What Medical Marijuana Strain Is Best For Your Condition - Sativa or Indica?

Yup i am. Thanks for asking. HAVE to last at least one more month or else I cannot claim to be 86.
And still experimenting. Dry powder, oily goo, peanut butter (yuck)
B.T.W. is there a way to "guestimate" the potency of dried cannabis capsules?
Othe than take one or two and see how long and how fast they work.
Haen
 
i have really bad knees for someone my age and I find that certins strains like OG Kush and Blue Dream help really will with the sore and stiffness of my knees. Depending on the weather to.
 
Hello everyone :)

I am 57 years old and I have been diagnosed with cancer of urinary bladder 6 months ago, I decided not to be treated with chemotherapy, i will tread myself with OIL ( Risky Simson canabis oil).
Browsing around, reading many articles, forums, almost everyone has had good results.

I want to grow the plants by myself, but I don't know what to choose.?
Should it be Sativa or Indica?
Which subgroup?

What is more important is which of all has most THC??

Greetings
 
For me I choose Sativa during the day and the heaviest indica at night. White og and purple Kush are my good night strains right now. Jack the Ripper or Girl Scout cookies has been great during the day.
 
I prefer Indica dominant strains for my irritable bowel syndrome, celiac disease, and other gastrointestinal issues. That being said I have not really tried many Sativa dominant strains so I am biased somewhat. I prefer the body-buzz couch-lock results rather than a cerebral mind-trip.
 
I suffer from Rheumatoid arthritis and find bigbud x northernlights is great for me inless I abuse it then I build up a tollarance quickly, if anyone has the same or similar condition I would like to here of any other strains easy to grow that work for them.
 
Haen said:
Great thread; looks it has most f the answers to my questions as an 86 year old newbe. I have one clone growing and it is flowering for about two weeks now. Don't see anything that looks like seeds, but also don't know what they are supposed to look like. Dont even know what strain this thing is. Because of agee and health limitatins (cancer plus a lot more, I perhaps just should buy anoher few clones.
I don't smoke and am not looking for a "high", Just pain relief augmentation to the narcotics I am currently swallowing.
Pain is result of prostate cancer (low back) Arthritis ( (joints), and severe headaches result from WWII head injury. So . . . . . . ? what clone strain should I pick ??? and when to harvest. ??
I did harvest some leaves from my plant, ground them to powder (after drying), cookes them in microwave, and filled some capsules. Don't do a thing though.
Clue me in, I am never too old to learn.
Haen
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I think you should pose your questions to someone at a dispensary, or here in another thread with more exposure to those who have a wide range of knowledge about oral medicating. I tried some High CBD content pills and they did nothing for me. CBD does not get you "high" like THC does. I switched over to smoking high THC buds [from a vaporizer] because I could take one hit... wait and see what effect it had on me... and then take more hits per what type of buzz I was looking for that applied to my situation. Since you are taking oral doses I suggest finding someone with knowledge on that subject, getting a recommended dosage of bud or hash oil and then halfing or quartering the dosage until you can find the right "buzz" to compliment your doctor-prescribed medication. Because when you take marijuana [in whatever form] orally you will be stuck with that "buzz" for a while and if it is too much then you will have too much of a buzz for 4- 8 hours depending on the dosage. That's why you start small and wait a half-hour to see what type of effect it has on you.
A friend of mine's mother, who is 70 plus years old, went over to his house and saw some brownies on his counter. They were really good so she ate about 3 of them. But she did not know that they were marijuana brownies so she "ate" too high of a dose and had to wait hours for the buzz to dissipate. That is why you take a small dose and wait to see how it affects you. In my opinion leaves just do not have enough THC in them to be effective. Then... when you take some more potent stuff [buds] you tend to take too much because you already have a mindset that it "won't do anything". Then you are stuck with too much of a buzz for hours until you come down. So start small when you figure out what form of pill you are going to take be it ground up buds in a capsule or hash oil. you do not want your first experience to be the improper amount. So start at a small dosage and work your way up to what feel is a comfortable [high].
 
Great article. I was surprised, though, to see you state that Indicas are low THC, high CBD. This just isn't accurate. The reason Rick Simpson uses a variety of Indicas for his RSO for cancer is because of the high THC AND CBD, and the biggest variety you can use will give you the best healing effect. You need massive amounts of THC to kill cancer, 1000 mg a day; for about 60 days or more straight. CBD oil doesn't do it, though it does aid in blocking it from metastasizing.

The idea that people should use less to preserve their money is, I think, pretty questionable as well. If you prepare your body, 1000 mg is a day in the park. I have cancer; I'm currently on the 1000 mg dose, 30 days in. I'll be cancer free by the 4th of July. I'm doing it with my urologist's blessing and assistance, and logging all my doses and data and sharing it with him.

Here in Colorado, it's possible to purchase trim from dispensaries, or barter product for product with independent growers, and obtain your herbs for a reasonable price, as low as $25 an oz, 2 of which usually produces about 4 - 5 grams of highly concentrated THC, for a grand cost of around $10 a gram. It can be produced easily in small quantities and used as necessary.

If it's inflammatory, painful, autoimmune inspired, or associated with anything regulated by the endocannabinoid system it should be fair game. I think the most sensible approach is to evaluate the scope of your situation, and then begin to build up your tolerance(dabbing yourself silly for about a week does wonders for this...), and continue to escalate your dosage according to your tolerance until you get the desired effect. We need to take advantage of the fact that there's no established lethal or dangerously toxic level. I just seriously believe, from personal experience that more is better, but everyone isn't me...


Why should you take as much as you can? Because the more you take, the more you heal... period. The dose I'm taking also completely alleviated the arthritis pain in my elbows, and the arthritis pain in my thumbs and hands. gone. It may also be boosting my thyroid function. I feel great, totally straight, with mental clarity I haven't had in years, more energy, and just feel incredible.

I've come to believe from my experience that there isn't any dose of cannabis a body can't take if the tolerance is gently increased over time. Some of Rick's patients took 60 grams in 30 days! His cure rate is 5000 and growing... soon to be 5001.

He healing dose for chemo is 120 grams in 60 days, double that for cancer. Gives ya an idea of how much damage chemo and radiation do to people. What idiot doctor would put his patients, especially little kids, through poison and radiation if they can just cure it outright? In Colorado, we kill cancer all day every day.
 
I have arthritis, but I typically like to be functional during the day so I stick to Sativa
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If you just work to build up our tolerance, you can take as much Indica or Sativa you want, and be totally functional. I'm consuming 1000 mg of THC a day, derived almost exclusively from Indicas, and my brain is clearer than it's been in many years... I'm 66.
 
I suffer from Rheumatoid arthritis and find bigbud x northernlights is great for me inless I abuse it then I build up a tollarance quickly, if anyone has the same or similar condition I would like to here of any other strains easy to grow that work for them.
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If you made Rick Simpson Oil from the strain you prefer, and ingested it, you can build up your tolerance quickly to the point that you could determine your best dose, based on tolerance and effect, and then take it in the morning, and then again at bedtime, which lets you double our active dose transparently. This can be made from the flowers and sugar leaves of your plants when they're mature. You get around 4 grams of oil from an Oz of good flower. You can also get trim from some dispensaries, at reasonable rate, and make RSO from that. It works wonders on arthritis, and any other inflammatory disease.
 
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I have Multiple Sclerosis with severe nerve pain from my ankle to my waist caused by lesions in my cervical spinal cord. I have some info for patients who have "brain" pain. That is, brain that is coming from problems in the brain and spinal cord and not from the site of where you feel the pain. Thankfully I live in WA state (the greatest state in the US:thumb:) and easily obtained a medical marijuana card from my pain specialist at Swedish hospital. Actual legit, renown MD! He even knows about strains etc. He recommended smoking a small amount when pain is bad but following it by an edible that is high in CBD and low in THC. I should have listened to him but he's an older doctor and I thought the dope (no pun intended) at the medical dispensary would know better. Wrong! He insisted I needed a different combination and gave me two products that were both only a slightly higher percentage of CBD to THC. It was awful! In afterthought, this is intuitive. Just as THC heightens your senses and everything tastes great, looks better, music sounds better--so to does it heighten your senses if you are in severe pain and its coming from your brain. At least in my experience. Got very high but the pain increased to an almost unbearable place. I was curled in a fetal position sobbing. At one point I was going to ask my husband to take me to the hospital but I figured that was a stupid idea because I'd forever be listed in hospital records as some kind of drug addict and second, they couldn't do anything for me anyway. I just had to ride it out and it lasted all night. I recommend if you have MS and you have spasticity but not pain then you can experiment with different things. The stuff I tried really helped with my spastic leg and I could walk more freely. But if your primary problem is sensory pain (Dyesthesia) I'd be really careful when you first try anything in regards to THC. I'm using now a liquid called The Remedy Elixir from Wizards's Garden (144 mg CBD, 7mg THC) and it works well for dyesthesia. It's short acting so I'm going back to find an edible or smoke that has that combination. Sadly, there is no high. I'm 60 years old and was looking forward to feeling like I was in college again. And, it didn't work to relax my muscle spasms. Any other MS patients out there with suggestions?
 
I have Rheumatoid Arthritis, carpal tunnel in both arms, a reattached thumb , heart and lung issues, several age related problems, and this year anxiety/panic disorder has arisen. I had been treating for all the pains successfully with several different strains, hybrids mostly Indica dominant but also some sativa dominants. However, now that I have developed this panic disorder thing, some strains have intensified my likelihood of an attack and the severity! I was ready to go to the ER a couple of times but managed to wait it out! I have never had any thing like this in 50 years of using Cannabis! Sativa dominant strains have been the ones that had this effect. Indica strains with fairly high THC but also a higher level of CBD have not usually caused a problem and help as usual with the pain. I currently am planning on trying a lower THC, Indica strain with high CBD. I will say, that in previous years I usually loved a Good Sativa High and it helped me be happy! I guess everybody has to find what works for them and that might change over time!:rollit:
 

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