One of the big things I want to mention about traveling in Indiana is my inability to treat my migraines when I am there. The medical treatment of migraines always scared me because of the way nearly all of the medications raise my blood pressure rather dramatically. Many people in my family have strokes when they are aged. Having blood pressure spikes scares the devil out of me because of this tendency.
When my home state legalized medical marijuana usage, I tried it. My migraines once lasted three days. It was horrible. It took a while to figure out what helped, I found that if I took a gummy, an excedrine migraine tablet, and an alergy tableet, and went to sleep, that I would wake up without the headache as long as I caught the very the first twinge of the headache.
I really didn’t want to go to Indiana without the ability to treat my pain. It took me a long while to decide to make the trip sans medication.
The intolerance and injustice of the State of Indiana always seemed quite evident to me. I saw the way different people were treated differently by the police. One friend’s parents would be caught driving drunk and they would be given an escort home. Another would be caught driving drunk and immediately be put in jail. I saw these discrepancies as I matured. I knew that if I got caught doing something illegal that the book would be thrown at me. By the time I was 18 I decided not to push boundaries. Little fiefdoms with little powers seem to to create intolerance.
All the states surrounding Indiana have reformed their laws regarding the use of marijuana. I simply cannot understand why there is such a heavy culture of judgment in the state. The repressive belief system seemed to squeeze me down, and I felt I had to watch every move I made. This of course created tension and stress.
Taking time between places and giving myself the time and space I needed helped manage the stress.
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