My turn to be in charge for three months has come round on our admin schedule and I haz plans. After outlining what the next few months will entail, I want to talk about my newest insomnia treatment alternative that redwood juju magicked into my life.
The Plans
- Next Sunday at 4pm PT will be another reminder about the meeting. I have a story about what a disability activist group found on websites of the Democratic candidates for President.
- Our August 25th meeting will be held jointly with Climate Change Anxiety Support Group. The diary by occupystephanie centers on helping children deal with climate change. As always, our meetings are open threads so come to share your news, answer and ask questions.
- September 20-27 is the Global Climate Strike and for the September 29th KosAbility meeting, I’ll write about how present climate change consequences in our everyday life affect disabled people — specifically about how we are left out of planning and not offered meaningful assistance (or offered assistance that turns out impossible to implement). My views are based on what I know from the Camp Fire. If I lived in Puerto Rico or the flooded zone of the central US, I’d tell the story from that scenario. The general consequences are not specific to one area or occurrence.
- The October 27th meeting is unplanned. If you have a story to share, speak up in the comments or send me a kosmail.
Redwood Juju
Before my old life burned down, I was gathering resources to make an herbal sleep remedy from cannabis. Friends with Lyme disease and insomnia who depended on drugs like Ambien and Seroquel have successfully shifted to cannabis edibles and quit the Rx drugs (I don’t take those meds, mine are different). That was my plan but because I lived in the State of Jefferson, California’s legal cannabis industry was hamstrung. No dispensaries, no personal cultivation (except under outrageously difficult conditions).
Friends who’d switched off their insomnia Rx meds told me that finding the cannabis strain and dose (%CBD:%THC) required experimentation and a reliable source of uniform product. The best option was to create my own edibles from black market cannabis. With the support of my local cannasisters, I was developing an easy to make standardized edible — buttercream candy dot with cannabis infused butter. Yeah, that didn’t happen.
Now, nine months after the Camp Fire and recently settled into a new home in Humboldt County (NW CA) with rational cannabis legalization, I determined to explore what existing products are sold that could take the place of my Rx sleep routine. I was big on plans and short on execution because setting up a home beginning with nothing preoccupied me. A local friend, B, knew about my unrealized project and waved her magic wand without telling me her plan. She asked me to pick her up when she took her car to the mechanic and together we’d visit an unmarked building nearby. It is the headquarters of a CBD research and product development company and she said we could learn more about their products.
We easily found the undistinguished mini-industrial building and walked in the door. A man and a woman sat at desks directly inside and instantly the man looked up and said “Hi B.” Guy is the owner, mastermind of the business, and a longterm friend of B’s whom she didn’t expect to see there. He rarely works in the building. B introduced me as someone looking for an insomnia cannabis edible. He asked a few basic questions about my sleep troubles and my THC tolerance level (wimp, edibles always knock me out). And then he waved his magic wand.
The company was just starting to test out a CBD:THC oil blend for insomnia. He said he’d figured out the best plant strain and extracted the cannabinoids, then mixed them in coconut oil to produce different blends. And right then, that hour, all the samples for test subjects were in the office, the herbalist had just delivered them. In another hour, owner guy was leaving to distribute the samples to people. 💫 We’d walked in at exactly the ideal time and shazam I was one of the beta testers and given two free bottles of CBD:THC, one is 2:1 and the other 5:1.
That was a week ago Friday. I’m beginning with the 2:1. Guy explained that for many people CBD is stimulating and taking it too close to bedtime might block sleep. I wasn’t sure if it had that effect on me (nope not so far) so I started with a dose time of 90 minutes before bed and one drop of 2:1 sublingually. Too soon to tell if this is The Answer for me but so far it looks good. I’ll keep you updated over the next month or two.
A few references on CBD for insomnia
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