About the Tour & the "About Me" for Book?

About the book: (draft, not been proofread yet!!!)

First Book: Pot Farm Friends Tour

Gramma Maggie, coming out of a 21 year marriage, and having found complete solace, escape & a reason to wake up every morning, in the tiny screen on her phone (she could only justify as an expense the additional $15 a month Verizon charged for internet service.   To pay $40 for a standard Internet was far above her budget).

She fell in love. Realized she couldn’t fall in love if she was already in love, jumped out of her marriage and into her boyfriend’s world. Left husband with the clothes on her back four days before her 21^st anniversary.

Being a biker, and leaving her biker husband for a non-biker…another story

BF’s world did not accept her. She doesn’t fit. She has turned more “hippie” than ever. Loves people. Likes to talk to strangers. Most of the people that have hurt her have been family.

Even though her twin grand-daughters and grandson, as well as son and daughter, live in WA state; she is feeling a pull to be far away.

For the past year, she has begun to loose her sight. Upper Left peripheral. They call it a “visual field defect” there are also other neurological symptoms. Tests at the UWMC were inconclusive. Check back in February.

 Good timing. In February are her son’s and daughters birthdays.

She has a good friend in Utah she has promised to spend Christmas with. Other than those landmarks, she has decided to purchase a rail pass and meet strangers, like the ones who kept her, most literally, alive over the past few years.

The only thing she is using to guide her is her intuition. Given from God. She is journaling as she goes.

Except for a business training trip, she has never been east of Spokane. And actually, Spokane was business too, but she was with a friend….

She wants to see the world before she can no longer see. In that vein, she is using the tools of FaceBook and the Facebook game, “Pot Farm” to find people who have an interest in the medical use of cannabis; something she has become absolutely passionate about.

Her boyfriend, now technically, ex-boyfriend (needs to figure out who SHE is!); is a stage four kidney cancer SURVIVER… thanks to medical cannabis. In the experimental treatment study in which he was a participant: he was the only person who used cannabis, and he is now the only survivor.

Her own experiences with the medical use of marijuana; stem from the PTSD and chronic pelvic pain and disorders she was left with after sever sexual trauma at a very young age. She was prescribed fentanyl for over 7 years, not having her doctors be optimistic that she would ever be able to survive the pain without some type of strong opiate (was prescribed Fentanyl which is 100x stronger than morphine due to an allergy to morphine).

In August 2009, she was discharged, without any notice, from the care of her prescribing doctor. She had no family doctor, and couldn’t find one who would take Medicare in the  2 days before withdrawals began. She decided to go off of it. 

Withdrawals were the closest to death and agony that she had ever experienced. Level 10 pain PLUS all of the other bodily effects of opioid withdrawal.

After pulling herself out of bed for the flag line of a young hero (she is a PGR member), deciding that there was something out there more important than herself; she began to look toward getting out of bed (where she had virtually lived for the past 7 years) and living.

The ONLY med she uses for pain control is cannabis.

Some days are better than others. She still has days with level 9 pain, but usually it is when she doesn’t have the ability to use the cannabis. It effectively lowers her pain level to between 5 (on a great day) to around 7.5 (on a not so good day).

Living began the next March. When she met “him”…. He called her “butterfly” and showed her she had wings.  Now she is using them. Attempting to see the world, meet new friends … she their world through THEIR eyes. … see who she can help, and how…. Because THAT is the one thing she has always known: she is here to help others. Now she needs to find those that need her help.

HIM showed her how easy it is to grow, she started her first seeds… and the girls should come into fruit around the first of the year. She has a friend babysitting them while she travels.

Gramma Maggie 420, the hippie stoner medical mj advocate who loves all strangers, people as well as other entities, was born.