A Place to Introduce yourself.

Home

NCCPN Social

Groups

Triangle Chapter

Discussions

A Place to Introduce yourself.

Find Your NCCPN Chapter

Chapters Map

NCCPN

Promote Your Page Too

Petition

URGENT

There is a petition created by Rep Kelly Alexander that has the potential to catch fire...everyone on this site, whether you are a visitor or member...light a match and spread the petition. For those who ask what they can do, this is ONE really important thing that can be done.

CLICK HERE

FOR PETITION

Triangle Chapter
Go to group page

A Place to Introduce yourself.

I thought I would start a place for people to post their story and a little bit about themselves. Its good so everyone can see who they are going to be meeting in the future. Please feel free to share as much or as little as you like. No one is here to judge you or at least I sure hope not.

Discussion started by Howard , on 380 days ago

You need to be a member of this group before you can participate in this discussion

DME23

Hey folks! This is my first post. Name's Dan. I got started with medical marijuana in the San Francisco Bay area. I was diagnosed with chronic lumbar/back pain and sleep problems because of that. I'm super glad to see like-minded supporters of this movement getting together. I'd gladly go to any meet-ups to keep the energy banded together.

If there's a will there's a way.

2 days ago

CannaActivist

Hello everyone. I'm a constant headache/daily migraine sufferer for which I've tried everything from a cocktail of 40 pills a day to a 9 day hospitalization, all ultimately to no avail. As an act of desperation I tried cannabis and my entire life changed. I recently moved my family back to my native state of NC, after working the last 3 years in the CO medical marijuana industry. Good to be back around family, but I'm desperately eager for the laws to change.

188 days ago

alejandrx1

weberman01: i know what you mean by muscle spasms ive had some throught the years and feels really bad i had my back spasm once while driving and i was giving the some known herbs and since then i had less than 1 in a year keep your head up and mind11!

hello everyone im a nc resident in the joco had bad experience from violent abuse and psych abuse also growing up was normal to some but an outrage to must i always sported the good guy,nice guy,smart guy AND well just me thats how i am in public and while outside i try to be calm when at home or bymyself sometimes ptsd gets the hold of me. Angry outbursts,panic attacks,restless at bedtime,scared and unwanted!!! at the age of 21 i found out that i had ptsd symptoms and i was given the option to medicate or just normal therapy but i felt i wasnt being understood that i had pain not just pysch problems??? so i was on cetalopram 50mg and felt good well ,sedated not cool !!!

i dont understand how govt has so many chemicals,plants and animals that they
still cant find anyway to help and legalize cannabis.Chemicals can be found anywhere in the bathroom,kitchen,even in the barn were most work is done at home.I mean they even put chemicals in the plants that are given to animals to feed .Animals are just put on growth hormones just to be plump and eventually killed b/c there to overwight for there health.. :(

well my name is alejandro but you can call me alex i was brought up in a home that believed in violence solves everything my mom was beaten my sis was chased just like a bad jaason movie and the kid was so scared to even come out the bed also ,that same kid was shocked at the moment when his own father handed a machete and asked the kid to kill him! that kid was me im a grown man married and have one child . its a girl :)

now i pettie my father b/c of the tramua that was brought to my eyes by himself
but times have changed and age has worn down on him.My father suffers from diabetis 2 type also ,diabetic neuroapathy, anemia possible precancer brohncitis,edema in lungs,heart,stomach,face etc... ,and hs kidney failure.
wow right well i've become smarter and stronger to measure my own strength but now i forgive him and want to help if he is willing to accept that i am a mmj patient and he will also be to hopefully!!! "alochol is the destruction of a nation ,herb is the healing of a nation " Bob marley

Alejandro

195 days ago

Pygar

Howard:
Let me know what kind of help you need coordinating things.

Jon:
I more I read about medical cannabis and Crohn's the more I think it could help. And considering the hazards inherent in using the common Crohn's treatments like prednisone, TNF-alpha inhibitor, mercaptopurine, etc., it would certainly be safer.

327 days ago

jons.crohns

Pygar,

Sorry to hear about your struggles. I'm Jon and I also have Crohn's. I was diagnosed two years ago and I hope that one day NC will allow me to use marijuana to help with short-term flare ups so I don't have to take prednisone.

While I don't plan on coming to meetings, I look forward to helping NCCPN by e-mailing and calling representatives, and by doing any computer work or legwork to help the cause.

Howard - sorry to hear about your family issues. You done a great job organizing this group and I hope everything turns out OK.

336 days ago

Howard

Hey Pygar sorry it took me so long to get back. Just wanted to say hi and hopefully we can organize a meeting in the next few weeks. I could sure use some hemp coordinating something since I am dealing with issues in my family. I still want to see this movement succeed but I need your help. Come on and chime in people!

338 days ago

Pygar

Greetings.

I'm a 48 year old professional engineer. I have had Crohn's Disease since age fourteen, and have been treated for chronic pain associated with my condition for twelve years. While the prescription medications I take allow me lead a productive life, they do cause side effects and physical dependence. I would like to have to option to try integrating cannabis into my pain management regimen, but the law does not allow me that choice.

My interests include nutrition, alternative medicine, hiking, shooting, science fiction, and animation. Politically I'm libertarian, and am active in the gun rights movement.

I hope to meet you all at some point.

341 days ago

Howard

Welcome Weberrman, glad to see you join us. Sorry to hear about your medical conditions. There are many of us still suffering from fairly debilitating conditions as well.We have all seen the push for pharmaceuticals over the last 10 years or so. Almost everyone in America is on some pill or another. Personally I am prescribed 9 though I seldom use most of them. I am glad to hear you have discovered the amazing benefits of this miraculous plant. It has definitely had a positive effect on my life. I hope you plan on being an active member and if so perhaps I will see you at a get together or fund-raiser I hope. Have a great day and feel free to contact me at anytime.

354 days ago

weberman01

Hi, I'm new in nc, I moved about 8 months ago from Ut. I have suffered my whole life from severe muscle spasms, brought on by stress and panic attacks. I was given all the meds they could.....valium, Xanax , and after I was in a car accident, I was prescribed pain killers. I was brought up in a religious home, and I served a mission for my church so I never dabbled with drugs of any kind. After all the meds I was perscribed, none of them really worked and I became very addicted. After I had a bad panic attack at work, a friend of my wife came over with cannabis and told me I've tried everything else, I might as well give something natural a try. What cannabis has done for me is incredible. It has gave me a better quality of life. I can deal with stress and issues with out having panic attacks, and I can go through most of the day with no muscle spasms, which never happened with any other medicine. I think it is crazy that a plant that can literally improve someone's life is illegal, but pills i can over dose on are practically force fed to me when I go to a doctor. I would like to met people that feel the same way and I would love the opportunity to possibly help bring around change in this state.

355 days ago

Howard

Come on guys. I want to know who a few more of my members are and what you are about. You don't have to give any specifics but a little background info would be nice. This also lets me get an idea of how many active members we have that way as well.

380 days ago

jrhodes59

hello nice to see everyone well a little about myself i grew up going to therapy was diagnose with bs they pretty much was guessing and going on my action well bout the time i was going to age out i was a problem they called it willie m all it means is i could go to special homes for children well they tried to get me to go to adult group home at the age of 17 i thought they had a label on me at the age i was i did not understand this i was not this so i never went back never went to another doc again at the age of 19 or 20 i pick mj up as my meds now for the 2 years i was off the pills from the gov and no mj i was something of a different character i was in the street stay here and there was drinking and all. somewhere in there i got it in my head i could do better then this after getting locked up for mistakes i have made so what do i have idk i could tell you what ive been told but i dont like them words i went to jon umpstead in butner 2 different time both times for 9 months that is a mental institution but im not crazy or uncontrollable might be a little paranoid sometimes but here is some in depth on me and my choice to self medicate i think this plant is a mirical i believe in god i know we all might not agree on this but it is how i feel i see people prey everyday for world peace cure cancer take my pain away lord just take the stress away well for the few of us that have partaken of this fruit we no the truth and we need to show everybody i love this and everyday i see this going further let us make a pac together and i will start this i will never give up this fight every bit of pain i feel is the incentive to keep fighting everytime it is hard to get out of bed i will fight everytime i cant eat i will fight everytime i feel low i will fight everytime they tell me i cant i will light up and say yes i can

392 days ago

sgtmatt

thx!! im NOT up to speed on how this website even works so bear w/ me...maybe we should talk on the landline and see whats what and go from there...thx man !

393 days ago

Howard

Welcome SGTMatt. Good to see more veterans getting involved. I have been fairly busy over the last few days and have been away from the site. I usually try to keep things in order here in the triangle chapter but I am only one man and we are growing so quickly. I hope you plan to be a proactive member of this organization as I do with all our members. Well, I am very busy now but if you need any assistance feel free to contact me. Thanks and welcome aboard.

393 days ago

sgtmatt

salutations...guess im the FNG here and wanted to say that i am glad I was able to find this org... got the heads up from Jon K. from NORML...I suffer from RSD...(reflex sympathetic dystrophy)...perm. nerve damage following 2 knee surgeries and a partial knee replacement in '08...i was totally paralized from the hip down R leg and so swollen i couldnt wiggle my toes if i had to...I was in a walker for 11 months untill i was able to hop around w/ a cane and a knee brace....it hasnt improved much to say the least but Im outta that F%$^&#G walker...yea!...
I also have a debilitating disease called Dupuytrens Contracture in my hands...basically bands grow over the tendons and contract your fingers into a fist...thanks to my northern european genetics...ive got 2 fingers on my dom. right hand left that i can use and Im loosing my ring finger on my left hand...after 20+ yrs together and 17 yrs of marriage, now that Im retired, I can wear a wedding ring and not have to worry about ripping my finger off at work and I cant...oh yeah..my wifes disabled too...
some idiot thought I40 west to goldsboro was a NASCAR track and wanted to "rub some paint" "draft" or whatever that mindset is...rearended her and she has 5 ruptured discs...we lean on each other ALOT...and somehow manage to muddle thru...and thats a whole 'nother story....
the problem is w/ Pain Clinics and the docs/staff there that have the attitude that everyone there is a junkie and selling or abusing or doing something WRONG...and the restrictions on the primary care phy. to write a script is soo extreme that they just say to hell w/ it and stop... so what the hell am I supposta do AFTER being refered FROM Pain Clinic TO my Primary Care for my scripts and he STOPS writing...FLASH OF GENIUS!! revert to the 70's and start smokin weed again...
i do not know if it will do the trick for me and my situation but at this point I am willing to try or start growing my own poppies...(KIDDING!!) Ive been comteplating going out to Az. to a bud's place and seeing a doc out there and taking my med records, which are a thick as a Raleigh Ph. book, getting a script or a recomendation from there so IF I got pinched here I could toss that out there in court and say.. hey I'm leagle there but not here??? whats up w/ that??...it's a plausible defense I think...Ive been to jail...not a good place to be and luckily it was a cpl very short visits...I was stationed at Schofield Bks in Hawaii for 3 yrs and was in the stockade where Sanatra was pictured in "From Here To Eternity"...not a nice place in "para-dice", Ive also been to Amsterdam, a VERY nice place indeed.. so there hasnt been much to pass my field of fire that hasnt been inspected so to speak...but Im at a breaking point and need some positive direction...or hope...
if youve taken the time to read all this you need a hobby :) thx for listening & stay tuned

393 days ago

Howard

Welcome bignasty. I feel like we gain momentum everyday. We just need passionate supporters to make this work. So far our chapter is already being proactive. We just had our first meeting actually. Hope to see a lot more of you. Thanks

396 days ago

bignastyjb

Hello I use cannabis to cope with anxiety/depression as well as sciatica. It also helps keep the cigarettes out of my mouth! My employer and my family are all quite aware of my cannabis use. I'm primarily concerned with the possibility of LE intervening in my life because of my personal choice to use cannabis as medicine. Its especially upsetting since I'm aware of the hypocritical laws on cannabis. For instance there are patients out there that receive cannabis every 25 days on the govt's dime. Delivered to their door, hermetically sealed, pre-rolled cigarettes. Meanwhile we have to worry that our lives could be destroyed for using the exact same plant. And this is only one example. I would like to help spread the word about this organization and maybe make a few friends along the way.

I really hope this group forms into something solid. I feel like the momentum is gaining behind this cause.

396 days ago

Howard

Hey guys, I am an Iraq war veteran and I guess at the moment I am assuming command of this chapter until everything gets smoothed over. I have been using cannabis since mid 2010 for PTSD and chronic pain. I feel that this is not an area that needs laws ti govern it and all the ones in place are unconstitutional. Its time to change things. I guess its time to get on board or get out of the way lol.

399 days ago

View all (17)

Joomla! is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License.

Who's Online

Petition

A Place to Introduce yourself.

Related discussion