What inspired your journey into cannabis?!

Morganja-

Well, I first started smoking simpy to get fucked up. I was already nearing alcoholism and it was another way for me to get intoxicated AKA to escape my problems. Usually combined together in dangerous amounts. So bad experiences I guess. At the time, I was unaware of the extremity of my borderline personality disorder and was misdiagnosed as bipolar, making things confusing.

It wasn’t until I became sober 9 ½ years from alcohol and hard drugs (yes I’m SOBER AND I SMOKE WEED) that I started using it more medicinally. It took me probably 7 years to figure it out, in a way that I could function daily and medicate to feel my best.

So the original inspiration was to get fucked up, current inspiration to live my life to the best of my ability mindfully and peacefully. Without pain, without fear, without anxiety and as an actual human

Jaggie

On the opposite side to where M started, my experience started as a full-on medicinal experience. My whole life growing up I was told weed was bad, and I lived with this stigma in my head. It wasn’t until college that my perspective opened. I was in a car accident in my 3rd year of college (I received a scholarship to play fastball in Florida for 4 years while also getting a free education) due to which I suffered a permanent neck injury. Docs wanted to give me all the pain pills which were giving me the worst side effects causing me to miss several classes… my girlfriend finally convinced me to try cannabis for the first time as an alternative to pain meds. Once I started I never looked back.

By the time my 4th year rolled around I was a full-on “stoner” but I was going to class and functioning with my injury. It was during this year that I helped petition to get medical marijuana on the ballot in Florida (all cannabis was illegal at that time in FL), so voters could at least have the opportunity to vote to get medical cannabis legalized.

After seeing all of the benefits of the miracle plant first hand, it was hard to come back to Canada and see this clearly evident stigma surrounding a plant that saved my life, and so many others. At that point, it became my mission to educate EVERYONE around me about cannabis - dunno how many people I’ve actually helped open their brains to cannabis but I do know my entire family now smokes with me.