This cannacritic has been all over IG spreading the word and reviewing cannabis products to share the info with others.
Starting in January this blog will have weekly cannabis reviews. How -to videos, video reviews and much more.
First up, is my review on the 12th annual Emerald cup at the Sonoma county fairgrounds.
Lot's of people have gone to cannabis cups, other's dream about it, I am going to give you my cannacritic review on how it went and what my opinion was.
With more and more patients enter the cannabis community, there is going to be more people wanting to know which products they should try, and what other people think about the products too.
So start watching for cannabis review on the latest and greatest cannabis products.
and how to video's for those new cannabis users.
Check back on this blog, on other articles you maybe surprised the information you can find here.
Also, write and let me know what products you want to learn about and have reviewed.
I am really wanting this blog to become a place were people can learn how to use the cannabis they are trying. It is sad, how often patients say to me "my doctor couldn't tell me how to use the cannabis they recommended" or they went to a head shop and were kicked out for using the "wrong words"
I know it will take some time, but between my knowledge and your questions I am hoping this blog becomes a full service blog for everyone's needs.
So while I work on getting the blog running by mid January please write me to what you want reviewed. And coming up next is my review on the 12th annual Emerald Cup, here on this blog.
For those who used this blog for all the raw juicing articles, they will stay right here. So please continue to read them, and ask anything you want to know about cannabis. If I don't know it I will try and get you the answer.
My hopes are to review every kind of product that is used and needed from industry products like buds, and concentrates to infused edibles and topicals too. I also want to do reviews on cannabis used products, like which are the best trimmers/ scissors to use. What products work the best.
Pipes, papers, bongs and basically everything is being made for this quickly growing market. And patients and recreational cannabis users want to know what other users think about the products and accessories too. I have been a California 215 patient for 12 years now. I have worked in the industry producing and growing patients medicine for 8+ years. I have worked as a bud tender in a local Sonoma county dispensary for 7 years. Where I have educated myself and others on how to make and grow and produce products homemade. I also have a small edible company providing medicine for patients at one dispensary in Ca. I feel blessed to have been able to learn so much. Have people teach me how to make products, teach myself then teach others too. Using cannabis and using what works is more important than anything else to me.
Check back at my blog at another time to see what I am up to, and let me know if there is something special you want reviewed!
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
MAKE THE RAW CANNABIS JUICE DREAM A REALITY
I have heard over and over how much people enjoy and appreciate this raw cannabis juice blog. But I I feel lost, because I cannot get the raw leaves and buds for patients to use. I can't get growers to donate or deliver the raw fresh leaves high in thc-a AND cdb's to patients. I am sorry that this blog will be changing it's content about raw juicing into info about cannabis products available to 215 patients here in California. Maybe one day when we have studied cannabis more in it's raw forms. And doctors and patients want to use THC-a and CBD-a (raw cannabis more) there will be a larger need to continue to blog about the benefits of raw cannabis juice.
I will leave all of the articles, posts and blogs from other up for people to read, but for now it will be changing to follow my new passion. Reviewing the latest and the greatest in cannabis products for patients in California. I want to provide written reviews on events, products and more. I want to have canna-videos to educate the new users on how to roll a joint. How to use that vape pen you just bought. How to do just about everything. This will take time, but please keep checking.
Cannabis has been around for thousands of years and used for medicine for just as long. But I feel like because of our federal restrictions on cannabis as a medicine, many people don't know how to use the medicine they are now recommended to use.
More is coming I promise. If you want to start now, join me on Instagram @cannalovelea
where you can read canna-reviews on products available in dispensaries in northern California.
Thank you for your interest in raw cannabis juicing, and keep researching and please try and grow your own cannabis for juicing. I believe the proof is in the juice. You and to try it to believe.
Peace~ The cannacritic
I will leave all of the articles, posts and blogs from other up for people to read, but for now it will be changing to follow my new passion. Reviewing the latest and the greatest in cannabis products for patients in California. I want to provide written reviews on events, products and more. I want to have canna-videos to educate the new users on how to roll a joint. How to use that vape pen you just bought. How to do just about everything. This will take time, but please keep checking.
Cannabis has been around for thousands of years and used for medicine for just as long. But I feel like because of our federal restrictions on cannabis as a medicine, many people don't know how to use the medicine they are now recommended to use.
More is coming I promise. If you want to start now, join me on Instagram @cannalovelea
where you can read canna-reviews on products available in dispensaries in northern California.
Thank you for your interest in raw cannabis juicing, and keep researching and please try and grow your own cannabis for juicing. I believe the proof is in the juice. You and to try it to believe.
Peace~ The cannacritic
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
This raw cannabis juice blog has changed and gotten a new look!!
Thank you everyone who has read my blog over the years about raw cannabis juicing, I hope it has provided you with good information over the years. I am changing my focus of this blog,giving cannabis users cannabis reviews and critiques on new cannabis products available in the cannabis industry. I will be leaving all the information about raw juicing for those who are looking for that knowledge. Please continue to read my new blog about new cannabis products. This is a brave new world out here in the California cannabis industry. It's growing and changing and developing everyday. My hopes is to provide a blog were people can get information about these new products.
After spending over 6 years as a budtender in Sonoma county, educating patients on which products might work best for them, I am taking my skills to social media and beyond to spread the word about different cannabis products. There are going to be a lot of different products coming out that are not the quality they should be, so please educate yourself about the cannabis you are consuming.
If you don't know ask someone, the budtender you are purchasing from should have mad knowledge on all the products they carry. You can google everything! and I even check Youtube for how to videos, Yes, even how to roll a joint! But it's my hopes that this blog can give good solid cannabis reviews to say people time and money.
Please check back in down the road and see how this cannablog is blossoming.
Mahalo, the Cannacritic
After spending over 6 years as a budtender in Sonoma county, educating patients on which products might work best for them, I am taking my skills to social media and beyond to spread the word about different cannabis products. There are going to be a lot of different products coming out that are not the quality they should be, so please educate yourself about the cannabis you are consuming.
If you don't know ask someone, the budtender you are purchasing from should have mad knowledge on all the products they carry. You can google everything! and I even check Youtube for how to videos, Yes, even how to roll a joint! But it's my hopes that this blog can give good solid cannabis reviews to say people time and money.
Please check back in down the road and see how this cannablog is blossoming.
Mahalo, the Cannacritic
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Follow your dreams! Learn, Use and Love cannabis.
Over the years of me being a cannabis 215 patient here in California, I have been blessed with gaining skills and knowledge on everything cannabis I could learn. From growing cannabis for myself and sick patients, to being a California budtender and patient consultant for over 6 years. I have learned to infuse and teach others how to infuse cannabis into anything and everything we can think of. I have been given the opportunity to work with the very sick, patient with chronic illness, even cancer teaching them the ways cannabis may work best for them and their specific needs.
Over the years I have been blessed to start a small cannabis company providing medicine for a local dispensary. From cookies and brownies to cannabis infused tinctures, infused drinks and topicals our little coop provides quality medicine at reasonable prices. Through all these experiences I have learned what I do best is share the love and knowledge about cannabis. I recently became the IG cannacritic, doing reviews on the latest cannabis products in California and I want to continue and expand this here on my blog. For several years I wrote and shared info on raw cannabis juicing and I will continue to provide information on the benefits of raw cannabis, but I want this blog to be so much more. I want to provide all of you information on the best cannabis, the new products to try, review these products and give critiques. Please stay tuned and continue to read my blog.
Thank you for your support and Love.!
Peace~ The cannacritic
Over the years I have been blessed to start a small cannabis company providing medicine for a local dispensary. From cookies and brownies to cannabis infused tinctures, infused drinks and topicals our little coop provides quality medicine at reasonable prices. Through all these experiences I have learned what I do best is share the love and knowledge about cannabis. I recently became the IG cannacritic, doing reviews on the latest cannabis products in California and I want to continue and expand this here on my blog. For several years I wrote and shared info on raw cannabis juicing and I will continue to provide information on the benefits of raw cannabis, but I want this blog to be so much more. I want to provide all of you information on the best cannabis, the new products to try, review these products and give critiques. Please stay tuned and continue to read my blog.
Thank you for your support and Love.!
Peace~ The cannacritic
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Tis the outdoor growing season, will this be the year you start raw cannabis juicing?
2015 outdoor gardening season is upon us. So, once again if you are interested in trying out raw cannabis juice, this is the best time of year to do it. Even if you only put your cannabis plants outside for juicing only purposes, utilizing the shade leaves, small buds you pull off when caring for your plant, I juice all of that. I also encourage people to tell their friends about their interest in raw juicing, and you may be surprised at who can help you out with raw leaves. Most people and grower still just throw away bags and bags of big leaves and small buds up until harvest, and this juice can be vital for so many patients. Especially if you believe in cannabinoid deficiency, where patients need more cannabinoids to keep their receptors active. And for some patients who are really really sick, for mostly unexplained reasons by the medical community, when then try juicing raw cannabis buds and leaves, they feel better. They get better.
I did my 40 day raw cannabis juice challenge and then do it again during the outdoor growing season for my chronic inflammation. What I notice is the more raw cannabis juice I drank the better my joints, and muscle and all around inflammation was decreased by a lot. I felted not high but a little bit of euphoria. I could tell when I used my High CBD plants I did feel the cannabis juice more, than just using any kind of cannabis. But I also have, used what ever raw safe medicine I could.
So while some might say, you must have an auto flowering high CBD strain to raw juice, I would say that would be nice, but not necessary. Getting a High CBD strain or clone would be really nice, and optimal, but not necessary to see if raw cannabis juice helps your aliments.
Because, the THC acid is not heated or decarboxilated in raw juicing, the patients will not get the High that the THC can produce. So people who do not want to get high or have their children get high may want to consider growing and using the raw cannabis as their medicine.
I would love to say that it's like spinach, go into the nearest dispensary and ask for a bag of raw leaves and off you go. NO! I have heard of one in the whole state of California that has raw cannabis for their patients. The dispensary that I work in, considered it and we were concerned will knowing how to make sure the raw cannabis was clean and safe from pesticides and disease especially since it is being drank. And there is for some the question and safety of drinking leaves that may not be safe. Then making sure they are safe for patients.
For now! I say Grow your own medicine, and use the leaves and small bud and shoot if you have it, the larger buds at harvest for your raw juicing. And If you are a raw cannabis juice user only, you can juice up what you need and freeze them in ice cube trays for long term storage over the winter months when fresh product maybe hard to find.
In ending, every year I write about raw juicing, and every year I keep reading more and more on the subject, but no one is bringing raw product to the patients. And very little growers are willing to share the raw leaves and buds that are needed. I just pray that one day, between having high CBD hemp leaves, and more people willing to share their extra raw cannabis the more raw cannabis juicing will grow.
Until then I will keep writing and sharing other articles on the benefits of raw cannabis!
I did my 40 day raw cannabis juice challenge and then do it again during the outdoor growing season for my chronic inflammation. What I notice is the more raw cannabis juice I drank the better my joints, and muscle and all around inflammation was decreased by a lot. I felted not high but a little bit of euphoria. I could tell when I used my High CBD plants I did feel the cannabis juice more, than just using any kind of cannabis. But I also have, used what ever raw safe medicine I could.
So while some might say, you must have an auto flowering high CBD strain to raw juice, I would say that would be nice, but not necessary. Getting a High CBD strain or clone would be really nice, and optimal, but not necessary to see if raw cannabis juice helps your aliments.
Because, the THC acid is not heated or decarboxilated in raw juicing, the patients will not get the High that the THC can produce. So people who do not want to get high or have their children get high may want to consider growing and using the raw cannabis as their medicine.
I would love to say that it's like spinach, go into the nearest dispensary and ask for a bag of raw leaves and off you go. NO! I have heard of one in the whole state of California that has raw cannabis for their patients. The dispensary that I work in, considered it and we were concerned will knowing how to make sure the raw cannabis was clean and safe from pesticides and disease especially since it is being drank. And there is for some the question and safety of drinking leaves that may not be safe. Then making sure they are safe for patients.
For now! I say Grow your own medicine, and use the leaves and small bud and shoot if you have it, the larger buds at harvest for your raw juicing. And If you are a raw cannabis juice user only, you can juice up what you need and freeze them in ice cube trays for long term storage over the winter months when fresh product maybe hard to find.
In ending, every year I write about raw juicing, and every year I keep reading more and more on the subject, but no one is bringing raw product to the patients. And very little growers are willing to share the raw leaves and buds that are needed. I just pray that one day, between having high CBD hemp leaves, and more people willing to share their extra raw cannabis the more raw cannabis juicing will grow.
Until then I will keep writing and sharing other articles on the benefits of raw cannabis!
Sunday, May 10, 2015
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Thursday, April 30, 2015
The "New cure" cannabis paste! WHAT IS THAT???
I have had the blessing to work in the cannabis community for almost 10 years now.
I started with growing my own medicine and being blessed to provide some extra products to help
other patients in our collective. From growing my own medicine, I then was given my next blessing a job a my local dispensary, where I still work today.
Over the years I have watched cannabis bloom into a legitimate economy.
And during this time, I have been able to create, play, develop was to use cannabis beyond smoking it.
Today I want to blog about Cannabis paste.
I have my first batch slowing cooking on my stove top as we speak.
It seems that for the last oh 2-3 years now, it seems to me, it's all about RSO ~Rick Simpson Oil~
Long and the short, is that Rick Simpson is a Man, who discovered for his own personal melanoma cancer that concentrated amount of cannabis oil cured his cancer. I have used RSO, I teach others to use it and YES! I have tried to making small batches (out of Olive oil due to my Fear of Blowing up with Butane) The issue's with RSO are Mostly how dangerous it can be to make it, but also now new findings are saying the chemicals used to make the RSO oil, can potentially be stripping out the vital Cannabinoids cannabis contains.
For Years, I have wondered "why change a perfect plant?, why isolate certain cannabinoids?"
So, after reading an article about this "new cure" aka cannabis paste, which the company who is making this product, speaks about cannabis paste being made and used for 2000 years! So, Not so a "New cure" in my book but, It is definitely worth making, trying and blogging about!
CANNABIS PASTE!
It's amazing simple to make! and the real benefit is you don't waste any of the plant matter, or leave any beneficial cannabinoids to become trash. So if you start with 1 pound of cannabis, you will still have 1 pound of PASTE left!! Unlike Cannabis oil AKA RSO where that pound turns into about 60-90 grams so about (2-3 ounces total)
Cannabis Past Instructions on making:
Take 2 oz. coconut Oil, take 2 oz. food grade vegetable glycerin and 1/2 oz Organic Cannabis BUD!
(Not shake! but big Buds that you will grind into a fine powder, I recommend a coffee grinder just for your cannabis)
What kind of cannabis?
That is up to you really! Today I am making a 50/50 THC:CBD BLEND. Ultimately I want to be able to design specific ratios of THC to CBD to make sure I am getting at least both those cannabinoids. I wish I could tell you like here in California to just go down to your local dispensary and ask for some High CBD strains of cannabis, but I have researched that so many legal medical marijuana states do not have high CBD cannabis strains to offer their patients. Sadly for those patients who are children, and getting as little THC as possible is super important to their parents and doctors recommending cannabis as a medicinal option.
Make sure you grind the cannabis buds up as fine as possible (above I speak about getting and using a coffee grinder) and pick out any stick left, they can sometimes aggravate people with sensitive stomachs.
Take a ball jar, I like a 8 oz one. (use can use larger or smaller depending on your batch)
add the oil, glycerin and finely ground cannabis to the ball jar with a tight lid.
Have a pot with 5 inches of hot water, place the ball jar in the water bath and cook on a med heat for 15-20 minutes, then reduce the temperature to low or #1 setting on your stove and cook down over 10.5 hours. This can be done in your oven especially if making several ball jars of it at one time. bake on lowest temp. 170/175 and bake for 6-8 hours, its done when liquids are gone and it's now a paste consistency. I have empty capsules that I buy at the health food market to keep the paste off my teeth!
Dosing:
I have read you should start with a half a pea size twice a day to begin with. If this is too much, back off if you can tolerate more, take more next time. The articles I read said people work up to 2 grams a day (used throughout the day) if you are using High CBD cannabis you may be able to consume more sooner than later.
So why use this paste?
I am going to try it for two main reasons, that I spoke about earlier.
No nasty chemicals to worry about eating and consuming over long periods of time, even if there is only residual amounts of chemicals left.
But More importantly, I love the fact that I am not getting rid of any of the cannabis bud! it's ground up, made into paste and consumed. This cannabis paste is a new concept, although one I have been dreaming about for years. A product that can be eaten, capped up and swallowed, put on your skin if wanted too and it's the whole bud! Nothing is stripped away! All THC and vital Cannabinoids are in the paste, ready to help your body with it's benefits.
Are you still a little confused?
It's understandable! Really, it is mind boggling to me, how much cannabis products have grown and changed just in the last 5 years. So it basically is this... Have you been reading it is all about the RSO! for everything, it cure cancer, and illness. It helps with pain and PTSD. YES! it's does, but it can be SUPER DANGEROUS! made with some serious chemicals.. SO this PASTE!! is another options, that cannabis historians say has been made for thousands of years! They would take cannabis in clay pots heat it slowly in the hot sun for long periods of time, they added essential oils of their times.
So for me!!! I am think why change something that worked for 2000+ years!
So if you have chronic pain, nausea, cancer, MS, PTSD, muscle spasm and all the issues that cannabis helps!!! Why not make up a batch of cannabis paste and start eating it?
I know as soon as my 10.5 hours is up, I will be!
HAPPY CANNABIS PASTING
any questions?? Don't hesitate to let me know!
~PEACE
and BLESS OUR MIRICLE PLANT.
I started with growing my own medicine and being blessed to provide some extra products to help
other patients in our collective. From growing my own medicine, I then was given my next blessing a job a my local dispensary, where I still work today.
Over the years I have watched cannabis bloom into a legitimate economy.
And during this time, I have been able to create, play, develop was to use cannabis beyond smoking it.
Today I want to blog about Cannabis paste.
I have my first batch slowing cooking on my stove top as we speak.
It seems that for the last oh 2-3 years now, it seems to me, it's all about RSO ~Rick Simpson Oil~
Long and the short, is that Rick Simpson is a Man, who discovered for his own personal melanoma cancer that concentrated amount of cannabis oil cured his cancer. I have used RSO, I teach others to use it and YES! I have tried to making small batches (out of Olive oil due to my Fear of Blowing up with Butane) The issue's with RSO are Mostly how dangerous it can be to make it, but also now new findings are saying the chemicals used to make the RSO oil, can potentially be stripping out the vital Cannabinoids cannabis contains.
For Years, I have wondered "why change a perfect plant?, why isolate certain cannabinoids?"
So, after reading an article about this "new cure" aka cannabis paste, which the company who is making this product, speaks about cannabis paste being made and used for 2000 years! So, Not so a "New cure" in my book but, It is definitely worth making, trying and blogging about!
CANNABIS PASTE!
It's amazing simple to make! and the real benefit is you don't waste any of the plant matter, or leave any beneficial cannabinoids to become trash. So if you start with 1 pound of cannabis, you will still have 1 pound of PASTE left!! Unlike Cannabis oil AKA RSO where that pound turns into about 60-90 grams so about (2-3 ounces total)
Cannabis Past Instructions on making:
Take 2 oz. coconut Oil, take 2 oz. food grade vegetable glycerin and 1/2 oz Organic Cannabis BUD!
(Not shake! but big Buds that you will grind into a fine powder, I recommend a coffee grinder just for your cannabis)
What kind of cannabis?
That is up to you really! Today I am making a 50/50 THC:CBD BLEND. Ultimately I want to be able to design specific ratios of THC to CBD to make sure I am getting at least both those cannabinoids. I wish I could tell you like here in California to just go down to your local dispensary and ask for some High CBD strains of cannabis, but I have researched that so many legal medical marijuana states do not have high CBD cannabis strains to offer their patients. Sadly for those patients who are children, and getting as little THC as possible is super important to their parents and doctors recommending cannabis as a medicinal option.
Make sure you grind the cannabis buds up as fine as possible (above I speak about getting and using a coffee grinder) and pick out any stick left, they can sometimes aggravate people with sensitive stomachs.
Take a ball jar, I like a 8 oz one. (use can use larger or smaller depending on your batch)
add the oil, glycerin and finely ground cannabis to the ball jar with a tight lid.
Have a pot with 5 inches of hot water, place the ball jar in the water bath and cook on a med heat for 15-20 minutes, then reduce the temperature to low or #1 setting on your stove and cook down over 10.5 hours. This can be done in your oven especially if making several ball jars of it at one time. bake on lowest temp. 170/175 and bake for 6-8 hours, its done when liquids are gone and it's now a paste consistency. I have empty capsules that I buy at the health food market to keep the paste off my teeth!
Dosing:
I have read you should start with a half a pea size twice a day to begin with. If this is too much, back off if you can tolerate more, take more next time. The articles I read said people work up to 2 grams a day (used throughout the day) if you are using High CBD cannabis you may be able to consume more sooner than later.
So why use this paste?
I am going to try it for two main reasons, that I spoke about earlier.
No nasty chemicals to worry about eating and consuming over long periods of time, even if there is only residual amounts of chemicals left.
But More importantly, I love the fact that I am not getting rid of any of the cannabis bud! it's ground up, made into paste and consumed. This cannabis paste is a new concept, although one I have been dreaming about for years. A product that can be eaten, capped up and swallowed, put on your skin if wanted too and it's the whole bud! Nothing is stripped away! All THC and vital Cannabinoids are in the paste, ready to help your body with it's benefits.
Are you still a little confused?
It's understandable! Really, it is mind boggling to me, how much cannabis products have grown and changed just in the last 5 years. So it basically is this... Have you been reading it is all about the RSO! for everything, it cure cancer, and illness. It helps with pain and PTSD. YES! it's does, but it can be SUPER DANGEROUS! made with some serious chemicals.. SO this PASTE!! is another options, that cannabis historians say has been made for thousands of years! They would take cannabis in clay pots heat it slowly in the hot sun for long periods of time, they added essential oils of their times.
So for me!!! I am think why change something that worked for 2000+ years!
So if you have chronic pain, nausea, cancer, MS, PTSD, muscle spasm and all the issues that cannabis helps!!! Why not make up a batch of cannabis paste and start eating it?
I know as soon as my 10.5 hours is up, I will be!
HAPPY CANNABIS PASTING
any questions?? Don't hesitate to let me know!
~PEACE
and BLESS OUR MIRICLE PLANT.
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