To jonc59: speaking as a certified NYS medical marijuana pt., you are being paranoid. You need to get over that. That was then, and this is now. You should consult with the pharmacist at the medical marijuana dispensaries who might be able to help guide you. The whole program was set up to try to make amends to those people who were treated like criminals in the past. Those people now have first dibs on getting a license to start a marijuana dispensary.
If you’re very sensitive to the psychoactive effects of THC, you might want to consider microdosing. By that I mean trying products that have a tiny amount of THC like 1.0 mg, combined with a very large amount of CBD, like 54 mg. Taking half a gummy with that composition does the trick for me. You have to look for a certain chew made by Hedy in their green apple flavor.
Israel has been experimenting with microdosing,, and finding many people who benefit from just a tiny amount of THC, coupled with a much larger amount of CBD, which counteracts some of the negative effects of THC.