On Tuesday, Oregon’s cannabis regulators reported that the state sold a record-breaking $84.5 million worth of weed in March as residents stocked up to prepare for government-ordered self-quarantines. In March 2019, Oregon sold $61.2 million worth of weed.
The Oregon Liquor Control Commission has seen a 17 percent increase in alcohol sale
My wife and I do not use pot, or drink very much, so we use fitness, meditation, open communication, and a great diet to relieve stress and keep “happy chemicals” in our brains.
Smoking marijuana, even occasionally, can increase your risk for more severe complications from Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
“What happens to your airways when you smoke cannabis is that it causes some degree of inflammation, very similar to bronchitis, very similar to the type of inflammation that cigarette smoking can cause,” said pulmonologist Dr. Albert Rizzo, chief medical officer for the American Lung Association. “Now you have some airway inflammation and you get an infection on top of it. So, yes, your chance of getting more complications is there.”
There’s another factor as well. As we all know, weed not only calms you down, but it messes with your ability to function — and that does you no favors if you find yourself having a medical emergency during a pandemic.
“You’re reducing anxiety, but that is still a change in your thinking, a change in the way you are handling facts, how you’re grasping situations,” Glass said.
“Now there’s a healthcare worker who is gowned, gloved, possibly in a hazmat suit trying to get through to you. These are people who are trying to decide if you should be going home, coming into the emergency room, or worst case scenario, that you need to be put on a ventilator,” he continued.
“They want the person who’s agreeing and giving informed consent to be completely in control of their thought processes.”
Please, if you can, do not add injury to the insult of COVID-19. There are alternatives to POT for fighting anxiety that will not bring harm to all of us.
Rather than staying home in a semi-conscious or comatose or anxious states, we rode our tandem bike on the best weather day of the year. Life In the bike saddle, in our walking or jogging shoes, or on our yoga mat is infinitely better than a life just spent in the lounge chair, for sure!
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/4761358365?share_unique_id=10
AWESOME TIME WITH MY STOKER!
