explains the whole shebang in the clearest, most professional way. Please listen to the whole thing -- it will be thirteen minutes of your day well spent.




The video was made by Weedmaps TV -- I know, I know. The name. Get over your hang-ups, folks, and embrace it. If you hold-outs do that, I'll get over my hang-ups about being photographed at angles I'd prefer to never see. I took the first step by even posting this thing. You take the next. My vanity for your ignorance.

As for our Sophalofa, she is struggling a bit as we adjust both the CBD, THCa and her regular anti-epileptic medications. Overall, she's excellent. Breakthrough seizures are perhaps more difficult to deal with as we've now seen so many seizure free days! As Henry said the other day when I lamented how hard it is: Mom! Think about how many seizures Sophie had every single day for so long! We haven't picked her up off the kitchen floor in months!