Can displacing alcohol with cannabis be an avenue for helping alcoholics wean off their substance abuse?
In this short interview, Dr. David Bearman – who’s been investigating cannabis for more than 50-years – talks about its potential but only when doctors can begin getting “their heads around cannabis”.
I’m excited to pick-up where we left off with the second of my vintage two-parter about the story revealing cannabis as a spirit plant.
Back in 1989, more than 30 years ago, there was an article – an interview actually – about cannabis as a spirit plant, called “Resurrection of the Higher Self”. This was long before legalization started turning the corner in the U.S. The article was so stunning, that it was rejected for print!
I have a friend who by any measure of success has “made it.” He’s an acclaimed authority in his field; he makes good money and others clamor to work with him.
It’s human nature to want the easiest and simplest way to improve one’s life. And if there were simple “flick-the-switch” approaches, I’d imagine that everybody would be flicking the switch, right?
“You don’t know what you’re talking about!” angrily wrote one of the people, a therapist, who was getting my emails. “I’m unsubscribing because this is irresponsible behavior,” they said in a fit of indignation over me talking about how cannabis appears to be helpful in tapering people off of alcohol.
“Hey you don’t smell bad for a fat person!” … that’s a descriptive example of the kind of “humor” called sarcasm that’s designed to cut or give pain. You may have one or two (or more!) family members who spew this kind of toxic crap.
In business leadership (which I used to teach), we’d discuss your Inner Game and where you’re at with it. Of course, we’re talking about the emotions that might be holding you back.
The family holidays are coming up! And regardless of where you are in life, most all of us have immediate feelings about going home for the holidays, which is what this week’s blog is all about:
It was around the year 2002 that a friend and I traveled to Amsterdam to take in the coffeeshops. Coffeeshops were the “code word” in that Dutch city for “get your cannabis here” … consuming in the public and in the daylight nonetheless!