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Well, I worked something out after everything that got talked about and tried yesterday.
My previous run through this protocol helped me discover that I don’t tolerate THC by ingestion very well. Nothing to do with stomach issues, just the effect of that form of the cannabinoid doesn’t sit well in my system.
So thanks to Shed doing the spreadsheet for me and thinking how I might get more CBD into my base dose without upping the THC the light bulb moment last night was to keep the oil at the very low level (1-1.5ml per day for 2-3mg of CBD) and to treat vaping with the CBD as part of the base meds, to get more CBD just through a different pathway.
The vaping for pleasure will come and go and is not necessarily an everyday thing. Often only on weekends. So even with my single vape draw yesterday evening, I haven’t broken protocol I realised because I didn’t have an oil dose then. I’ll xontinue today on the oil, make the evening dose a single vape draw like yesterday and then se how the vaping the CBD CC on top of the oil goes on Sunday which is my day 6.
That’s messed with the protocol a bit but only very slightly. I didn’t add a dose, just took it in a different form of delivery (although it was a high THC variety).
This protocol is all about working out what works for each individual. That’s how I understand what Sulak says in much of his material.
Last time I leant something. And this time I’m learning something more - which builds on the discovery from last time. I now know that presently I am going to need the oil and a small amount of CBD vaped during the day. And then a draw of a THC variety at night (prob not a Sativa!). If I can maintain that I think it will be good. Then my challenge is to keep the fully recreational getting fully blazed to a less frequent occurrence. I think that still allows for a ‘SweetSue day’ often enough! LOL! Even if it means I need to execute the protocol more regularly. I don’t think I will though if I can keep things at roughly the pattern I’ve worked out now. Thanks everyone for the support!
I’ll report back about the day 6experiments with vaping the CBDCC
Ok this is bending my brain a bit. If she’d wirked out that my oil has about 2.5mg/ml, how do you manage to get 160mg into her?
I know your FHO is double potency but even at double... she would have to be taking over 30ml of oil a day. Plus 160sounds like an extreme amount(not to mention 80mg of THC). All the info I’m looking at talks about CBD doses of 2-15mg/day...
Maybe I’m not getting something here...
That was a typo on my part, and I can't find the figures to see what I was playing with yesterday. She's getting 8 capsules a day. We're in the process of adapting the regimen to include acid cannabinoids, but her base dose is still going to be 8 CBD CC capsules, double-strength.
By my calculations her base oil is coming out to be about 12 mg/ml of CBD and about 8 mg/ml of THC. Multiply that by 8 doses a day and she's getting approximately 64 mg of THC and 96 mg of CBD a day, from the capsules alone.
Her sleep dose is probably in the range of 20-25 mg THC, and she sometimes vapes a high-THC chemovar a couple times a day. We usually take that time to sit and talk for a hour or so.
She tells me she doesn't think she's building a tolerance, because she listens to her body, and it frequently directs her to go with a different chemovar for a while. In this way she appears to be maintaining a balance that works nicely for her
I'm beginning to wonder if the model we believe about tolerance is the whole truth. I do the protocol to Spring clean my system. My tolerance levels are different, in that I don't really have to do more than normal to get the same effect, but rather I enjoy euphoria so much I keep striving to get to the next level.
And I don't see that as a detriment. I reject the idea that feeling euphoria means you're overdosing. Euphoria is a valuable therapeutic effect of cannabis. One adjusts the levels attained to fit the social obligations, but there's nothing inherently wrong with getting high as you heal. Its certainly possible to dose without euphoria, and one wants to avoid overwhelming euphoria, but I don't believe it's necessary to eliminate it for cannabis to be therapeutic.
It feels to me like there's this underlying implication that by being euphoric you're interfering with the healing process, and that's the idea I don't accept.
) I’m also interested because I have this theory that when there’s something way off kilter, the cannabinoids don’t feel like they get you stoned until the systemic disruption has settled. Dunno if that makes sense. For example I’ve been given these herbal pain killers for neuropathy. They work well and also tamp down the general jangled nervous system. I was warned they are sedative (which is why it took 18months before they gave them to me) but I get no sedation from them at all if my system is in a hyper jangled state. All they do is tamp that down and I feel close to normal - no sedation. But if I’m already settled and haven’t been over doing it to wind up the ANS/CNS, then I feel the sedation. See what I’m getting at.
and I’m hunkered down. Making oil and smelling buds 
on day 5 of the program. The first 2 days were ok at first and then got rough as I realised how much the CBD does for certain kinds of pain I experience. So night one I was pretty manic and didn’t sleep, night 2 there was serious painsomnia. Rather than trying to breathe through it or taking something else nasty (the other legal herb things weren’t working) I realised, to my relief - that it says “2 days (48hrs)” and it was 8pm tues night, and my last vape was early Sunday evening - about 7. So I just had a quick one-hit of some high THC indica and was able to get to sleep. Vaping doesn’t kill the pain, but it reduces it enough and lowers the distress levels a lot. Plus it kind of disconnects me from the pain - it’s still there, but I’m distracted or distanced from it. Some people can do this through meditation, I have achieved it occasionally during deep meditation - but you can’t live there. Unless you’re a serious Yogi - and I’m not there!
