I can not tell you how gratifying it is to be baking Storm  cookies, all the wile thinking about how wonderful it is.  I am using all natural ingredients ALL NATURAL ingredients! To this day it amazes me! HOW I wish I knew then what I know now. I have said it before and I will say it again - as a matter of fact I will keep saying it until people start to listen -Had I known how wonderful this medicine is in helping our son with his pain I would have been baking him cookies when he was 4! When he was diagnosed.  I wish  the hospitals had told me about cannabis as a choice for medicating our son. I still feel bad about all the medicine we kept giving him, I was worried about the damage it was doing to his internal orgsans -mind and body.
I must move on. NOW I know better - so  today as I bake his cookies - his medicine - it is though I have a sense of peace knowing I am helping him, feeding him and easing his pain. This is what every mother wants to do for her children. Thank God for me in our house COMFORT food is taken to an entirly new level.  As a mother - it makes ME  feel good! I thank God as I bake with this healing herb. 
To think if laws change - I might not be able to have the medicine to make cookies. JUST the thought of this turns my stomach into knots. I AM AFRAID to watch our son suffer. I am not sure if you can understand this but if come from years of watching helplessly - daily I remind myself that it is o.k. now- he is medicating and not hurting, he is in control. I'm not worried about overdoes, side effect or the loss of his quality of life. We have Cannabis and he is living his life - he is working, learning-living ;-)))
I read today on FB- the differnt drama going on with some of the activists.. people have to put their differences aside! THERE are so many people around the world that want Cannabis legalized - it amazes me that it is not. WE need to work together. The cartoon I just did.. "Recently I read:"   I thought, I should put 'where' I read it.. but realized- NO - what is happening in that cartoon  is happing all over the world! WHO CARES where?  IT is Happening and it is WRONG. SIMPLE.   IF YOU ARE NOT  looking at the big picture.. then you are not working together for this cause. It is bigger than our small town, our province our states our countries - it is a world wide problem . I know many people like to use it recreationally and that is fine, as an educated adult you should be free to chose what you put in your body - BUT DO NOT FORGET- CANNABIS is more than a high for many people it is life saving medicine!!!  MORE than anything - it should be legal and freely grown by who ever wants to - to ease suffering! GOD put it here how dare anyone one use to to profit when suffering is involved.
All of you-  who grow and give medicine away THANK YOU. YOU get it!!
Rick Simpson and his healing oil - Thank you.  Now that is one Canadian I AM  very proud of.  Jack Herer.. he got it. He knew what he was doing.
Well  if you are reading this please... do it for LOVE. That is the only way we will make this change happen. Love for other people, love for our children, family, friends... love of the plant - LOVE OF all things green on this earth.  

I want to say here and now. I want no part of GOSSIP, no picking sides, no he said she said,
I am before anything else my son's mother. I will not see him suffer if I can help it ever again.
I know why I am doing what I am doing. FOR LOVE.  Like me or not I do not care. I am here to first make parents aware - parents with children who are hurting. If while doing this I can help others be heard - that is just an added blessing
Im doing what I do for my son, husband and the plant.
I'm here for the plant. 
xox  <><  

I try not to read the paper. When I do I am always shocked (I guess that's their job). I find I just shake my head in amazement. Lately it is with the punishment of the crime.  In the last few years I really is a shock for me to read about people going to jail for growing a plant. In many cases they are growing it for someone that is terribly ill.  A PLANT that is proven to ease suffering. A plant that is showing incredible results now with shrinking of tumors!  Don't believe me... you know what to do. ;-)
I read some really despairing stuff..  How can you not! It fills out papers and T.V.
 People die daily from DRUNK DRIVERS.  Lives are destroyed and all is lost.  Because someone can't control their drinking ?  The sad thing is many become repeat offenders. Many times they do not even get TIME - simply a slap on the hand. YET for the family of a loved one that is killed - the pain goes on for a very long time. 
 I do not understand it. WHY have WE let this happen and continue to do so? 
Yes people make mistakes and sometimes it takes a very difficult lesson to learn to change. Then there are those that prey upon children, in come cases their own parents.  Again many never see the inside of a jail - yet they have forever taken away innocence  and for the most part destroy a life - sometimes for generations to come.  
YET people are going to jail fro growing plants? Sick people?  Terminally ill. 
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND this.  It is a plant. Why do we let this happen?  
No wonder I avoid the paper.. ;-(  alas, I can not avoid life.  
We need to start to think why this is happening. 
SERIOUSLY -    

A mural! I’m going to paint a mural in Toronto’s newest Vapor lounge! On Lakeshore. I was asked this morning! HOW EXCITING.  I have been given free rein to do what I want. So I’m going to do a big feel good Happy Hippie Cultivating Compassion  image that puts people in a good mood. Fun to look at while they relax and medicate.  I’m painting a Giant Laughing Buddha in 'The Ganga Yoga area' - also something I look forward to trying.   I was on ‘Cityline’ years ago with a  few murals I did - babies rooms, I’ve done a few restaurants over the years  and had much fun when I did a huge MURAL in a Doggy Daycare... Cultivating Compassion, Cannabis  oh, I CAN’T WAIT!  

I’ve never been to a vapor lounge so that too in itself will be an experience. The store is upstairs and the Lounge downstairs - I hear an elevator for medicinal patients is being put into the building.  I am excited to be a part of it.   I figure I will take photos as the job progresses and post them  to give a little - sneak peek - hee hee.. You never know who or what you might see ;-) 
Other than that a new toon.. I read it and it just hit me..We have a greater chance of dying eating a peanut that we do if you smoke Cannabis.  I can not tell you how much it eases my mind as a mother that I do not have to worry about my son having an over dose with his medicine. NOT to mention all the other side effects. 
Don’t believe me?  Research it.  

I was also blessed today with my student, Lucy.  She is 12 (13 in Korea) and is here to learn English for a few years, hard as she left all her family behind. I was asked to teach her art to help her with her English and have a bit of fun. I enjoy our lessons and trying to figure out words. We made sunny little bumble bee flower vases. We always have a few laughs.   She is here for 2 hours and the time flies! Usually I look at the clock and realize there is only 10 minutes left.  I don’t officially teach anymore but I figure God has a plan.. every now and then I am asked and If I can teach a kid & I usually do. 

I wish I would have had more people spend craft time with me as a kid. 

I had one aunt Marnie that did with my drawing. I am sure she had no idea of how much it was appreciated. To this day I thank her. Again I wonder -  did God place me here for her. I think not, he placed her here for me. Remind me to have fun and make a funky bumble bee! All else can wait. Put a smile on a kids face. A couple hours a week is all it takes. For the record... Tequila and  Scruffy also enjoy her company ;-) 

What a great day! Already drawing in my mind. 

Recently I decided to hide the number of friends on FB. The number is growing quickly.  I do NOT want people friending me to be a number. I want people friending me because they see my cartoons and Believe in the message want to help educate themselves and others. I also make a point to look at every one who requests- profile photos. If I see something I do not like I simply un-friend. I am not here to judge BUT that does not mean I will subject myself to looking at 'negative' images that disturb, frustrate, or go against my own opinions.
For example One fellow had nothing but guns - on his bed, in his kitchen and his little ones proudly displaying Daddy's BIG guns.  'SIGH'  Or those that use to use the power of the internet to spread hate and negativity. When so much good is possible. 
Same reason I choose not to watch the news. One thing I have really learned in the past 4 years is that WE are being LIED to daily. If we can be lied to about something as harmless as Cannabis and its health benefits, what else? I also do NOT like the way our children are becoming slaves to T.V - few toons in the works.  Watch the corporation! click here.
KIDS  -  I did accept a few friend requests from 'kids' Hmmmm.. not sure of this but recently I had a visit from a friend who brought her 2 kids. 12 & 14. If you THINK your kids do not know about Cannabis at this age you are mistaken. My friend not only read Storms article to them but also they each read the comic books. They have a NEW understanding that MARIJUANA : is NOT just for getting high. That is what they thought.
 IT NEEDS to change.  It is my wish that kids would not use anything until they are much older.. and hopefully a bit in control of their lives. Sadly many kids are hurting mentally, financially and  just being a kid is not always easy these days.  So they turn to booze,  * as a matter of FACT I took my own little survey recently - most of my friends I'd have to say 97% tried alcohol & tobacco first - so that would make them the GATEWAY drugs.  the other 2 percent went straight to pot and still use pot and never really got into anything else. They did not need to . Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. The other 1. LOL never tried Cannabis or anything else and to this day never gets drunk. LUCKY her. REALLY.
It is not until you get older that you can step back and say - " I wish I would not have ..."
Too late. Our bodies are all we have we should be more careful with what goes in them.
VERY few, VERY smart kids get this at an early age. ;-) 
So I will add kids if they send me a request. They are smarter than we were. HOW could they NOT BE. They will be responsible for the future and making Cannabis Legal. Worldwide.  
PROVIDED they are EDUCATED.  

As you might imagine I get a few requests.. "draw me!" ;-)) Or "can you draw this idea..."
Most of them funny and I enjoy the ideas. Some It takes longer than others or sometimes and idea will trigger a different toon in the same direction. Some "I Get" & some "I Don't" 
just like many people with my comics. YOU can NOT please everyone. ;-)

But the other day I got a request, just a couple of lines that have forever changed my life. 
-"if you dont mind i would like to request cartoon for ending dead execution for cannabis in my country malaysia...to educate my people mind.."
My first thoughts: What?! Seriously? ...What? Oh my God... I asked for more information and it was provided. How sad. How sad all of this is on too many levels.
 HOW wrong it all is. WAR on Drugs? More like WAR on  WEAK. 
Then I had trouble. How could I? How can I draw this easily, seriously and pray it gets the message across. I thought about it all day yesterday. I went to bed feeling very tired (my twitch is constant & frankly exhausting) and a little sorry for myself. Then it came to me. Almost asleep ... quite simply: IT IS so sad on so many levels. 
I read earlier this week about a young mom who got sent to jail for 12 years! Leaving 3 kids. FIRST OFFENSE,  just over 4 grams. I think it said $30.00 worth. The judge 'justifying' it by 'setting an example'. OF what!? To her kids of how cruel life can be?  Selling a HERB that does not HURT anyone. Not a rapist, murderer, human trafficking, child pornographer.. not scum of the earth.  A MOM. How much will it cost for her to be in prison for 12 years? What will happen to her children? Clearly that judge does not care. Generations have suffered  and will continue to do so because of this war on CANNABIS. A PLANT.   

In Canada they are talking about taking away the already legal rights of the sick - so that they can no longer be responsible for growing their own medicine. Forcing the already suffering to resort back to "dealers" Legal or other wise.. Many can hardly afford our prescriptions now. ALSO limiting the types of strains that work for many different people. NOT to mention that it is a PLANT.  
HOW many gardeners out there would be devastated if your were told "NOPE - you can not grow another plant." If we say O.K. to Cannabis - what will be next- Tomatoes?  The funny thing  is that, it is NOT a JOKE.
                    But come on.. people being executed for Cannabis? PUT TO DEATH? 
                    For a PLANT that GOD placed on this earth.  Truly, that is a SIN.
PEOPLE we MUST work together.  You don't have to smoke it - BUT IF YOU DO and you don't stand up for your right to smoke a HERB    **ESPECIALLY if is is easing your suffering??    Others are DYING for that luxury.  NEVER be ashamed of what eases your pain.  Those of you who just like to smoke Cannabis, Thank God you you live where you do.
                            PLANT the SEED of CANNABIS EDUCATION TODAY!
How could I not do the drawing?  I know what Cannabis does. I have witnessed it. It is a MIRACLE plant that needs to be researched and Legalized to end all this madness...
over a plant.   So sad.  
I came up with this drawing. I hope and pray it gets people thinking. That is all I can do. More people have to be educated.  **Norm saw the drawing when he came home and said "I think that hanging is a bit much..."  I said "Me too!" And then told him the story and what I learned. He also had no idea. So Is it a bit much?  NO, it is the TRUTH . 
The truth shall set you free.                         
                    Please... PLANT the SEED of CANNABIS EDUCATION TODAY!

Drew this last night and the first thing my son said to me this morning was: 
"It's a Buddhaful day mom! "  
Laughing Buddha always makes me smile. I hope you all have a BUDDHAFUL DAY!
xox<><

I’ve had an eventful week. MUCH to think about. A little physically tiring.
 It’s had many great things happen. Keeping me smiling.
 A couple of compassion clubs have ordered a couple of books ;-)  I drew MY FIRST COVER!! SO excited. It is for Cannabis Digest and they always have a coloring contest. Well you know me! I love to color! So I asked them If I could draw a cover and they said yes. 

Dog days of summer.
 O.k. if you don’t know it by now - I LOVE my dogs.  These past few month I’ve had my heart broken 2 times. I try not to think about it but still I tear up almost daily at the thought of missing Hunny & Hope.  Especially with both and how they died I have given it much thought. So now I would like to share.. Pets on Pot. 
 Cannabis is very much a part of our life, used daily for pain control.  We also have pets.
 Yes we feed our dogs table scraps. Meat and veges.  We LOVE our dogs they are a part of our family. We have always had dogs, from Great Danes  to Scruffy (no clue really on what she is for sure - besides lovable) And always more than one - usually 3 max 4.* And cats - always 3, max- 17 at once! - That is another story ;-)))
We have watched and learned about our pets and Cannabis. 
Indy was a lab and was obese as years went on, she has always had problems with her legs - as a matter of fact - I was painting a mural in a pet store years ago and overheard the owner saying that the remaining puppy was going to have to be put down because he had problems walking. She would not sell her. I TOOK the PUP instead of the cash and we had Indy about 16 years ;-)) 
*Imagine Norm rolling his eyes   hee hee hee
SHE LOVED Cannabis. As soon as Storm lit up or turned on his volcano she hobbled over! He tail would wag and she’d almost dance on the spot, nose pointed up begging to have it blown in her face.  I am convinced it bought her the last 2 years she had. 
-Hunny would turn her nose away.. but would not leave. Once she got stung by several wasps and she would not stop shaking. I intentionally asked Storm to blow in her face and  not long after she was napping with me and calm as can be. She did not like cookies and would turn her nose up at them and walk away. 
-Scruffy is the BUD stealer! 
She likes the plant . She is tiny but every now and then if you drop a bud she grabs it and runs. She has nasal problems and usually snores one night after scoring some bud we all laughed at how soundly she slept - no snoring! AND so playful the next day it was insane. Also NOT big on the cookies. 
-Tequila LOVES cannabis. Again turn on the volcano and she is there! She also loves cookies and tries all the time to get nibbles, licks crumbs of cookies and bud off the floor and  ALSO steals fresh blueberries and strawberries right OFF the bush outside! She knows what is good for her. Tequila is 16 and starting to get ‘lumpy” ;-(  she growls but still is the first in the pool and never can resist a ball. When she is sore you can tell and YES sometimes we do blow it in her face and she just lies there and puts her head down. OFTEN she licks at the smoke. 
-HOPE liked Cannabis. Being a pup we didn’t  really subject her to it or blow it in her face-she was kookie & energetic enough being a puppy. 
*HOPE stole a cookie one time. IN a container that I myself had difficulty opening. She ate the entire cookie. She became incredibly stoned - we were worried took her to the vet told them what she had done- the vet said ‘oh, pets have died from cannabis” I asked her is she knew of that as a fact, had witnessed it first hand or could share a documented case. No. - I was/am skeptical about that.  Anyhow all Hope needed was a GOOD sleep and was bouncing right back the next day like nothing happened.  ***As you might be aware.. a month later she got into some prescribed medication and in less that an hour lay dying in our arms. ;-(   *What you might not know is HUNNY died from BONES.  I had no idea and have been giving my dogs boiled bones forever.  Or bought them from a pet store!  Apparently some dogs just can’t digest them properly. I did not realize how sick she was - she just seems quiet that day.. When I did realize she was dying -it was pretty quick.  Hunny died in my arms. I miss them so much. 

ALL of my dogs have consumed Cannabis and none have died from it.  
 PLEASE be careful with all medications. Cannabis or other. 
 Such a hard lesson... but a lesson none the less. 
 Recently, I asked people to share their cannabis stories - so far, they have been great!
 NO PETS have died. Some funny stories but most much like my own. Some like it some don’t . One man even makes a point to make sure he buys it for his dog that has a terrible time with thunder and fireworks. People who’s dogs are old and have arthritis give it to them. One bakes dog cookies with it!  Several animals like to eat Cannabis. 
 Even a Gecco that ‘prefers’ red hair bud...

Food for thought. Our pets are our family. Do you know what that flea chemical you are putting on their skin does to them? USE something natural! DO you give your pets anti anxiety medication??  Would you give your kids something with out researching it? YIKES. Did you know that Cannabis was use by veterinarians for years!? Until the US outLAWed it  ;-(  Well I have a few toons in the works. Best get back to it. 
 Some of our family members, pets -past and present.:    

As long as I breath I should never have a shortage of material.  All you have to do is pick up something and read, listen and watch.  As for Cannabis - I wonder some days, am I making a difference? I pray I am. I was reading about some Cannabis activist today in the newest issue of SKUNK  (great issue- 50th) and I was seeing how many people I have learned about and admire and who have INSPIRED me. Inspire me to continue my drawing and 'us' to share Storm's story.  It is through so many of them I have been educated and am forever grateful. I also have had the pleasure of meeting some fantastic, smart, creative, professional, determined, passionate and funny people. Will always remember dinner with Tommy ;-*   Some activists other patients. Movie stars and grandmothers! All telling the truth, helping to end the insanity. A few no longer with us. They have made the greatest impact on me.
There were also MANY, MANY people that were not on that list. Thank God. 
-It was a fat enough issue as it is! hee hee hee     But seriously,
Every single person is important. 
If you believe and you tell just one person every day. 
You are an activist! And I thank you. Really.  This is my son's medicine. 
People might not believe you, perhaps you will plant the seed in their brain about Cannabis and a better understanding .   I had 3 ladies come into the Gallery today and we started to talk about Cannabis, just yesterday they were talking about it also  (that is a good sign) They had wonderful questions! Hope, was a little skeptical but THAT is it.. she knows only what she has heard to date. Mary and the other woman seemed to be a little more educated on the subject. BUT at least Hope was thinking about it -I could see she was thinking differently! So, I don't talk to the masses but I do talk to everyone I meet.  People at church, the store, the vet, the Gallery!  I know God has me where I am for a reason, I rarely bring it up- at the Gallery-- BUT - - I'm at a Gallery!  They can tell I love art and one thing leads to another.. I tell them I'm a cartoonist- they ask where can I see your stuff and I show them a magazine. ..blah, blah, blah the rest is history. These ladies today were so cool.  Interested and (American BTW) curious and just a pleasure to talk to. 
Everybody for a reason.   They inspired a toon.  I am also working on a few pet cartoons. 
This past week I have been picked up by TWO new magazines.  One in the U.S.A where my strip is going over very well and the other in the U.K! WOW! I'm on another continent! 
It is very exciting.  My mind races some times.. then all I have to do is look at my baby
and look up to God and I am reminded why I am doing what I am doing. 

Please tell ONE person today... you know someone & Cannabis has saved their lives.

Note:  Found out today -Kat LOVES Jeremy (River Monster) too, and also finds him incredibly sexy!  The claws are out! I told her to back off he's mine! LOL 
I drew him a toon.. She's framing it for me. 
Photo below of one of my favorite activist. We had diner at the C.N. Tower.  

You have heard it before - Stand up!  Stand up for your rights! I laugh when I see people post this, people with FaceBook names like Mary Jane, Stony Stoner, I.B.Getinhi (made that one up hee, hee) Secret names for a secret life?  I will say it again if you use it ADMIT IT.  The power of the people.  I know several who smoke it or have and its hush hush.. "oh, those were my stoner days."  Or "What would peole think?"  WHO CARES!?  SMOKING Cannabis SHOULD NOT be a crime. Not when you can purchase tobacco & Alcohol and drink& smoke your face off! 
Admit it!  BECAUSE ... for most of us we an PROVE it was NOT in fact a Gateway drug. To what ? Marriage and kids and a steady job?  We can admit we never saw dragons or flying  dogs or ran though a field butt naked.  Many people smoke Cannabis. They know the truth, they know life goes on and you can be successful. Ask President Obama. The one who did inhale.  Ask millions of daily tokers that go to work and function! Not just function but prosper. Ask Tommy Chong!  He did not get there because he was a 'stoner' he got here because he was a hard working creative man.  For many people it is NOT about getting High. It is about medicating - and yes for some relaxing  (unwind). It is illegal because of $.
If everyone that uses it just admitted it the battle would be over. 

Educate yourself but remember ...   

I can be somewhat of a recluse. Especially with the twitch. I did not get my botox and will not until we can possibly figure out what is going on.  I pretty much twitch all the time with breaks in between of facial peace ;-) I am getting use to it but I still bothers me when I'm out. It is also much worse when I am tired or stressed ;-) So -great excuse to stay home and relax. Who needs an excuse? My favorite place to be is in our backyard. Especially on a day like today. i-pod with chanting monks "Om Mani Padme Hum".. and Deva Premal,  a bit of the Stones thrown in from time to time. Terrific  breeze the pool and LOTS to do. Being a holiday I LOVE it as the entire family is out in the backyard. Me, Norm, Storm, Tequila, Scruffy, Darkie, Jaws, fluffy and even Larry is going to get some fresh air.  Where ever I go I am followed by my 4 legged friends. * Which as you might imagine, makes me miss it even more when I remember that two are missing.  And I never forget, so I guess they kinda still are here. Even as I garden, pull weeds, pick up pooh (the glamourous life of a cartoonist- hee hee) they follow me. (photos below)
I heard all 3 wives around me today bitch at hubby about cutting the grass. ha ha ha  
I did not bitch, I only suggested it - several times- to Storm ;-DD 
Dad is fixing the car... again.  I can't start "the beast" or push it around the entire yard so Storm's job. 
Storm said "O.k. I'm going to go medicate then I'll cut it."  
10 mins later and he was cutting the grass. 
BECAUSE he was medicated. 
NOT STONED.  
Storm is a very hard worker. He does not let his pain stop him from doing what he wants to do. Chronic pain is a way of life for my son. Even sitting too long can cause him great pain.  ***So if your kids is smoking a joint and then sittng on the sofa doing nothing all day - Do me a favor in the future.. blame the kid (part parents) not the Cannabis!  To my son being able work is a luxury. HE also does all his laundry - he does not trust my domestic diva skills when it comes to his clothing.  We are so blessed to have our backyard - I have peace here.. even as I listen to Greg curse (2 door over) as he cuts the grass Hee hee he. I am blessed to have and use this little green eden. I was thankful today I do NOT have a laptop.
Garden inspired  Laughing Buddha  * Features Cannabis, Morning Glories & Poppies 
     3 Of Gods Miracles on the list of a Godzillion!  And you can't go any further.