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I'm not a crop king fan anymore but I do love their CBDream. 1-1 indica dominate. Just melts my pain away with a slight head buzz. Will give you the munches.
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My doctor told me when I went for my medical MJ card that it is Best to get a 1:1 ratio or a 1:2 ratio of THC/CBD and that it works best when it in the same bud. He said it can work if you add a CBD strain with a THC strain but it is Best to get it from the same Plant, Strain Bud What have you found to work best ? Also can members recommend a good 1:1 or 1:2 ratio strain ? I plan to grow my own medicine and want to buy some seeds with these ratios in mind. I suffer from Chronic Pain, Depression, and fatigue along with other aliments. Looking forward to some suggestions Thank You
Thank You, I am glad I have gotten some really good suggestions from the members. I have tried a few different strains but most were high THC because it comes from my buddy who gets some from states where it is MUCH cheaper then it is in Ohio at dispensaries it is $59.99 for a tenth of an ounce. I do buy CBD strains at the dispensaries to add in with the other, I just cant afford it too often. 2:1 CBD:THC is what my Dr. recommended I will check out the Hidrow , I bought some Harlequin a few months ago but a tenth of an ounce doesn't go very far.... I have also tried ACDC and Electric bubblegum but I can only afford a tenth each month so it doesn't go far which is why I will be growing my own medicine. I have been looking at super soil or Living Soil. I want to build my own living soil start some 1:1 or 2:1 strains I am new to growing so I know I have a lot to learn. The members have been Really helpful and I appreciate all the input and suggestions. I plan to look at all the strain recommendations you made as well as others suggestions. I would rather use edibles then smoking but I do also smoke it in the evenings. I don't like smoking that much I have COPD as well as all the other stuff so edibles is what I prefer. I bought the Magic Butter Machine and you have to use an ounce at a time to make stuff in it so I cant make a lot until I can Grow, Dry and Cure my own which takes a little time. Once again Thank You for the inputWhat has been and is happening in medicine is terrible.
I'm going to disagree about both coming from the same plant. I don't think it matters and taking from two different plants may increase the cannabinoid profile and therefore create a better entourage effect.
I will defer to SweetSue, but you may want to lay down a baseline 1:1 oral intake, starting low and going slow to reach the desired effect and then supplement with smoke and other means of administration. This is similar to using methadone for extended relief with another shorter acting between doses when needed. The oral takes longer to kick in but lasts much longer (6-8 hours vs 2-4).
Wedding Cake/Pink Cookies (available from Canuk seeds from sponsor TrueNorth) is a good strain for pain, depression, anxiety, sleep. Orange Sherbet is another strain good for depression and anxiety (and pain?). Both are high THC strains. White Widow or White Russian may work. Harlequin and similar strains offer a more balanced ratio of CBD:THC. We have one member who is fond of Hidrow, a 2:1 CBD:THC strain.
This new venture will take some research on your part and very likely some experimentation, too. Good luck on your journey. We will try to help you along the way.
Thank You I have looked it up and will order some seeds to try it.I'm not a crop king fan anymore but I do love their CBDream. 1-1 indica dominate. Just melts my pain away with a slight head buzz. Will give you the munches.
A 2-1 cbd-thc again from the king is there CBDutch Treat. These 2 strains are very easy to grow. I use this one for my oils I take 3x a day.Thank You I have looked it up and will order some seeds to try it.
I looked up Aliens on Moonshine and it looks good. Its not sold by the places I have been looking at to order seeds from. I found it on Choice seedbank. I got ripped off from one seed supplier so I am leery of where to order from. I would Love to get some seeds and try my hand at growing some.Blazenjones high cbd strains seem to be showing more and more positive results for a lot of things. My wife has a lot of neck pain so we needed to find relief without a lot of high for day time. ACDC works wonders. Almost no thc with a lot of pain relief. Then there's Aliens on Moonshine which is a 5/1 cbd/thc strain that works great also. Smoking or oil puts you in a good place. This is just my opinion but they do work.
Bill
I also went through YEARs of opioid use, I had a bad break up with my x wife. I was on HEAVY meds from my Psychiatrist. I am Bi-Polar so it through me into a depression so bad I slept 20 hours a day for two years. My brother introduced me to a girl, He didn't know she was a crack head. one time she came over and put something in a glass tube and smoked it then she wanted me to try it I did and it was off to the races. For the first time in years I wasn't depressed, I felt like I had won the lottery when I hit it. after years of that the dealers started giving out caps of Boy so I tried it and another 8 years went by. I ODed 3 times then went septic I was in ICU for 21 days I had renal failure, Liver failure, etc. They told me it was a miracle I survived. The doctor agreed to put me on Methadone, High dose then in April this year they cut me off all at once. It has bee Really Bad. I had also been on Vics and perces for years. Now that I am off Opioids I will not go back to them unless it is short term for surgery etc. I hope you stay the course and use mother earths best medicine Cannabis. That's what I plan to keep doing. Good Luck and I enjoyed reading your postThis is amazing @SweetSue I'm a recovering addict an I wish more people could understand the benefits of cannabis.. I've been on suboxone for over a year now from a 8 year long opioid binge that turned into heroin binge I was only 15 maybe 16 i was struggling with life couldn't fit in so i fit myself into the "kool" crowd which eventually got me into pills i had no intention of becoming an addict one day friend hands me a xanax it was like love at first sight then I moved onto blues aka perc 30s aka legal death.. which turned into heroin when I could affoard the 25 dollars a pill x5 a day you can see how that would be extremely stressful at 17yo. I finally had enough and sought help but I had already destroyed my life ruined my family's life even tho they never gave up on me. At the time I was 24 altho I went to a rehabilitation in cali which was the most horrific experience of my life the nurse feed me my suboxone before I was ready an it thru me into particpatied withdrawal anyone familiar with it knows how awful imagine withdrawal x100 fold not exaggerating. My point being is that if I were able to use cannabis at the time I might not have taken my dose early I woulda been able to sleep and i wouldn't have wanted to kill myself form the godawful pain vomiting and full week with 0 sleep I wouldn't wish what i went thru on my worst enemie. I made it thru the week of no sleep or food couldnt keep anything down plus the whole time i had severe bowl issues from years of using got back home and it wasnt easy I almost relapsed ex gf,money,depression issues... so I decide to get suboxone off the street before I did something really stupid like relapse on heroin after everything I went thru now it's a year and a half later I'm still on my self prescribed 2-4mg of suboxone a day I started at 4-8mg a day. I'm ready to be done with all of it now and honestly cannabis is what has helped keep my dose down this long once my babies are ready to harvest I plan on following your guidelines so I can finally be 100% free of this nightmare that robbed me of some of the best years of my life. Thank you so much sue I wish there were more people like you who understand how hard it really is an that cannabis is an amazing medicine.
I am doing my first grow too I have pictures posted in the growing section. I plan to start building a living soil in a couple weeks so it will be ready by winter to start some plants the end of or mid March put them in my greenhouse. Thanks for the positive replayI only on my first grow but I use super soil myself. Not once have I added anything to my water to change the pH or add nutes so far. Have to be careful to not overwater but other than that it's relatively low maintenance. It is a chore to get started (has to compost 6-8 weeks) but that work pays off later.
Great job getting off the harmful stuff and finding this medicine.
My pictures are under the( I need a good super soil recipe)in the growing section. Do you have any pictures of your grow ? I would Love to see them. We got a late start so my plants are still kind of small. I hope I can finish them before winter hits and I hope I don't have to move them in doors My wife can not stand the smell. She can tell if I take the bag of ground bud and load my bowl hours before she comes home...……I only on my first grow but I use super soil myself. Not once have I added anything to my water to change the pH or add nutes so far. Have to be careful to not overwater but other than that it's relatively low maintenance. It is a chore to get started (has to compost 6-8 weeks) but that work pays off later.
Great job getting off the harmful stuff and finding this medicine.
My pictures are under the( I need a good super soil recipe)in the growing section. Do you have any pictures of your grow ? I would Love to see them. We got a late start so my plants are still kind of small. I hope I can finish them before winter hits and I hope I don't have to move them in doors My wife can not stand the smell. She can tell if I take the bag of ground bud and load my bowl hours before she comes home...……
Nice your plants look better then mine... I plan to do a lot more next year, Well starting with building a good soil this year then start some inside to take to my greenhouse early springYou have some good looking plants.
Here's a link to my latest photo dump in my grow journal: Alafornia's 1st Time Multistrain Medical Grow
Tapering Off Opioids for Pain Relief with Dr. Gregory Smith a Green Flower Media class
Decreasing or quitting opioid medications using medical cannabis.
We're all aware by now, aren't we, that our medical profession has created a nightmare of addiction by overprescribing opioid medications? I recently took a class at Green Flower Media on using cannabis to taper down the opioid dose with the hope of getting completely away from these medications that were only meant for short-term use of around two weeks.
Some Perspective
The US has 5% of the world's population but uses 80% of the opioid medications prescribed. There's been a four-fold increase in prescription opioid deaths since the year 2000, causing over 40 deaths a day, most as a result of a patient taking too much of the opioid medication. Research shows that opioids are ineffective for the long-term treatment of chronic pain. The epidemic is caused by prescription-writing practices of physicians stimulated by the marketing practices of pharmaceutical companies.
All of the studies done on opioids were done for two weeks, the length of time the medications are most effective. All of the research on cannabis was done using cannabis with around 25% THC and negligible CBD. The doses were 20-30 mg of THC, multiple times a day
Any negative effects presented by research were done with questionable science. The data of the effectiveness of cannabis as a healing herb overwhelmingly overshadows any parinoid percieved problems that've never really materialized.
There's no correlation between the studies done by our government and how cannabis is used in the real patient world.
The medical community created this opioid dilemma. This is a step towards repairing the damage.
It wasn't until a decade ago that the prescribing practices of physicians began changing. Previously opioids were for end-of-life conditions or for post-surgery. It wasn't until the last couple years, when they were doing studies to show that the opioids could be effective long-term that they discovered the tendency to increase pain perception, the opposite of what they were marketed to do. Long-term opioid use causes increased pain
Pain signalling can be modulated by simply using the power of your mind. After a few weeks the tissues are healing, so the cells are quieting. Pain isn't sharp and knife-like, but dull and achy. This is when opioids can begin to ramp up the pain signal.
Research has shown the severe problems inherent in current opioid use practices. Long-term use actually increases the patient's perception of pain, leading to higher and higher doses of opioids. Patients are regularly being terminated by their pain doctors for testing positive for "illicit substances," usually cannabis.
These opioid-addicted patients end up seeking street opioids to feed their cravings. The cheapest street solution, unfortunately, is heroin. Overdoses of herion add another 26 deaths a day to the climbing numbers of opioid failure.
Opioid tolerance and enhanced pain perception
Opioids are useful following surgery or trauma, and in the beginning, that was how they were used, for short-term pain relief. When used long-term you bring new concerns into the healing space. After a few months patients develop an addiction to the opioids. Their perception of pain is enhanced, so that minor pain is perceived as major pain. The patient's mind calls for more opioids. The harsh reality is that long-term opioid use leads to marked magnification of the pain response.
This is not what you envisioned when your doctor said "Take these every day and come back to see me in three months" was it?
Tolerance comes into play because over time the opioid receptors become desensitized. Now you need more opioids and more frequent dosing times to achieve the same level of relief. After a few months the patient can become so addicted to the opioid medication that discontinuing, or even delaying the taking of a dose, can result in the onset of severe withdrawal symptoms - sickness, pain, undeniable cravings for opioids
Early symptoms of opioid withdrawal
* Anxiety/Agitation
* Muscle aches (profusely, throughout the body)
* Increased tearing for no reason
* Insomnia
* A clear, runny nose
* Sweating for unknown reasons
* Craving opioids
Later symptoms of opioid withdrawal
* Intense abdominal pain
* Diarrhea
* Dialated Pupils
* Nausea and vomiting
These sick patients crave the opioids to make the sickness go away, making it difficult for an individual to make the break from opioids on their own. If a patient stops and then restarts an opioid regimen they typically require a higher dose to begin again.
A patient who stops opioids successfully and then later starts again on that same dose can end up dead. During the time away from opioids the tolerance levels are reset. You won't need as much, so if you take that much it could be fatal.
The side effects no one likes to talk about
- Severe, intractable constipation, associated with abdominal bloating, nausea, and colic.
- Decreased testosterone in males to the point where it's common for a long-term patient to need hormonal replacement therapy.
- Depression, a common occurance with long-term use.
These side effects call for the use of other prescription medications that can further complicate the treatment of chronic pain.
The dilemma described above is called opioid-induced hyperalgesia & I used to buy into it. My partner points out often that I taught her about it. I am just getting back to this forum but want to say, IMNSHO if this is in fact a real clinical occurrence I have not experienced it. What the good doctor describes as those of us struggling with chronic pain typically is more an issue of opiod tolerance.
I have done much reading scouring tapering tolerance till my eyes almost bled! I don't recall what NIH doc I found and additional studies that strongly assert it as a bogus. What most likely occurs is we just take more than we should or in my case took enough to function daily and have no pain.
When I can I will find some of the sites if anyone is interested. The rest I can attest is all true lower testosterone, depression, on and on. No doubt opiods not a good thing, but if the "theory" of opioid-induced hyperalgesia which BTW my doctor said I was afflicted with. Well he kinda mumbled it...LOL. Any way if it were so then when I cut my finger or stub my toe you get the idea, I would rail with pain whereas someone not afflicted would maybe say ouch!
I would wager a lot that someone w/o this syndrome and I went through a verified scientific test one of the best freezing cold water our reactions would be similar.
I believe I may have found that study noobgrow1.
Opioid-induced hyperalgesia (OIH): a real clinical problem or just an experimental phenomenon?
Now let me go back and read closely. Thank you for the candid share.
Sue!
Dang woman you really kick some serious butt w/ the research! That is at least one source I have come upon. I just don't buy it. If it were such a phenomenon every heroin addict would be complaining about minor bumps and bruises all the time.
Few get as banged up as a hard core heroin addict typically when deep in throws of addiction they go for "the nod" in a past life I was a substance abuse counselor worked w / a hell of a lot of heroin addicts. The biggest trait I recall is they with the exception of compulsive gamblers are some of the all time best liars.
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