SweetSue's Cannabis Oil Study Hall

SweetSue;3211335 said:

I finished the class and had a steaming bowl of oatmeal and dried fruits and pecans. Feeling all warm and toasty, and trying to resist the urge for more coffee. Lol! It's a little late for coffee, and I'm hoping for Callanetics after the porridge settles.

Great class. I'll be watching again and taking more complete notes. I have a whole list of classes over there waiting for me to get to. That's the best fifteen bucks I spend every month. Well, the ten for Callanetics may be right up there. Anyway, fabulous information. I thought I'd share some of the finer points here before bed. Yeah....Callanetics lost out to fatigue. So.....what do we have?????

* Cannabis is an individually dosed medication. No surprise for us there, we're well-versed in the need for the patient to be a good listener to his or her own body.

* At least initially, treat the individual, not the disease. Learn the patient's history with cannabis and the comfort level. Use that knowledge as a stepping stone to guide them gently into the sometimes intimidating world of cannabis therapies.

* You control psychoactivity by controlling the ratio of CBD:THC. Start at a low dose of both THC and CBD, but with a higher ratio of CBD. Work up from there, gently raising the THC to find the optimal ratio that allows for the maximum ratio of THC, but the patient still feels comfortable.

Then you toggle up, staying within that ratio, until you have the THC where you need it therapeutically. Of course, we all know, watch closely for any signs that the patient is no longer comfortable and adjust accordingly.

* Concerning drug interactions, CBD has been shown to interact with about 60% of the pharmaceuticals they've tested it with. For the most part, these interactions are either harmless or helpful, with whole plant extractions giving the least concerns and the isolate CBD products causing the greatest concerns.

The complication most alarming is with the meds they prescribe for seizures, and some others, in particular blood thinners.

If any meds contain the caution to avoid grapefruit juice, this is a red flag for your CBD cannabinoid therapy. Isolate CBD products will probably interfere with the timely degradation of these medications, causing them to build up in the system, with the danger of toxicity. Speak to the physician overseèing those medications, even if you're using a whole plant extraction. The CBD isn't the problem here. The overload of the pharmaceutical is.

It means you get to reduce the beloved pharmaceuticals.

With blood thinners it might be a good idea to have more frequent labs.

* An interesting observation about seizures: It's not so much the seizure but the underlying genetic reason for the seizure. Medicinal Genomes of Massachusetts discovered that there's a genetic mutation in the gene involved in coding sodium channels with certain serious seizure disorders that responds dramatically and positively to CBD. Others, with seizures just as serious, don't.


The field is beginning to see some trends:

- Brain cancers turned out to be interesting. Glioblastomas you treat most effectively with high THC, but always include CBD. Neuroblastomas, which show up most often in children, respond better to a high CBD, but always including some THC.

- Anxiety apparently responds most positively to a higher ratio of CBD and a low dose of THC. I know this one from the experience of successfully treating my daughter.

- Patients with depression, spasms, and pediatric seizure disorders do better started out with a low ratio of THC and a high dose of CBD.

This reinforces my theory that the depression associated with severe anxiety is triggered biologically in a different way from other depressions.......and it just hit me that we erroneously think of depression as a singular diagnosis. Obviously, that's not the case.

- Cancer, neurological, and gut issues seem to do better with a balanced ratio.

What most patients with gut issues appear to be doing is going high CBD during the day and high THC during the evenings and nights. Sensible approach IMHO.

- GW Pharmaceuticals has proven in numerous clinical trials that a balanced ratio manages pain better.

We're talking chronic pain and neuropathic pain, the type of pain that opioids don't manage long term very well. *sigh* ..........................

I'll let it go. I swear, I'll let it go.

To return to the report, the balanced ratio provides a better avenue of relief from these types of pain than opioids, with none of the dangerous side effects the opioids bring with them.

Think of the future possibilities for balancing out endocannabinoid systems and treating mental and emotional illness and chronic pain with hope and relief. Ahhhh......

I let it go.

Lots more information to glean from the second time through and then the formatting into some decent notes. Gosh! That was like a whirlwind of information offered in the most gentle manner. This man has a kind aura. He'd have to be fun to work with. You can see he understands life is meant to feel good. His eyes smiled the entire time.

I'd have to say he was my favorite instructor yet on these classes. That says a lot, they get good people over there. He has a peacefulness that seemed unshakable. You can sense his trustworthy nature. I look forward to watching it again tomorrow.

Hope all this helps someone. Think I'll take a bit of it and drop it in the dosing thread on my way to bed. 13 days to go, but who's counting?

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