SweetSue's Cannabis Oil Study Hall

Chewey said:
Sorry to go off topic here but....

I just wanted to share and hear some opinions on suppositories. I'm fortunate to be in good health but yesterday, I slipped a disc in my back. It's an old injury that comes back to get me from time to time.

I have a bag of bio bombs and have put myself on a course to help manage the pain and inflammation.

This may not be to everyone's liking, sorry, but I do think it's worth a little discussion as the first thing that sprung to mind was if I was treating cancer this way.

When I use a cap first thing in the morning, I have an overwhelming urge to use the bathroom. The urge gets the better of me which makes me wonder how much of the meds are being wasted?

My thoughts are to make some more caps but without CO to clear the colon before dosing. I can't see I'm the only one who has this so what are other suppository users doing to clear their colon to ensure we get the maximum meds absorbed?
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You're talking about oil and delivery systems. You're about as on-topic as we get Chewey. :laughtwo:

I'm with you on this idea. My thoughts are that your elimination system doesn't always play by the dosing schedule. This is a concern for more than you Chewey. This may be a way to clear the area in advance of the meds.

Let's see what everyone else has to contribute.
 
I stumbled over this just now. Enticing, eh? I was looking for information on the effects of the freeze/thaw on cannabis oils. There's this perception that we can't freeze the oils, and I'm not certain that's correct. It may not be advisable to freeze long-term, and I'd appreciate hearing the views of the room on this point. My understanding is that the freeze would simply help break the components into smaller and smaller bits, that ultimately would make them more bioavailable.

I hope the link is acceptable, but if not, it should be a simple matter to get to the site (web archive.org) and find it yourself. The comments are always where the most learning goes on. In those comments EdiblesOnly mentions that he had a significant bump in potency when he worked out his freeze/thaw process.

I think this is what I'll use for the batch I'm making for my daughter this week.

My Cannabis Oil Process

My Cannabis Oil Process - by EdiblesOnly

"Let me start by giving some background information about myself:

I am a biochemistry student, and I love and respect cannabis greatly. For the longest time, my main method of enjoyment was through vaporizers. I would be able to enjoy the taste and potency more fully and efficiently.

Unfortunately, 8 months ago I had a spontaneous lung collapse. I was hospitalized for around 3 weeks and had to have lung surgery to prevent future collapses. I have found now that if I try vaporizing, I will experience a lot of discomfort in that lung, and being high and feeling chest pain of any sort is never fun.

Instead of giving up, I turned to a new form of using cannabis that I had only briefly explored: edibles. Fast foward 7 months and many many failed/test batches. I feel like I can safely say that I can make high quality cannabis oil by focusing on enhancing efficiency.

Even though only ~30% of the THC is processed by our bodies, it is broken down into several cannabinoid metabolites, the main one being 11-Hydroxy-THC which has been shown to be 4-5 times stronger than normal THC. This is why people regularly report experiencing "trip-like" effects/visuals from having larger edible doses.

So here are the essential tools and the ones I use:

Coconut Oil: Coconut oil is the best choice for our cannabis edibles for several reasons. The first is that it consists of 100% saturated fat, which is exactly what is needed for cannabinoid absorption. Coconut oil also consists of ~66%Medium-Chain Triglycerides which are the perfect size to be easily absorbed by our bodies without additional help from our bodies. For example, Long-Chain Triglycerides need to be broken down first, which takes energy.

I use the Nutiva brand mostly because it is by far the highest quality that I have been able to afford. I used to use a brand from wal-mart, and I have noticed a significant difference when I switched.

Crock Pot and Oven/Freezer Safe Tall Dish: This allows for consistent low heat, which is what we are looking for. Note: Do not put the oil directly into the crockpot unless you plan to make serious bulk. Often times using a smaller oven/freezer safe dish is much easier to handle and creates less waste. Souffle dishes and egg dishes for larger/smaller amounts respectively are perfect.

Soy Lecithin: Soy lecithin is an emulsifier that increases the bio-availability of the final oil, which essentially means that its easier for your body to absorb it in higher quantities. This is really optional, but there is definitely a noticeable difference in potency.

Here in the Study Hall we recommend liquid sunflower lecithin. There are good reasons for this that've been covered earlier.

Coffee Grinder and Small Brush: Our goal is to grind the cannabis as finely as possible such that it nearly becomes a kief-like powder so that most of it literally dissolves into our oil. You'll need a brush to minimize waste, and it's actually very fun to meticulously brush cannabis powder into your container.

Aluminum Foil, Sheet Pan

Of course, our lovely friend cannabis. I'm using a half oz of the finest cannabis that I could find for this.

Procedure:

1. Decarboxylation

First we must decarboxylate our cannabis. In raw cannabis, THCa is found in much larger quantities than our friend THC, and unfortunately it is much less psychoactive than THC. This is why eating raw cannabis does not produce much of an effect unless eaten in extremely large amounts. Our goal is to remove the Carboxyl group from THCa and convert it to THC by adding a certain amount of heat. The only other way to do this is through time itself, but it takes a tremendously long amount of time.

It is a misconception that decarboxylation is unnecessary due to the heat provided once the cannabis is actually in the oil. Unfortunately, the carboxyl-groups fall off at a much slower rate once the plant matter is heating in the oil, slowing the rate of decarboxylation dramatically. This is why we decarboxylate beforehand, ensuring that most of our THCa will be converted by the end of the process.

In order to do this, break your cannabis up into small popcorn-sized nugs and place them in your oven-safe dish. You'll be using this dish for the entire process so treat it well. Preheat the oven to ~225F. Cover the dish with aluminum foil and place on a sheet-tray for easy entry and removal.

Place it in the ~225F oven for 20-25 minutes, depending on how brittle the cannabis originally felt. Afterwards, allow the cannabis to naturally cool down for ~10 minutes. Then we get ready to grind.

2. Grinding Example Picture: Before and After Grinding

Your goal is to grind the cannabis as finely as possible. We grind after decarboxylating to ensure an even finer consistency. I strongly recommend taking your time with this step. It really pays off to focus on minimizing waste. There will be kief on the cover of the coffee grinder, and there will be powder in the nooks and crannies, but take the time to use your brush to get as much as you possibly can into your dish. Even if you only increase the overall potency by 2% for your work, remember that 2% is multiplied by 4-5x due to the nature of 11-Hydroxy-THC.

In the example picture, (sorry, no pictures were with this post, but we know what ground up cannabis looks like :cheesygrinsmiley: ) the ground up cannabis may appear to have clumps. This is from the cannabis being so finely ground that it is sticking to itself and forming temporary clumps which dissolve on contact with the oil.

3. Adding Lecithin and Oil

After grinding, the next step is to add your lecithin and oil. The soy lecithin depends on the ratio of the oil. I use a 3/4 tsp lecithin to 1 tbsp oil.

As for the oil, I figure out what I'm going to be using the oil for ahead of time and work from there. For example, for a batch of muffins, it takes 1/3 cup oil. Out of my half ounce of cannabis, I can make 2 7g batches of muffins, so I will add 2/3 cup oil, and use 1/3 in each batch.

4. Processing

Place your dish inside of the crockpot on low for 3 hours. Keep in mind that crock pots take a good ~20-25 minutes to actually get truly hot, so it is wise to turn it on before this step to allow it to pre-heat. Make sure you keep the lid on the crockpot for as long as possible to keep even heat. This will keep your oil at around ~195-210F which is what we want.

This could be done in the oven, in a closed jar, with an occasional shake. Just a thought.

After 3 hours, remove the dish and allow it to cool for ~20 minutes, and then place it inside of the freezer for a minimum of 2 hours.

To understand why freezing is important, we need to visualize the plant cells within the cannabis. They are essentially globules of liquid containing cannabinoids that we want to extract. Freezing them forces that liquid to take on a crystalline structure, piercing the plant cell walls and releasing the goodies. This even further increases the bioavailability of our final oil.

Yeah.... I caught this too. Cannabinoids are developed in the trichomes. The entire surface of the plant is covered with trichomes, most just one cell high, and therefore indistinguishable to the naked eye. The freezing breaks these open and then, apparently, continues a series of deconstructive processes that break the components down finer and finer. It surprised me that a student of the sciences missed this. There may well be components in the cell walls that come into play, but it's the oils we're interested in here, so we'll look past this slip. :battingeyelashes:

After freezing, allow to reach room temp again for about ~15 minutes before placing back in the slow cooker. I suggest turning the slow cooker on after placing the dish back inside of it to let them slowly rise in temperature together. This lowers the risk of damaging the dish.

Heat inside the slow cooker for another 3 hours. I start the 3 hour countdown once the oil has liquidified again, as it will take about 30 minutes for it to no longer be solid.

Follow this by another 2 hour freeze. Afterwards, heat the oil again for another 3 hours and then you should have something resembling this: (Again, no picture. Sorry, but we know what good oil looks like too. :cheesygrinsmiley: )

Final Oil

It should be black enough to reflect the rim of the dish, like you see in the picture. It will be slightly thicker, and extremely potent.

While straining out the plant matter, you should notice it is significantly less than what we started with.
Be extremely careful with this oil as it is very potent.

Smaller doses are also possible. I can use an eighth of cannabis and make a personal batch of potent edibles that will last me for 24 days.

Wow! To have an eighth last 24 days! Not in my world. :laughtwo:

I hope you enjoyed reading through this! If you have any questions or run into issues, please feel free to let me know!"

I've been thinking about the freeze/thaw cycle with oil since I first came across BadKitty and her tutorials over a year ago. Does anyone know why we were advised to not freeze the oil?
 
A thought that's been rising lately:

There's all this "fear" of the euphoria of THC. I have a fundamental concern with this misplaced phobia. The euphoria brought on by THC is the same euphoria one gets from extreme exertion. Witness the runner's high, which is in response to your ECS producing the matching endocannabinoid anandamide. Same biological response from both cannabinoids.

In my mind the question now becomes, why would the body produce a substance that got you high?

Because feeling good is what the body needs you to do so that it can be free to keep the lines of communication operating smoothly and thereby keep little old you in homeostasis.

You are evolved to function at your best, from a biological standpoint, when you are in homeostasis. This is what the ECS does. Let's start with a basic understanding.

You are a fibrous net, one that fills the entirety of you from the outer layer of your skin to the core of your bones. All those bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments, organs, neurons....... You are one big, interconnected web. Impulses travel across this web at a speed I won't even attempt to explain. Stub your toe and the brain knows it immediately.

The Endocannabinoid System, which I refer to as the ECS, responds to impulses in the body by using all those connections to do the most amazingly creative things to keep you alive and thriving.

Through a system of receptors, cannabinoids, and the enzymes produced to degrade the cannabinoids, the ECS responds to any and all misfiring of your cells, on demand, on the spot, at the moment of detection.

At the moment of detection.

Here's where we get in the way, and where we can learn to chill out and get back to what we're designed to do, which is be happy and have fun. You did know life was meant to be fun, didn't you? Well, it was. Isn't that great news? Your job is to find ways to laugh more, and mean it.

Meaning it turns out to be pretty important. Your ECS has connections to every cell in your body and it can detect the true vibration of your emotional tone. You may be able to fool me into thinking you're happy, but your ECS has access to data I don't. It'll get the real message.

When you're under the influence of a THC or anandamide buzz you feel happy. Your ECS can merrily go about the business of listening for calls of "Hey, over here!" It prefers that to the static produced by negative tension. Signals can get confused with too much static. It's not the ECS causing the static.

Just some thoughts I was having. I seem to be falling into a writing mode, but this one's a new feel to me. You don't mind if I bounce things off you, do you?
 
I think you have just witnessed the beginning of my next thread. :laughtwo: Callanetics first woman! Lol!
 
Looks like Sue has been a busy girl!
Trying to catch up on this thread-lots of great info, as usual.
RLS-I'm not sure if this applies but as a amputee, I encounter phantom 'pain' in my leg from time to time. I can't make a judgement on how effective CCO is on reducing this because it has not been a huge problem for me.
I store my unused CCO in the fridge but I'm certain that freezing it would not cause any negatives and should increase shelf life.
As usual, Sue emphasizes the fact that the mind is a powerful tool for recovery so a positive attitude is essential.
 
Holy Sweetness! Nugman! We'll never catch up on our threads at this rate. :rofl:

We'll have to do this quick and dirty.

Sue, your morning wake-up routine sounds like a good addition to faith prayer and meditation, all of which are widely accepted to increase health/decrease disease. It makes sense that ECS would be involved in this. The author of "Secrets of Medicinal Marijuana" (forget her name, but it was reviewed a few months back) has something similar. Her treatment plan includes step of speaking your intentions/expectations to the cannabis before taking it.

Chewey, I had mild urge to go when I was using flax seed oil as carrier, less with olive oil as carrier. Flax seed is a powerful laxative when taken orally, don't know if laxative property is in oil also. I suspected it was at time, but it could also be that my rectum has adjusted to tolerate suppositories since that first batch of pills. Your idea using 'blanks' first is genius.

Gbauto, I never considered phantom pain and CCO. Thanks for sharing.

And back to Sue, I'm going to be digesting that post on different cannabinoids for rest of this month! Huge find! It confirms my view that cannabis doesn't kill cancer cells directly, it seems to 'reset' apoptosis so cancer cells die they way they supposed to, but healthy cells don't die because they have no condition that would induce apoptosis. That's not quite what I meant but close enough. Quick and dirty.
:Namaste:
 
Canyon said:
Has anyone tried treating ‘Restless Leg Syndrome’ with cannabis?
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I have a serious issue with this. Actually, I will credit Restless Leg Syndrome with being the sole driver in my entire fitness life. I only continued moving because of this - and - ironically - the harder I worked to ease the discomfort, the worse it would get overall. But, man, is it a motivator.

Part of what the cannabis did to me was take the feelings of Restless Leg Syndrome and turn it up x 100000000 (or something like that), spread it throughout my whole body + anxiety. I think only people who've felt it know what it's like :)

Some comedian who'd never heard of it accidentally called it Crazy Leg Syndrome, and I think that's more appropriate.

The hemp, on the other hand, helped it some - which leads me to believe that for normal people, cannabis will help it, too. I'm hoping high CBD cannabis will help me.

Anyway, magnesium oil has helped me with this a lot. A whole lot. I just continue to douse my legs and feet with it over and over until i can relax. I buy the gallon jugs of it.
 
Chewey said:
Sorry to go off topic here but....

I just wanted to share and hear some opinions on suppositories. I'm fortunate to be in good health but yesterday, I slipped a disc in my back. It's an old injury that comes back to get me from time to time.

I have a bag of bio bombs and have put myself on a course to help manage the pain and inflammation.

This may not be to everyone's liking, sorry, but I do think it's worth a little discussion as the first thing that sprung to mind was if I was treating cancer this way.

When I use a cap first thing in the morning, I have an overwhelming urge to use the bathroom. The urge gets the better of me which makes me wonder how much of the meds are being wasted?

My thoughts are to make some more caps but without CO to clear the colon before dosing. I can't see I'm the only one who has this so what are other suppository users doing to clear their colon to ensure we get the maximum meds absorbed?
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Would you be willing to try opening the capsule and letting it melt under your tongue? I know that every delivery system has its advantages and disadvantages, but this way, most of it (not all) will enter sublingually and bypass the digestive tract.
 
SweetSue said:
A thought that's been rising lately:

There's all this "fear" of the euphoria of THC. I have a fundamental concern with this misplaced phobia. The euphoria brought on by THC is the same euphoria one gets from extreme exertion. Witness the runner's high, which is in response to your ECS producing the matching endocannabinoid anandamide. Same biological response from both cannabinoids.

In my mind the question now becomes, why would the body produce a substance that got you high?

Because feeling good is what the body needs you to do so that it can be free to keep the lines of communication operating smoothly and thereby keep little old you in homeostasis.

You are evolved to function at your best, from a biological standpoint, when you are in homeostasis. This is what the ECS does. Let's start with a basic understanding.

You are a fibrous net, one that fills the entirety of you from the outer layer of your skin to the core of your bones. All those bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments, organs, neurons....... You are one big, interconnected web. Impulses travel across this web at a speed I won't even attempt to explain. Stub your toe and the brain knows it immediately.

The Endocannabinoid System, which I refer to as the ECS, responds to impulses in the body by using all those connections to do the most amazingly creative things to keep you alive and thriving.

Through a system of receptors, cannabinoids, and the enzymes produced to degrade the cannabinoids, the ECS responds to any and all misfiring of your cells, on demand, on the spot, at the moment of detection.

At the moment of detection.

Here's where we get in the way, and where we can learn to chill out and get back to what we're designed to do, which is be happy and have fun. You did know life was meant to be fun, didn't you? Well, it was. Isn't that great news? Your job is to find ways to laugh more, and mean it.

Meaning it turns out to be pretty important. Your ECS has connections to every cell in your body and it can detect the true vibration of your emotional tone. You may be able to fool me into thinking you're happy, but your ECS has access to data I don't. It'll get the real message.

When you're under the influence of a THC or anandamide buzz you feel happy. Your ECS can merrily go about the business of listening for calls of "Hey, over here!" It prefers that to the static produced by negative tension. Signals can get confused with too much static. It's not the ECS causing the static.

Just some thoughts I was having. I seem to be falling into a writing mode, but this one's a new feel to me. You don't mind if I bounce things off you, do you?
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Honestly? I look forward to enjoying the euphoria one day. I know I chose to go with somebody who produced raw oils (thus eliminating the chance for euphoria) but it was mainly because I can't find a dang person otherwise who seems concerned about healing the body over mega recreational stuff.

As somebody who has been extremely depressed, anxious and experiencing so many phobias and issues because of it, I WANT THE FREAKING THE EUPHORIA!!!!!!! :yahoo:

I want it to just have a good time. I want it because I know that in that state, I will WANT to do the things that used to bring me pleasure but now I simply do because I'm supposed to want to do them. By doing more of the things I love, it will make me happier and more fulfilled. A good cycle :)

It just seems like I'm a looooooooooooooooong (did I say long?) way off from being able to get that.
 
I hope everyone had a good new year!!!!

So, as I expected, following my glorious, calm, peaceful days after the cannabis left my system, my anxiety started ramping up - exactly as it had the previous time. I'm definitely seeing the pitfalls of going on and off the cannabis first hand.

I've been trying to get a hold of my practitioner, but I haven't heard anything. I suppose he has a right to his life :) He just didn't seem keen on sending me the CBD oil until I saw him, but it simply isn't feasible now. Either he doesn't realize how far away I am or to him driving all day isn't a biggie (I know it isn't for a lot of people). If he refuses, I'm not sure what I'll do.

Anyway, the inflammation and aches were coming back as well, so yesterday I was brave enough to try my new Hemp Oil. I'd gone to the bottle a hundred times yesterday and the day before to try and then chickened out. I even diluted it and had it ready and couldn't bring myself to do it! Haha. I've been so incredibly traumatized by the cannabis, I've been afraid to take even my vitamins.

I diluted it 10x with olive oil and did a drop under the tongue. Anyway, so far so good. I'd even say it brought slight anxiety relief, but since it ramps up and cycles down all day long, I can't say and be completely honest yet.

The GOOD news is that I did NOT notice any heart rate issue. That was without a doubt my number one problem with the hemp. It could be that it's diluted, or it could simply be the differences in the brand. I'm wishing now I had diluted my first hemp oil just to see - apparently that process alluded me before it was pointed out to me 🚬

I took a dose yesterday afternoon, one before bed, and another this morning. I'm going to keep it up regularly as long as it feels good and try to get as much benefit as I can until I *****hopefully***** manage to get my cannabis CBD.

I had pretty extreme knee pain yesterday and it's already gone. Maybe I can attribute it to the hemp, maybe not! :) But I'm happy about it. Hopefully I will have my own Callanetics session later today!

Thanks again, everyone!!
 
SaraLinni said:
I have a serious issue with this. Actually, I will credit Restless Leg Syndrome with being the sole driver in my entire fitness life. I only continued moving because of this - and - ironically - the harder I worked to ease the discomfort, the worse it would get overall. But, man, is it a motivator.

Part of what the cannabis did to me was take the feelings of Restless Leg Syndrome and turn it up x 100000000 (or something like that), spread it throughout my whole body + anxiety. I think only people who've felt it know what it's like :)

Some comedian who'd never heard of it accidentally called it Crazy Leg Syndrome, and I think that's more appropriate.

The hemp, on the other hand, helped it some - which leads me to believe that for normal people, cannabis will help it, too. I'm hoping high CBD cannabis will help me.

Anyway, magnesium oil has helped me with this a lot. A whole lot. I just continue to douse my legs and feet with it over and over until i can relax. I buy the gallon jugs of it.
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Sara, there's a magnesium spray marketed under the name "Natural Calm" that's getting amazing reviews for effectiveness. It might be another option to gallons of mag oil. It's strong enough to have a positive effect for autism patients. It might be something worth condisering for RLS.
 
SaraLinni said:
I hope everyone had a good new year!!!!

So, as I expected, following my glorious, calm, peaceful days after the cannabis left my system, my anxiety started ramping up - exactly as it had the previous time. I'm definitely seeing the pitfalls of going on and off the cannabis first hand.

I've been trying to get a hold of my practitioner, but I haven't heard anything. I suppose he has a right to his life :) He just didn't seem keen on sending me the CBD oil until I saw him, but it simply isn't feasible now. Either he doesn't realize how far away I am or to him driving all day isn't a biggie (I know it isn't for a lot of people). If he refuses, I'm not sure what I'll do.

Anyway, the inflammation and aches were coming back as well, so yesterday I was brave enough to try my new Hemp Oil. I'd gone to the bottle a hundred times yesterday and the day before to try and then chickened out. I even diluted it and had it ready and couldn't bring myself to do it! Haha. I've been so incredibly traumatized by the cannabis, I've been afraid to take even my vitamins.

I diluted it 10x with olive oil and did a drop under the tongue. Anyway, so far so good. I'd even say it brought slight anxiety relief, but since it ramps up and cycles down all day long, I can't say and be completely honest yet.

The GOOD news is that I did NOT notice any heart rate issue. That was without a doubt my number one problem with the hemp. It could be that it's diluted, or it could simply be the differences in the brand. I'm wishing now I had diluted my first hemp oil just to see - apparently that process alluded me before it was pointed out to me 🚬

I took a dose yesterday afternoon, one before bed, and another this morning. I'm going to keep it up regularly as long as it feels good and try to get as much benefit as I can until I *****hopefully***** manage to get my cannabis CBD.

I had pretty extreme knee pain yesterday and it's already gone. Maybe I can attribute it to the hemp, maybe not! :) But I'm happy about it. Hopefully I will have my own Callanetics session later today!

Thanks again, everyone!!
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Thank you. I needed that swift kick in my behind to get to my own Callanetics mat. :laughtwo: It's been raining here all day and we aren't walking today for the first Wednesday since June. Awk!

I'd think diluting the oil and spreading it out over the day has had a beneficial effect for you. So glad to hear you found some relief. It really wants to challenge you, doesn't it? Your attitude is delightful. All that anxiety and you still keep falling in the right direction.

I'd suggest an alternative way of looking at it. Not that long ago what you see ahead of you was inconceivable. Now, even though it's more distant than right this minute, you can see a functional answer. The life you desire is firmly planted in your mind, and that driving force, with us gently dragging you along when necessary, will get you there Sara. I have no doubt in your success. None whatsoever.

I think of it like a cultivator. The seed is planted. I wouldn't plant the seed today and come back this evening and demand to see the harvest right NOW! :laughtwo: Makes me laugh every time I think of that image. Lol!

It's not as far off as you think it is. You're basing your expectations on past experience. What lies ahead is new ground. When you hit the formulation the window will open up right in front of you. You'll be amazed what the balanced cannabinoid therapy under the guidance of an experienced practitioner can achieve.
 
It sounds interesting, that's for sure but I think that anyone who wakes up to an alarm clock will find it hard to do. Although, that said, my alarm clock just flashes a bright light and there is no irritating buzzing or what have you but the other problem I have with doing this on days when I have to get up with an alarm is that the alarm triggers a Pavlovian response in me that says "it's time to pee". :blushsmile:


That said, I will do my best to try this experiment especially on the days I don't have to get up with an alarm clock.

SweetSue said:
I have a theory on the ECS that I'd like to get your feedback on.

I believe there's an important connection between deliberate choice of emotional tone and the efficiency of the ECS. If you can train yourself to pause right before you open your eyes in the morning (I'll admit, I sometimes open mine and then close them like an excited child when I remember to do this) and allow your entire body to fill every cell with the delicious feeling of joy it will reset your inner guidance system.

Your inner guidance system is your way of being alerted as to whether that thought you were having at the time was one you should stick with or one you need to change. The truth is you need to care more about the way you feel than anything else, because it's the way you feel that the ECS is responding to. It knows what you're feeling, because your emotions set the vibratory rate of your individual cells.

Put simply, thoughts that fill you with the feeling of gratitude and appreciation will heal you in an accelerated manner, way beyond what any medicine will accomplish on its own. This is biology, that's all. Your emotion sets a vibratory tone that your ECS acts upon. Make it one of fear and frustration and you send a confusing roadmap to healing that the system can't understand and chaos continues.

Make the deliberate choice to have the predominant thoughts be of gratitude and appreciation and the ECS reads that as a clear roadmap to balance and wholeness. I don't know the explaination, and I'd find it unbelievable that this thought hasn't occurred to the top researchers in the world. I shared these thoughts with Cajun too, a couple days back. I don't really expect him to respond while he's opening the clinic, but I hope it intrigued him. It had to. He understands the ECS in ways we don't.

The thing is, instead of fighting with yourself to think better thoughts, there's this really simple technique I'm going to teach to you. You're going to practice it until you begin to understand the power of it. Then I want you to find some way to teach it to your children. I want you to promise me that you'll find a way to teach this to your children once it impacts your own life. One family at a time.

Grab for the feeling of gratitude every morning before you open the eyes. Revel in that delicious feeling and then open your eyes and start the game. The game is to see how far into the day you can get before something happens that you lose it to something negative.

It doesn't matter how long that is. It's a game, so when you slip off into a negative thought, laugh and tell yourself how much fun that was and that you get another chance tomorrow. Then go about your day like before. Tomorrow do it all over again. Within days you'll notice a profound shift in your sense of well-being.

It's not magic, it's biology. The ECS is designed to run most efficiently on happiness. What a price to pay for homeostasis, eh? :laughtwo:

Who wants to play the game with me? Has my theory caught the curious attention of any fellow lab rats?
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SweetSue said:
I have a theory on the ECS that I'd like to get your feedback on.

I believe there's an important connection between deliberate choice of emotional tone and the efficiency of the ECS. If you can train yourself to pause right before you open your eyes in the morning (I'll admit, I sometimes open mine and then close them like an excited child when I remember to do this) and allow your entire body to fill every cell with the delicious feeling of joy it will reset your inner guidance system.

Your inner guidance system is your way of being alerted as to whether that thought you were having at the time was one you should stick with or one you need to change. The truth is you need to care more about the way you feel than anything else, because it's the way you feel that the ECS is responding to. It knows what you're feeling, because your emotions set the vibratory rate of your individual cells.

Put simply, thoughts that fill you with the feeling of gratitude and appreciation will heal you in an accelerated manner, way beyond what any medicine will accomplish on its own. This is biology, that's all. Your emotion sets a vibratory tone that your ECS acts upon. Make it one of fear and frustration and you send a confusing roadmap to healing that the system can't understand and chaos continues.

Make the deliberate choice to have the predominant thoughts be of gratitude and appreciation and the ECS reads that as a clear roadmap to balance and wholeness. I don't know the explaination, and I'd find it unbelievable that this thought hasn't occurred to the top researchers in the world. I shared these thoughts with Cajun too, a couple days back. I don't really expect him to respond while he's opening the clinic, but I hope it intrigued him. It had to. He understands the ECS in ways we don't.

The thing is, instead of fighting with yourself to think better thoughts, there's this really simple technique I'm going to teach to you. You're going to practice it until you begin to understand the power of it. Then I want you to find some way to teach it to your children. I want you to promise me that you'll find a way to teach this to your children once it impacts your own life. One family at a time.

Grab for the feeling of gratitude every morning before you open the eyes. Revel in that delicious feeling and then open your eyes and start the game. The game is to see how far into the day you can get before something happens that you lose it to something negative.

It doesn't matter how long that is. It's a game, so when you slip off into a negative thought, laugh and tell yourself how much fun that was and that you get another chance tomorrow. Then go about your day like before. Tomorrow do it all over again. Within days you'll notice a profound shift in your sense of well-being.

It's not magic, it's biology. The ECS is designed to run most efficiently on happiness. What a price to pay for homeostasis, eh? :laughtwo:

Who wants to play the game with me? Has my theory caught the curious attention of any fellow lab rats?
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I think we often underestimate the power of our mind and how it affects our health. I've traveled to Tanzania, Africa and Cambodia a few times to help victims of sex slavery and human trafficking. After returning home and getting over the culture shock, I began to find a substantial amount of joy in things I often overlooked as an American. I can brush my teeth with the sink water and not get deathly ill. I have running water, even hot! I have access to healthcare, clean drinking water, good food, education, make more than $2 a day and do not have to experience daily suffering that they do. This spun me into a daily cycle of joy and thanksgiving. I've always been an optimist, positive thinker and strongly believe it's why my immune system is so strong. Who knows, maybe we're onto something? .

Sent from my 1975 Radio Shack walkie talkie.
 
SaraLinni said:
I have a serious issue with this. Actually, I will credit Restless Leg Syndrome with being the sole driver in my entire fitness life. I only continued moving because of this - and - ironically - the harder I worked to ease the discomfort, the worse it would get overall. But, man, is it a motivator.

Part of what the cannabis did to me was take the feelings of Restless Leg Syndrome and turn it up x 100000000 (or something like that), spread it throughout my whole body + anxiety. I think only people who've felt it know what it's like :)

Some comedian who'd never heard of it accidentally called it Crazy Leg Syndrome, and I think that's more appropriate.

The hemp, on the other hand, helped it some - which leads me to believe that for normal people, cannabis will help it, too. I'm hoping high CBD cannabis will help me.

Anyway, magnesium oil has helped me with this a lot. A whole lot. I just continue to douse my legs and feet with it over and over until i can relax. I buy the gallon jugs of it.
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Sara,

Thanks, the question was on behalf of my wife. It started with puberty and became serious with child birth. Most of the time it is controlled with 12 to16mg of Ropenorol (Sp) (Requip). When it is severe it is in her arms and even her face as well as her legs. She uses magnesium oil and it helps.

Even vaporizing mild weed sends her into a coughing fit. That, and a very low tolerance, leaves eatables and tinctures.

She has used CBD in chocolate bars to cut back on opiates and muscle relaxers with good luck. We talked it over and decided to go with the chocolate for a while and order some high CBD to THC seeds.

Please keep posting your experiences and I will post any change she has.

Does anyone have any favorites in auto or photo?

I never know
 
Crop King Seeds , Dutch Treat , is a good high CBD and low THC (2.1 ratio) yielding plant and they have a CBD Auto Cheese(1.1 ratio) I plan on trying myself! I have been very satisfied with the breeding and seed Quality of their autos. The fast maturing autos are almost fool proof medicine in a relative hurry. You can try two or three more varieties in succession this year under subsequent grows! Find a great cultivar for you this year in your garden! :thumb: Or , go to a local dispensary and start buying meds, if you have that option! Just half the fun is gone in not growing your own!
 
Tennessee Tim said:
Crop King Seeds , Dutch Treat , is a good high CBD and low THC (2.1 ratio) yielding plant and they have a CBD Auto Cheese(1.1 ratio) I plan on trying myself! I have been very satisfied with the breeding and seed Quality of their autos. The fast maturing autos are almost fool proof medicine in a relative hurry. You can try two or three more varieties in succession this year under subsequent grows! Find a great cultivar for you this year in your garden! :thumb: Or , go to a local dispensary and start buying meds, if you have that option! Just half the fun is gone in not growing your own!
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Thanks Tennessee,
I have been running a perpetual setup for a while now, but I have never tried autos.

Buying at a dispensary is a short-term option but they are not close or cheap.

Any auto flower plants that get an extended light cycle will have to stay on the vege side. I have a 1000w HPS turned down to 400 for part of the vege plants and a COB for the rest.

Overloading the electric and heat have been a concern. Tomorrow I am getting the power upgraded and I have added AC so I could go up on the lighting. Do you know when more light starts to be a waste with autos?

I like the ratio of the Dutch Treat. I smoked some dispensary product that was 7% THC and 14 CBD that was a surprisingly strong mellow high. In this instance I would be looking for something around 1 to 10.

Best
 
SweetSue said:
Sara, there's a magnesium spray marketed under the name "Natural Calm" that's getting amazing reviews for effectiveness. It might be another option to gallons of mag oil. It's strong enough to have a positive effect for autism patients. It might be something worth condisering for RLS.
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I will definitely look into that! thank you :)


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Thank you. I needed that swift kick in my behind to get to my own Callanetics mat. :laughtwo: It's been raining here all day and we aren't walking today for the first Wednesday since June. Awk!

I'd think diluting the oil and spreading it out over the day has had a beneficial effect for you. So glad to hear you found some relief. It really wants to challenge you, doesn't it? Your attitude is delightful. All that anxiety and you still keep falling in the right direction.

I'd suggest an alternative way of looking at it. Not that long ago what you see ahead of you was inconceivable. Now, even though it's more distant than right this minute, you can see a functional answer. The life you desire is firmly planted in your mind, and that driving force, with us gently dragging you along when necessary, will get you there Sara. I have no doubt in your success. None whatsoever.

I think of it like a cultivator. The seed is planted. I wouldn't plant the seed today and come back this evening and demand to see the harvest right NOW! :laughtwo: Makes me laugh every time I think of that image. Lol!

It's not as far off as you think it is. You're basing your expectations on past experience. What lies ahead is new ground. When you hit the formulation the window will open up right in front of you. You'll be amazed what the balanced cannabinoid therapy under the guidance of an experienced practitioner can achieve.
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Thank you. I always say this - I need the reminders. Especially when I'm feeling bad, I get so frustrated. I'll say this, though, if it hadn't been for all of you, I wouldn't be pushing forward. I would have given up after my experience and been too afraid to try again, or convinced myself that it wouldn't work. You know, that the seed I planted yesterday is a dud because it hasn't grown yet!

I appreciate the new perspective. I do have more hope now. I have more expectations that I'll happy, comfortable and more a part of life again. Maybe comfortable is my biggest desire first :)


Canyon said:
Sara,

Thanks, the question was on behalf of my wife. It started with puberty and became serious with child birth. Most of the time it is controlled with 12 to16mg of Ropenorol (Sp) (Requip). When it is severe it is in her arms and even her face as well as her legs. She uses magnesium oil and it helps.

Even vaporizing mild weed sends her into a coughing fit. That, and a very low tolerance, leaves eatables and tinctures.

She has used CBD in chocolate bars to cut back on opiates and muscle relaxers with good luck. We talked it over and decided to go with the chocolate for a while and order some high CBD to THC seeds.

Please keep posting your experiences and I will post any change she has.

Does anyone have any favorites in auto or photo?

I never know
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I'd honestly say that exercise + stretch + CBD + magnesium might work wonders. Apparently bathing in the magnesium oil helps get it into the system more. Health & Wisdom is a website that has more information on that. I haven't done it yet, simply because, as we've already established, I have issues getting too much of anything into my system at once. At first, I had to douse so much magnesium on myself to get the relief. Just over and over and over until it worked enough.

I certainly hope she finds relief!

It started with me at puberty, as well. I believe it's a depletion of something, and huge hormonal swings, trauma, illness, etc can cause it. I'll be very curious to see if long-term cannabis use resets that particular issue, as well. It's been such a part of my life for so long.

I think my B12 helps it in the long-term, too, along with my anxiety.
 
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