I for one have mine from two different docs in California. Just curious, how many other hikers this year on PCT have their Medical reccomendations. It would be cool to get a group at the border to ceromonial kick off the hiking season, with several large smokes to alleviate our symptons in a group atmoshpere. GO Team High Altitude!!!
Guino
That’s great buddy…just what the hiking community needs, a bunch of dope smokers kicking off the hiking season. Let’s go ahead and play into some of the sterotypes already out there regarding us grungy hikers. Really, this post has no reason to be here.
Prop215
I think besides my hiking partner Heidi I only ran into a couple of people who didnt use this medication on the trail. Seriously almost all the hikers will when offered use it to relieve their symptoms on the trail. This post is very important because it is a big part of the trail for a lot of people. Without my medication I wouldnt be able to function in life. Let alone hike the PCT. Why dont you get anti Ibuprofen when people bring it up instead. That is really bad for your liver and kidneys. Especially in the quantity that hikers use it. This medication has no side effects, except it’s price. It is completely legal in every state on the PCT if your prescribed it, and does not violate any terms of use for trail forums.
If you dont like to see sick people using their medication, I reccomend that you dont associate with people on the PCT. More then likely they would use this med if offered. Also try to stay away from trail angels. Well Maybe the Dinsmores and Pooh Corner at Truckee will be safe for you.
4:20 PM Friday night at the Mexican Border I will be sitting on the Monument. If my symptoms rise at that time I will use my dr prescribed medication to alleive them. Two Drs put their liscenses on the line believing that I absolutely need this. Alot of other trail hikers do too.
Please show compassion to sick or disabled people in the future Prop. If one of your family was sick you wouldnt criticize a Drs decision on their best course of treatment would you?
Guino
Let’s be serious here…what you are not talking about in all seriousness is using medical marijuana to treat a legitimate medical issue…at least not in your first post. You are talking about getting high. I do associate with people on the PCT and no not everyone lights up. It is a personal choice, and I choose not to. As for Dr’s putting their livelihood on the line that is just b.s dude and everybody knows it…I live in Colorado and if I wanted to get medicinal marijuana I wouldn’t have to walk more than 2 blocks from my place complaining of almost any ailment. Tons of people are using it and it is de facto legal here. Reality is there are doctors that do nothing but write marijuana prescriptions all day long and collect a fortune doing it…and it’s little about treatment. And as for your “sickness”; you seem to be doing alright enough if you are gonna hike the PCT.
Don’t get me wrong I think pot should be legal and decriminalized but I’ll call a spade a spade when you post something with a wink wink, nod nod and think it’s amusing to advertise a collective smoke out to “alleviate” group symptoms.
Prop
Dude without this medication I would literally be so depressed I would kill myself. Yes it is a high that medicinal cannabis patients are looking for. That’s what it is all about. I choose to have fun with this as most people seem to who need this medication. This is what it does, it makes you happy and relieves pain. I wish I was perfectly happy and healthy and didnt need to chemically alter my brain to function. People who hike long distance seem to be on the brink anyway choosing to cast themselves out of society drift north with a religous fervor. It is not a sane man who chooses to hike the PCT 3 times.
I think it is completely rightous to organize a “group smokeout” Anybody who’s legal and wants to partictipate in this flash mob meet me at 4:20 PM Friday of the kickoff at the border monument. Otherwise, it would be really coincidental to see more than one other person down there at that time. If it isnt your thing, don’t make a special effort to drop by, there will be more interesting things going on at the kickoff anyway at this time. Maybe afterward we can all go shoot “Rattlesnakes” with the Campo, Mountain Empire Minuteman
To legitamize your point please use a trail name in your posts. Everyone who’s hiked in 07 or 09 knows there is only one Guino (shortened from Penguino.) I havent met any one on the trail named Prop, or Prop 215. Though that is a pretty cool name, if you are a medicinal cannabis patient. Wish I would have thought of that. I have been kind of evangelical of the herb for a while. If you havent hiked it yet and experienced it, well you just won’t be able to understand. Sorry.
In Colorado you would have to go to the Dr, then send in paperwork to the state. I believe there are two employees looking through 80,000 of these patient requests and there is a wait at least 4 months long to get your medical card. After you get the card you can legally go to a dispensary. It really is a pain in the butt, I have to respect the loopholes patients in your state have to go through to not be treated like a criminal. Depression is not a reason to get medical marijuana in Colorado. The patients rights are a lot less respected there then in Cali. Though you guys have it as an ammendment to the state constitution so it would be harder to repeal. Colorado also sets stricter limits to how much you can posess and grow, I can grow 99 plants and possess two pounds. I know Colorado Dispensary owners who are allowed to only grow half that. THough it is alot easier to open a dispensary, and your allowed to be a for profit bussiness, and not just a coop like Cali.
Pretty much I’m always smoking. Though that’s not my preferred method, since smokings bad for you in general. It’s just kind of impratical to carry alot of edibles on you. So if I’m at the border monument I will need to smoke. If I’m in my tent, smoke. If I’m walking down the trail, smoke. At the trail angels, smoke. Kissing pretty girl, smoke, then blow it back with another kiss.
PS 420 Friday at the border. Be there or be square.
Guino
No not at all Hal, I wouldnt assume that of either of those two wonderful couples. It’s just that alot of people after dark when the angels go to bed like to stay up late and medicate.
Guino
You know, its funny how different ones’ experience of the same thing can be. When I hiked the PCT last year, while there were some who were smoking and even a few who were trying to sell, it wasn’t even close to being the majority. I guess that old saying is true, “Birds of a feather flock together”.
Miner
Guino…you like to get high, all the time it seems. I get it. Hike your hike man, enjoy.
Prop
Guino - Don’t get me wrong here, I’m all for the legalization of marijuana, especially for medicinal uses but I’ve got to take issue with aomething you said, “this medication has no side effects.” The fact of the matter is that an altered state of consciousness (i.e. getting high) is a side effect of marijuana. Also, marijuana is extremely carcinogenic. It is actually contains more carcinogens than tobacco. True that pot smokers generally smoke less than tobacco smokers, but that doesn’t mean that there are no health risks involved, including respiratory problems and greater risk of cancers of the mouth. Also, marijuana has only been found to be effective as an antidepressant in low doses. In higher doses it has a reverse effect. With that said let me repeat that I am a proponent of medical marijuana because I do believe that it has many health benefits. I just wanted to say my peace. See you at the KO, I hope you have a great hike!
ducky
I hope that this is not the place to discuss life and medical choices. That cultural meeting idea is great but wtf is up with this pro-con spit. How’s full is that third gate cache? Word.
Avo
Charlie Jones, myself, and group put up 180 gallons at 3rd gate last week. Should be alot still there. We will be putting up about 200 more gallons over the next three weeks. Enjoy, but please don’t do what one hiker did and poke holes in the bottom of the container and use it for a shower. :lol
Robocop
“If I’m walking down the trail, smoke.”
Please do not do this, whatever you’re smoking. It is NOT legal to smoke while walking, you are required to stop in a cleared area. Many fires have been started by hikers smoking while they walk.
AsABat