ATTENTION MEDI-MARIJUANA GROWERS!! WE NEED SHADE LEAVES!

I have wrote on the benefits of raw cannabis juicing. I have provided video's, blog articles from other pro raw cannabis juicers, but no matter how hard I try it is almost impossible to get the raw material people need. Having the opportunity to grow myself, while indoors I did have the large amounts of shade leaves for my juicing. I needed to prune my plants leaves so they can get better light, so instead of throwing them away, I juiced it instead. I have provided a video by Dr. William Courtney who provided information on starting your own one light garden for your juicing purposes. But for most people this is not possible or they are well enough to take on a project of this size.
I have read that there are several dispensaries in Mendocino, and Humboldt counties that carry bags of leaves for their patients at a minimum donation. But here in Sonoma County I have not found any growers who want to start a new business supplying leaves.  
I have talked with several local dispensaries who are willing to let me come teach their patients the benefits of raw juicing, but then we have NO LEAVES or product to provide them.
This is very sad and depressing to me. I know people who grow have big shade leaves they throw away... I just need to get them to understand that even these leaves have medical value to patients.
Everyday, I talk with patients on raw juicing. People in the UK have fields of leaves that they now offer to their patients. But here in Sonoma County we are still struggling.
Someone recently told me, "I needed to stop talking about the problem.... and find a solution."
So my plan is this....
1) make flyers for all dispensaries: FOCUSING ON GETTING GROWERS TO SAVE AND SHARE LEAVES.
2) CONTACT DISPENSARIES VIA SOCIAL MEDIA REGARDING THE NEED FOR RAW LEAVES.
3)WRITE ARTICLES ON RAW JUICING SUBMITTING TO CANNABIS MAGAZINES TO SPREAD THE WORD.
I believe that the benefits of raw cannabis is still VERY NEW, and so we truly need to spread the word, and get the world to start using their leaves instead of composting them.
PLEASE SHARE THE KNOWLEDGE
~peace

year round outdoor garden for raw cannabis juicing

With the increasing costs of electricity,  many patients cannot afford indoor growing or for that matter they can't grow where they live. Plus for many of us growing outside is very important.  Why put  a huge carbon foot print on this earth when it can be sun grown. Yes everyone would love to think that year round growing is possible everywhere. The answer is yes, and no. There are few places near our equator that allows for year round growing. Even here in California,I have met people who come  close to growing a full year of cannabis. The problem lies in the coldest and wettest months. But like I said it's still possible. With a homemade greenhouse and some special supplies year round growing is possible. However, you should first understand that the quantity of your harvest may not be as much as the summer season. But this year round gardening is for raw juicing purposes so it isn't the biggest concern. Having a year round supply is the important art here.
My best advice is start with a spring summer garden first if possible. This will give you a chance to start growing easily, where you will have an abundance of fresh leaves and then fresh buds for juicing. Then hopefully you love raw cannabis so much you will need to start thinking about extending your gardening season. I found many ideas for building your own inexpensive green houses on pinterest. And I've also recently learned from a cannabis patient that if you add hay to the inside of your green house you can increase the inside temperatures 20+ degrees. So for those people who are concerned about freezing their crops this will help.
Remember is you are starting from clones, you will need to give your babies some supplemental lighting even in your greenhouse. If you just put your plants outside when there isn't longer daylight hours, your plant will go right into budding, without getting very big. This might be just fine for juicing purposes. But remember that raw juicing takes a lot of material so one small plant could be totally used in one juice due to its size. Dr. Courtney suggest 20-30 big shade leaves or 2-3 raw buds (2-3 inches in length) per day. So it gets juiced up quickly. Therefore adding supplemental lighting (even just florescents for a few hours at night ca grow your cannabis up more.
Some ideas for those dedicated growers who cannot grow outside. You can set up a one light set up especially with an auto-flowering strain, then you can have a small indoor garden. If you watch the video here on this blog  on Dr. William Courtney he gives detailed instructions on a one light indoor set-up for raw cannabis juicing.
Best of luck to everyone willing to try growing a raw cannabis juicing garden.
PEACE

Five things to consider about raw cannabis juicing!

1. A great juicer that can handle lots of green materials. A wheat grass juicer or a green leaf attachment is very helpful. Just remember, you soak the leaves and raw bud for 20-30 minutes, but it's still very fibrous.

2. A large supply of fresh green leaves and bud. I would say this is the biggest challenge. It's very difficult to grow or obtain enough raw product to maintain a juicing program.

3.The motivation! Raw cannabis juicing is great! And can be done daily. But the truth is it's a lot of work, even if we'll worth it.

4.Fresh,mold and pesticides free material. I cannot express enough the importance of clean and healthy products. Patients especially with compromise immune system s need to be sure the raw leaves and buds they use are safe.

5. The willingness to try! Sometimes people  look for cures and miracles to save them from poor health or illness.Raw cannabis provides vital nutrients, cannabinoids and vitamins.

HAPPY JUICING!!!

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Monday, February 25, 2013

A Look Into Raw, Organic Cannabis Juicing By, The Cannadad! 

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People globally enjoy partaking in the pungent flowers of the Cannabis plant, seeking the euphoric psycho-activity unique to this plant, whether for pain relief, pleasure or pastime. Many people though are unaware of the amazing benefits of Raw, organic Cannabis Juice.

In raw form, Cannabis leaves and the tri-chrome covered flowers are concentrated with non-psychoactive, anti-biotic, anti-fungal, anti-viral, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, immune-regulating and anti-cancer nutrient compounds including lesser-known Tetrahydrocannabicannabidiol (CBD), and Tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV) both of which are proving to be therapeutic substances capable of preventing and/or reversing a plethora of chronic and debilitating illnesses.

When you begin juicing “raw” cannabis, you will consume cannabinoids in their acid forms. The raw form of CBD is CBDA or cannabidiolic acid. The raw form of THC is THCA or tetrahydrocannabinolic acid. These are the A arrangements of the molecules, the non-psychoactive forms. The acids of this plant are not psychoactive unless they are decarboxylated, or heated. When decarboxylation takes place the acids are converted to Δ9-THC and CBD.

Recently CBD is making waves in research, being regarding as a highly medicinal substance with unique immune-regulating capabilities. The human body already contains an endogenous cannabinoid system, complete with different types of cannabinoid receptors, introducing cannabinoids to your systems can help normalize the body's functions, including cellular communication, regeneration and repair, as well as regulating immune function.

Juicing works, because it provides the cannabinoid acids, which are potent anti-inflammatory compounds that help activate and regulate the endocannabinoid system. When you juicing is done properly, you should not have to worry about psycho-activity. Though preparing the juice improperly may lead to heating the solution and causing THC to form, this can be said of pasteurization, even flash pasteurization.

I utilize the power of raw Cannabis in juiced form myself. This juice possesses a powerful grassy taste, definitely lacking in the flavor department. It is best mixed into a smoothie for those with sensitive palates, chased with apple juice or lemonade or just straight for veterans and die-hards. No matter the taste, it is worth the power-house of nutrients found within.

Canna Juicers will notice a strong increase in energy levels, feeling invigorated almost immediately. I am unsure as to why this amount of energy is produced, I am pretty sure it has something to do with the metabolism of the acid components of the juice, leaving it exceptionally beneficial to those with chronic-fatigue issues. This juice has appetite suppressant qualities, as you do not feel the urge to eat as often, and there are no “munchies” associated with raw Cannabis juice.

One downfall is, in its raw form Cannabis Juice does not have a long-shelf life. The neon-green juice begins to turn the mucky-brown of oxidation about as quickly as an apple once bitten into. I would not recommend keeping juice longer than 12 hours as the nutritional value begins to degrade. You are able to store the juice in the freezer for a period of 6-12 months, though fresh is best!

 

My friend and Juicing Guru, Dr. William Courtney, of Mendocino County California recommends that patients juice 15-20 leaves per day. Cannabis leaves have the highest CBD levels, and therefore are the best for juicing. Prime juicing material is found when the plants are between 70-85 days old. He believes that individuals with compromised immune systems from autoimmune disorders, cellular dysfunction, chronic inflammation, cancer and various other illnesses can derive a wide range of health-promoting benefits by consuming organic raw Cannabis Juice.

I believe that Cannabis, and the compounds found within are vital nutrients missing from our modern, prohibitionist, western diet. Give raw, organic Cannabis juicing a try, feel the benefits for yourself, and then share the news with your friends and loved ones. Don’t be afraid to cure yourself!

More information on juicing can be found online:

http://www.cannabisinternational.org/

By juicing you are allowing the consumption of up to 60x the amount of THC in the form of THCA without the psychoactive effects, allowing for increased cannabinoid saturation. THCA is the precursor acid form of THC, they are metabolized differently. Every from of cannabinoid medicine utilized will give their own unique effects and benefits. Even raw cannabis juice shows anti-neoplastic activity,

"Unheated Cannabis extract and THCa were able to inhibit the tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) levels in culture supernatants from U937 macrophages and peripheral blood macrophages after stimulation with LPS in a dose-dependent manner."
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16504929)

Δ9-THCA possesses anti-inflammatory and anti-neurodegenerative properties. Δ9-THCA inhibits cyclooxygenase 1 (COX-1) and cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2), in human colon cell cultures (Ruhaak et. al., 2011). COX-1 and COX-2 are both enzymes involved in inflammation. Δ9-THCA has also been shown to decrease the amount of oxidative stress caused by mitochondrial impairment, a major mechanism in neural degeneration, in mouse mesencephalic cell cultures
 (Moldzio et al., 2012).

High on Health: CBD in the Food Supply

Allan Badiner

 
Endocannabinoids are naturally occurring compounds found within the human body. They've been there for 600,000 years or more, but we've only just noticed it! One of the remarkable things about endocannabinoids is their striking similarity to the active ingredients of cannabis called phyto-cannabinoids. In fact, it was the effort by scientists to understand the exact mechanism by which cannabis works in the body that led to the discovery of the Endocannabinoid System little more than a decade ago.

The science of endocannabinoid medicine has progressed to a dizzying degree in the past few years. There is wider awareness that the 'endocannabinoid system' is the largest neurotransmitter system in the human body, regulating relaxation, eating, sleeping, memory, and, as noted by the Italian scientist Vincenzo Di Marzo, even our immune system.
Cannabinoids promote homeostasis, the maintenance of a stable internal environment despite external fluctuations, at every level of biological life, from the sub-cellular, to the organism. For example, endocannabinoids are now understood as the source of the runner's high.  The endocannabinoids naturally found in human breast milk, which are vital for proper human development, have virtually identical effects as cannabinoids found in the cannabis plant. Amazingly, the mechanism at work after smoking or eating cannabis, when adults get the "munchies, is essentially the same as what causes breastfeeding babies to seek protein-rich milk.

Universally accepted following its discovery in 1995, the endocannabinoid system asserts it power to heal and balance the other systems of the body by turning on or off the expression of genes. Cannabinoids hold the key that unlocks receptor sites throughout the brain and immune system triggering potent healing and pain-killing effects.
The endocannabinoid anandamide, (Ananda = bliss in Sanskrit + amide = chemical type) a naturally neurotransmitting lipid compound made by all mammals, is basically a self-manufactured "natural THC" circulating within. Anandamide and THC act through the cannabinoid receptors and have similar effects on pain, appetite, and memory, etc.
There are two types of cannabinoid receptors in the body -- the CB1 receptors found primarily in the brain and the central nervous system, and the CB2 receptors that are distributed but primarily found in the immune system. These receptors respond to cannabinoids, whether they be from breast milk, or from a cannabis plant.
Aside from the cannabinoids produced by the body and those found in cannabis, there are numerous substances that interact with the endocannabinoid system, such as cacao, black pepper, echinacea, tumeric and even carrots. But it is the Cannabis plant that produces the most powerful cannabinoids mimicing most closely those produced by the body. No downsides, no side-effects, no drug interaction issues, and so far, no giving up your hard earned funds to big pharma.

Make no mistake, I'm not referring to THC, of which Americans smoke more of per person than any other people on Earth, but rather the "other," non-psychoactive cannabinoid called Cannabidiol (CBD), a prominent molecular component of the cannabis plant.  While CBD does not bind to either the CB1 or CB2 cannabinoid receptors directly, it does stimulate endogenous cannabinoid activity by suppressing an enzyme that breaks down anandamide. CBD is also a counterbalance to the action of THC at the CB1 receptor, mitigating or muting the psychoactive effects of THC.  Weed enthusiasts would be wise to keep some CBD on hand for when things get... out of hand.

If just 10% of what research doctors are now saying about CBD is true, then this is a discovery with significance similar in medical impact to the discovery of antibiotics. Myriad serious scientific peer-reviewed studies in Europe have pointed to CBD as having almost unprecedented healing power over an extraordinary variety of pathologies. Even the stodgy National Cancer Institute has referenced this on their website.
Surprisingly, there is still little awareness of this outside of the medical research community.  Surely an unknown plant newly found in a remote rainforest with the same medical profile would be heralded as a miraculous cure. But in the last half-century, this particular plant has been better known as an intoxicant than a medicine.
The stigma that obscures wider awareness of its beneficial nature has been carefully cultivated. For decades, Hearst newspapers bombarded Americans with images of Mexicans and African Americans led into vice and violence by the evil weed. In the public mind, cannabis was transformed from an obscure ingredient in patented medicines with pharmacy sales rivaling aspirin, to an intoxicant the use of which would lead inevitably to decline and debauchery.

In a spectacular confluence of politics, racism, corporate greed, and political corruption, the federal government managed to outlaw cannabis for all purposes in 1937, with medical research becoming virtually impossible in the U.S.
Now, in California and around the country, research doctors are peer-reviewing the recent explosion of clinical studies from abroad, as well as conducting their own pre-clinical research without humans. Persuasive evidence abounds that CBD is effective in easing symptoms as well as reversing of a wide range of difficult-to-control conditions, including: rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, alcoholism, PTSD, epilepsy, antibiotic-resistant infections, neurological disorders, and muscular dystrophy.
CBD has no side effects and becomes very effective as an anti-psychotic when given in larger doses. With more antioxidant potency than either vitamin C or E, CBD has consistently demonstrated neuroprotective effects, and its anti-cancer potential is, by all accounts, enormous. Sean McAllister, PhD at California Pacific Medical Center said "CBD could spell the end of breast cancer," and claims it could render chemotherapy and radiation a distant 2nd and 3rd options for cancer patients.
Don Abrams M.D. at UCSF says the studies point to "a remarkable ability of CBD to arrest cancer cell division, cell migration, metastasis, and invasiveness."  The vast impact of the endocannabinoid system on human health explains and validates anecdotal reports of cannabis used effectively for a wide range of health conditions. Studies on the efficacy of CBD treatment are already driving the design and development of precision targeted single-molecule medicines. Indeed, we are hard-wired for cannabinoids.

The US government may not admit the medical efficacy of cannabis, but the global pharmaceutical industry has been researching it for many years. Some 350 scientists from drug-company labs including Merck, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Bristol-Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca, and Allergan (maker of Botox and silicone breast implants) regularly attend meetings of the International Cannabinoid Research Society. They are all trying to develop synthetic drugs that confer some of the health benefits of cannabis without the psychoactivity. "It's a foregone conclusion," says Julie Holland, M.D.,"that the next decade will see a new generation of Big Pharma medications based on cannabis."  
According to Martin A. Lee, author of Smoke Signals, vitamin D combined with CBD could become "the killer public health app of the post-prohibition era." A new CBD/THC medicine for cancer pain called Sativex from the British company, GW Pharmaceuticals, is finishing the final FDA-approval process. While there is no time limit on enduring prejudice, as science reveals more about how the cannabinoid system works, the stigma associated with cannabis use is expected to fade.

CBD-enriched health foods, tinctures and oils are the next revolution in food and medicine. There is currently an explosion of entrepreneurial activity and creativity around making up for lost time with CBD. LA-based cannabis physician Allan Frankel explains that, "up until this past year, it has been impossible to help patients using CBD. Cannabis growers were focused on the stoniest weed," hence, CBD which is non-psychoactive, was nearly lost. Now, more CBD rich strains are turning up, in part because there are laboratories that can accurately assess how much of which cannabinoid is present and check for mold and pesticides.
We are still in the early stages of understanding the synergistic effects of all the cannabinoids, not to mention the terpenoids--the sticky aromatic terpenes that give cannabis its characteristic smell. Research, as well as results in the field, shows that the presence of some THC and other cannabinoids in smaller amounts potentiate the healing effects of CBD. The combined effects of the cannabinoids, terpenes and perhaps another 200 other molecules all working together and carefully balanced in nature is what Dr. Ethan Russo calls an "Entourage Effect".

The burgeoning edible cannabis industry until recently was focused on making food items so radically THC dominant that you could easily become catatonic 3 hours after ingestion.  Anecdotal evidence suggests while most people enjoy these powerful treats, many people have had challenging experiences, replete with anxiety, panic, and functional psychosis.
Fortunately, for seekers of good health or for those targeting disease, there are now CBD-rich edibles that don't make you high, such as raw organic cacao from the Green Cacao Company, multi-flavored CBD dominant lozenges CBD-OOS, and other similar products delightful to the palate as well as therapeutically effective. 
As the health benefits are better understood, the huge market potential of non-psychoactive CBD-foods will likely be recognized. CBD-rich tinctures, such as Dew Drops Hemp Oil from Denver based Dixie Botanicals sells their industrial hemp oil over the internet with no medical marijuana permit required. Before long, there will be a plethora of food products rich in CBD, essentially creating a new food sector more legitimately called "health food," than what is currently found in natural foods stores.

CBD-rich foods need not make any health claims thus avoiding issues with the FDA. Imagine creamy CBD enhanced peanut butter, cooking oils, cereals, and beverages. Don't be surprised that in a few short years, you will be hearing doctors (not just cannabis physicians) advise their patients to "exercise, and get your CBD." Obtaining enough CBD to make a medically significant difference requires edible, vapor, or sublingual delivery thus avoiding the health risks associated with smoking.

In this fast and fanciful look forward, one should not leave out the inevitable resurgence of large-scale cultivation and production of fiber hemp, a versatile, ecologically sustainable plant with more than 25,000 known industrial applications--everything from hemp clothing, cosmetics, and foods (hemp seeds are a powerful source of protein), to oil-free plastics, hemp surfboards, insulation, and car panels.  
Practically speaking, CBD, or what Robert Louis Stevenson called the "golden oil," is but a by-product of the non-psychoactive hemp plant. As you read this, thousands of industrial hemp farms are stripping the CBD-rich leaves and stems from the desired fiber and composting them. It's reasonable to suppose that the tragedy of losing all that medical value for victims of cancer and other maladies will not be lost on those that follow us.  
If the cannabis plant hasn't done enough for us--providing wellness for the body and change for the mind, it can also help us pull the petroleum out of our economic jugular, possibly giving rise to a healthier vegetable-based organic life-support system for our children.

Image by M. Martin, courtesy of Creative Commons license

SANTA ROSA CA. THYROID CANCER PATIENT IN NEED OF RAW LEAVES AND RAW BUD!

THE MIRACLE OF RAW CANNABIS, lead me to creating my blog, giving me the opportunity to share all information that I can find on raw cannabis juicing. I've been learning, exploring and developing my own knowledge on the benefits of Cannabis, now including the extraordinary benefits of  intaking  raw cannabis.
BUT AS AMAZING AS THE BENEFITS ARE... WE ARE STILL ARE HITTING ROAD BLOCKS.

It's really difficult to obtain the raw material needed for this juicing program. Especially if You wanted to start juicing or eating the raw bud and  you are Not a grower of cannabis already, getting the raw cannabis can be extremely difficult. And if You do get some, maintaining (getting a continued source of raw material) a source for raw cannabis gets difficult. Even tho, Most growers prune, and leaf their plants on a regular basis, especially those growers who do indoor, and the scrog method of growing. These people have extra leaves,and even immature bud that often is just composted or thrown away! WE NEED TO GET THE WORD OUT to our wonderful Growers in the Emerald Triangle... Shoot in fact EVERYWHERE.
Cannabis Growers, please stop throwing away your shade leaves and immature buds as you prune your beauties. Please offer them to people who may need them. Or even contact your local dispensaries ( if in California) to see if any patients may be in need of raw cannabis.
Which brings me to my question that I'm throwing out into the universe through my blog!
I have met a wonderful person who has been diagnosed with non-operative thyroid cancer.
WE NEED RAW CANNABIS LEAVES AND ANY RAW BUD POSSIBLE, to keep him on his raw cannabis program, while his amazing wife starts growing for him. I have learned that currently he needs between (60-90 shade leaves per day, or if ever possible 3-4 raw bud per day) This is a lot of  raw material. So we need help. If anyone is in the Sonoma County California area, and wants to help contribute to helping out, please write me, here or privately. We are looking for FREE Fresh Leaves and or Buds, that are organic and mold and pest free. We can come pick them up, if that would help.
Lastly, if anyone reading this has access to raw cannabis leaves or bud, and is just composting it, or throwing  it away, PLEASE PLEASE consider finding a patient in need of these miracle leaves. I too, use to just prune and toss the leave too. But now understanding its value and benefits I beg, everyone to try using it. or sharing it. AND if You don't grow, but know people who do, please pass on this information. Patients are in need of Raw cannabis leaves and buds. Please start sharing what you can, before you compost it!

Juicing Cannabis: The Potential Health Benefits of Treating Cannabis Like a Vegetable

Donald Abrams is chief of Hematology Oncology, at San Francisco General Hospital, and a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He does research on the applications of medical cannabis, and has become an advocate as a result.

Abrams stated, “If cannabis were discovered in an Amazon rainforest today, people would be clambering to make as much use as they could of all of the potential benefits of the plant. Unfortunately, it carries with it a long history of being a persecuted plant.”

Abrams appears in the short film that accompanies this article. The film, ’Leaf’, provides some unique insight into the benefits of ingesting medical cannabis in its raw form and introduces the newest technique for doing so, juicing. Pressed vegetable juices are very popular in America right now, so it’s no surprise that someone would eventually look into the benefits of juicing cannabis as well. In fact, some people have even suggested that cannabis should be considered and classified as a vegetable.
Vegetables are typically defined as a “herbaceous plant grown for an edible part, usually eaten as part of a meal.” This typically refers to the leaf, stem, flower, or root of a plant. In 1967, the meaning of “vegetable,” was specified to mean, “Plant cultivated for food, edible herb or root.” Some vegetables may be eaten raw, and others must be cooked in order to be edible. When certain fruits and vegetables are heated, they lose tons of beneficial enzymes and nutrients. Cannabis is no different.

The Health Benefits of Juicing Cannabis

Cannabis preparation techniques are based on what benefits you seek from the plant. By juicing the cannabis, you receive most of the medical benefits of the plant without the “high”. Cannabis in its raw form is still psychoactive, just not like the medicating effects you are used to from smoking or eating an edible. In fact, he claims that achieving the psychoactive effects from cannabis is purely a human aspect of the plant that, “Has nothing to do with the 34 million years of evolution the plant has.” Courtney is a dietary raw cannabis specialist, and a strong believer in the plants healing powers.

Dr. William L. Courtney claims, “It (cannabis) has captured these molecules that help our bodies regulatory system be more effective. The bottom line is it’s a dietary essential that helps all 210 cell types function more effectively. I don’t even refer to it as medicine anymore, strictly as a dietary essential.”

While Courtney understands that smoked cannabis can in fact be used as a medicinal therapy, he believes that in its best form, raw, it is a preventative. He claims cannabis is the “most important vegetable on the planet” and that it can assist the function of your immune system, provide anti-inflammatory benefits, and improve bone metabolism and neural function. Cannabis is even capable of inhibiting cancer cell growth according to the doc; the list could go on and on.
According to the doctor, when you cook or smoke cannabis you are actually walking away from 99% of the benefits cannabis provides. Not to worry, in its raw form the plant contains THCa (Tetrahydrocannabinolic acid) and CBDa (Cannabidiol Acid), which must be heated in order to produce THC and CBD.
Only when you decarboxylate THCa, turning it into THC, does it cause psychoactive effects or the ‘high’ you may be used to when smoking cannabis. Additionally, the body is able to tolerate larger dosages of cannabinoids when cannabis is consumed in the raw form. This is because when you smoke cannabis, the THC actually acts as a CB1 receptor agonist and your body can only absorb about 10 mg at a time.

Only when you decarboxylate THCa, turning it into THC, does it cause psychoactive effects or the ‘high’ you may be used to when smoking cannabis.

The doctor recommends vaporizing to achieve the powerful anti-oxidant, anti-emetic and metabolism boosting CB1 receptor agonist activity of THC. Courtney suggests, “If you heat the plant, you will decarboxylate THC-acid and you will get ‘high’. You’ll get your 10mg (of THC). If you don’t heat it, you can go up to five or six hundred milligrams, use it as a dietary cannabis and push it up to the anti-oxidant and neuro-protective levels which come into play at hundreds of milligrams. It is this dramatic increase in dose from 10 mg of psychoactive THC to the 500 mg – 1,000 mg of non-psychoactive THCA, CBDA, and CBGA that comprises the primary difference between traditional ‘MedicalMarijuana’ and Alternative Cannabinoid Dietary Cannabis.”
The FDA has actually approved a tolerable CBD dose of 600 mg/day as a new investigative drug. This makes the medical potential of drinking the juice containing 600mg of CBDA, far greater than when you heat the cannabis. Considering CBD percentages are typically below 1% in most strains, it would be physically impossible to smoke enough in one day to ingest a 600mg dosage of CBD.

Two-Way Communication With Nerve Cells

An article written in the December 2004 issue of Scientific American was about a molecule in cannabis that could communicate two-ways with nerve cells. They explained that one-way traffic to nerves is the main cause of inflammation in the body. Immune cells are being continuously attacked, and nothing is communicating with the nerves to tell them to calm down. When you add cannabinoids, a two-way communication is made possible, and inflammation is reduced. The cannabinoids work to prevent, or fight symptoms by providing nerves with this two-way communication.

Ethan Russo is a senior medical adviser to GW Pharmaceuticals, a British company that produces a THC mouth spray called, Sativex. In the mid-‘90s, Russo took a sabbatical in Peru after leaving his job at a neurology practice that he believed, was prescribing medicine with toxic side effects. Upon his return he claimed that marijuana holds the “greatest potential of any medicinal plant.”
A quote from Russo, “CBD works on receptors, and as it turns out, we have cannabinoids in our bodies, endogenous cannabinoids, that turn out to be very effective at regulating immune functions, nerve functions, and bone functions. The endogenous cannabinoid system acts as a modulator in fine-tuning a lot of these systems, and if something is deranged biochemically in a person’s body, it may well be that a cannabinoid system can bring things back into balance.”
Russo suggests that people who do not naturally produce the necessary amount of cannabinoids may be more susceptible to illnesses such as irritable bowel syndrome, glaucoma and migraines. The girl from the movie below, Kristen Peskuski, tells her incredible story of how she used juicing cannabis to treat what she is calling, “endogenous cannabinoid deficiency disorder.” Kristin suffered from a number of conditions that include lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, endometriosis, interstitial cystitis, hypoglycemia, anemia, chronic sinusitis, chronic bacterial infections, and other serious ailments before she started juicing cannabis.

The interesting thing about Kristen’s story is that smoking marijuana didn’t do nearly as much for her as juicing. Before she began juicing, Kristen would smoke a quarter of an ounce of cannabis a day along with ingesting many edibles and concentrates. Now she is off all antibiotics, and uses only cannabis juice to aid all of her ailments. Her OBGYN believes that cannabis may have even assisted her through her pregnancy; which was originally thought to be impossible because of her history with endometriosis.

Tips & Suggestions for Juicing Cannabis

Now we know all this is very exciting, but do not go throwing your dispensary buds in the juicer thinking your about to make a magic healing potion. Here is a list of recommendations from Dr. Courtney on juicing raw cannabis:

• When it comes to juicing, as with any vegetable, the fresher the better.
• Cannabis that has been dried and prepared for smoking is not suitable for juicing.
• Dr. Courtney recommends that patients juice 15 leaves, and 2 large (2 to 4 inches long) raw buds per day.
• Raw buds are flowers harvested when the THC glands are clear rather than amber.
• It is recommended that you mix in another vegetable juice to cut the bitterness of the raw cannabis.
• A popular choice is carrot juice, and a ratio of 1 part cannabis juice to 10 parts carrot juice is a good rule of thumb.
• Split the drink into 3 parts and drink with each meal, or store for up to 3 days in a tightly sealed container in the refrigerator.

Happy Juicing! Let us know about your own personal juicing experiences. This is a very new and exciting topic we will most definitely be exploring later on. If anyone is currently experimenting with juicing cannabis we would love to hear about your experiences. Please message us with your stories. #StayMedicated

Getting more of those wonder CBD's

Cannabis has medicinal activity that prevents or treats conditions when included in the diet as an essential food. Cannabinoids are highly available in raw Cannabis juice, sprouts, micro-greens and pure CBD strains.

 

 

Alternative Cannabinoid Dietary Cannabis

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    "You know, it doesn't really matter if Cannabinoids can reduce Heart Attacks by 66%, Insulin dependent Diabetes by 58%, prevent Cancers: Because if we can't figure out how to deal with the environment it's Game Over, and Game Over fairly quickly."
    "If you heat the plant, you will decarboxylate THC-acid and you will get high, you"ll get your 10 mg. If you don't heat it, you can go up to five or six hundred milligrams & use it as a Dietary Cannabis... and push it up to the Anti-oxidant and Neuro-protective levels which come into play at hundreds of milligrams."
    "It is this dramatic increase in dose from 10 mg of psychoactive THC to the 500-1,000 mg of non-psychoactive THCA / CBDA / CBGA that comprises the primary difference between traditional ‘Medical Marijuana’ and Alternative Cannabinoid Dietary Cannabis."
    "It makes you feel good when they come back and they have stopped used something that causes GI tract bleeding or causes liver damage... pain pills and anti-inflammatory drugs, you feel like it's worth the whole struggle to get the education out there."
    "Why would you deprive a child of the possibility of preventing tumors, or the possibility of preventing Diabetes?" — William L. Courtney, M.D.

    "You wouldn't consider a Diabetic addicted to Insulin."
    "When I drink the leaf, I feel more attentive, more awake. I can breathe better. I don't get heartburn or stomach pain. Or feel muscle weakness or lower back or pelvic pain."
    "By eating it, I am able to saturate much more so than I could. Even if I were smoking all day long, I wouldn't be able to saturate as heavily as I can juicing."
    "I think the anti-fungal [and anti-bacterial] which is CBN,... and the THCA (which is only in the unheated plant material) and Cannabidiol are all helpful."
    But I think, more importantly, it is the interplay of all the Cannabinoids together that causes the most benefit.
    That when you isolate each one and take it alone, or take it as a pure synthetic, it can't have the benefits. It doesn't have the same effects that they all have together."
    "I thought: How does everyone not know about this. I felt right then and there my focus in life had to be helping other people in my same situation to get this information to use as well." — Kristen Courtney

    Marinol Caution: "...if you look at a drug like Marinol...the problem is 50% of the Marinol is not biologically active... 50% is Right-handed, 50% is Left-handed... Only one of those can fit into the receptor in the body and alter the cell physiology. And... the one that's very similar (it has the exact same number of molecules but not quite the same shape) actually can interfere with some of the functioning in terms of blocking binding at the receptor site in the receptor, in what they call the Ortho-steric binding site." — William L. Courtney, M.D.   
    Marinol contains Titanium Dioxide, a Carcinogen recognized by Canada.

    The Endo-Cannabinoid System maintains our biological systems by regulating each cell tissue. It forms Encannins from Arachidonic acid of Omega 6 EFA. 
    Cannabinoids: fatty molecules who's function is information transfer between cells.
    Dietary Cannabis mimics the Endo-Cannabinoid System by providing Cannabins that are identical to or interchangeable with Encannins.
    "The body produces Endogenous Cannabinoids. You may have heard of Endorphins: that's Endogenous Morphine. Well, in a similar fashion, the body produces Endogenous Cannabinoid."
    "A million times a day, cells begin to divide that shouldn't be dividing and the Immune system has to say, "Hey, you know, the shrubs are getting a little hairy there; we've got to trim them down. We've got enough Renal cells or Kidney cells. We've got enough bone cells, muscle cells." So the immune system's highly competent at dealing with that, but it can become more competent. And that is exactly what Cannabinoids do, whether you're talking about the body's endogenous Cannabinoids, or the plant, which can be Phyto-Cannabinoids (which just means cannabinoids from plants) or exogenous Cannabinoids. Both of those terms refer to those 20 Carbon molecules that are produced outside of the body, but bind to the protein receptors on the cells in our body and therefore help regulate it. So whether we're talking about the body's chemistry, or the plant chemistry, their role is to modulate the function of the Immune system."
    "So a Cannabinoid is a modulator that restores optimal function. That's what the body's system is doing. That's what the plant does. The plant facilitates the rapid restoration of the normal function." — William L. Courtney, M.D.

    Cannabis produces each dietary essential we cannot synthesize: non-psychoactive Essential Cannabinoid acids, Essential Fatty acids, Essential Amino acids and fiber.
    "... raw dietary use is the only way to get the full benefit of this plant." — William L. Courtney, M.D.

    Whether Sativa, Indica, Ruderalis, male, female, hermaphrodite, wild, bred for fiber, seeds or medicinal resin Cannabis is the best source for the anti-tumor activities of D9THC, D8THC, CBD, CBG, CBC, D9THC-a, CBD-a, CBN and terpenes.

    Male and female Cannabis have similiar Cannabinoid potency throughout development (Marijuana Chemistry, Mike Starks).

    Hermaphrodite offspring vary by chemo-type: often high Cannabinoid potency and unique Cannabinoid ratios are the genes chosen in attempt to survive the species.
    "There is tremendous drive within this plant to survive the winter. Stressors like light, heat, hydration, chemicals; anything that really pushes the plant will force it to make it's last ditch best effort to survive... Then, suddenly, feminization was not just a horrible human intervention; it was this plant stating "Wow! This is a rough enviroment and we need to put our best foot forward."... And in doing so it may throw it's wildest cards down on the table... So despite all the huge negatives of hermaphroditic changes, the fear - All feminized seeds are going to select for hermaphroditic and we must steer clear of them! -the hermaphroditic tendency is a survival tendency. Yeah, we get a little pollen on our females. Yeah, it decreases the quality of a very small portion of the plant that actually produces seed... And the whole ramifications were a small amount of flowers that produced seed that could possibly provide an incredible divergence in the genetic of the next generation that could improve it's survivability... They will master the environment." — William L. Courtney, M.D.

    Dr. Ruth Ross recently discovered how the Cannabinoid acids are 200-400 times more effective than Cannabinoid neutrals.
    "In particular, CBD-A, or Cannabidiol acid, is an anti-biotic. As soon as you put it into a tea, you simmer it, you saute it, you bake it, you smoke it, you lose that antibiotic function, and it converts it into CBD; with additional heat it converts into THC; and so with prolonged heating you increase the amount of THC (but our plant currently has a lot of THC, so that really isn't essential.)" — William L. Courtney, M.D.

    Neutral Cannabinoids are almost entirely the product of aging, heat or light.
    "It's only the human that takes THC-acid, heats it and converts it into THC."
    "I consider CBD a synthetic molecule for all intensive purposes, because it is present in such a low amount that other animals don't have access to it. It's almost like a spin-off product of CBD-a." — William L. Courtney, M.D.
 
    Patients exceeding 4 decades need Dietary Cannabis daily.
     Patients using blood pressure, birth control, Epilepsy, Anti-psychotic or any Cardiac medicines need more Dietary Cannabis to elevate their serum Cannabinoid levels.     
    Patients have found that Hemp juice lowered blood pressure an average of 10 points within 2 hours.
    Patients with Arthritis have used ground Leaf as an anti-inflammatory poultice with results overnight. 

    The medicinal potential of Cannabis is focused in the mature fan Leaf, where the Cannabinoid content has peaked after the Leaf has fully developed it's structure and the whole colas before trichomes become cloudy. Between 70 and 90 days (sooner for Ruderalis strains) is generally the time when Cannabinoids have begun to peak.            
    Due to the sequential appearance of Cannabinoids, some people's conditions respond better to younger Cannabis, such as halfway through maturity.

    The cloudiness of a trichome depends on how powerful the light that is passing through is.
                                                   

Trichomes lit with 1000W on L compared to sunlight on R

    UV-B is the spectrum most utilized by a trichome to produce cannabinoid resins: it's directly correlated to increasing total THC content while lowering CBD while increasing total Cannabinoid content. 

 

Resinous flower grown indoors with full 
 spectrum UV-B
    
    Planting and juicing one plant per day in an organic culinary succession grow is optimal: A seed or clone is started as often as needed to provide an entire mature plant each day. A succession grow could also be done using 7-14 day old sprouts to juice, as the Cannabinoid content has a potency equal to a mature plant then.
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   Sterilized Hemp seeds may sprout, but will not germinate; therefore sterilized Hemp seed is legal to sprout.

    Juicing is the best way to utilize Cannabis as a food, medicine or entheogen: It leaves less plant material stuck to equipment than other methods.
   Plants sprayed with any pesticides shouldn't be juiced, but some pests are edible, such as Spider mites.
    Blenders are most appropriate for preparing buds; Wheatgrass or masticating juicers are more appropriate for Leaf.
    Softening buds in a blender may damage enzymes, so patients with accelerated conditions should eat fresh buds whole or softened with a masticating juicer.
    To prepare leaves for a juicer soak them in a pot of cold water for 5 minutes. Make sure the leaves are entirely clean before soaking, even if they are organically grown.
    To preserve the medicinal activity of juice fill containers so that air is minimized, or freeze in a container such as an ice cube tray.
    Leaves may stay fresh when refrigerated for up to two weeks in a Green bag between paper towels.
 
   The problem: "The throat irritation is based on the fact that the stems of cannabis have sharp little hairs" from (Why the raw cannabis juicing trend may 
 not be all it's juiced up to be Xeni Jardin) is answered with Superfoods: The Food and Medicine of the Future David Wolfe: "Hemp leaves... contain a high percentage of silica.. and fiber. One side of the leaf is soft and the other side is abrasive, so as the leaf is eaten and the fiber moves through the body, the sides of the leaf churn through the tract, scrubbing and softly cleaning the intestines."

    Because juice is acidic, many people dilute it with organic fruit or vegetable juice such as garlic or lemon.
    "I started out with carrots - I do four in the morning, four in the afternoon, but after eating carrot juice for five or six months you begin to turn orange a little bit (I knew someone in college who actually did), and so I now put in beets and broccoli (just because Bush doesn't like it, it figures it's got to be good for you), anything laying around - kales." — William L. Courtney, M.D.

    Cannabis clinician Dr. William Courtney generally recommends taking an Arachidonic acid source, such as Hemp seed oil, a salad of Hemp seed sprouts or micro-greens and 4-8 ounces of juice (or eat an equivelant 6-30 leaves and a bud the size of your thumb whole) divided into 5 doses with 500mg of CBD and however much THC is tolerated over the course of a day.
    "And it's phenomenal because you get these cannabinoids in, they're non-psychoactive, they saturate the body and they facilitate the body's regulation. And so, I tell each of my patients: the single most important thing you put in your mouth after water, on a daily basis, is, approximately, eight green leaves a day" — William L. Courtney, M.D.

    When 5 mg/kg of CBD is indicated for one's condition - unless a pure CBD strain is available, a patient may need to first remove THC to allow a higher quantity to be tolerated.
    "Take your cannabis. You grind the cannabis to a fine degree which increases the surface area so that you can get to the cannabinoids in the plant material. You get a variable temperature heat gun, which allows you to provide a constant single temperature for hours at a time, so that it's better than any of the vaporizers, because it's very, very, very steady. You turn the heat on until it goes to 166 degrees Centigrade. The longer you heat it the more THC is boiled."   
    CBD is present at 4,500mg/lb in Northern Lights, a 1% CBD, and new 5% strains provide 22,000 mg/lb. For 5mg CBD for a 200kg person, it would require 500mg of a 5% strain.
    CBD is a lipid anti-oxidant stronger than Vitamin E. It's useful in the prevention and treatment of Oxidative diseases such as Amphetamine, radiation or Alcohol exposure and diseases of the CNS as it crosses the Blood Brain Barrier and exerts anti-oxidant activity.     
    "So, it's a fat molecule that can get into the brain, which is very hard to do, because the brain is very protective, but because this has 34 million years of research on its side it knows how to walk between the lines and the body has allowed it access to the brain. So, for Parkinsons, for Alzheimers, for strokes whether embowelic, hemmorhagic, or traumatic, or surgical, these are all conditions where CBD is uniquely beneficial." — William L. Courtney, M.D.
    Some CBD-rich plants are Industrial Hemp, strains that were bred a few decades ago that remain as they were in the 60's-70's, plants from sohumseeds.com cbdcrew.com and labs such as GW Pharm.
    "The Hemp plant is actually an excellent plant because the THC content can be low, that's if you're treating a condition for which appears CBD food supplement is in order.
    The plants we're using in Luxembourg have only 1% CBD, a 1% CBD plant is providing you with 19 times more CBD per pound than Oranges provide you of vitamin C. A 1% is an excellent source, you can make tremendous concentrates you can eat the plant raw - and the absence of the THC - you can heat Hemp, which you can't do with other strains because the THC acid comes out and you end up with a psycho-toxic substance."— William L. Courtney, M.D

    Ensure the plants you juice for Acidic Cannabinoids weren't close to Grow Lamps or a heat sources. The amount of THC in a cup of heated juice could exceed 100 joints worth. THC can cause disphoria or the loss of consciousness with greater than 10mg doses.
    Some find that the raw young leaves growing nearest to the dominant center stem have psycho-activity when eaten.
    The safest THC preparations may be vaporized ice wax and heated juice.
    "I call it a poison." — William L. Courtney, M.D. (on the delta 9 effect)

    CBN is produced naturally and as the metabolite of THC. It's the only sedative molecule in Cannabis.
    Other commonly known activities of CBN are: anti-leshmanial, anti-biotic, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and anti-proliferative.

   D9THC boils at 157C, D8THC boils at 175C, CBD boils at 160-188C: "However, both begin to sublimate off at even lower temperatures, and commercially available vaporizers, even the Volcano, do not heat evenly enough to allow fractionation of one component over another. What your patient is doing is wasting some cannabinoids and terpenoids by preheating. To get all of them out requires more prolonged heating, or a higher temperature. When the latter is done, it favors higher molecular weight sesquiterpenoids, many of which are sedating." - CBD Diary - ProjectCBD

    Common Hemp seed oil provides 10 mg per kg of CBD, 0.6mg THC per 50-100 ml and Cannabinoid acids.
    Swiss and Finland sourced Hemp seed oil can contain up to 50 mg of THC per kg.
    Swiss Hemp Essential oil contains 540 mg of CBD and 3 mg each CBD, CBG and CBN per kg.

    For more on Dietary Cannabis set up a Consultation with Cannabis International at (707) 961-1420, take a course on Medicinal Cannabis at ggecouniversity.com taught by William L. Courtney, M.D., or one of the Juicing events at the Arcata Humboldt Patient Resource Center, the San Jose Canna Culture Collective, the Mendocino Leonard Moore Co-op or The Kalamazoo Med Joint Community Compassion Center.

    "You have to understand cannabinoids: it's the key to getting better." 
    "It's a dietary essential: it's so much more than a medicine - and it definitely is safe."
    "You can use it in the morning, and midday; still function - drive cars, there is no interference with your ability to take care of your daily issues."
    "It's the poster-child for raw food."
    "The use of the raw plant includes the acid cannabinoids; CBDA, THCA, CBGA, CBCA. The acid cannabinoids, CBDA and CBGA are now known to act at GPR55 as potent antagonists of that pro-inflammatory receptor. The acid cannabinoids are 2-4 fold more effective than the neutral cannabinoids, which have been the exclusive focus of study for the last 30 years. The neutral cannabinoids, CBD, THC, CBG, CBC … are functionally synthetic molecules made by application of heat to alter the naturally occurring Acidic Phytocannabinoids. The specific ratio of cannabinoids is an area of tremendous significance and an area in need of additional research. Consumption of the whole mature raw flower / bud and leaf is the best current thought. The amount per day is dependent upon the weight-to-weight cannabinoid content analysis of that specific plant as there is dramatic variation between particular plants of the same name and across time for a specific plant.
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    If analysis is not available, assume high THC concentration in the 8% to 21% weight to weight or w/w. In general CBD is usually less than 1% w/w. Another way of describing the relative amounts of THC to CBD is cannabinoid content. For the vast majority of strains in California the ratio OF CBD TO THC per 100 grams of cannabinoid, is 0.4 to 1.0 grams of CBD/100gm to 90-95 grams of THC/100gm. Sadly the other 78 cannabinoids share the remaining 4 grams. Note that W/W is the amount of CBD per unit weight of cannabis where cannabinoid content is an estimate of the relative amount of THC, CBD, CBC, CBG, CBN etc per 100 gm of cannabinoid extracted from a particular strain.
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    Individuals often start out with 1-3 grams of mature bud / flower to assure no idiosyncratic allergic reaction or psycho-activity. In indoor grow rooms with low ceilings sometimes the buds get very close or touch the high pressure sodium lights which are hot enough to breakdown THCA into THC. It has been suggested that very hot outdoor grows may also have some decarboxylation at the top of the plant but this is very rare. Once comfortable with mature raw flower, slowly increase the amount to 14 grams or 1/2 ounce wet weight mature bud harvested from the living plant. In addition to the raw bud use 30 to 300 leaves per day in accordance to the amount of plant that can be consistently provided on a daily basis. It is best to juice the leaves to decrease bulk of the fiber but it is best to blend the flower into the juice of the leaf, particularly with the new 10-20% CBDA strains. Blending the bud rather than juicing it, reduces the loss of cannabinoids that adhere to the ejected fiber that is part of the juicing process. In the past bud was juiced when using 1% CBDA plants because of the large amount of plant material required in order to recover 600 mg of CBD.
Flavor management is a very important for compliance. The juiced leaf and blended flower is combined with hemp milk/ hemp oil / keifer / yogurt into a smoothie or combined with fresh vegetable or fruit juices. Organic produce without the fungicides, herbicides and pesticides are important if available.
     The smoothie / juice with its phyto-cannabinoids / terpenes / flavinoids are best taken in divided doses due to their rapid clearance i.e. the cannabinoids clear in about 50 minutes after absorption from the intestine is complete. If the final amount is 10 ounces, then divide into five 2-ounce doses and take every 4 hours. Keep on ice. Shake before using to mix the fatty acids with the water portion of the juice. For serious illnesses, try for 6 doses a day, that is leave one dose in the refrigerator for consumption if one gets up to use the restroom at night.
     Replace high THC plants with plants of increased CBD content and ideally with plants providing specific ratios of CBDA to THCA indicated for the specific medical condition.
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    The THC dose, for those that are comfortable with THC, is 10-15 mg. If you are blending a mature bud into a glass of juice it could and should have 5-600 mg of THCA and 5-600 mg of CBDA if the plant is a 1:1 plant such as the original Cannatonic 6.9%w/w CBD to 6.2% w/w THC or a tested strain of Harlequin, which range from 4%/4% to 8%/8% CBD/THC. If that juice is accidentally heated by placing the ‘vegetable’ juice into a vegetable soup, it will create a very psychotoxic dose of THC.
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     Reiterating to a fault, if you are consuming 600 mg of a 1:1 plant, you are consuming not only 600 mg of CBDA but also 600mg of THCA, upon heating the THCA turns in to approximately 580mg of THC when the tolerable dose is 10 mg! That would be like consuming 58 brownies when you can only tolerate 1!
     If you find a source of cannatonic seeds beware that the cannatonic feminized seeds can vary widely from the original plant. Recent HPLC testing showed an expression of CBDA from 22% w/w to <1%CBDA and concurrently THCA contents ranged from 1% w/w to 30 % w/w. This marked divergence mandates testing of the plant while keeping back living clones in case you locate the desired cannabinoid ratio.
    "If you have not eaten Cannabis for a long time, you are struggling alone. Your immune system is doing it's best, but . . . it's my belief that if the CBD was there 5 years ago or twenty years ago - if it was part of your diet daily - there would be a lot less of those Cancers that we then would have to struggle with in a life and death fashion. You want to have CBD present before an event occurs. So if you are eating leaf regularly, and if your CBD content is ready - think of it like Vitamin C: it's just an Anti-oxidant on board, you limit the extent of the re-profusion injury, and you mitigate the damage from being done."
    "Morocco may be the only place on the planet where men live longer than women. The cultural aspect is that men sit around and smoke this hash together that is 40-50% CBD. And so, by accident or societal prudence, that are consuming a significant quantity of these 'prophylaxis' cannabinoids, and it appears to have given them a capacity to weather the rough lifestyle and add years to their lives."
    ''A child who used to have hundreds of seizures a day now goes days without having a seizure [using 11:1 CBD/THC Hemp juice after being on every medication Western Medicine had]. Another patient of mine who is 2 or 3 years old had a brain stem tumor: after receiving 10 times the fatal exposure of radiation and a bone marrow transplant, she was sent home from hospice care. She was consuming up to 4 - 8 oz of raw cannabis juice per day - her MRI came, not only is the tumor gone, but the radiation damage, the scar tissue has completely reabsorbed in a year and a half, and it normally takes 5 - 6 years for that to reabsorb.''
    "Anxiolytic: if you highlight it every time the Federal Patent refers to anti-anxiety effects - in a somewhat humorous effort to distinguish anti-anxiety as a non-psychoactive effect - and as a psychiatrist it's like 'Ha, they're trying to distinguish the THC effect from the CBD effect!' - 'CBD really helps with anxiety - that's O.K. THC we don't know what it does but that's horrible!'"
    "The amount of money spent on diseases that Cannabis could prevent equal the military budget."
    "If people need another reason to be active, it is in reversing the Treaty One, immediately. Stop that legislation that prevents this plant from being used by billions of people in the world, for whom that is really their only source of Analgesia and Anti-inflammatory, Anti-neoplastic, Anti-fungal, Anti-bacterial, Anti-malarial, Anxiolytics and Anti-psychotics."
     "I believe Cannabis is a dietary essential for all 7 billion people in it's ability to prevent conditions as well as treat conditions that could already exist."
     "At CannabisInternational, one of our major projects is the production of a billion pounds of seed and the distribution of those to folks who are living on a dollar a day."
    "So we give them a pound of Cannabis, they put it in the ground, they get Essential Fatty Acids, Essential Amino Acids, Essential Cannabinoid Acids: we're trapping 5 billion acres of CO2, and we produce the most healthiest people on the planet, and the last become first - and we have a Clinical study; but we cant call it a Clinical study because that's a crime: because this drug has no benefits...but it would be an amazing thing to see a billion people who no longer develop Heart disease or Diabetes and are doing well. Currently working on a strain called Carbon Capture and Storage, that could provide leaf and flower running 20% CBD."
     "If its true that that pharmaceutical industry equals the Forbes 500, you have a block that want to preserve its ability to continue being able to pay its mortgages and send its kids to school, but it has an enormous amount of power - its going to be difficult - I mean Science is overwhelmingly clear that the body regulates itself intimately with the Endo-Cannabinoid system; and that Cannabis for 34 million years of co-lateral evolution has consolidated these 20 carbon molecules - we're over 100+ of those now - to assist the Endogenous Cannabinoid system in its goal: to maintain Homeostasis - so if a cell becomes over active it will down regulate it, if its under-active it will up regulate it.
     The fact that such a prestigious institution as the National Cancer Institute has acknowledged that there are direct antitumor effects, means that at the top things are begining to change. But that will have a double-edged sword: -if Cannabis really is that beneficial, let's get out there and make it Roundup Ready and grow it cheaper and make sure it's sterile seeds so you have to buy it from Monsanto. So people can't propagate it on thier own. It's the next wave: If it's not basically illegal the world over, then let's make it inaccessible-unless you buy from a company that owns it's genetics." — William L. Courtney, M.D

    "Over 525 different chemical compounds have been identified in the cannabis plant. These substances act as primarily feedback modulators facilitating the Endogenous Cannabinoid System’s regulation of cellular physiology. The plant’s primary constituent is THC-a, which along with other phyto-cannabinoids, interact to modulate the immune system.
    Patients become dysphoric or euphoric on 10-20 mg of THC, well before they can take in a full dose (200 to 1,000 mg) of the other non-psychoactive cannabinoids. Many middle-aged patients cannot tolerate THC, even if it alleviates their symptoms, due to the dysphoria that interferes with their day-to-day functions. Age or heat decarboxylate THCa to THC, reducing the tolerable dose from 2000 mg to 10 mg, and resulting in the loss of the inflammatory, anti-spasmodic and anti-proliferative activities of the cannabinoids.
    US Patent 6,630,507 states that certain cannabinoids can have useful therapeutic effects, which are not mediated by cannabinoid receptors, and are therefore not accompanied by psychoactive side effects. Furthermore, the absence of psychoactivity in some cannabinoids allows for very high doses to be used without encountering unpleasant side effects or potentially dangerous complications.
    In October 2009, we confirmed that the 14,500 µgm / ml of non-psychoactive THCa was potently active in modulating the immune system and was tolerated because the 90 µgm / ml of free THC does not cross the CB1 stimulation threshold. This has supported widespread interest in juicing the whole plant, diluting that juice 10:1 for palatability and then consuming the juice in divided doses up to 5 times / day. We have discovered that dietary leaf therapy is a gradual process that increases over the first two months or regular use. Once the plant is absorbed, cannabinoids clear in 50 minutes supporting a q3-4 hour dosing."
    ''Cannabinoids, Terpenes and Flavinoids have numerous functions, but play a central role in modulating the immune system. They have been shown to be effective as Anti-oxidants, Analgesics, and as an Anti-inflammatory; they are Anxiolytic, effective in treating OCD, are active in cellular glucose metabolism, and appear to inhibit aggressive tumor cell growth. The terpenes are known to act synergistically as allosteric modulators at the CB2 receptor. Abnormal function of the ECS can arise from a Clinical Endo-Cannabinoid Deficiency (CECD), from an as yet unidentified Endogenous Terpene Deficiency, as well as from structural / functional deficits in the synthetic, import and degradative enzymes.''
    "Every body needs access to this plant; but people with nothing else, at least this would give them their health back. Relax them, and help them enter a state of mind where they are more creative, more open to the changes they're facing; less fearful about what that means. And maybe, even offer them a sense of peace and hopefulness about what is next. Rather than focusing on what you have lost.
    For places that don't have adequate vaccine, that are impoverished, this is a cheap way they can protect their bodies - and also one of the best ways they can do both at the same time.
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    Cannabis is one of the major plants used throughout time, it is so often overlooked, when people talk about medicinal plants of the past, people don't realize how important of a role it has played, and that compared to the whole of Human existence, it is only very recently that has had a negative stigma attached, or that is has been illegal... - compared to the whole of Human existence.
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    I think William is right: that we should all be writing Obama a letter thanking him for the government patent on Cannabidiol... and urging him to allow us Medical Freedom." — Kristen Courtney

    "Dr. Mechoulam discovered why massive doses of Cannabis hasn't killed anybody, not one recorded death. We don't have any Cannabinoid Receptors CB1 or CB2 in the Medulla Oblongata, that's the part of the Brain that controls Respiration and Heart rate. So massive doses of many other drugs or even not so massive doses cause Respiratory depression, Cardiac suppression and Death. Massive doses of Marijuana might make people fall a sleep but it doesn't stop their breathing or heart." — Dr. Frank H. Lucido

    ''Magnesium Chloride is a potent mineral medicine; it is safe and incredibly fast-acting, as is marijuana. When Magnesium is combined with Cannabinoid medicine we dramatically increase the medical horsepower we are applying and can expect superior results. Magnesium is the Lamp of Life and without it we are toast! The two together should be stocked in medicine cabinets providing the safest, most effective medicine team we can recommend for patients.'' — Dr. Mark Sircus

    "Very simply, when THC connects to the CB1 or CB2 Cannabinoid receptor site on the cancer cell, it causes an increase in Ceramide synthesis which drives cell death. A normal healthy cell does not produce Ceramide in the presence of THC, thus is not affected by the Cannabinoid." — Dennis Hill

    "So, there are numerous benefits from these Essential Fatty Acids that help modulate. We can change our biological chemistry by our nutritional intake, but going beyond that is the only certain limitations as to how much you can vary our Endo-Cannabinoid activity from a nutritional point of view. So, that - for many people - the whole huge spectrum of illnesses ... they all have free-radicals ... and Cannabinoids, be they the ones we make or the ones we can take in benefit those!
     So, it's now my stipulation that in order to reset the thermostat: to lower the damage caused by - essentially, a degree of unnecessary inflammatory responses, we have to essentially consume Cannabis; with Cannabis being, now - from my perspective, an essential nutrient by virtue of how it will turn down inflammatory responses and inhibit the aging process and the negative consequences of age-related illnesses. Nobody dies from being old - they die from age-related illnesses.
    Very safe and effective medicine that's able to uniquely tap into our Endo-Cannabinoid System which interestingly and ironically regulates everything in our body."
    "The Tree of life is the Cannabinoid plant. The Endo-Cannabinoid system is uniquely suited to holistically modify the multi-dimensional interacting limit cycles that determine a systems health at any instance as well as how it evolves over time."
    "...on the deepest levels of our being, the same process is repeated....All our economic structures, our political structures, our social structures are all manifestations of the same process that occurs within us and...creates humans, within humans, and it all has fundamental underlying relationships to Cannabis"
    "So, what we would like to do as sentient Human beings is try to understand how we can promote our own health: and not only our own health as individuals but the health of the society - because we happen to be a part of the society, whether you like it or not - and how our society is part of a bigger whole: the environment, and how can we through understanding and knowledge become contributing factors to positive movement, and what role - surprisingly - does the Endo-Cannabinoid System play in allowing that to occur?" (A: Consciousness is the process controlled by the ECS that allows understanding) — Dr. Robert Melamede

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www.life-flo.com/pure-magnesium-flakes.html

Dry Industrial Hemp Leaves:
http://r.ebay.com/zqV0Ex

Fine Hemp Seed oil vendors:
www.hippiebutter.com may be the cheapest USA vendor of high quality in small amounts
www.nutiva.com  may be the cheapest USA vendor of high quality in large amounts

OTC CBD (Hemp constituents now legal in USA):
http://www.dixiex.com 25 mg "scripts" may contain 1 mg THC

Swiss Hemp essential oil:
www.thehempshop.co.uk/product-124.htm fine Hemp essential oil
UK Google advanced search for Hemp essential oil

Edible 100% non-toxic Hemp root:
www.Hemp-Eaze.com

http://www.scribd.com/CannabisIntl/documents
https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B63HjyJVG4aNLTQyWUQ4NlFhcGc/edit
www.marioptics.webs.com
http://www.freedomisgreen.com/getting-the-flax-straight-about-cbd/
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL645784997FF3AC02
www.montanabiotech.com/2011/03/26/scientists-find-new-sources-of-plant-cannabinoids-other-than-medical-marijuana/
http://redwood-clinic.com/marijuana-health/
 http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/2/1/17
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:hFz9H8rAJTUJ:www.oregon.gov/pharmacy/Imports/Marijuana/StaffInfo/CannabisReview.pdf+&hl=xx-elmer&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShhiE8P9TlfCTOvg6zetnU4YY7n3V0Zm306GnZeUAYemiqvBejUyuSb76XlBbQ4jc25MsUZGGu3e9yGBNT2n2c-vD7Rpwa24D51E6CRAkPk0Hho7NbsfgOjqfqQM6volLyewbr8&sig=AHIEtbQ_3Gt2-MVh_Rf0YJlStZZusFrR0g
 http://www.pothoo.com/marijuana-chemistry-michael-starks-pdf
http://cannabisclinicians.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/OS-2011-Terpenes+Minor-CBs.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQbMvmU1Elg 
http://www.medicinalgenomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Taming-THC-Russo.pdf


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