About Us
TreatingYourself.com was created in May 2002 to provide
medical marijuana users with information to assist them
in their responsible use of medical marijuana.
The Treating Yourself Journal was launched in August
2005. It is a journal written by patients for patients,
and has grown into a world wide source of information.
TY provides patients and care givers the information
on where they can acquire seeds, to different methods
of growing medical marijuana for themselves and introducing
healthier methods of taking their medicine.
Our website treatingyourself.com is the largest and
most compassionate medical marijuana website to date.
TY is a predominately "medical marijuana" website whose
goal it is to provide the education in the responsible
use of marijuana as it applies to medicine, and to consolidate
as many "pro marijuana" websites and interest groups
with a goal to co-ordinate all of our efforts with regards
to the issues of legalization.
Team TY would like to welcome all respectable, responsible
marijuana users. We would like to see a concerted effort
on behalf of all respectable, responsible marijuana
users World Wide, helping in the effort to abolish prohibition
as prohibition must be abolished! As individual "interest
groups" we are at the mercy and whim of the governing
bodies of the world, however if we were to unite and
begin to demonstrate to the world that we are responsible
and respectable members of society the choice will be
clear. Marijuana must be made fully legal to any and
all who have obtained the age of majority!
The time has come for our governments and lawmakers
World Wide to abolish the immoral prohibition of an
innocuous flower! The time has come to realize that
we are not "potheads" or "stoners", far from it! We
are tax payers; we go to work every day we are employed
in every walk of life. People who use marijuana range
from janitors to judges, barbers to doctors… yes even
a good number of our police use marijuana!
Yet the facts remain the same... we still face prohibition,
we are still unjustly locked up, we can still have our
lives ruined! All because the propaganda machine is
kept well oiled and fine tuned. It is our duty to throw
sand in those gears! It is our duty to dismantle this
ponderous loathsome machine! The only way to achieve
this is to "walk the walk" and "talk the talk", we...
the marijuana consumers of the world must show the lawmakers
that we do NOT cause harm, we are responsible, we are
respectable and we are valued, productive members of
society!
It is long past due that we remove the stigma that
is attached to marijuana, to date there are hundreds
of legal marijuana users in Canada who would rather
that the "public" not know who they are. Not for fear
of being ripped off… no... They would rather remain
anonymous because society has allowed the stigmatism
of "pothead" and "stoner" to continue. They would rather
remain anonymous because they don't want to be harassed
by police for their legal gardens… they don't want their
professional careers to be interfered with. All they
really want is to be allowed to live a more pain free
productive life! There are literally hundreds of thousands
more that use marijuana as a relaxant to help manage
stress, stress kills!
Even for the social user marijuana is used at parties
and other gatherings, much in the same way that alcohol
is used… with far less addicting effects and without
the morning after hangover. Marijuana is of course among
the most benign of the so called "party drugs", far
greater threats can be found in the form of crack cocaine
and crystal meth!
To suggest that the ingesting of a plant such as marijuana
should also carry with it the "shame" of a criminal
record and the possible destruction of any future career
opportunity or even the ability to freely travel about
the globe.. Is in fact a "shame" and a "crime" against
the responsible and respectable marijuana consumers
of the world!
We must legalize marijuana! We must remove the criminal
element from marijuana, to do this it must be legal
for anyone to grow and use marijuana that is at or above
the age of consent! By removing the archaic laws that
continue to prohibit the free use of this wondrous herb
we would free up multiple billions of dollars currently
being eaten up by police agencies around the globe in
an effort to stamp out a relatively harmless plant!
By doing so our fine police officers would be able
to concentrate on ending the threat of far more dangerous
and insidious addictive drugs such as crack cocaine
and meth amphetamines. There is a better way! The government
needs to hear your voices! Send your thoughts to your
local MP or Government representative; do not be afraid,
only criminals need to be afraid!
You are simply pursuing your rights! The future is
in your hands, shape it wisely ... someday your health
may hang in the balance!
Team TY and all of the members of TreatingYourself.com,
wish you good health and good grows.
