Good morning everyone
Up 'till 4, but at least I got 5 hours sleep from there, so I'll be functional.
I finished listening to the rest of the webinar on cannabis lies and misconceptions with Mary Lynn Mathre, founder of Patients Out Of Time. A couple interesting facts to drop on you for grins.
In order for a drug to qualify for schedule 1 listing it must be dangerous. The way they calculate danger is by the L50, a determination of what dose will kill off half the population taking it. Obviously, these tests weren't done on humans, but on poor mice and then the data extrapolated to fit human populations. Without going into the differences between mouse and human physiology, what they discovered was that you could indeed die from cannabis if you either
* ingested 20,000 to 40,000 times the recommended dose or
* consumed 15,000 pounds of cannabis in 15 minutes time.
The late Dr. McBay, chief toxicologist at UVA once said
"I think the only way a person could be killed by cannabis is if a bale fell out of a plane and hit them on the head."
I call that one safe holistic medication. Lol!
Mary Lynn once asked the chief toxicologist at the UVA at the time she was employed there to track down a comparison of the L50 doses for opioids and other commonly prescribed drugs and cannabis. What she found was a study of mice that were given injections of THC and the solvent used to extract the oils, while the control mice were given injections of the solvent (ethanol) alone. The control mice died first.
Yep, one mighty helpful healing plant we work with.
Think I'll listen to that webinar a few more times today and take some notes. It amazed me how many times I had the answer to the question before Mary Lynn began her response, and the number of times also that I understood more than the answer. All this study I dedicate myself to is paying off.
I'm off to a joyful start today. How 'bout you?
It's as simple as a mind shift. Find a happier thought and go there instead. Ignore the thing that frustrates you for just a moment and find a way to laugh instead. The answers you seek won't come in a moment of anger or frustration. They'll come when you play. So play hard my friends, and laugh strong and heartily.
Dropped a new Candy Cane seed today.
The one in flower is struggling this morning. The bedroom heats up in the morning and I've been kicking the air on as soon as I wake up. Given my late night I slept until after 9 AM and by then this tent had reached 88 degrees, while the one next to it had only hit 82. I'll have to figure out a way to keep that from happening again.
It's back down to 81 now but you can see how the leaves are curling. I'm assuming from the heat. Not surprisingly, she doesn't like the heat. I'd complain too.
Getting the environment under stable control is a never ending balancing act, isn't it?
Time for a wake 'n bake.