Ranting? Pfft I am an expert.

tl;dr: Fuck bureaucracy. Let me have my fucking weed!!!!!

Today, I would like to rant about the Israeli Ministry of Health. Or specifically, its medical cannabis policy. It is absolute shit and needs to be burned to the ground so I new, reasonable policy replaces it.

I've been diagnosed with fibromyalgia and cPTSD (which is like PTSD++). I've been treated with a wide variety of psychiatric medications and painkillers over the years, and the majority of them had such unbearable side-effects, I preferred the pain and panic attacks over them. I was miserable and hopeless.

And then I went on a trip to Amsterdam, and smoked some high-quality medical-grade weed. 30 minutes later, I got up, smiled, drank a ton of chocolate milk and walked for 20km. On a normal day, I can walk up to 3km before my body starts complaining.

Unfortunately, the process of receiving a medical cannabis license in Israel takes a fucking YEAR AT LEAST. It involves visits to at least 5 different doctors who have long queues of MONTHS, take insane drugs for at least a year (I have oxycodone and morpheum around the house WTF) and mothercuking FAX DOCUMENTS TO THE MINISTRY like we live in the fucking stone age.

So here I am, buying weed illegally, paying too much for average quality product, and waiting around for bureaucracy and big pharma to stop trying to kill me.