[weedzilla420]

hey gc,

i'm afraid i have bad news.
well, for about the past five years, my grandmother has lived with me and my parents. she is now about 92 and doing well for her age. she is not what i would consider 'confused' and she has a keen mind for her age. for about the past 15 years she has had problems with her eyes and she has to take a regiment of prescription eye drops for her condition.

one of her problems is glaucoma. she has been having more problems seeing recently so my father (her son) took her to the doctor and she was diagnosed w/ macular degeneration which i believe means she will soon go blind. also the interocular eye pressure was way up.

my parents are full aware that i smoke weed and are fine with it (there only objection is that it is illegal and they are afraid i could get into trouble). i have done extensive research on the medical properties of the herb. i have therefore been advacating that my grandmother should be allowed to use it for her glaucoma condition (also i feel confident it can help her in other ways because she has body pain and a really poor appitite, both ailments have been shown to be effectively treated my mj).

now, i have asked my grandmother about what her position on the issue is and she said she would do it except for the fact that it's illegal and she refuses to do anything against the law.

my parents support my position now and they feel they could talk her into it. so i have need advice on a few issues:

1. sometimes when i smoke my heart rate increases, occasionally to an uncomfortable degree. my grandmother has a heart condition that she takes meds for. do you all think it would be a bad idea for her to smoke w/a heart condition.

2. she does not want to do it because it's agaisnt the law and she's convinced she'd get caught and go to jail. (imagine a cop taking an elderly 92 year old sick lady to jail; on second thought a pig would do it in an instant w/o hesitating; ya'll remember that quadrapeligic that went to jail for medical mj). so i'm afraid she would have a paranoid mindset before she smoked it then the mj would exaserbate her paranoia and it would be a very negative experience.

so please give me some advice here. i'm so thankful i have a place where i get get advice on this issue.