Laplaya Glass December 2007

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The contest is as follows...

what's your new years resolution and why.

50-420 Words





Contest Runs from December 1, 2007 thru December 31, 2007
Winner will be announced the first week of January 2008

[saeon-tsion]

I have read the rules and will follow them.

My New Year's Resolution is actually quite simple -- but that simplicity doesn't mean it isn't important; in fact, I think that this may be one of the most vitally important commitments I make in my life from here on out!

That is, specifically, that I am a very sick person, in constant severe pain and battling frequent nausea/vomiting.....but I also have a second child on the way early next year, and being prepared to be anything remotely resembling the father I want to be means that I will have to very aggressively attack all my health & health care issues in the next 2-3 months -- so that I can focus on my wife and children in the month before the birth and the months following, rather than on myself and my devastating symptoms.

This means improving my access to the right medicinal devices -- notably, I need a good water pipe like the world-class blown glass that Laplaya is famous for. I have been fortunate enough to get my hands on several great vaporizers which I am reviewing for TY Magazine in an ongoing article series (and would definitely enjoy making a comparison of Laplaya's pipes versus alternatives like the Vapor Genie!), but I currently don't have any proper smoking devices.

In short, my New Year's Resolution is to be more aggressive about my own treatment as well as that which I receive from professionals -- and to do whatever it takes, despite our extreme poverty caused by my disability, to get myself in a position to focus on my family.....instead of myself.

[lildarlin]

My New Years Resolution had to come early this year. Neccessity rules more often than not. I have chronic pain from Psoriatic arthritis but wont go into that.....for years I have medicated with Oxycontin (very high doses....only one other member here touches mine) and only recently my GP added some Cesamet to the regime. He was a kind and compassionate GP and I never felt the need for a referral to a pain Dr. BUT ..this wonderful man retired as many good men must and now I am feeling very stuck. He left me with a one year prescription for a medicine that no other GP would ever take me on and start to write. I have added cannabis to my regime and find I am being able to get better on the days my deliveries come hours/day late. This has to end though. I am afraid of my drug and how safe everyone said it was. I take more than 7 other meds for this illness and others and feel the need to reduce all pharma use as much as possible. I feel that cannabis may be the only way to do this successfully.

I resolve to increase my cannabis consumption in an effort to actively reduce my prescripton consumption to save my own life so that I can re-marry my husband at our 15th anniversary like he asked me this year at our tenth and be around to see my youngest son marry (who is now ten). But I had to start now to meet my timeline....the New year was too late. Wish me luck!

Thanks for the contest and good luck everyone.

[TwistedSister]

I have read the rules and understand and will follow them!

My new Year's Resolution I guess you could kind of say it has started for me already! Over the last few years As my PAIN has gotten worse and the doctors started giving me more and more pills for my chronic pain! And they really did not do much for my Pain. All they really did was to change who I was! I did not like who I was becoming! and my famliy did not like it either too! I would be passed out by 3.00pm no good for anyone! My poor kids suffer through all of this! Then I went to a festival in Starks, Maine and it changed me! I found out that many were using cannabis for med issues and that there were now laws being slowly passed for this issue too!??? DID Vermont have these laws too?
Well MY NEW YEAR's Resolution for this coming year is this I promised myself to be more of a voice for the cannabis consumption issue!! To find a place just for me a place just like this! A place that could help me to better understand everything I could about helping myself and others to get though the PAIN to be able to live my life again! To enjoy life again!!! to help again!! I know many of you do not really know me and I hope you get to know me as time goes on! I am a sponge wanting to learn all I can for the better of all of us here!

Thank-you and Good Luck
Twisted Sister
Julie

[neutrino99]

My New Years resolution is two fold.

First I resolve to spend more time, effort, energy and money to take care of myself. I resolve to get back to the pool - any pool - to get my pain levels down to a manageable level as this and chiropractic care, massage and cannabis are all that help me. I resolve to spend more time introspectively getting to know myself rather than who I was for everyone else.

Secondly to write more. About anything. My feelings - the cannabis community, poetry and music. Writing was one of the first things I lost with my brain injury. The sheer pleasure of reading and writing has been a chore for me for more than 5 years now. I used to read more than three novels a week and now I couldnt read a chapter and tell you what happened. I miss this part of me and my life and I resolve to bring it back to me.

Thanks to everyone for the contest - and thanks to the mods for all their work reading all the entries and making tough choices. LaPlaya you really do have lovely work.

[shavluk]

Treating Yourself…………….?



What’s my new year’s resolution for the coming year? Jan 1 2008.
(For me in reality that’s set this year as Feb 8th 2008 when we start Rat Year, as yes I follow the Chinese New Year)


Well it is and has been the same resolution for me for the past 17 long years.....
Although this year for the first time.... it feels and really looks like the best chance of success for it so far.


It goes as follows and has taken some dramatic emotion filled turns along the way.....
What with some people being proven as total liars, cowards or hypocrites......but it’s…

End the Drug War and
Legalize cannabis......plain and simple

This coming year I will stand in about the 20th? Political election of some sort furthering this goal as I stand as a federal candidate for the Green Party.

The Green Party I am sure will yes have significance in a BIG WAY for the first time and so my chances at furthering my goal look very good.

My DEC 17th National Day of Protest against Bill C-26 at my own Member of Parliament’s office was very successful as well.
We sat waiting for my MP for almost an hour while his office staff searched down information on the issue because his chief of staff coincidently happened to go to high school with my wife Marie. Then we (Marie, Don Briere and I) conveyed a lot of other information to my MP (Sukh Dhaliwal) (Newton North Delta) in a much too short 45 minute meeting.
We explained the Da Kine Café.
We explained L.E.A.P.cc
We explained crime and criminal activities as well as how all of these items would yes increase and we explained the reality of things like the Liberals Decrim Bill and what it really means and why it is wrong.
I explained my framing and jailing and conviction by corrupt Saskatoon police.
As well as relayed my efforts since then with the 2 provincial elections I ran in , the ndp presidential election in Quebec City last September that I challenged and really how I thought the ndp were going to be much more insignificant in the future to both of us.

The outcome was 3 fold... #1) he as a liberal would not support Bill C- 26 certainly not in its present form.
#2) he would get it sent to committee
#3) he would have me brought to Ottawa to testify to the House of Commons committee members about why we should be stopping Bill C-26 and why we should be legalizing cannabis instead of seeking decrim policies



I am quite pleased by and with my MP and maybe because I had told his staff right up front that I was now running against him as a Green Party Candidate and didn’t try to deceive them or mislead them that they will now attempt to yes , help us. It remains to be seen but I came away very pleased and very hopeful.

So here is to the coming New Year no matter which date you celebrate and with it maybe a blessing so very many of us have pursued for very many years.

Cheers

[shavluk]

whats with the short edit time???wow that wont do ,,,,,

I tried to add that as I was over 420 words I should be and am disqualified hahhha

Merry Christmas all !!!

[FreedomFighter]

My new years resolution?
hmmmmm.....
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this great plant has been teaching me lessons and giving guidance and pain relief when ever i have needed it, without refusal.
she will do almost anything we humans want: give joy and optimism, excite and stimulate (in so MANY diff ways; physical energy, appetite, sexual desirs, it goes on and on), relieve pain, help you reach elightenment, or put you to sleep;
she is a great medicine.
many folks i know could benefit (even have life changing turn arounds) from cannabis, but they refuse it because of a fear of getting in trouble, and a life time of being told cannabis is bad. they do not benefit because they are afraid and confused.
on the other hand, many other folks i know are picking up pipes & joints in place of a 40oz or handle of vod, or even at the same time... and forgetting the respect this plant deserves and that it could be doing alot more for tehm than just fucking up their heads.

My new years resolution is to encourage appreciation and respectfull use of this plant.
i will have ahuge amount next season, i will not give in to temptation of profits, as money no longer matters to me. it will only be shared; with those who appreciate and understand it or need it for medicine, or are looking for guidance down the road of life.

My new years resolution is to push good karma apon all those willing to recieve it; to extend the message in the above over into every aspect of day to day life.

its been a good year; a long and enjoyable road of learning and finding universal truths:
happiness, Purpose, peace

happy holidays everyone

and idk how many words that was...

[RatherBBurnin]

I have read the rules...


New Years is seems everyone makes resolutions in the hopes that it bring drastic change into their lives... I personally rarely make resolutions on new years, simiply because ive never had the easy ones to make.. lose weight, stop drinking, stop smoking etc.. seem to recurring resolutions for the masses... so since ive actually had to think about a resolution thanks to this contest... I will have to revert to using the slogan i seen on a tshirt recently.... my new years resolution is to:

SMOKE MORE, BITCH LESS

Cheers
RBB

[PHATE]

I have read the rules

My new years resolution involves growing pot. I plan to grow it. Lots of it. For me, my wife, and as many sick Medical cannabis patients as i can. I will do everything in my power to grow super potent medicine for the people who either cant grow themselves, or are afraid to grow it themselves. I want to make sure people who have the right to smoke pot, have pot to smoke.

[Storm Crow]

My New Year's resolution(s) are kind of tied together in an odd way. The first is to lose some more of those extra pounds that I'm carrying around. They are bad for me and by eating less food, there is that much less fertilizers, pesticides and energy being used to feed my fat carcass. What I do eat should be "good" food- not "cheesy poofs" and "McCrap". I have already lost a lot of weight, but I've slacked off and gotten back into, not exactly "bad", but "could be better" eating habits. I gained a few of those pounds during the holidays, now it's time to get rid of them and a lot more besides!

The second part of this resolution is to play freerice.com and have a cup of tea, instead of grabbing that snack-

My goal is 10,000 grains a day. (I have a good vocabulary.) It bothers me- how can I be fat in a world where people go hungry? How can I not do something, so simple (and fun!), that stops that suffering? So rather than being unhappy with the way things are, both with the world and myself, I'm doing something about it!

To keep me focused, I made 2 very tiny bags and put in each, 100 grains of brown rice. When you look at it, it is such a pitiful amount. Cooked up, it is a mouthful. Yet every day, hundreds of millions of grains of rice are donated to the UN by this site. I taped one of the bags to my computer's screen. The second is on my fridge at my eye level. Since I use the computer on a daily basis and have freerice.com bookmarked, I will have no excuses, like "I forgot". Those tiny bags of rice will nag me. Each 100 grains of rice is just a mouthful, but when someone is hungry, every mouthful is precious.

So that is how I plan to lose weight this year-a combo of altruism, self-"guilt-tripping" and substitution of one habit for another!

[reddiet]

My New Years resolution is to focus on taking better care of myself, physically, mentally and spiritually. I have been feeling sorry for myself for so long that, sometimes I am paralyzed. I eat many things that I KNOW are bad for me and are the cause of many physical problems. I am so self-absorbed with my physical and mental problems that I greatly contribute to my depression by doing NOTHING to try and LEARN about what I CAN DO to help myself, even if it means seeking out professional help. (My pride has kept me from asking for help and admitting that I cannot do it myself). And finally, but not the least, I need to START to develop a better spiritual connection with OUR WORLD. I have learned a very good lesson in these past 2 years and that is that "When I am trying to help someone else my life seems to get better"
Losing my son 2 years ago has opened my eyes to the fact that (LIFE IS PRECIOUS), and life is much shorter than we think and the sooner that we all realize that we really are all ONE, then maybe there is still a chance to make a better place for our kids to live in. And when I try to help someone who is in need, I really AM helping myself in the best way possible.

REDDIET (Steve)
I have read the rules