Plant Mama First Lady On Sparking Creativity and Cultivating For Self-Care

We live in a very stress-induced society. So much so that it’s not uncommon that you or someone you know may be suffering from depression, anxiety, or some type of mental or physical illness caused by a toxic environment. First Lady decided to seek help from a medical professional who prescribed her with drugs they hoped would allow her depression to subside. Instead, the drugs she was prescribed lead to may health complications and she fell into an even more depressive, colorless state.

After doing her own research she decided that there had to be something out there to combat depression without procuring more health issues and the unwanted side effects. She discovered cannabis not only help her with her depression but spasms and menstrual pain. Cannabis helped ignite her creativity and she became dedicated to music and her art, along with helping others get off addictive pharmaceutical drugs and pain pills.

Green Goddess Glow: What inspired you to start growing cannabis?

I was subscribed prozac for anxiety and depression. I remember taking 20mg of Prozac a day to where I couldn’t focus on my day. I couldn’t focus on anything.  I was too drugged up. That incited health complications, my liver started to shut down and my doctor said I wouldn’t see a long life. On top of being depressed, I was tired and sleepy all the time on. I began smoking cannabis around that same time. It made me feel alert, up, focused and helped a lot with my depression and anxiety. I started studying the medical benefits on my own. During the time a lot of the information was only on cancer patients using it: there wasn’t much information on cannabis helping those with anxiety and depression. I remember trying to tell my doctors it works and being told it doesn’t, it’s a gateway drug, and I’d end up turning to something heavier.

I decided I wanted to be a voice for other people who are looking to get off pharmaceutical drugs and turn to natural, plant-based medicines with no side effects besides being hungry.  I started growing shortly thereafter. I used to think about growing my own cannabis and having my own cannabis strain line, like I could help change lives for the better. I thought, if cannabis saved my life and it could save many others like me.

GGG: What does growing your own cannabis do for you? Do you consider it a form of self-care?

Growing is relaxing for me: I love talking to my cannabis plants and playing music for them. I’m very hands-on with my cannabis learning, watching and studying every chance I get.

And yes, it’s self-care for me. I have a natural medicine I can take without worrying about side effects besides being hungry. Growing my own cannabis allows me to be in full control. I don’t believe in using toxic chemicals for nutrients, not at all. I believe in using natural and organic nutrients only. So, I know exactly what’s in my cannabis. I know I’m not harming my body with cannabis.

GGG: The biggest challenge with growing cannabis has been…

I would say the biggest problem I’ve run into is heat and gophers. It’s been the biggest lessons I’ve learned this year.

GGG: The most rewarding thing about growing cannabis has been…

The most rewarding thing about growing cannabis has been having my own custom cannabis strain line FlotwcKush! I’m the 1st black woman to have her own cannabis line. I’m very excited because I want people to know theirs other alternatives to FDA drugs, free of all the side effects and possibility of death. I want to help save lives and educate people on the medical benefits cannabis has and what it can do.

GGG: Tell us about yourself and how cannabis fits into your lifestyle.

I’m 1st Lady Of The West Coast. I’m from the Bay Area, CA. I’m a singer, emcee, songwriter, and label head at 1st Lady Of The West Coast Music Group, sister label to DPMGUNITED.

Cannabis enhances my creativity and my music. I can write for hours. I end up coming with some really flows and cadences, and ideas for visuals for music videos. Cannabis allows me to think outside the box and pushes me to go beyond my own boundaries. Cannabis heightens my focus on the task at hand, and it enhances my creativity as an artist and my artistic abilities. Like Graham Nash, who speaks to how cannabis helped him unleash his creativity and enhanced his song writing. Cannabis has really done that for me.

I’m also involved in the cannabis industry as a grower with my own custom cannabis line. Cannabis fits my lifestyle because it saved my life. It helped with everything from depression to back spasms and menstrual cramps. I knew cannabis had always helped with my pain and depression although uneducated doctors who thought cannabis was a drug with not a medical benefit had told me otherwise.  I am here today, with many others, who can say cannabis does help with depression and pain, and so much more. I want to be able to offer that option to people with FLOTWC.