Personal experience
Dried, cured, aged flowers naturally decarboxylate with time, absolutely. I've personally never gotten more than a slightly euphoric feeling after eating lots of dried flowers, though. Never a true 'high' feeling, but there's certainly more going on than with fresh. As fresh flowers cannot get one high because all of the Cannabinoids are still 100% in their original acidic state (THCa, CBDa, etc.). So one could eat/juice nothing but fresh flowers until they're full, and nothing psychoactive would happen. That's the beauty of fresh Cannabis, as so much more can be consumes than can be in its dried/cooked/heated form.
I took it as you saying that there was activated THC and CBD. Now I know that you were referring to THCa and CBDa. I always have a mind to differentiate the two mainly because of the reasons I stated above - that most don't know that a difference exists. And I would be naive to make assumptions that someone talking about "THC" and "CBD" are talking about those components in their native acidic state. Now we have understanding, thank you for the clarification.
Sure! The flowers have many uses and it makes them more valuable, not only in an economic sense, but also in a medicinal potency sense. You're agreeing with this I think with your question. If I may rephrase, 'Why not make the medicine more potent by juicing flowers?'
There are limited uses for vegetative material. I've used it to make budder, but that's about the only use I've found for this material. Mostly, leaf and stem waste gets composted. I'm excited to have a use for this by-product of growing the flowers.
To the bolded section, juicing raw cannabis is a relatively new method of ingesting this medicine. How do you know the flowers have the most benefit? Based on the little bit of information I can find, people are consuming a lot of juice each day. One of the documentaries talked about juicing less than 10 large leaves a day. That produces very little juice. I'm drinking ~2-4 oz a day. Have you ever had wheatgrass? It is reminiscent of that. To me, it feels like I'm drinking a very concentrated green, like wheatgrass. I'm looking at it as I am drinking supercharged wheatgrass.
I know that we're ingesting much more than I hear others' reporting taking. My wife was juicing more along the ~10 leaf amount (I was also trimming stems from below the canopy so we had smaller leaves and stem material so this is somewhat of an estimated conversion to large individual leaves). The first week I was providing a dozen big leaves each morning, so we got to see about how much juice that produced. That's how we are able to compare dosages. Now I will juice up to 16 ounces at a time and store a jar in the fridge.
I've been trying to push myself a little to see if you can drink 'too much'. When my wife had to stop juicing all green for a week, I had to use it up faster, so I'm drinking more in the 6-8 ounce range (including some apple juice ~15%) per day. I doubt there is any upper daily limit, but there may be a single dose limit. Last weekend, I drank ~6 ounces all at once. Only I drink it right now, so I just drank as much as I could from the jar. I guess I'm getting used to it a little. Within a few minutes, I had to sit down. I was never nauseous, but I did feel my stomach tighten a little. I was just light headed/dizzy. This may not happen to others as I have these symptoms fairly often. My wife says it's because I don't eat. I did feel better after eating something. I am able to drink 4-6 ounces just fine all other times. I think the empty stomach, and I had been doing physical work all morning before drinking it. The more I think about it, maybe it was mostly something specific to me. I've had that same sort of 'wave' of feeling come over me drinking other green juices though.
btw, it does NOT taste very good. I add some apples to mine to make it more palatable, and have also added carrot.
For now, I'll continue to use the flowers as I always have, but I'm very happy that I now have a use for the leaves and stems.
FYI, as far as we know my wife does NOT have cancer, but she DOES have multiple tumors/cysts. This is her motivation for medicating with cannabis. It's well documented that THC destroys tumors. CBD's benefits are just starting to be recognized. That's awesome, but I think it's been at the expense of THC. Let's not forget all the great things this other little family of molecules does for us humans.
im sorry for the misunderstanding. yes i did mean THCa and CBDa but many dont recondnize the difference and i get use to talking on here like i do to my patients. its not that i dont give my patients all the knowledge i possibly can, but to much at one time confuses them specially when you start talking about THC and THCa.
but yes it was extremely wrong of me to do so and im glad you were able to figure this out while i still was not sure where i confused us both at.
one thing i did just think about is their method on testing, there has been alot of controversy about how our labs test in washington state and im wondering do they test with non heated and heated material? or does the test process naturally heat the flower which gives the results as THC instead of THCa.. ill try and contact one of our labs since ive been planning to send off two of my strains to have tested for their cbd and see if they test with heat or no heat or how it works.
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Think nothing of it! Not a big deal, we got to where we needed to be in no time.it was extremely wrong of me to do so and im glad you were able to figure this out while i still was not sure where i confused us both at.
Think nothing of it! Not a big deal, we got to where we needed to be in no time.
I appreciate you very much just for having talked about the properties of Raw Cannabis. It doesn't happen nearly enough, even on this site.
And thank you also to Xbones for this awesome thread!
And a big thanks to all of the thread's contributors as well (and those who have started/contributed to other Raw Cannabis threads... (and to all others on this site who spread knowledge and positivity, too))! 
