Hi all,
I’m enjoying reading everyone’s experiences and queries and hope to be able to learn, and be helpful when I can.

I am guessing (and its only a guess) that at age 55, I may be older than most; though I could easily be mistaken). Though I’m no longer a recreational drug taker (probably haven’t been for about 30 years or so), of late, there have been times when I’ve been forced to make a choice due to severe chronic pain; plants or drugs.

I am choosing plants, and though I realize there are plenty of plants that have psychoactive alkaloids, they don’t scare me like prescription opiate drugs do which are way too easy to get and become addicted.

Could you elaborate a little bit more fully as to what you mean by "plants"? There are a lot of different plants out there and many of them heal in many, dramatically different ways.

But as a generality, plant medicines tend to provide many advantages over pharmaceuticals.

Hello mark! I commend your choice to go with natural medicine. I've always hated how we refer to them as "alternative", when they've been there for us long before modern medicine.

Welcome! (:
Who cares about your age, it's all bull anyway. We're all here, being, light. Let's accend together. Share our wisdom, our conciousness.