SweetSue's Cannabis Oil Study Hall

[walleye]

You can feel it, can't you? I remember back about two months ago when this process began for me, it felt like I had a forest of strength growing inside me. That was my best catch at explaining the feeling. I've always been a strong woman. You don't dance with death for twenty years and come out smiling without that fortitude. But when I started deliberately choosing morning joy first thing every day it caused a mighty shift deep inside that surprised me.

The journey since then has been exquisite. Like you said, I wish this feeling on everyone. I'm interested walleye, did you notice how many days in it was before you found yourself stopping negative emotion in its tracks, and did you laugh when that happened? That awareness that you made the deliberate choice for the first time is another milestone. It took me less than 24 hours. Within a week I'd learned to stop all negative emotional response.

I'm over a month in now, and that stand of trees feels like Redwoods.

It may have been before my feet touched the floor that first day and I just wasnt aware of it until the next day. Back in HIGH school in electronics class where my lab partner and I would burn roaches in a wire coil hooked up to a voltage reastat causing a snort of smoke, the teacher would look up at us and say " you cant see the forest thru the trees "

 

[SweetSue]

COFFEE??!! where!?

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Good morning/evening rik. Coffee...... right here.

Just in time for my wake 'n bake. Saturday is the only time I double up brownies and the bong.

 

[rikvasen]

Haha. Sue you should start a youtube channel

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[Canyon]

Chemo does weaken your immune system it drops the white blood count down to dangerous levels. I'm sure vitamins would ampfly the effects of chemo. I was told no vitamins during my chemo.
It sure don't make since to throw a big old bomb in your system to kill a few bad cells. Chemo goes after any cell the divides fast and kills it. The problem with that is that it also kills some good cells. It also says in your system ten years.
It does work though and the drugs are now more targeted to certain cancers and location.



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Moe, Welcome.
Thanks, most of Sue's threads tend to drift toward healing with an emphasis on cancer. I don't follow all of Sue's threads so I thought I would drop the thought here.

My concern is, there is not enough focus on the interactions between conventional treatments and cannabis.

We need to be aware that the two forms of treatment are not always going to work well together. What we add to enhance a treatment may inhibit another. OTOH a bit of cannabis may moderate a chemo patient's nausea.

I am not convinced that cannabis research is that far behind conventional medicine in a lot of areas.Doctors and the self medicating need to share there knowledge rather than protect there positions.

Some things have surfaced here such as changing the type of carrier oil and diet to target liver cancer. These bits of information are important and they need to be find-able.

Just some fragmented thoughts
canyon

 

[SweetSue]

Haha. Sue you should start a youtube channel

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I've given that some thought, but only after I get a much deeper understanding of the finer details of the ECS. I've looked around casually, and I don't see an accreditation program for what I want to learn, so I'll have to develop my own curriculum on the fly. My process is dive in over my head, learn as much as I can as fast as I can, let it settle to reach a point of clarity and run with the clarity before the next step demands to be recognized.

It's not a learning style that fits within a standard curriculum guide. My way I get to set the timeframes too, and I believe that's where I have the greater advantage over schooling. It falls to me to make the connections in the field that'll benefit my data expansion, and I have a sneaking suspicion it's going to come from some completely unexpected directions.

Learning to trust the intuitive guide is proving to be the most fun. There hasn't been a point yet that I've feared what's ahead. It's all brilliant potential. I'm ready to play.

 

[HashGirl]

I'm trying to do just that, Sue. The events of the past week have left me rather raw and dejected. You don't yet know me and the positive force that I live by. You'll come to know the better me in time. I'm afraid that the physical pain and the emotional pain has just got my nerves and outlook frayed.

But listen to this. I found a publisher. On my own, without an agent. They want to publish MY book. The one I wrote. The one I laboured over with love in my heart this summer, with nothing to go on but love, hope and belief in myself and what I was doing.

Maybe this isn't the place to write about the book, but it's such a humongous part of my life right now, that it's wrapped up in my healing. And I like to let those interested parties who want to know more about me to give them something huge about me to know. My book is my life right now. And so is my healing. And so is my grow. And so are my dogs, especially my Dobby. But also, so is my pain. And so is my anxiety. And so is my depression. Et al. So I write about it all, because that's who I am. It's what I'm about. It's the life I live. And THAT, my friends, is true homeostasis. Our whole lives. Together.

And thank you, dear friend, for diluting the above. I appreciate it.

Personally, I reading your posts no matter what you're writing about. But since this thread is supposed to be about cannabis oil and other related stuff, I find that writing about other stuff in my life in an off-topic general thread is a nice way to express myself without worrying about moderators and other members wanting me to get back to talking about cannabis stuff here. If you're interested in my ramblings, the link to my off-topic thread is in my signature line called "A Stoner's Random Thoughts' Blog".

Just something to think about, my friend. No pressure.

 

[Magnus8]

What kind of lecithin should I buy for my cco? Granules, powder or liquid? I still cannot find the recipe for cco, but I know it contains lecithin. Would I add granules or powder to my capsules or add either or liquid to a liquid oil concoction? And can someone please give me an actual link to the recipe so that I can stop asking such stupid questions? Please? Pretty please? There, I asked nicely....

 

[HashGirl]

Oh, and CONGRATS on finding a publisher!

I'm trying to do just that, Sue. The events of the past week have left me rather raw and dejected. You don't yet know me and the positive force that I live by. You'll come to know the better me in time. I'm afraid that the physical pain and the emotional pain has just got my nerves and outlook frayed.

But listen to this. I found a publisher. On my own, without an agent. They want to publish MY book. The one I wrote. The one I laboured over with love in my heart this summer, with nothing to go on but love, hope and belief in myself and what I was doing.

Maybe this isn't the place to write about the book, but it's such a humongous part of my life right now, that it's wrapped up in my healing. And I like to let those interested parties who want to know more about me to give them something huge about me to know. My book is my life right now. And so is my healing. And so is my grow. And so are my dogs, especially my Dobby. But also, so is my pain. And so is my anxiety. And so is my depression. Et al. So I write about it all, because that's who I am. It's what I'm about. It's the life I live. And THAT, my friends, is true homeostasis. Our whole lives. Together.

And thank you, dear friend, for diluting the above. I appreciate it.

 

[HashGirl]

I was thinking that Sue could probably make it. Glad to see you have a recipe to help out, Birdie.

Sent you a PM SweetS about ethanol and making it

 

[HashGirl]

Magnus, at the bottom left of everyone's post is a button that says "Blog this Post". That's what I use when I want to remember stuff that I'm learning here on 420. You can make different Blog categories and save whatever post your blogging where appropriate. It's definitely a handy feature.

Hi all,

Forgive me for this, but I've been searching and searching for all the lovely messages wherein people were so generous as to offer names of strains that might help me with my various ailments. Unfortunately, I have found precious few of them, due to the active participation of everyone on this thread.

May I ask, one more time, for the names of the strains you all so generously suggested I try to medicate my:
1) back pain
2) anxiety
3) depression

If I could receive those messages again regarding the strains and what they are good for medicating, I will copy them down in my grow journal (the physical one I keep on my desk). I'd like to start my own spreadsheet of which strains I've tried, what the effects were, what the side effects were, how I used it (how I dosed with it), etc etc, with a rating from 1 - 10 for myself. Who knows? It might wind up being the basis of a future book? How much fun would doing THAT research be, eh?

Also, if you offhandedly know where to purchase these seeds from, that would be oh-so-helpful. Don't worry if you don't know offhand, since I'm an old hand at internet research...

I am wanting this because I will be ordering new seeds by Friday (it's now Wednesday), and need a bit of time to research where I can buy them from.

Thank you so very much.

 

[AngryBird]

What kind of lecithin should I buy for my cco? Granules, powder or liquid? I still cannot find the recipe for cco, but I know it contains lecithin. Would I add granules or powder to my capsules or add either or liquid to a liquid oil concoction? And can someone please give me an actual link to the recipe so that I can stop asking such stupid questions? Please? Pretty please? There, I asked nicely....

How To Make Concentrated Cannabis Oil

 

[HashGirl]

For daytime pain relief, I like CBD Medi-Haze and CBD Skunk Haze.

I also like Crop King's Hash Plant, appropriately enough. I made cannabis-infused oil with it and it depends on the oil:cannabis ratio whether I use it for daytime or nighttime pain relief. All I know is that it works great for my rheumatoid autoimmune condition. Last night my left knee was about an 8 on the pain scale of 10 being lots of pain and 1 being little pain and after I took one of my canna capsules, the pain was reduced to about a 3. Much better in my opinion.

Further to my above posting, I am particularly looking for a powerful pain reliever that won't necessarily put me to sleep. My current Big Bud seeds and growing plants are rumoured to put the user to sleep within 10 minutes! Egads! I need to be able to be cognizant enough to work on my book throughout the day...

 

[KingstonRabbi]

What kind of lecithin should I buy for my cco? Granules, powder or liquid? I still cannot find the recipe for cco, but I know it contains lecithin. Would I add granules or powder to my capsules or add either or liquid to a liquid oil concoction? And can someone please give me an actual link to the recipe so that I can stop asking such stupid questions? Please? Pretty please? There, I asked nicely....

Use liquid sunflower lecithin. Granule form lacks glycophospholipids or something like that, which is what you want. Soy lecithin is usually GMO.

Link to complete recipe below makes about 90-100 "00" capsules at 10-11 mg CCO per capsule. You can adjust the 1:20 CCO:carrier oil ratio to increase strength. I made my last batch at 18:3 ratio (same total of 21 gr, plus same amount of oil/lecithin to make about 80 gr mixture for 96 capsules at 195 mg each).

SweetSue's Cannabis Oil Study Hall

Edit: or adjust ratio down as needed. I don't think you want to try my capsules!

 

[HashGirl]

Lucky you having an open-minded doctor. We definitely could use more of them.

For me it is MS. My Dr was in favor of trying it even though he didn't know what good it would do. He is open minded.

 

[HashGirl]

I'd be interested in this, too.

I've made cannaoil capsules using 10 parts oil to 1 part Hash Plant and they work AWESOME with my pain/inflammation.

I also made some cannaoil again with 10 parts oil to 1 part Hash Plant and take it with a dosing syringe in increments of .5 ml at bedtime and it helps with my pain and insomnia.

And, I made some cannaoil with a ratio of 5 parts oil to 1 part Hash Plant and it got me flippin' high when I took 1/2 tsp of it.


The part I don't understand is how can the first two noted above work in that one is good for daytime use and one is good for nighttime use but they're essentially the same?

My query for the day:

I've been giving thought to how one blends to produce oils for particular needs. Cajun mentioned recently that it's more beneficial, in his opinion, to gather your strains and create the blend to include the desired ratios.

I can't get this to settle into anything cohesive inside my brain. I'd appreciate hearing how those of you that do this go about it. I'd ask you to be as specific as possible. I'm looking for the thoughts behind the choices as much as the lists of what you used. There's a mindset I haven't fallen into yet, and with my brain and its ability to imagine and project that means I need lots of data input.

This isn't a subject anyone else is talking about, or if they are they're keeping it mighty quiet.

 

[SweetSue]

What kind of lecithin should I buy for my cco? Granules, powder or liquid? I still cannot find the recipe for cco, but I know it contains lecithin. Would I add granules or powder to my capsules or add either or liquid to a liquid oil concoction? And can someone please give me an actual link to the recipe so that I can stop asking such stupid questions? Please? Pretty please? There, I asked nicely....

I love the active discussion that picks up in this room. Sometimes I walk into what feels very much like the charged air of actual study.

Come to think of it, that's almost every time through the door. You guys...... you make this room what it is.



Magnus... there are no stupid questions, just questions looking for answers. Sometimes it takes asking more than once, but we don't mind that. You're way ahead of yourself and you have plenty of time. Making CCO for the first time is intimidating, but every one of us that's tried laughed at the end of that first run of washes at the simplicity of it. We've worked out all kinds of little tricks. I assure you, we'll have you all ready to go when the time comes. Give yourself the breathing space to learn to grow and let the processing information settle comfortably in.

The link you have on making CCO is the best one available for a large batch. Study those first couple pages until it's become part of your DNA. Walk yourself through the process in your mind. I'm talking about engaging all of your considerable creative powers to experience what you're reading about.

Tim did an excellent job of bringing you right into the experience. This'll be child's play for you.

You don't use the lecithin until you have the oil made. I believe there's a standing recommendation to let the oil cure for a short time. Can anyone verify or correct this for me? I promise, I'm learning to keep this all in, but this is an experiential thing and I still lack the time in.

It'll be liquid sunflower lecithin. It contains components we're taking advantage of that get stripped out when you process it into powder or granules. Look in that online rainforest we never openly name.

 

[HashGirl]

Vitamins
It has been at least five years now since my sister died of lymphoma. Paraphrasing, one thing I remember her saying her oncologist told her was, that chemotherapy reduces your immune system to near nothing in order to attack the cancer cells. And, taking any vitamins is not a good idea.

She was rather drugged up at that time and it is second hand information for me. So, I could easily be wrong with this. If I am wrong, it is good news. If it is true, it would affect how and what a treatment would be.

First one with input gets a half a bag of weed.

Joy?
Back in the 60s, 70s, and 80s I read my share of head trip books. Joy and spreading joy is not exactly what I strive for. It is more of a sense of well being. It is the ability to stay above the day to day bull sh*t. When you are there, everything falls into place. A good friend called it "It" and had a rather long rendition on finding "It" and the risk of losing "It". With me, I find "It" comes and goes. Most days I have "It" and I float above the BS. Other days I can't find "It", anywhere.

I made cookies.

Best

Sorry about your sister, Canyon.

As for Joy, I do the same thing except for me, it's that I always try to find the silver lining in any situation and I think that that kind of thinking is partly why I'm able to be in a good mood most of the time and maybe it even helps with my RA pain. Who knows?

 

[HashGirl]

Vitamins

Joy?
Back in the 60s, 70s, and 80s I read my share of head trip books. Joy and spreading joy is not exactly what I strive for. It is more of a sense of well being. It is the ability to stay above the day to day bull sh*t. When you are there, everything falls into place. A good friend called it "It" and had a rather long rendition on finding "It" and the risk of losing "It". With me, I find "It" comes and goes. Most days I have "It" and I float above the BS. Other days I can't find "It", anywhere.

I made cookies.

Best

Oh, and I forgot (must have picked that up from walleye ), if you're making cookies, I'd like oatmeal chocolate chip made using cannabutter, please and thank you.

 

[HashGirl]

Sounds AWESOME to me! You could start a Magnus' Canna Lotion & Creams Study Hall like Sue has done with her Cannabis Oil Study Hall.

I would like to offer something to the thread, and I hope it will be of value to many of you. I do not have it ready yet, though. It is something I have yet to work on.

I would like to offer a recipe for a cannabis lotion that anyone could make with just a few easily attainable ingredients.

I will offer up my professional background to you to assure you that my lotion will be of professional quality. I used to be a soap and lotion crafter as a professional, besides my writing background. Every writer needs a profession to fall back on while they recieve their many rejection letters on their writing, and making soaps and lotions was mine.

I used to, until very recently, own a company that handcrafted soaps and lotions. My company was called "Soaps and Lather" in case you want to verify my credentials on Facebook. I no longer run the website for Soaps and Lather.

During the course of owning my business, besides looking after the business side of it, I also was the primary handcrafter of all the recipes we used to produce our soaps and lotions.

The lotion will undoubtedly contain emulsifiers such as BTMS 25 or BTMS 50, Emulsifying Was, Steric Acid (not actually an emulsifier but rather a thickener), etc. It would undoubtedly contain such wonderful body oils as Shea Butter, Mango Butter, Sweet Almond Oil, Grapeseed Oil, Pumpkin Seed Oil, Fractionated Coconut Oil (not to be confused with regular Coconut Oil), Hazelnut Oil, Rice Bran Oil and even Vitamin E. The lotion probably would not contain all of these oils, but a good selection of them. But all the ingredients listed above, including the emulsifiers, are all-natural. You can choose whether or not to purchase organic products, yourself. All of these ingredients are readily available from a soapmaking supplier such as Safari Blue or others whose names escape me at the moment because it is late at night now.

Maybe the most valuable thing I can offer the group would be to be to act as a resource to them and as a consultant as they experiment with their own selection of oils, for not everyone would want to use the same selection of oils that I would choose for my lotion (many of these oils are interchangeable with other oils; some are not).

The lotions we will be making will be of professional quality and calibre. Beyond just making a recipe and giving it to you, I can teach you how to craft your own cannabis lotion, made from the ingredients YOU want to use, ingredients that will serve YOU best, that will suit your budget and that you will be proud of. And you may choose whether or not to decarboxylate your cannabis. At this point, I do not know the difference of how carboxylated or decarboxylated cannabis will work in the lotion. We will have to figure that out ourselves, won't we?

That is, if you want me to do it.

I now invite you along for the ride.

 

[rikvasen]

Okay hold on a second. I clearly missed a lot so, well I don't know. You may continue!

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