I received an email a few days ago from Valery Fortie, the editor of Mediterranean Book, which is focused on healthy eating styles to help lower blood pressure and live longer. She asked if I would entertain the idea of having a guest post about the importance of healthy eating, and I replied saying that if she could make it somehow marijuana-related, I would definitely consider it.

I was super excited today when I checked my email and found an email from her with three recipes for healthy meals that you can make with marijuana! I personally love being able to eat delicious food and get high from it, instead of hacking out my brains while smoking it, and then getting the munchies and binging out on junk food. I’ve never had anything but magic brownies, cookies, and cereal snacks (which I’ll write the recipes to later), and I’m thinking what could be better than healthy food that gets you high?!

So, for the first recipe, (I’m going to break them into three separate posts) here’s Mediterranean Stoner Cream Cheese Spread!

Ingredients:

8 oz cream cheese (at room temperature)
4 tablespoons cannabutter (softened) [I've got a previous post with a cannabutter recipe.]
One garlic clove (minced)
1-tablespoon parsley
1-teaspoon water
1-teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
2 teaspoons white vinegar
Pinch of salt

Combine all ingredients in a medium bowl, stir together thoroughly, cover and refrigerate over night. Garnish with fresh Mediterranean herbs before serving. Enjoy on crackers or baguettes.

Valery Fortie is the editor of the mediterraneanbook.com website. It’s a directory of scientifically driven sources focused on eating habits to help people diagnosing high blood pressure and live longer and better.

Mediterraneanbook.com is a non commercial website created to preserve the Italian Healthy Eating Traditions. Founded in 2004 in Italy, Mediterranean Book feels very strongly about having informed consumers on duty in all healthy eating fields.

Robin Prosser was a former concert pianist and systems analyst from Montana who suffered from an immunosuppressive disease similar to lupus for over 20 years. The disease stiffened her muscles, limited her mobility, and caused chronic pain, heart trouble, nausea, and migraines. It also made her allergic to most pharmaceutical painkillers, and the ones she wasn’t allergic to had no effect.

Only medical marijuana brought her relief, so she looked to local law enforcement authorities for permission to grow her own marijuana to keep a steady supply of medication without having to fear being arrested or prosecuted, but Police Chief Bob Weaver stated that Prosser would “be busted if she grows pot and we learn about it.”

According to this article from the MPP, Prosser emailed her therapist explaining that she was going to commit suicide because she was not able to deal with the constant pain anymore. When the police showed up at her house, they found her nearly unconscious after having taken prescription sleeping pills ordered off the Internet. They also found a little marijuana and two pipes.

She was charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia because, according to Police Captain Marty Ludemann, “the reason we charged her is Montana does not allow the medical use of marijuana.” He also stated that “if it happened tomorrow under the same circumstances, we would arrest her again.”

The charges were dropped, so long as Prosser stayed out of trouble for nine months, and six months later, Montana passed a medical marijuana initiative. It seemed as though Prosser’s troubles were over until federal law enforcement officers intercepted the medicinal marijuana her licensed caregiver had sent her through the mail.

After this incident, Prosser had a lot of trouble finding the type and quality of medical marijuana she needed to help with her symptoms. She experienced excruciating pain in the following months until on Oct. 18, 2007, she took her own life.

This isn’t the first time the government sentences innocent people to death because they smoke marijuana, and I’m sure, unfortunately, it won’t be the last. This was an extremely intelligent woman who used to make beautiful music, but because our government denied her the only medication she could take, she’ll never strike a piano key again.

All I can hope is that she’s at peace and pain-free, making beautiful music in another life.

“The days when marijuana smoking was demonized as a dangerous counterculture activity are over. However you feel about marijuana use, we all agree that making it legal is better than keeping it criminal.” -Bill Piper

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