1 00:00:07,050 --> 00:00:10,210 Hello, and welcome to the hundredth episode of Shaping Fire. 2 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:14,650 I am your host Chango Lowes. Before we get to the meat of the program, 3 00:00:14,650 --> 00:00:18,410 I'm gonna take a little bit of time here at the top of the show and share some 4 00:00:18,410 --> 00:00:22,610 of the philosophy and themes behind the Shaping Fire podcast that we've never 5 00:00:22,610 --> 00:00:24,770 really talked about in the first a hundred episodes. 6 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:29,410 I get questions about these things and I figure I might as well, you know, 7 00:00:29,410 --> 00:00:33,370 what better time than a hundred episode to share it with you. So number one is, 8 00:00:33,370 --> 00:00:33,690 uh, 9 00:00:33,690 --> 00:00:38,570 of course the main guide behind the program is to make cannabis enthusiasts 10 00:00:38,630 --> 00:00:40,090 self-sufficient. Uh, 11 00:00:40,250 --> 00:00:44,930 I appreciate that access is increasing across the United States as normalization 12 00:00:44,930 --> 00:00:49,690 kind of creeps in and, and it's good to support those stores. However, um, 13 00:00:49,690 --> 00:00:54,170 I also think that patients should be able to grow and produce their own medicine 14 00:00:54,170 --> 00:00:55,450 and preparations at home. 15 00:00:55,630 --> 00:00:59,450 And every episode of Shaping Fire works towards that goal. 16 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:01,040 Also, 17 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:05,170 each episode I try to make sure is packed with information that you can take 18 00:01:05,170 --> 00:01:06,010 action on. 19 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,890 I try to include everything you need in an episode to make a decision or take 20 00:01:09,890 --> 00:01:13,170 action, or at least feel like you have a handle on that topic. 21 00:01:13,830 --> 00:01:16,970 Too often I listen to a podcast to learn, 22 00:01:16,970 --> 00:01:21,650 and I'm only given about 65 or 70% of the information I actually 23 00:01:21,650 --> 00:01:26,370 need. And so I still have to continue my research to fill in the holes 24 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:28,610 With Shaping Fire episodes, 25 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:32,730 I really try to give you everything you need to start making decisions. 26 00:01:32,730 --> 00:01:35,770 And sure, there's almost always more research that's needed, 27 00:01:35,790 --> 00:01:39,850 but at least you know that you have the basics covered and you can go forward on 28 00:01:39,850 --> 00:01:44,010 your second layer. Race Research with Confidence. Um, 29 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:49,250 I book Shaping Fire episodes or my guests based 30 00:01:49,300 --> 00:01:50,250 on topics, 31 00:01:50,350 --> 00:01:55,250 and I don't do company profiles and I don't do people profiles. Um, 32 00:01:55,250 --> 00:01:59,530 I find a topic that I'm interested and I think that the audience would be 33 00:01:59,530 --> 00:02:04,170 interested in, and that is undercover in cannabis media. 34 00:02:04,690 --> 00:02:08,010 After I've got that topic and that I want what I want to cover, 35 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:12,130 I then go and find a guest who is an industry expert in that area, 36 00:02:12,230 --> 00:02:14,730 and then I invite them on the show. Um, 37 00:02:14,770 --> 00:02:18,610 every week I get lots of people interested in being on the show, 38 00:02:18,900 --> 00:02:20,970 or they're press agents and, 39 00:02:20,970 --> 00:02:24,370 and they let me know that this person is very interesting, 40 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:27,610 except Shaping Fire is not about that person. 41 00:02:28,060 --> 00:02:30,410 Shaping fire is about cannabis patients, 42 00:02:30,710 --> 00:02:32,610 and those are the people who are important. 43 00:02:32,710 --> 00:02:35,810 And so I see my role as a role of service, 44 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:39,370 bringing you topics that you are interested in learning in, 45 00:02:39,510 --> 00:02:42,010 and then we just go and find the right person for it. 46 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:44,890 Before people are on my show, we have a conversation. 47 00:02:44,890 --> 00:02:49,210 So they too understand that this show is not about them, and it's not about me. 48 00:02:49,740 --> 00:02:53,170 Is this doing this show is a role of service for cannabis patients, 49 00:02:53,170 --> 00:02:54,250 and that's how we treat it. 50 00:02:54,250 --> 00:02:58,210 And people who don't work in that way, 51 00:02:58,210 --> 00:03:03,000 they don't end up on shaping fire. So that's how I choose guests. Similarly, 52 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,960 I choose my advertisers based on those same kinds of morals. 53 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:11,840 I choose advertisers that have a message or a product that I actually think 54 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:15,520 that regenerative minded Cannabis u are going to be interested in. 55 00:03:15,540 --> 00:03:18,800 And so because of that, you don't see me, uh, 56 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:23,480 accepting money from a bottled salt fertilizer 57 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,240 companies. And boy, do they wanna be on the show. And gosh, 58 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:27,840 have I had to turn down a lot of money, 59 00:03:28,260 --> 00:03:32,920 but it would be very difficult for me to have all of these regenerative 60 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:34,640 guests and then cut to, 61 00:03:35,180 --> 00:03:39,680 and commercial that is some kind of a plus B salt 62 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,200 nutrient for indoor. It just would be out of integrity for me. 63 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:47,080 And so I don't do it, um, online. 64 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:50,560 I don't fight with trolls. I just restrict them and move on with my life. 65 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:55,280 You know, a lot of people really get into the fight online, and I just don't, 66 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:56,560 I just don't have the energy for it. 67 00:03:56,630 --> 00:04:00,480 I don't like that feeling of stress in the middle of my chess when, 68 00:04:00,590 --> 00:04:04,040 when people are involved in online fighting. So, so I just, 69 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:09,040 I just don't even respond and I block 'em or restrict them and get on 70 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:11,520 with my life. I got way more important things to do than, 71 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,880 than internet fighting. My first podcasts, 72 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:19,600 my first 55 of them were actually for entrepreneur.com. Um, 73 00:04:19,750 --> 00:04:22,200 I worked with them for a year doing weekly shows, 74 00:04:22,580 --> 00:04:26,000 and I recommend that you go over to Go entrepreneur.com and, uh, 75 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,400 check those out. Um, I love the guys there. Um, but, you know, 76 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,720 I realized that I was pretty darn good at this podcasting thing, 77 00:04:32,780 --> 00:04:37,320 and I wanted to own all my own intellectual property. So, um, 78 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:40,000 I said goodbye to the fellas and I wished them best, 79 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,560 and we're all still friends. And, uh, 80 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:46,880 and I formed Shaping Fire so that I could be in control of my own destiny, 81 00:04:46,990 --> 00:04:51,080 choose my own advertisers, own my own intellectual property, and move forward. 82 00:04:51,220 --> 00:04:55,200 And now, five years in, I think that was a great decision. And, uh, 83 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:59,480 happily I've been met with a lot of success and can support myself, um, 84 00:04:59,580 --> 00:05:01,720 off the show. Uh, 85 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:06,320 I've also done a hundred episodes of Shaping Fire over the last five years, uh, 86 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:09,560 20 per year, roughly twice a month with, uh, a break around Christmas. 87 00:05:09,770 --> 00:05:14,560 So at 20 episodes a year. Um, it's certainly not as, uh, 88 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:19,000 fast as many podcasts that have got weekly or even daily episodes. Uh, 89 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,640 I've just never been interested in that and I, 90 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:26,600 I spend too much time curating my content and, and finding, um, 91 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:30,640 difficult to find guests and then reading their books before they're on the 92 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:34,400 show, or if they're a scientist, all of their scientific papers. And, um, 93 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:38,280 doing lots of episodes has just never been attractive to me, attractive to me. 94 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:42,280 I'd rather do less shows and have them be more in depth. And that's, 95 00:05:42,280 --> 00:05:44,680 that isn't to to shame anybody else's show. Like, 96 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:48,280 there's lots of room in this scene for lots of different shows, 97 00:05:49,060 --> 00:05:53,080 and people love different types of entertainment and education. 98 00:05:53,170 --> 00:05:57,680 So while Shaping Fire isn't the show that I'm gonna be smoking out with the 99 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,320 guest and we're gonna be talking about what we're smoking on, um, 100 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:01,560 there's certainly a place for that. 101 00:06:02,060 --> 00:06:06,800 And I think that there's enough room for everybody. And certainly, um, 102 00:06:07,410 --> 00:06:10,200 my audience appreciates how, how I approach things. 103 00:06:10,690 --> 00:06:13,960 There's also the YouTube channel, in case you're not familiar with that, 104 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:16,920 there's almost 200 videos of, um, 105 00:06:17,580 --> 00:06:22,170 various speakers speaking on cannabis and antigens. Um, and it's, 106 00:06:22,170 --> 00:06:23,610 it's kind of funny because the, the, 107 00:06:23,610 --> 00:06:28,530 the YouTube channel was an accident actually. Um, when I started traveling, um, 108 00:06:28,530 --> 00:06:30,970 back in 2015 or so, uh, 109 00:06:30,970 --> 00:06:35,850 people were flying me out to speak at cannabis conventions. Um, 110 00:06:35,850 --> 00:06:37,730 you know, since I was at the Cannabis convention, 111 00:06:37,730 --> 00:06:41,410 I was also going to see really good speakers, and it, 112 00:06:41,410 --> 00:06:43,370 it seemed like a waste to not record them. 113 00:06:43,370 --> 00:06:45,410 So every time I went to see a speaker, 114 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:50,250 I also recorded the speaker so that I could bring home that 115 00:06:50,250 --> 00:06:53,530 content to you so you could enjoy it without ever having to travel. 116 00:06:53,790 --> 00:06:58,010 And so I started dumping those videos onto the YouTube channel, 117 00:06:58,750 --> 00:06:59,610 and, you know, 118 00:06:59,610 --> 00:07:04,450 eventually more and more people started watching them and subscribing. And, 119 00:07:04,450 --> 00:07:07,170 you know, we've got over 10,000 subscribers now. 120 00:07:07,170 --> 00:07:10,290 I think we're at like 13,000 perhaps, and, you know, over, 121 00:07:10,290 --> 00:07:13,730 over a million and a half minutes served and, you know, 122 00:07:13,730 --> 00:07:18,330 serving 30 to 40,000 people a month. So, um, it's pretty good. 123 00:07:18,380 --> 00:07:21,050 It doesn't generate any money at all. Um, 124 00:07:21,050 --> 00:07:22,970 but it's just a good resource for people. And, 125 00:07:22,970 --> 00:07:25,290 and I'm glad we started it all that time ago. 126 00:07:26,500 --> 00:07:30,670 I talk in this episode a lot about patients I've been involved with, and I have, 127 00:07:30,970 --> 00:07:35,550 but I don't practice medicine. I'm not a doctor. Um, or do I have an office? 128 00:07:36,290 --> 00:07:39,230 Nor do I charge a fee for these consultations. 129 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:43,750 So you'll hear me refer to patients a lot in this episode. 130 00:07:44,250 --> 00:07:48,750 And this is simply because when you are interviewing 131 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:52,870 medical doctors and scientists every week 132 00:07:53,850 --> 00:07:56,510 and then speaking about that publicly, 133 00:07:56,530 --> 00:07:59,550 you start to attract people with questions and stories. 134 00:07:59,930 --> 00:08:02,870 And then I tend to keep in contact with people. 135 00:08:03,570 --> 00:08:08,510 And so it's been over this decade of learning from patients that I 136 00:08:08,510 --> 00:08:13,310 have been able to amass this knowledge for myself as a cannabis patient and to 137 00:08:13,310 --> 00:08:17,390 help the people around me here on Vaon Island where I live. But, 138 00:08:17,390 --> 00:08:19,830 but it's important to be sure that, 139 00:08:19,830 --> 00:08:22,910 that I am not a doctor and, uh, 140 00:08:22,910 --> 00:08:27,110 I am not cosplaying as a doctor at all, nor charging money. 141 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:30,350 So not practicing medicine without a license. 142 00:08:30,530 --> 00:08:34,750 And I always encourage you to talk to your doctors about anything that you 143 00:08:35,060 --> 00:08:40,020 decide to do after listening to Shaping Fire. That said, 144 00:08:40,210 --> 00:08:41,620 with this episode, 145 00:08:41,620 --> 00:08:46,100 I'm trying to offer this dosing information in a way so 146 00:08:46,210 --> 00:08:50,540 people don't have to reach out to me all the time. So, um, please, 147 00:08:50,540 --> 00:08:55,360 this is not an invitation to send me Instagram messages and emails asking me 148 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:59,600 about, um, your specific, um, ailment. Um, I'm, 149 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:04,520 I'm not really working with patients anymore except for my local neighbors. So, 150 00:09:04,610 --> 00:09:08,440 so I hope that you get what you need from this episode, 151 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:11,440 and I tried to make it as complete as possible just for that reason. 152 00:09:12,090 --> 00:09:15,840 So going forward, you can expect more soil episodes, 153 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:20,200 more regenerative techniques, more making hash and oil and such at home, 154 00:09:20,340 --> 00:09:22,400 and of course, more cannabis and health. 155 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:26,760 And I'm going to keep up with the mushrooms, dmt, and other antigen topics too. 156 00:09:27,490 --> 00:09:30,960 So thank you for being part of the Shaping Fire community and thanks for telling 157 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:32,360 your friends about shaping fire. 158 00:09:34,180 --> 00:09:37,810 If you wanna learn about cannabis health cultivation and technique efficiently 159 00:09:37,810 --> 00:09:40,570 and with good cheer, I encourage you to subscribe to our newsletter. 160 00:09:40,690 --> 00:09:43,410 We'll send you new podcast episodes as they come out, 161 00:09:43,410 --> 00:09:44,930 delivered right to your inbox, 162 00:09:44,930 --> 00:09:48,170 along with commentary on a couple of the most important news items from the week 163 00:09:48,170 --> 00:09:49,330 and videos too. 164 00:09:49,530 --> 00:09:52,770 Don't rely on social media to let you know when a new episode is published. 165 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:56,370 Sign up for the updates to make sure you don't miss an episode. Also, 166 00:09:56,370 --> 00:09:59,370 we're giving away very cool prizes to folks who are signed up to receive the 167 00:09:59,370 --> 00:09:59,730 newsletter. 168 00:09:59,730 --> 00:10:02,810 There's nothing else you need to do to win except receive that newsletter. 169 00:10:02,810 --> 00:10:07,250 So go to shaping fire.com to sign up for the newsletter and be entered into this 170 00:10:07,250 --> 00:10:09,610 month's and all future newsletter prize drawings. 171 00:10:09,950 --> 00:10:13,290 You are listening to Shaping Fire, and I am your host, Chango LOEs. 172 00:10:13,620 --> 00:10:17,130 My guest today is, well, me sh go Los. 173 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:21,050 I have been a cannabis educator for the last decade and have been involved with 174 00:10:21,250 --> 00:10:23,090 cannabis medicine since 1989. 175 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:26,850 I have listened to the stories of more patients than I can count. 176 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:31,330 I founded the VAs on Island Marijuana Enthusiast Alliance many years ago to 177 00:10:31,330 --> 00:10:35,450 gather cannabis patients and those who love them to share best practices and to 178 00:10:35,450 --> 00:10:39,410 bring in international guest speakers. And boy oh boy, has that been a success. 179 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:44,410 I presently spend my time producing the Shaping Fire Podcast as I recover from 180 00:10:44,410 --> 00:10:48,330 burnout and study neuro divergence. This is a long episode, 181 00:10:48,330 --> 00:10:51,170 but I was careful to add out anything that felt like filler. 182 00:10:51,580 --> 00:10:55,290 My hope is that it's a comprehensive guide for those who are new to dosing 183 00:10:55,290 --> 00:10:59,330 cannabinoids so they can take their next steps toward healing with confidence. 184 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:02,330 This is the first time I've ever recorded solo like this, 185 00:11:02,330 --> 00:11:06,170 so perhaps cut me some slack. If you like this sort of episode, 186 00:11:06,170 --> 00:11:09,850 please let me know because I have an episode like this written on the 90 Day 187 00:11:09,850 --> 00:11:14,410 Cancer Protocol too that I do if you happen to like this format. Okay, friends, 188 00:11:14,450 --> 00:11:17,200 let's go. So here we are friends. 189 00:11:17,430 --> 00:11:20,440 I have been wanting to record this episode for a couple years now. 190 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:22,840 It's one of the most common things that I'm asked for. 191 00:11:22,990 --> 00:11:26,880 I I teach about dosing a lot to, uh, you know, 192 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:29,880 small groups of people in their homes. And, uh, you know, 193 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:34,960 occasionally I'm asked to do this talk at, um, you know, at conventions or, or, 194 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:38,000 or, you know, caregiver events or whatever. Um, 195 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,360 but those are always so informal and there's always lots of questions. It, 196 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:45,960 it never really, um, seemed appropriate to, to put any of those recordings out. 197 00:11:45,970 --> 00:11:49,960 So for the first time here for the hundredth episode, I figured I would, uh, uh, 198 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:54,120 give it a shot to, um, uh, put this body of information that I've got, um, 199 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:57,400 here for you, um, so that you can, um, you know, 200 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:00,720 potentially learn some yourself and share it with caregivers and family and 201 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:05,560 friends in a way that can get folks up to speed on cannabis dosing 202 00:12:05,690 --> 00:12:07,320 in a way that, um, 203 00:12:07,370 --> 00:12:12,040 is useful to them in their everyday life and isn't packed with 204 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:15,720 misinformation. Cuz as we all know, most of the information that you can get, 205 00:12:16,530 --> 00:12:20,000 um, from just searching online is pretty bad. Um, 206 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:24,240 but I will take a moment and plug project c.org. Um, 207 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:28,280 Martin Lee has done a great job pulling together, um, you know, 208 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:33,640 accurate cannabis information with, um, excellent articles on different, um, 209 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:37,360 medical conditions and using cannabis for it. And, um, 210 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:39,040 at the end of all the articles, um, 211 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:43,120 they have got links to all of the original cannabis white papers, um, 212 00:12:43,130 --> 00:12:46,160 on that particular cannabis medical topic. So, um, 213 00:12:46,370 --> 00:12:50,040 if I would recommend that you go anywhere else, it would be to, uh, project cbd. 214 00:12:50,250 --> 00:12:54,800 So this episode is primarily designed for patients 215 00:12:54,980 --> 00:12:57,200 and those who love them. Um, you know, 216 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:01,640 I pretty much consider everyone who uses cannabis to be a, you know, 217 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,080 air quotes cannabis patient because, you know, 218 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:07,560 even if you're just using cannabis as a, you know, you know, 219 00:13:07,660 --> 00:13:09,600 recreationally cuz it, you know, 220 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:14,120 makes you feel good and maybe decreases your anxiety and, you know, 221 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:17,400 causes you to have fun when you're out in nature or playing video games or 222 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:20,920 whatever, you're using it, uh, to, you know, 223 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:25,440 as a euphoric to improve your life so that, um, you know, 224 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:28,400 you have a life that's worth living, right? 225 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:29,920 Things are hard now for a lot of people, 226 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:34,040 and a lot of us turn to cannabis for quality of life and, um, you know, 227 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:35,760 and that's a good thing. Um, 228 00:13:36,250 --> 00:13:40,720 so I wanna point out that the vocabulary I'll be using today is a 229 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,440 layman's vocabulary, primarily. Um, 230 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:47,080 it's true that I do a lot of teaching to caregivers and doctors and nurses and 231 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:50,680 things like that to help them understand how best to, you know, 232 00:13:50,680 --> 00:13:55,040 assess and plan for and dose cannabis medicine in their clinics. 233 00:13:55,580 --> 00:13:59,440 But the vast majority of the people that I talk to are just like regular folks, 234 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:04,280 you know, like somebody's mom, somebody's uncle, somebody's neighbor, um, 235 00:14:05,180 --> 00:14:06,280 and, and hell, 236 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:09,320 a lot of the times it's just the people that I run into at the grocery store on 237 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:14,280 the island where I live. And so, um, that's, those are the people that, uh, 238 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:18,840 you know, i, I talk to most because I think that's where I can have, um, 239 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:23,480 the most authentic, uh, impact. So, um, this episode is, is for those folks, 240 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:27,680 for you folks, um, who are don't, don't necessarily have medical training, 241 00:14:28,340 --> 00:14:33,200 and yet you really want to have a specific dosing information, um, 242 00:14:33,780 --> 00:14:38,320 for yourself or to help the people that you like. So, um, you know, 243 00:14:39,490 --> 00:14:43,760 my experience is with, um, consulting, teaching, 244 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:46,640 however you wanna put it, for over a thousand patients, um, 245 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:50,680 for almost a decade now. And also as a, um, 246 00:14:50,750 --> 00:14:54,720 a medicine maker for myself. I've had a brain injury, a couple car accidents, 247 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:59,360 things like that. And so, um, I've had the opportunity to, uh, 248 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:03,760 participate in the Washington medical market, um, and, 249 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:08,720 and learn lots of different feedback from different types of patients at 250 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:10,640 different ages and, uh, you know, 251 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:13,280 economic levels on different types of products, 252 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:17,960 from tinture to flour to edibles to, uh, you know, um, 253 00:15:20,150 --> 00:15:23,120 what we call rso. But, uh, I don't prefer that name. 254 00:15:23,190 --> 00:15:27,240 I I prefer just full extract cannabis, oil, all that stuff, you know, and, and, 255 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:30,840 and after you spend this much time talking with people and learning everybody's 256 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:35,720 best practices and then giving suggestions to people and then hearing back 257 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:39,480 from them, you know, I've developed a pretty, um, good, uh, 258 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:44,080 body of information in my head. And then, um, you know, four years ago, um, 259 00:15:44,370 --> 00:15:48,760 uh, I put together a study on vaon on CBD oil dosing, 260 00:15:49,550 --> 00:15:51,760 I guess has five years ago. No. Um, 261 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:55,360 and then three years ago I did the same thing with, uh, CBG Oil, 262 00:15:56,180 --> 00:15:58,440 and that brought up a whole bunch of, uh, 263 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:02,680 very interesting applications for cbg and we'll talk about that later. And then, 264 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:07,560 um, I'm just setting up one right now on C B D V, the Veron version of, uh, 265 00:16:07,780 --> 00:16:10,760 cannabidiol. And so, um, you know, 266 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:14,320 these are opportunities that really afford me a lot more, um, 267 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:18,800 first person information than, than even most clinical doctors. So, 268 00:16:19,210 --> 00:16:20,920 so here we go. During the first set, 269 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:24,880 we're gonna talk about some basics about the endocannabinoid system 270 00:16:25,980 --> 00:16:26,720 and, uh, 271 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:31,360 different methods of use of cannabis and their pros and cons specifically 272 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:36,400 for patients. And then, uh, during the second set, we're gonna talk about, 273 00:16:36,530 --> 00:16:41,520 um, the specific, uh, cannabinoids that we are most familiar with, and we, 274 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:45,960 and we have actual dosing information for. And then, um, 275 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:48,760 to help get your head wrapped around, um, 276 00:16:50,140 --> 00:16:53,670 like how to actually apply this stuff. The third set is, uh, 277 00:16:53,670 --> 00:16:56,590 is all about very specific medical conditions, um, 278 00:16:57,060 --> 00:17:01,470 that once we talk about those medical 279 00:17:01,470 --> 00:17:04,990 conditions and how to think through the dosing on those, 280 00:17:05,340 --> 00:17:09,750 you'll have a really good idea of how to think through similar medical 281 00:17:09,750 --> 00:17:13,470 conditions and, and how to think through dosing on those. 282 00:17:13,470 --> 00:17:16,110 Because my goal with this episode is not just like, 283 00:17:16,110 --> 00:17:19,830 give you a spreadsheet in your head of, okay, if you've got this, take this, 284 00:17:19,830 --> 00:17:23,790 if you've got this, take this. Because really every human is different. 285 00:17:23,790 --> 00:17:27,230 And in individualized medicine is something that we can attain with cannabis. 286 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:32,030 So, so let's do that. And so instead of just giving you very, um, you know, 287 00:17:32,670 --> 00:17:36,150 tight dosing specifications for, 288 00:17:36,150 --> 00:17:38,350 for assuming everybody's the same, 289 00:17:38,660 --> 00:17:43,590 I want to teach you how to think about cannabis dosing so you can understand 290 00:17:43,770 --> 00:17:47,150 why the dosing is the way it is. And, 291 00:17:47,170 --> 00:17:51,320 and so you can make subtle changes based on you or your patient's needs, 292 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:56,040 and you can be a mo more dynamic cannabis user than, 293 00:17:56,130 --> 00:18:00,120 um, than you would be if you were just, you know, hearing, you know, 294 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:02,760 the specific milligrams you need. Because honestly, 295 00:18:03,470 --> 00:18:06,080 people's dosing needs flexibility. 296 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,560 Let's start by talking about the endocannabinoid system. 297 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:13,440 The endocannabinoid system is, uh, the human body's primary, 298 00:18:14,250 --> 00:18:15,560 uh, regulatory system. 299 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:19,920 It's kind of like a thermostat for all of the mission critical systems of the 300 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:24,280 body. Um, if you've got a system that's running hot, it cools it down. 301 00:18:24,460 --> 00:18:27,960 And if you've got a bodily system that's sluggish, um, 302 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:30,440 it fires it up and, um, 303 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:34,320 it brings everything back to the middle, A balanced place, 304 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:38,440 what they call in, um, Chinese medicine to tonify, right, 305 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:43,320 to bring back into balance. And that's what the endocannabinoid system does. Um, 306 00:18:43,750 --> 00:18:47,640 I think of it, and, and I often explain it as being a second grade teacher. 307 00:18:48,030 --> 00:18:50,600 When the second grade teacher is in the classroom, 308 00:18:50,900 --> 00:18:53,160 the kids are generally behaving, right? 309 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:55,680 They're doing their work and doing their thing. Um, 310 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:58,840 but if somebody comes to the door and the second grade teacher needs to step out 311 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:02,040 into the hallway for a moment, the kids will be fine for a while, 312 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:04,080 but eventually some kid will, you know, 313 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:08,320 crack up or make a noise and then another kid will crack up and then, you know, 314 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:12,160 eventually a bunch of the kids are cracking up until the second grade teacher 315 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:15,840 comes back into the room. Same thing with your endocannabinoid system. 316 00:19:15,990 --> 00:19:20,000 When the endocannabinoid system is thriving and strong, um, 317 00:19:20,050 --> 00:19:24,720 it is regulating all of those bodily systems the way that it's supposed to. Um, 318 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:29,080 the challenge comes into when, um, our endocannabinoid system, um, 319 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:33,520 becomes weakened and different folks have different systems 320 00:19:33,790 --> 00:19:38,560 fall into dysregulation. Um, that's one of the odd things of why, 321 00:19:38,850 --> 00:19:43,560 uh, endocannabinoid deficiency can look so different because when you have a 322 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:46,400 weakened endocannabinoid system, you know, 323 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:50,120 different people have got different second grade students that go bad, right? 324 00:19:50,130 --> 00:19:53,760 So some, somebody, somebody might, um, see it in, uh, 325 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:57,600 migraines and somebody else might get it in irritable bowel syndrome and 326 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:01,000 somebody else might get fibromyalgia. And, um, 327 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,240 since somebody else might get a combination of these things, 328 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:04,760 and the longer they ignore it, 329 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:09,040 they start to stack up more and more of these ailments from the 330 00:20:09,060 --> 00:20:13,680 endocannabinoid system no longer effectively keeping their different bodily 331 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:14,600 systems in balance. 332 00:20:15,060 --> 00:20:19,320 And so that's why it's so important to keep the endocannabinoid system from, um, 333 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:21,680 beginning becoming deficient. 334 00:20:22,230 --> 00:20:26,520 Some of the most common first things we see are ibs, fibromyalgia, migraines, 335 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:31,440 but also autoimmune issues and Parkinson's and dementia. Um, 336 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:35,800 these are all ailments that at their core have got an 337 00:20:35,940 --> 00:20:38,360 endocannabinoid, um, base. 338 00:20:38,730 --> 00:20:42,200 So let's talk a little bit more about endocannabinoid deficiency. 339 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:47,080 So these are aspects of a dysregulated endocannabinoid system, 340 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:47,680 right? 341 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:52,440 When the endocannabinoid system is not making enough, 342 00:20:52,970 --> 00:20:57,800 uh, andogenous cannabinoids, which means cannabinoids that are made in the body, 343 00:20:58,570 --> 00:21:02,760 um, it doesn't have enough signaling molecules to go around the body and, 344 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:07,760 and do the work and to regulate these systems. And, 345 00:21:08,340 --> 00:21:13,320 you know, if you, if you refer to Dr. Ethan Russo's original paper on, 346 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:15,080 uh, endocannabinoid deficiency, 347 00:21:15,140 --> 00:21:18,640 and you look at the causes for endocannabinoid deficiency, 348 00:21:19,370 --> 00:21:23,240 it reads just like a normal day in America, listen to this. These are, 349 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:27,360 these are the five, uh, big things. So number one, environmental toxins, 350 00:21:27,510 --> 00:21:28,440 number two, 351 00:21:29,060 --> 00:21:33,320 pharmaceuticals that repress the immune system or intentionally dysregulate the 352 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:38,000 human body in some way, like chemo being an extreme example. Um, but, you know, 353 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,200 antibiotics are another example. So it doesn't, it doesn't take much. 354 00:21:41,590 --> 00:21:42,320 You're just, 355 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:46,120 we're just talking about any pharmaceutical that's gonna be repressing normal, 356 00:21:46,290 --> 00:21:49,640 uh, endocannabinoid operation, poor sleep, 357 00:21:50,270 --> 00:21:54,920 poor nutrition, and stress. Well, my gosh, that's, 358 00:21:55,110 --> 00:21:58,360 that's just the modern world. So, um, 359 00:21:58,650 --> 00:22:00,680 it is very likely that most, 360 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:04,840 if not everybody in the country has got an endocannabinoid deficiency. 361 00:22:04,940 --> 00:22:08,560 And that explains why we've got this is, you know, 362 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,640 such a terrible situation with, uh, 363 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:12,760 so many people getting sick in different ways and, 364 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:16,200 and having weakened immune systems, which, you know, 365 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:21,080 cause us to walk around our lives with heightened anxiety and, uh, 366 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:24,720 susceptible to all sorts of, um, you know, disease and virus. 367 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:29,790 So, you know, when teaching specifically about C B D, 368 00:22:30,390 --> 00:22:32,470 cannabis medicine in general, but really about cbd, 369 00:22:33,020 --> 00:22:37,990 some people become skeptical asking how can one supplement help so 370 00:22:37,990 --> 00:22:38,990 many different ailments, 371 00:22:39,730 --> 00:22:43,350 but it's really just one thing that CBD supports, right? 372 00:22:43,350 --> 00:22:45,030 And that's the endocannabinoid system, 373 00:22:45,570 --> 00:22:49,270 but that system touches nearly everything in the body. 374 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:54,750 So when we add a cannabidiol c b D as a supplement, 375 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:59,550 it just makes sense that if you would strengthen the body's self-regulation 376 00:22:59,550 --> 00:23:00,380 system, 377 00:23:00,380 --> 00:23:04,910 that you would also empower the body to make the changes it needs everywhere. 378 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,350 So this is why they say, oh, you got migraines cbd, 379 00:23:08,350 --> 00:23:10,870 you got irritable bowel syndrome, you got, you know, cbd, 380 00:23:10,930 --> 00:23:15,590 you got poor sleep cbd, you got pain cbd. It's like, ah, come on, man. Like, 381 00:23:15,590 --> 00:23:19,360 it can't be a panacea. But it is. 382 00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:24,120 And it isn't like it really does help alleviate all of this suffering, 383 00:23:24,120 --> 00:23:27,520 but it's really just because it's helping one system. 384 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:29,840 And that system is the endocannabinoid system, 385 00:23:29,940 --> 00:23:32,160 and that's the master regulatory system. 386 00:23:32,410 --> 00:23:36,600 So it's really just a matter of perspective. Um, 387 00:23:36,690 --> 00:23:41,480 if you wanna learn more about this, uh, firsthand from Dr. Ethan Russo, his, 388 00:23:41,530 --> 00:23:45,920 uh, seminal paper on that from 2004 called Clinical 389 00:23:46,220 --> 00:23:50,640 Endocannabinoid Deficiency, um, is available easily for free online. 390 00:23:50,660 --> 00:23:55,640 And if you go to the, uh, shaping Fire website for this episode number 100, 391 00:23:56,050 --> 00:24:00,800 um, I've got a link to it, uh, for you there. Um, also if you want to hear Dr. 392 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,560 Ethan Russo talking about endocannabinoid deficiency in medical cannabis, 393 00:24:05,110 --> 00:24:09,640 I actually did an interview with him about endocannabinoid deficiency 394 00:24:09,830 --> 00:24:13,720 a long time ago, back in, uh, 2015, um, 395 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:18,600 when I was still a partner over@goentrepreneur.com and hosting the 396 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,080 Go entrepreneur.com podcast. 397 00:24:20,610 --> 00:24:25,440 So if you go over the to preneur.com into 2015, 398 00:24:26,010 --> 00:24:28,600 um, you can find my interview with Dr. 399 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:33,320 Russo there before I left Entrepreneur and started Shaping Fire. 400 00:24:33,970 --> 00:24:34,460 Um, 401 00:24:34,460 --> 00:24:39,240 you can also read a very helpful article on endocannabinoid nutrition, 402 00:24:39,810 --> 00:24:44,040 um, from 2016. Um, actually it's not an article, 403 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:48,040 it's another interview I did with, uh, Ethan Russo, um, 404 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:51,000 at Entrepreneur again. So, uh, I did a, 405 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,520 I did a full year of weekly episodes for them, like, 406 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:58,400 I think I did like 54 episodes before, um, before I wished them well, 407 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:02,120 and came over and started, uh, shaping Fire. So, so in 2016, 408 00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:05,760 that episode's called Endo Cannabinoid Nutrition. And, um, 409 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:07,440 it's probably really easy if you just, you know, 410 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,160 Google endocannabinoid Nutrition, 411 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:13,330 Ethan Russo entrepreneur, that'll get you there. 412 00:25:14,060 --> 00:25:16,810 Um, also, uh, more recently though, uh, 413 00:25:16,810 --> 00:25:19,810 if you want to learn more about endocannabinoid mechanics, 414 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:24,290 I also recommend shaping Fire episodes 78 and 81, 415 00:25:24,290 --> 00:25:28,530 and they're both with Dr. Miab Shields, who is an endocannabinoid researcher. 416 00:25:29,190 --> 00:25:34,090 And, uh, we talk in detail about endocannabinoid mechanics and, um, 417 00:25:34,090 --> 00:25:38,570 you know, kind of the endocannabinoid system in depth. And, um, 418 00:25:38,630 --> 00:25:43,610 and Miab is, uh, absolutely, uh, a fantastic guest and, um, 419 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:49,530 a, uh, pharmacologist and really understands, um, you know, the, 420 00:25:49,530 --> 00:25:53,730 the biochemical, um, workings of, 421 00:25:53,730 --> 00:25:57,170 of the human body. So, all right, so, so let's move on to the next section. 422 00:25:57,270 --> 00:26:00,610 You can always look up more on the endocannabinoid system, but, uh, 423 00:26:00,610 --> 00:26:04,930 I think that that is a good enough explanation for, for most folks, uh, 424 00:26:04,930 --> 00:26:07,010 to get a good picture of it in their head. 425 00:26:07,300 --> 00:26:11,130 So the next thing we're gonna talk about is a method of use, right? 426 00:26:11,130 --> 00:26:15,170 How do you get the, um, uh, cannabinoids into your body? 427 00:26:15,550 --> 00:26:16,383 And so, 428 00:26:16,500 --> 00:26:21,130 so how we jump from endo cannabinoids to using the cannabis 429 00:26:21,130 --> 00:26:25,810 plant is pretty simple. Um, I mentioned that the endo cannabinoid system, 430 00:26:26,100 --> 00:26:29,130 uh, creates and manages, uh, cannabinoids. 431 00:26:29,130 --> 00:26:33,090 And when they're made inside the body, they're called endocannabinoids, 432 00:26:33,090 --> 00:26:37,490 cuz they're endogenous to the body. They're, they're germane to the body, they, 433 00:26:37,490 --> 00:26:39,570 they come from the body. Um, 434 00:26:39,570 --> 00:26:43,210 but if your body is not making them because you have endocannabinoid deficiency, 435 00:26:43,830 --> 00:26:45,360 you've gotta get them elsewhere. 436 00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:49,520 And then you've got to put them in your body to strengthen your endocannabinoid 437 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:53,920 system, and hopefully you'd be able to decrease those, um, 438 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:58,400 those five things that cause endocannabinoid deficiency, right? 439 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:02,000 So that you can start making your own again. Um, in the interim, you're gonna, 440 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:06,520 you're gonna supplement with phyto cannabinoids, which are, uh, 441 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,360 cannabinoids that come from plants. So, you know, 442 00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:13,880 your long term goal is actually to take phyto cannabinoids from cannabis, 443 00:27:14,300 --> 00:27:18,040 but then also go back and, and fix as best as you can, 444 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,240 the five things that cause endocannabinoid deficiency, right? The poor sleep, 445 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:25,160 all right? Get better sleep, poor nutrition, eat better food, eat fresher food, 446 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:29,080 don't eat as much processed food, environmental toxins. Well that's pretty, 447 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:32,240 that's, that's pretty difficult if you live in the city. But, you know, 448 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:36,920 do what you can to decrease environmental toxins. And then, um, uh, 449 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:38,400 decrease the, the, you know, 450 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,800 as much as you can the pharmaceuticals in your life that are screwing up your 451 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,920 endocannabinoid system, which, uh, for, 452 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:49,360 for many of these ailments we take pharmaceuticals for, um, 453 00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:54,120 we would be better to take a cannabis medicine full of phyto cannabinoids 454 00:27:54,410 --> 00:27:56,240 to strengthen our endocannabinoid system, 455 00:27:56,240 --> 00:28:00,960 to let the endocannabinoid system solve these issues for us instead of taking, 456 00:28:01,250 --> 00:28:06,160 um, more radicalized pharmaceuticals, um, that often have, 457 00:28:06,410 --> 00:28:09,720 um, uh, unpleasant, um, side effects. So, 458 00:28:10,650 --> 00:28:14,640 so we want to get phyto cannabinoids into our body and, 459 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,240 and those are in the plant. And so, um, 460 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,480 let's talk about the different ways that you can, um, take, 461 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,550 um, the cannabis plant into your body. 462 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:31,200 Let's start with the most common way that people get cannabis into their body, 463 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,000 which is by smoking it. So, um, 464 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:39,400 while the most traditional and accepted way to use cannabis dosing 465 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:44,120 from smoking cannabis plants is hard because it's 466 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:45,320 very inexact, 467 00:28:45,620 --> 00:28:50,560 and often patients don't have proper test results for whatever they are smoking. 468 00:28:51,330 --> 00:28:53,760 Um, the inexact part is that you, 469 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:58,680 you don't know how much of the flour or a joint or a bowl 470 00:28:58,810 --> 00:29:03,040 or bong to smoke to get the dosage that you're shooting for. 471 00:29:03,290 --> 00:29:07,840 If you're, if you're shooting for five or 10 milligrams of, of thc, 472 00:29:08,250 --> 00:29:12,200 um, you know, it's, it's a very, you know, it could just be, you know, another, 473 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:17,120 an extra two puffs that take you from where you wanna be to actually being more 474 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:21,320 medicated than you want to be. And, and you've missed the zone that you want, 475 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,760 that you want to target, um, to help you with your ailment. I mean, 476 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,360 we've all had the experience of, 477 00:29:27,490 --> 00:29:30,440 of wanting to have a little puffy puff before we go somewhere, 478 00:29:30,580 --> 00:29:33,560 and it ends up coming on a lot stronger. And then we're like, oh, 479 00:29:33,670 --> 00:29:35,040 I guess I can't leave right now. 480 00:29:35,180 --> 00:29:38,760 And you have to wait to come down a bit before you go. Well, you know, if, 481 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:42,640 if you're in the social time of your day and you don't have a lot of pressure on 482 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:46,000 you, well, that, that's, that's fine, you know, you can do that. Um, 483 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:47,680 but if you've gotta like get, you know, 484 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:51,720 if you're in a lot of pain and you have to get to work, if you are, uh, 485 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:55,040 if you're having a lot of suffering and you have to stay sharp to take care of 486 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,200 your kids, you know, really, um, 487 00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:01,720 smoking may not be the way to go because it is so hard to 488 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:06,680 titrate your dosage and know exactly what you're taking. Also, you know, 489 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:07,760 the, the, the, the, 490 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:12,600 the most patients don't have test results for the flour that they're 491 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:17,080 smoking. Most folks don't get the flour that they grow at home tested. Um, 492 00:30:17,230 --> 00:30:21,280 most folks don't get, um, uh, analysis, 493 00:30:21,610 --> 00:30:25,400 testing, um, when they buy their weed from their neighbor. 494 00:30:26,460 --> 00:30:31,440 And, you know, if you're, if you're shopping at a medical or a licensed, um, 495 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:33,880 you know, recreational store, you know, 496 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:37,200 they may or may not have the analysis on hand. 497 00:30:37,710 --> 00:30:40,880 Some states they don't have to have it there, they just, you know, 498 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:45,000 need to have it back at the original grower and you can, you know, 499 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,000 email them for it, right? 500 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:51,400 So a big difference whether or not it's available in the store or if it just 501 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:55,280 like theoretically exists in the world, and you could ask for it also, 502 00:30:55,310 --> 00:30:57,480 just because, you know, the, 503 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:02,400 there is a certificate of analysis in the store and you can look at it. 504 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:07,120 That doesn't necessarily mean those are the ratios that are in your particular 505 00:31:07,150 --> 00:31:09,280 flower. Um, you know, 506 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,880 they're different parts of the plant will develop different cannabinoids. 507 00:31:12,890 --> 00:31:15,160 So the things on the top that are going to the, 508 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,080 the flowers on the top that are getting, um, uh, 509 00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:22,440 longer and more intense sunshine, they will develop different cannabinoids then, 510 00:31:22,770 --> 00:31:24,640 um, flour that is, you know, 511 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,240 more in the interior or on the middle or towards the low. 512 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:30,880 And so different parts of the plant are, 513 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:35,000 are actually going to be different medicine to some degree. Um, 514 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,840 also smoking cannabis results in cannabinoid conversion. Um, 515 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:40,800 you know, it's, it's, 516 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:45,720 it's kind of a myth that the lab results that you are getting about your 517 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:50,680 flour is showing what exactly is going into your body when 518 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:52,000 you smoke it. Um, 519 00:31:52,090 --> 00:31:56,960 we know from significant research that when you combust, um, 520 00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:58,560 the, the, the flour, 521 00:31:58,900 --> 00:32:02,840 the cannabinoids convert to different cannabinoids often. 522 00:32:03,420 --> 00:32:08,280 And so, um, you get this, um, you know, cannabinoid drift and, 523 00:32:08,410 --> 00:32:08,780 um, 524 00:32:08,780 --> 00:32:13,560 you would only know what you're actually getting in your smoke by testing the 525 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,840 smoke, which is not something that's available to nearly anybody. 526 00:32:16,940 --> 00:32:20,120 The reason why smoking is, you know, 527 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,640 move so fast is because when you inhale the smoke, 528 00:32:23,070 --> 00:32:28,040 your lungs are very efficient at, um, at bringing in cannabinoids, 529 00:32:28,090 --> 00:32:31,160 um, through the, through the lung, and, um, 530 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:35,320 it's very quickly in the blood and then it's very quickly, um, 531 00:32:35,450 --> 00:32:39,880 to your brain and distributed around your body. So it's just the fastest. 532 00:32:40,460 --> 00:32:43,480 And so as soon as you smoke, you know, 533 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:47,560 within the first 10 to 15 minutes, you take this fast, 534 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,800 fast ride up, this rollercoaster, 535 00:32:51,100 --> 00:32:56,000 and then you slowly start to, you know, come down over time. Um, 536 00:32:56,410 --> 00:33:01,000 whereas, uh, you know, when you are using a different method, 537 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,880 which we'll talk about, you're not, you're not going up really fast. 538 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,920 You're going up at a measured pace, 539 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:09,840 and you're coming down as a measured pace and for repeatable, 540 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:13,600 for results and for continuing to be able to be productive during your day. 541 00:33:13,990 --> 00:33:16,480 This is what is called for, uh, 542 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,120 most of the time for patients rather than smoking. 543 00:33:19,650 --> 00:33:24,120 So obviously with the added caveat that, um, you know, if you, uh, 544 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:29,040 have got a, an acute situation as a patient and you need medicine now, you know, 545 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:32,920 top of mind would be, uh, severe pain patients, um, 546 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:36,920 and some types of, uh, you know, anxiety patients. 547 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:41,040 Sometimes you need to smoke now and you need the, the, 548 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:45,040 the cannabinoids to hit your bloodstream now. And for those folks, certainly, 549 00:33:45,130 --> 00:33:48,960 um, smoking makes the most sense. Um, but generally speaking, 550 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,920 for most ailments that most cannabis patients have, 551 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:55,000 smoking will not be your option cuz it's, it's too uncontrolled. 552 00:33:56,090 --> 00:34:00,920 So let's talk about cannabis oil. So cannabis oil is, um, 553 00:34:00,940 --> 00:34:05,680 the concentrated resin that is found in the trichomes on the cannabis 554 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:10,520 flour. Um, this is where the majority of the medicine lives that, 555 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:15,040 that we remove from the plant. Um, there are, uh, you know, 556 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:16,880 a lot of different, uh, 557 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:21,680 solvents that you can use to remove cannabis oil from the plant 558 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:26,360 material. Um, over the years, um, hydrocarbons have been very, you know, 559 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:30,480 pop popular, um, butane propane, and, um, 560 00:34:30,980 --> 00:34:34,520 but there's been a lot of pushback around that because not everybody knows how 561 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:39,360 to purge, um, those hydrocarbons from the oil correctly. 562 00:34:39,500 --> 00:34:43,480 And, and some of that can end up in your human. Um, 563 00:34:43,590 --> 00:34:47,440 I much prefer, as does many, um, uh, 564 00:34:48,240 --> 00:34:52,960 medicine makers to use ethanol because ethanol does a really good job at, 565 00:34:53,250 --> 00:34:55,560 uh, removing, uh, the, 566 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:59,940 the vital components of the resin and, um, is, 567 00:34:59,940 --> 00:35:04,940 is quite easy to, uh, remove after the fact, um, by just adding, 568 00:35:05,110 --> 00:35:10,060 um, a small amount of heat and the alcohol just vapes off. So, um, it's, 569 00:35:10,060 --> 00:35:13,860 it's pretty hard to get into trouble with ethanol and, uh, 570 00:35:13,870 --> 00:35:18,140 is is certainly what is most called for for home medicine creation. 571 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:19,140 But honestly, 572 00:35:19,140 --> 00:35:23,540 I've got a lot of respect for licensed companies that use ethanol too. Um, 573 00:35:23,540 --> 00:35:27,540 because even though it's a, it's a little bit more, uh, laborious than, um, 574 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,940 you know, hydrocarbons often, um, uh, 575 00:35:30,940 --> 00:35:33,100 I think it gives a much better snapshot of, 576 00:35:33,100 --> 00:35:37,060 of all of the healing potential that is in, um, the resin. So, 577 00:35:37,890 --> 00:35:42,600 um, so yeah, a lot of people call it rso, Rick Simpson Oil. Um, you know, 578 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:44,080 while Rick Simpson, uh, 579 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:48,400 deserves some respect for popularizing rso, um, you know, 580 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,400 it's not like he invented it, you know, um, 581 00:35:50,490 --> 00:35:54,760 he did bring it to a larger audience and for that will ever be grateful. 582 00:35:55,730 --> 00:35:59,520 Um, but, you know, a lot of his original recipes, you know, when we look at now, 583 00:35:59,730 --> 00:36:03,560 um, you know, they're using dangerous solvents. And so, um, 584 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:07,760 that was a little sketchy, but, you know, building on what, um, 585 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,200 Rick made popular, um, 586 00:36:10,720 --> 00:36:15,240 there are now more modern processes that, for example, use ethanol, uh, 587 00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:17,760 which is the primary solvent use nowadays. 588 00:36:18,220 --> 00:36:22,800 And so we all still kind of call it RSO because that's what people 589 00:36:23,030 --> 00:36:26,040 know it first. Um, but um, 590 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:29,760 it's been a whole bunch of other names have been tried to be given to it. Um, 591 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:34,440 another popular one is feco, uh, full extract cannabis oil. Unfortunately, 592 00:36:34,550 --> 00:36:37,040 FECO sounds like fecal though, right? I don't, 593 00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:40,680 I don't think fecal is ever gonna like, catch on fully nationally, 594 00:36:40,700 --> 00:36:45,560 but full extract cannabis oil that, I mean, that, that sounds good, . Um, 595 00:36:45,900 --> 00:36:46,840 and, uh, and, 596 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:50,640 and so some companies have tried to name their process different things, but, 597 00:36:50,730 --> 00:36:51,563 um, 598 00:36:51,750 --> 00:36:55,960 I'll probably sometimes accidentally say RSO during this episode. 599 00:36:56,410 --> 00:37:01,400 Um, but I usually just, uh, I just usually call it full, full, uh, 600 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:06,160 extract cannabis oil and just say those words and don't usually use fico. But, 601 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:10,800 um, but now you're at least familiar with the terminology. So, um, 602 00:37:10,980 --> 00:37:15,440 one of the reasons why using, uh, full extract cannabis oil is, 603 00:37:15,650 --> 00:37:16,600 um, is, 604 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:21,400 is probably at the top of the list of what to use as a patient is 605 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,200 because once the oil was made, um, 606 00:37:24,820 --> 00:37:28,840 all of the oil is pretty uniform and homogenized. Um, 607 00:37:29,030 --> 00:37:32,360 it's not like, oh, this part of the batch, um, 608 00:37:32,500 --> 00:37:35,560 has got these cannabinoids and this part of the batch has got these other 609 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:39,840 cannabinoids. Um, once you have, um, 610 00:37:40,950 --> 00:37:45,640 soaked the cannabis in the ethanol and then gone and 611 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:47,640 vaped off the ethanol, 612 00:37:48,140 --> 00:37:51,960 the the sticky resin that you're left with is pretty homogenized and it's all 613 00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:56,240 the same. And so when you go ahead and you, um, 614 00:37:56,240 --> 00:38:00,960 send it off to a cannabis lab to have the 615 00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:01,800 analytics done, 616 00:38:02,140 --> 00:38:07,000 you know that those analytics are representative of all of the 617 00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:08,000 medicine in the batch. 618 00:38:08,380 --> 00:38:10,760 And you can compare that to what we were just talking about, 619 00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:15,760 about cannabis flowers, where, um, the flowers that are at the top, middle, 620 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:20,440 bottom or interior of the plant will all have slightly different, um, 621 00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:24,200 cannabinoid profiles. Um, but by the time it's in oil, 622 00:38:24,290 --> 00:38:28,720 because it's all been put, you know, it's all been soaked and, and, um, 623 00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:33,520 vaped off together, your oil is, is essentially uniform. 624 00:38:33,820 --> 00:38:35,680 And that's great. And, you know, if, 625 00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:39,480 if you happen to live somewhere where you don't have access to a cannabis lab, 626 00:38:40,770 --> 00:38:42,280 at least you know that when you, 627 00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:47,240 when you take your first trials of your oil to see how strong you made it, 628 00:38:47,470 --> 00:38:50,600 once you've, you know, you've taken it three or four times and you're like, 629 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:55,080 okay, I know how much I need as a patient of my stuff. 630 00:38:55,610 --> 00:38:59,760 Um, it's gonna be like that for the rest of the, that oil that you take. 631 00:39:00,110 --> 00:39:03,760 It's not like, um, you're gonna take the first couple and you'll be like, okay, 632 00:39:04,030 --> 00:39:06,160 I now know that I need, you know, 633 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:10,760 0.05 milliliters of this oil for the 634 00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:14,440 medicinal experience that I'm looking for only to like, 635 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:18,320 take that same amount four days later. And you're like, oh my God, I'm so high. 636 00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:18,680 Like, 637 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:22,880 that's not what medicinal cannabis about is about medicinal cannabis is about 638 00:39:22,950 --> 00:39:27,920 repeatable results that you can rely on to improve your health and improve 639 00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:31,880 the strength of your endocannabinoid system and allow you to take cannabinoids 640 00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:36,480 while you can still function in life by, by, you know, going to work or, 641 00:39:36,610 --> 00:39:40,960 or taking care of your family, or I don't know if you're bad enough, 642 00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:45,720 just live, right? So, um, we're looking for repeatable results, 643 00:39:45,820 --> 00:39:48,960 and that is one great aspect of cannabis oil. 644 00:39:49,930 --> 00:39:53,480 Another thing that's great about cannabis oil is, um, you know, when you're, 645 00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,800 when you're buying flour, um, 646 00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:01,440 flour costs money. If it's got any part, 647 00:40:01,490 --> 00:40:05,200 it costs more money if it's got any sort of bag of peel, right? 648 00:40:05,650 --> 00:40:07,080 So the, 649 00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:11,600 the least expensive flour to buy is flour that is ugly. 650 00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:15,760 And I don't, I don't mean all molded and and such, but I mean like, 651 00:40:16,030 --> 00:40:20,960 like mids and lowers and stuff that was trimmed badly or wasn't trimmed 652 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:21,800 at all. Like, 653 00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:26,240 this is the best stuff to be making cannabis oil out of, 654 00:40:26,620 --> 00:40:31,480 and it also happens to be the cheapest stuff in the market. And so, um, 655 00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,840 it's not, it's not uncommon for a, 656 00:40:33,870 --> 00:40:38,000 a home grower to take all of the tops off their plant and, 657 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:42,040 and cure them and either keep 'em or sell them and then take all of the, 658 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,600 the lowers and either process it themselves or, 659 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:50,560 or give it to a loved one who's a, a patient to make into cannabis oil. 660 00:40:51,140 --> 00:40:55,840 And so, you know, back in the day, you know, we used to call that trash, 661 00:40:56,100 --> 00:40:59,920 and so people would all like, where'd you dump your trash? Because all, 662 00:40:59,980 --> 00:41:03,800 all of those, all that trim that came off the plant, uh, 663 00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,920 people weren't really doing extraction yet. And so, um, 664 00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,560 people were just trying to play find places to dump it where no one would find 665 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:15,120 it and, and bust them back in the day. And then, then all of a sudden, um, 666 00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:16,880 people started, uh, 667 00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:21,280 blasting bho in their backyards and trim became like, really valuable. 668 00:41:21,940 --> 00:41:23,120 And then, you know, 669 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:27,360 we've just evolved from there that we now use every part of the plant. And, um, 670 00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,680 we're not gonna talk about making cannabis oil today, 671 00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:31,880 but I just want you to understand that, um, 672 00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:36,840 the advantages of cannabis oil in its, um, uh, 673 00:41:37,700 --> 00:41:42,680 consistency of analytical results throughout the batch and the 674 00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,800 fact that once you put it in a capsule and take it, 675 00:41:45,870 --> 00:41:50,200 your body will process the capsule and, and take the cannabinoids in. 676 00:41:50,580 --> 00:41:54,960 And then you will slowly feel, um, you know, 677 00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:59,040 the cannabinoids or not feel them depending on the dose that you, you choose. 678 00:41:59,540 --> 00:42:04,440 And you'll slowly have an inten intensity of cannabinoids and it'll 679 00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:09,320 slowly go down. And that process usually takes between three to four hours. 680 00:42:09,530 --> 00:42:14,240 So a patient who is, uh, doing a cannabis oil protocol, 681 00:42:14,930 --> 00:42:19,800 um, will often take their capsule every three to four hours, depending on, 682 00:42:19,850 --> 00:42:23,560 um, you know, their needs and, and what they can afford. Um, 683 00:42:24,260 --> 00:42:27,880 the last thing I wanna say about the cannabis oil is that, um, you know, 684 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:32,880 because it's usually, um, offered in syringes, like oral syringes, 685 00:42:33,090 --> 00:42:36,880 um, it's also quite easy to make, uh, capsules. Um, 686 00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:41,840 most folks will pick up, um, one milliliter capsules on eBay, 687 00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:46,800 excuse me, one milliliter syringes, oral syringes on eBay. And, uh, 688 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:50,800 you make your oil at home and you fill your syringes. And then the, uh, the, 689 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,760 the, the nozzle, 690 00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:58,720 the nipple non nozzle on the one milli milliliter syringe fits 691 00:42:58,720 --> 00:43:02,680 really nicely into a number three size capsule. 692 00:43:03,300 --> 00:43:04,160 And so it, 693 00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:08,520 it makes making your capsules really easy and the sides of the syringes 694 00:43:08,820 --> 00:43:11,600 are marked. So you know whether or not you're putting in, you know, 695 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:15,840 0.05 milliliter or 0.1 of a milliliter, which is, you know, 696 00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:20,800 usually where most people are. Um, and, uh, and people can, uh, 697 00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:25,480 take it by there. Um, one note, if you are going to buy your own capsules, 698 00:43:25,970 --> 00:43:29,400 um, uh, I recommend that when you buy them, buy them separated. 699 00:43:29,630 --> 00:43:31,360 I went years before you could, 700 00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:35,880 before I realize that you could buy your capsules separated. And so I, 701 00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,960 I would just buy bags of capsules that were, that looked like capsules, 702 00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:43,200 then I'd have to separate them all by hand before I filled 703 00:43:43,690 --> 00:43:47,560 my, um, my capsules with the oil. And I gotta tell you, 704 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:51,560 when I was first starting making my capsules after I got my dual concussion 705 00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:55,160 resulting in a traumatic brain injury, um, like that was, 706 00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:57,720 that like filling capsules was mentally a lot of work. 707 00:43:57,940 --> 00:44:00,640 And so I wanted to make the process as slow as possible, 708 00:44:00,820 --> 00:44:04,200 and it would've been really nice to have known that I could have just bought 709 00:44:04,950 --> 00:44:09,840 caps that came in, two bags separated. So, um, so there's pro tip for you. 710 00:44:10,150 --> 00:44:13,000 Okay, let's talk about tincture now. So, um, 711 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:17,840 one of the interesting things about tincture is that tincture 712 00:44:18,050 --> 00:44:22,360 is at its most essential cannabis oil that we just talked about, 713 00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:27,480 suspended in ethanol. Um, because, 714 00:44:27,730 --> 00:44:29,680 uh, when you make the cannabis oil, 715 00:44:30,100 --> 00:44:34,600 you are using ethanol to extract the resin components 716 00:44:34,710 --> 00:44:38,800 from the trichomes on the flour with a tincture. 717 00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:43,600 What you have is the cannabis resin suspended in 718 00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:47,720 ethanol, which is what's used to extract it. Um, 719 00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:52,240 now it's certainly true that some people will add, um, you know, uh, 720 00:44:52,240 --> 00:44:57,160 vegetable glycerin or coconut or honey or a lot of other 721 00:44:57,160 --> 00:45:01,440 things to adulterate the oil to make it more palatable, right? Because, um, 722 00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:05,360 a straight ethanol tincture, I mean, that's got, that's got some bite to it, 723 00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:06,280 right? Um, 724 00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:10,360 I normally tell patients that if they're making an ethanol tincture to be 725 00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:11,560 prepared to just, you know, 726 00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:14,960 take their dose and put it in a little bit of water and then just drink the 727 00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:18,320 water. Cuz you know, if you're, if you're gonna be using, you know, 728 00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:21,920 food grade ethanol at 190 proof, say for example, ever clear, 729 00:45:22,230 --> 00:45:27,080 I mean ever clear burns most people's tongues, right? And so, um, you know, 730 00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:27,680 just putting it, 731 00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:32,600 putting a little bit of water in a sock glass or a shot glass and then 732 00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:37,360 adding your tincture to that will make the ethanol a lot more palatable 733 00:45:37,850 --> 00:45:42,800 if you happen to be in recovery from alcohol. And, um, you, you know, are, 734 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:47,480 you're not, you, you have chosen to not have any alcohol at all in your life. 735 00:45:48,010 --> 00:45:52,840 Um, what many patients do is that they will make a, uh, hot tea, 736 00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:54,720 not boiling, but just like hot tea, 737 00:45:55,260 --> 00:46:00,160 and then they'll put their tincture into the hot tea and the tea 738 00:46:00,390 --> 00:46:05,320 just like let it sit for a couple minutes and the hot tea will vape off, um, 739 00:46:05,700 --> 00:46:09,840 you know, the ethanol aspect of it and will just leave the, uh, 740 00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:13,720 cannabinoids the resin, uh, in the tea. And then you just drink your tea. 741 00:46:13,720 --> 00:46:16,800 And that seems to work for them. Um, so, 742 00:46:17,010 --> 00:46:21,760 so one of the things that's great about tincture is that when you put the 743 00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:25,560 resin into the ethanol, um, 744 00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:30,520 once you let it sit for a little bit, it will, uh, self homogenize, it will, 745 00:46:30,810 --> 00:46:34,400 uh, become ubiquitous, uh, throughout the jar. 746 00:46:34,460 --> 00:46:37,600 And which means that, um, if you, 747 00:46:37,930 --> 00:46:41,600 if you make your tincture and you strain your tincture and then you let it sit 748 00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:45,950 for, you know, a day and, and let it come to, I don't know, 749 00:46:45,950 --> 00:46:48,990 I wanna say homeostasis, but I don't think that's right. But if you wanna, 750 00:46:48,990 --> 00:46:53,630 if you give it time to self homogenize, um, uh, 751 00:46:53,850 --> 00:46:58,430 you can go ahead and, and, and take a sample out of it. Um, you know, 752 00:46:58,430 --> 00:47:02,670 I like using a Turkey baster. Take a sample out of it and, 753 00:47:02,670 --> 00:47:06,990 and put it in a little one ounce bottle and send it off to your, um, 754 00:47:07,470 --> 00:47:09,270 cannabis lab. And you'll know that the test, 755 00:47:09,270 --> 00:47:12,750 that test results that come back apply to, um, 756 00:47:12,950 --> 00:47:17,670 the entire jar of tincture that you've made. And so, you know, 757 00:47:17,670 --> 00:47:20,150 that's the same thing I like about cannabis oil, right? That it's, 758 00:47:20,150 --> 00:47:23,670 that it's uniform and it is one of the biggest problems with smoking flour. 759 00:47:23,670 --> 00:47:27,190 Cause that's not uniform. So, so tincture we like, 760 00:47:27,190 --> 00:47:31,320 because it's really easy for anybody to make. And, um, you know, 761 00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:33,400 if you don't add the adultery and, 762 00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:38,000 and I don't add any adultery to the stuff that I make for myself and, um, 763 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:42,160 the stuff that I make for my parents because, um, you know, 764 00:47:42,770 --> 00:47:44,440 as we get older, 765 00:47:44,770 --> 00:47:49,360 it is more difficult to shake a bottle of tincture. 766 00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:53,400 And if, and if you've got, you know, cannabis resin in there, 767 00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:57,000 maybe a little bit of ethanol and some glycerin, uh, 768 00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:01,560 those have all got different weights and they will not be uniform in the, 769 00:48:01,620 --> 00:48:04,480 the, in the tincture bottle. And so if you, if you, you know, 770 00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:05,720 give it the kind of shake that you, 771 00:48:05,720 --> 00:48:08,880 you can imagine you do with a tincture bottle, like you, you, 772 00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:11,440 that's not gonna homogenize it, right? You're just gonna like, 773 00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:13,520 kind of mix it up a bit. Um, 774 00:48:13,740 --> 00:48:18,680 but that means that if you are taking a tincture that has got THC 775 00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:23,400 in it, which, um, you know, can and can, can cause intoxication, 776 00:48:24,210 --> 00:48:28,760 um, you will not be getting consistent doses, right? If, if one, 777 00:48:29,170 --> 00:48:30,003 um, 778 00:48:30,250 --> 00:48:34,800 if one squirt of the dropper is usually gonna be five milligrams and, 779 00:48:34,820 --> 00:48:38,040 and your tincture has got, you know, 780 00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:42,240 honey or glycerin or something else, you're gonna get, you know, you, your, 781 00:48:42,240 --> 00:48:45,680 your your drop or could have anywhere between like, you know, 782 00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:50,000 maybe two to eight milligrams of THC in it. Um, 783 00:48:50,220 --> 00:48:54,680 and that's a, that's a really big swing for, uh, most patients, 784 00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:59,000 especially new patients. And so, um, so yeah, uh, 785 00:48:59,020 --> 00:49:02,520 and a lot of the, you know, a lot of folks can't, they don't have the wrist, 786 00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:07,120 you know, to be able to, to shake it anymore because, um, they've got arthritis. 787 00:49:07,250 --> 00:49:08,320 So, so, you know, 788 00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:13,040 if you're making your own stuff and you're making a C B D and 789 00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:13,680 like the, 790 00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:18,280 the actual amount at any particular time doesn't matter as much 791 00:49:18,450 --> 00:49:22,040 as you making sure you take it four times a day and making sure you get a daily 792 00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:26,280 dose. Well, sure, you know, put glycerin or, you know, 793 00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:31,240 agave or honey or whatever with your c because having 794 00:49:31,240 --> 00:49:35,440 each dose be exactly the same, it's not really as big of a deal with cbd. 795 00:49:36,090 --> 00:49:39,640 Um, but with THC it does because if, if you, 796 00:49:39,770 --> 00:49:44,240 if you go too high, um, you know, you may get, uh, 797 00:49:44,430 --> 00:49:47,600 more THC than you are prepared for at that part of your day. 798 00:49:48,690 --> 00:49:51,360 Another thing that's great about tincture, um, 799 00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:54,040 when it's in ethanol is that it's, uh, shelf stable, right? 800 00:49:54,140 --> 00:49:56,640 And so for a lot of patients, um, 801 00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:59,320 you don't have an opportunity to make tincture all the time. 802 00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:03,160 You might grow your few outdoor plants every summer, 803 00:50:03,580 --> 00:50:05,320 and then you're gonna wanna, you know, you'll, 804 00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:10,040 you'll choose to process that into tincture and that tincture needs to last you 805 00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:13,200 a whole year. And, um, you know, uh, 806 00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:17,000 cannabis oil and tincture and ethanol are both, you know, 807 00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:21,200 quite shelf stable if you keep them out of the sun and cool. 808 00:50:21,850 --> 00:50:26,680 Um, and, uh, cannabis oil specifically does pretty well in the crispr. 809 00:50:27,290 --> 00:50:30,080 Um, but if you're putting your, uh, you know, 810 00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:33,680 you don't have to do that with the tincture as much because of the ethanol. Um, 811 00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:38,400 you can either just store it in a mason jar in a dark closet or, um, 812 00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:41,760 if you, if you wanna stay, keep strict controls over your use, 813 00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:46,480 you can put it into one ounce tincture bottles that you can pick up online for 814 00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:50,960 places from places like specialty bottle.com and then just, you know, 815 00:50:51,170 --> 00:50:55,720 um, fill those bottles for yourself, label them and put them away. 816 00:50:55,720 --> 00:50:57,840 And for a lot of people, um, 817 00:50:59,030 --> 00:51:03,480 managing their tincture use that way is very visual because, you know, like, 818 00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:04,320 okay, I've got, I, 819 00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:08,680 I've made 30 bottles and this has gotta last me the year. 820 00:51:08,780 --> 00:51:12,920 And so you, you can just see them in the box and as the box gets lower, 821 00:51:13,150 --> 00:51:15,080 you've got a really good, um, 822 00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:19,920 visual example of of how much you've got left and, uh, 823 00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:21,280 and, you know, if, 824 00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:24,520 if you should be getting nervous and maybe figuring out where to get some more 825 00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:29,520 flour to make some more or, uh, more hopefully you're just re you know, 826 00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:33,920 reinforcing the peace of mind that you are a self-sufficient cannabis patient 827 00:51:34,020 --> 00:51:36,560 and, and you can take care of yourself and you got what you need. 828 00:51:36,610 --> 00:51:40,280 So that's great. Another thing that's great about tincture is, uh, 829 00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:43,760 being able to, uh, control and fine tune your dosing. 830 00:51:44,170 --> 00:51:48,760 So with the cannabis oil that we talked about, and certainly with smoking, um, 831 00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:52,880 with cannabis oil, because the oil is concentrated, um, 832 00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:57,240 it's harder to hit low numbers. So, um, you know, 833 00:51:57,270 --> 00:52:01,680 most of the time when I'm talking to patients, if, if they, 834 00:52:01,810 --> 00:52:06,400 if their need is only for five or 10 milligrams of, um, 835 00:52:07,370 --> 00:52:12,360 of thc, it makes sense that they are going to use a tincture. 836 00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:15,960 Because a tincture, you can, you can get it down to, you know, 837 00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:20,160 number of drops out of the dropper if you want, whereas with oil, 838 00:52:20,740 --> 00:52:21,240 you know, 839 00:52:21,240 --> 00:52:25,720 which is essentially the resin without the ethanol that's in the tincture, 840 00:52:26,290 --> 00:52:30,000 um, you know, it, it's kind of hard to, um, 841 00:52:30,490 --> 00:52:35,320 extract resin from a plant that's high in THC 842 00:52:35,940 --> 00:52:40,400 and get your doses dose down to five or 10 milligrams. 843 00:52:40,580 --> 00:52:43,320 You know, you might, you might, um, you know, 844 00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:47,280 at 0.05 milliliter, which is a usually one of the, 845 00:52:47,300 --> 00:52:50,080 the smallest markings on a syringe, 846 00:52:50,500 --> 00:52:54,320 you might already be up to like 17 milligrams of thc. 847 00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:58,000 And so when it comes to thc, um, 848 00:52:58,420 --> 00:53:03,400 I'm usually recommending that new patients to THC focus on tincture. 849 00:53:04,140 --> 00:53:08,000 But if you have a very significant ailment in your, um, your, 850 00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:13,420 your tolerance is very high because you're taking a whole bunch of THC 851 00:53:13,420 --> 00:53:17,620 every day, well, you've probably graduated up to cannabis oil. Now that, 852 00:53:17,620 --> 00:53:22,380 that's different if we're talking about C and CBG, where, um, 853 00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:26,800 you know, if we're gonna, if we're gonna grow a plant that has cbg, we, 854 00:53:26,930 --> 00:53:30,560 we might use tincture so that we can have, make it last longer. 855 00:53:30,780 --> 00:53:35,680 But in most cases you're, you'll probably make an oil, um, because, 856 00:53:36,020 --> 00:53:40,600 and then just make caps with, you know, 0.05 in it, um, 857 00:53:40,690 --> 00:53:45,440 because it's just more convenient and you don't have to use, 858 00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:46,040 keep the, 859 00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:50,320 the ethanol in the tincture bottles and you can pre-make a whole bunch of 860 00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:54,240 capsules because the difference, you know, whether or not you take five, 10, 861 00:53:54,250 --> 00:53:58,320 or 20 milligrams of cbg, um, 862 00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:02,200 it won't end up in you potentially getting intoxicated like it would if you were 863 00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:06,000 taking thc. So, um, you know, 864 00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:10,200 when I make my CBG caps, um, I'm a little more casual about it. 865 00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:11,600 When I make my THC caps, 866 00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:15,880 I'm very exacting because I don't want to accidentally over medicate myself. 867 00:54:16,660 --> 00:54:20,080 But if I'm making CBG caps, well, you know, 868 00:54:20,470 --> 00:54:23,920 I might watch TV while I'm doing it or something, right? Because, um, 869 00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:27,400 if I squirt a little bit extra in, um, it's, it's, 870 00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:30,760 it's not really going to be, um, you know, bad in any way. 871 00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:33,880 I might be a little wasteful, um, but it, but it, 872 00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:37,760 but it's not gonna make me super stoned. And so, um, 873 00:54:38,070 --> 00:54:43,040 this is one of the reasons why tinctures are good, because, um, 874 00:54:43,990 --> 00:54:45,760 once you have, 875 00:54:46,590 --> 00:54:51,120 once you've got test results and you know how much is in one, 876 00:54:52,050 --> 00:54:56,120 um, one dropper of your tincture, if, 877 00:54:56,170 --> 00:54:58,000 if you wanna take a little bit less, 878 00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,480 less one day or a little bit more another day, 879 00:55:00,620 --> 00:55:04,160 you can totally make those changes on the fly. And it gives you, 880 00:55:04,460 --> 00:55:09,160 you as a patient a lot of control. And, and that's what, you know, 881 00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:13,480 that's what we want. Um, some days you might wake up and you know, 882 00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:17,200 you have to go to a doctor's appointment and so you want to go a little bit more 883 00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:20,080 conservative on how much THC tincture that you take, 884 00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:23,960 cuz you know that you're gonna have to interact with people in an hour or 885 00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:27,000 something or maybe drive there, right? Um, but, 886 00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:31,400 but on another day you may have slept really badly and you are experiencing, 887 00:55:31,770 --> 00:55:36,120 um, your ailment significantly and you don't have anywhere to go and you might 888 00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:38,040 triple your dosage cuz you're like, you know, 889 00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:42,480 all I'm gonna be able to do today is, um, sit on the couch and, you know, 890 00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:45,040 try to, try to not be miserable. Well, you know, 891 00:55:45,110 --> 00:55:47,400 that gives you that kind of flexibility. 892 00:55:47,650 --> 00:55:51,880 If you've already made all of your oil into capsules, well, you know, 893 00:55:51,990 --> 00:55:54,160 unless you've made different potency capsules, 894 00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:58,240 all your capsules are gonna be the same strength. And so that is a, 895 00:55:58,240 --> 00:56:00,280 a great reason that, um, you know, 896 00:56:00,550 --> 00:56:04,440 tincture can be a superior choice for patients. 897 00:56:05,330 --> 00:56:09,640 So let's talk about edibles. So, um, edibles have got a place, 898 00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:14,400 but I gotta admit that I am not the biggest fan of edibles except for specific 899 00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:18,120 kinds of patients. And, um, first I'll talk a little bit about, um, 900 00:56:18,180 --> 00:56:21,600 why I tend to recommend cannabis oil and tincture over edibles, 901 00:56:21,660 --> 00:56:23,080 but then we'll also talk about, 902 00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:26,280 about why edibles are the perfect thing for particular patients. 903 00:56:26,290 --> 00:56:28,240 So first of all, um, 904 00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:32,840 edibles are usually non-homogenized and, um, or, 905 00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:36,840 or poorly homogenized, right? Um, which means either, 906 00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:40,640 either at home or at a, uh, at a licensed, um, 907 00:56:41,240 --> 00:56:46,240 cannabis bakery, they are infusing an oil, a fat, 908 00:56:46,240 --> 00:56:49,680 a butter, um, with cannabis, either the, 909 00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:54,080 the flour or an oil or some, or an isolate, I guess. And, um, 910 00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:55,760 and they're mixing that into the oil. 911 00:56:56,180 --> 00:57:00,960 And then you add that oil to your recipe of whatever 912 00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:04,240 you're making for, for the sake of this discussion. 913 00:57:04,240 --> 00:57:07,040 Let's say that they're making brownies since that's so traditional. 914 00:57:07,900 --> 00:57:12,600 And so you mix it into your brownies and then you bake your brownies. And, and, 915 00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:15,200 and, you know, most of us who have been, you know, 916 00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:16,640 using cannabis for a few decades, 917 00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:21,760 we've all had the experience where you make a batch of 918 00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:26,760 brownies and the first brownie you have is a, uh, 919 00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:29,000 different strength than the fifth brownie, 920 00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:31,920 which is a different strength than the 10th brownie, right? 921 00:57:32,530 --> 00:57:37,400 Because it's kind of just luck of the draw where how much oil 922 00:57:37,470 --> 00:57:40,200 ends up at different parts of the brownie pan. 923 00:57:40,500 --> 00:57:44,840 And so you could eat one and it could, you know, you, you, you're like, okay, 924 00:57:44,950 --> 00:57:49,720 I know that if I eat, you know, a half a brownie, that's about the right amount, 925 00:57:50,020 --> 00:57:52,280 and then you go to eat a different brownie, 926 00:57:52,420 --> 00:57:56,880 and that half a brownie actually has got a whole lot more oil on it just 927 00:57:57,390 --> 00:58:01,520 from luck, you know, from randomness. And now suddenly you're like, you know, 928 00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:05,520 really high and you need to go lay down, and you're like, damn. 929 00:58:06,210 --> 00:58:09,560 Um, I really thought that all those brownies were gonna be the same strength. 930 00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:14,000 And that is very, very hard to do with baked goods, um, 931 00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:16,080 especially in the home, right? Like, 932 00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:20,880 like this primarily happens when people share the cookies or whatever that they 933 00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:25,000 make at their house. And, um, you know, they're, they're moving along, 934 00:58:25,220 --> 00:58:29,880 and they, they just mix the brownie mix or whatever, um, 935 00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:32,000 until it gets the right consistency, well, 936 00:58:32,330 --> 00:58:36,720 it being the right consistency may not be also 937 00:58:37,140 --> 00:58:38,040 homogenized. 938 00:58:38,220 --> 00:58:42,280 And suddenly now you're making brownies that where each one you have is a 939 00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:46,800 lottery ticket to being too stoned. So, um, uh, 940 00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:50,240 that is, that is one significant issue with edibles now. Now, 941 00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:55,240 certainly in the commercial markets where they are increasingly using, um, 942 00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:59,680 isolate and they have more control over their processes, um, you know, 943 00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:04,040 they're a lot of these 10 milligram, uh, gummies, for example, 944 00:59:04,330 --> 00:59:07,800 they're quite, you know, homogenized. Um, you know, 945 00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:12,760 unless any company that's got a worthwhile lab and kitchen is doing 946 00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:17,000 a pretty good job putting those together, so there's not huge swings. Um, 947 00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:20,240 but that's not true, man. You, you get a, you get a company that's, 948 00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:25,160 that's newer or have less, less experienced employees, um, 949 00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:28,760 or you know, what's happening as, you know, some states go medical, right? 950 00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:31,480 Because you get all these people who are trying to go professional for the first 951 00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:36,320 time, and they, they, they made, they made edibles at home, right? For their, 952 00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:38,680 and, and now they're suddenly trying to scale up, 953 00:59:38,860 --> 00:59:41,840 but they haven't learned their lessons and best practices yet. 954 00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:46,120 And so suddenly you've got a new company in a medical market that's putting out 955 00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:51,280 edibles with wild swings, um, with their potency. And, 956 00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:54,280 you know, they'll get complaints and they'll get best practices, and, you know, 957 00:59:54,280 --> 00:59:57,680 eventually with time they'll be more consistent. 958 00:59:58,380 --> 01:00:01,840 But if you're buying from them at a medical shop, you know, 959 01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:06,040 early on in your state's process, uh, chances are very high that you're, 960 01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:09,000 you're gonna get something that's got a certain level of risk to it. 961 01:00:09,770 --> 01:00:12,760 So that's homogenization also, um, 962 01:00:13,020 --> 01:00:15,680 for many of the patients that I talk to, um, 963 01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:20,200 they're not in a position to be taking on these extra sugars and flowers 964 01:00:20,500 --> 01:00:22,040 and artificial colors, 965 01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:26,520 and sometimes even artificial flavorings that edibles have. Um, 966 01:00:26,520 --> 01:00:29,000 especially if you are, um, you know, 967 01:00:29,090 --> 01:00:32,880 an advanced patient and you need edibles, you know, four times a day. 968 01:00:33,290 --> 01:00:36,480 Oh my gosh. Like, let's go back to the brownie example. Like, like, 969 01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:40,360 you shouldn't be having a brownie four times a day or a cookie, 970 01:00:40,850 --> 01:00:45,120 or probably a gummy. And, um, and, you know, 971 01:00:45,260 --> 01:00:48,360 you may decide for you that that's okay, and that's cool. 972 01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:50,680 Like we're all our own empowered patients, 973 01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:54,560 but I'm talking about general best practices and generally speaking, 974 01:00:54,900 --> 01:00:56,920 the edibles that are, are available, 975 01:00:57,270 --> 01:01:01,800 you're not gonna be wanting to eat them four times a day or maybe even every 976 01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:05,320 evening before you go to bed, right? If you're taking it for insomnia. 977 01:01:05,930 --> 01:01:10,040 So you gotta be really aware of, of the, you know, 978 01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:14,160 what your cannabinoids are encapsulated in, right? Are they, 979 01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:18,520 are they surrounded by, you know, sugars and GMO flowers? Um, 980 01:01:18,520 --> 01:01:20,920 certainly there are really healthy, um, 981 01:01:22,430 --> 01:01:26,790 whole plant resin edibles out there. They exist, 982 01:01:27,250 --> 01:01:28,510 but, um, they, 983 01:01:28,510 --> 01:01:32,230 they almost always cost more because they're made with quality food products 984 01:01:33,250 --> 01:01:37,590 and, um, and, you know, they might not have 'em by you. Um, 985 01:01:39,550 --> 01:01:43,860 so the next thing we're gonna talk about is the delayed effect due to digesting, 986 01:01:43,860 --> 01:01:45,660 right? So, um, in, 987 01:01:45,660 --> 01:01:48,540 in our first example when we were talking about smoking at top, 988 01:01:48,540 --> 01:01:51,940 one of the great things about smoking is that it comes on so fast. 989 01:01:51,940 --> 01:01:56,580 You've got all, you know, you, you're peaking on your cannabinoids in your, 990 01:01:56,580 --> 01:02:00,820 in your bloodstream at, you know, 10 to 15 minutes in, um, that's super fast, 991 01:02:00,820 --> 01:02:05,260 right? Um, edibles are the opposite, right? Because, uh, 992 01:02:05,260 --> 01:02:07,420 you're gonna chew it up and then you're gonna swallow it, 993 01:02:07,840 --> 01:02:11,380 and then it hits your gut, and then it goes through your liver, 994 01:02:11,380 --> 01:02:15,100 and then now it's in your, um, blood. 995 01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:18,660 And so it comes on, um, you know, 996 01:02:18,660 --> 01:02:23,200 most people say between 30 to 45 minutes, but for, 997 01:02:23,380 --> 01:02:28,200 but everybody should be aware that sometimes you do get a, a, a sneaker edible, 998 01:02:28,260 --> 01:02:32,120 and it takes a while for your body to process it. Maybe, maybe you had a, 999 01:02:32,150 --> 01:02:33,160 a meal earlier, 1000 01:02:33,780 --> 01:02:38,760 and so the edible is actually behind all the other food that's gotta go 1001 01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:42,680 through you. And so, yeah, sometimes it does take two hours, but you know, 1002 01:02:42,790 --> 01:02:45,000 that's, that's, that's, 1003 01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:49,320 that's pretty rare compared to like 30 to 45 minutes. Um, 1004 01:02:49,780 --> 01:02:52,520 and so if you need relief now, 1005 01:02:52,970 --> 01:02:56,800 waiting for 45 minutes may not be the right solution for you. 1006 01:02:56,800 --> 01:03:01,080 So that's something you gotta weigh for yourself and your own needs. Um, 1007 01:03:01,080 --> 01:03:04,720 also one thing that's interesting about it is that, um, 1008 01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:07,200 when THC goes through the liver, 1009 01:03:07,490 --> 01:03:12,360 it changes to 11 hydroxy THC in the liver. Um, 1010 01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:14,520 which means that, you know, even though we're, you know, 1011 01:03:14,520 --> 01:03:17,600 we're talking about cannabis and even though we're talking about thc, 1012 01:03:17,600 --> 01:03:21,840 it's really a different form and it, um, it feels different. 1013 01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:26,760 It acts differently on the body. And so this is probably, um, 1014 01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:27,640 where the, 1015 01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:32,320 the best benefit of edibles comes from because there are 1016 01:03:32,320 --> 01:03:37,280 certain patients, um, I would put at the top of the, the list, um, uh, uh, 1017 01:03:37,280 --> 01:03:42,160 pain patients, um, rheumatoid arthritis patients, and, 1018 01:03:42,450 --> 01:03:47,320 um, uh, pretty much any of the inflammation, uh, diseases, 1019 01:03:47,320 --> 01:03:50,680 lots of, um, uh, immune compromised folks. 1020 01:03:51,270 --> 01:03:56,080 They find that the 11 hydroxy THC experience that comes from 1021 01:03:56,080 --> 01:04:00,000 an edible is far superior to them, 1022 01:04:00,550 --> 01:04:05,520 then a Delta nine thc, um, preparation. 1023 01:04:06,140 --> 01:04:10,400 And, um, so you'll have to find this out for yourself. 1024 01:04:10,890 --> 01:04:12,200 Um, you know, 1025 01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:17,170 11 hydroxy THC is not going 1026 01:04:17,170 --> 01:04:20,450 to be the choice for most patients, 1027 01:04:21,030 --> 01:04:24,850 but for those that it works better for, um, 1028 01:04:25,120 --> 01:04:30,090 they become very serious about their edible consumptions and making 1029 01:04:30,090 --> 01:04:34,650 sure that they are finding the edible that they can make homogenize that is low 1030 01:04:34,650 --> 01:04:35,240 in sugar, 1031 01:04:35,240 --> 01:04:40,210 that they can eat the smallest amount of edible and get the more profound 1032 01:04:40,410 --> 01:04:42,090 effect. Um, and it, 1033 01:04:42,090 --> 01:04:46,370 and it really does become something that the patients are dedicated to. So, 1034 01:04:47,100 --> 01:04:49,830 um, so yeah, 1035 01:04:49,870 --> 01:04:54,510 sometimes 11 hydroxy THC is the, is the way to go, and you'll just have to, I, 1036 01:04:54,510 --> 01:04:57,790 if you are that patient, you will, you will come to that realization yourself. 1037 01:04:57,790 --> 01:05:02,750 I just wanna let you know that it's there. So, um, so that's edibles, right? Um, 1038 01:05:02,820 --> 01:05:07,270 a a very common way to take thc, um, 1039 01:05:08,170 --> 01:05:12,790 but also probably not necessarily the best for most 1040 01:05:12,790 --> 01:05:14,710 patients, if you're gonna be taking it every day, 1041 01:05:14,710 --> 01:05:19,040 because you can take a tincture or a cannabis oil, um, 1042 01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:23,400 that's not gonna have any of those extra sugars and flowers and colors. Oh, my, 1043 01:05:24,330 --> 01:05:28,540 okay, the last one we're gonna talk about is suppositories. And, uh, you know, 1044 01:05:28,780 --> 01:05:33,300 suppositories are not used all that much, um, because usually, um, 1045 01:05:33,510 --> 01:05:34,220 um, you know, 1046 01:05:34,220 --> 01:05:38,380 taking your cannabinoids orally is gonna be appropriate for just about 1047 01:05:38,380 --> 01:05:39,500 everybody. Um, 1048 01:05:39,500 --> 01:05:43,340 but I have certainly worked with patients who came to me because they were 1049 01:05:43,340 --> 01:05:44,780 having problems, uh, 1050 01:05:44,780 --> 01:05:49,580 taking their cannabis oil orally because they had something going on 1051 01:05:49,580 --> 01:05:54,500 that was, um, you know, chronic and dastardly with their gut. 1052 01:05:55,390 --> 01:05:57,780 Um, say for example, that their, 1053 01:05:57,780 --> 01:06:01,220 their gut was dysregulated and they were not creating, um, 1054 01:06:01,220 --> 01:06:05,820 digestion enzymes properly. And so, um, you know, 1055 01:06:05,820 --> 01:06:10,180 putting anything into their gut was a really bad experience. 1056 01:06:10,670 --> 01:06:14,380 Um, or potentially, um, they have something going on in their gut, 1057 01:06:14,380 --> 01:06:19,300 so they can't take any fats or oils into their gut. Well, 1058 01:06:19,300 --> 01:06:19,780 you know, 1059 01:06:19,780 --> 01:06:23,940 it's true that cannabinoids in cannabis oil are really great for the gut, 1060 01:06:24,160 --> 01:06:29,100 but if the vehicle is an oily resin from the plant, um, you know, 1061 01:06:29,370 --> 01:06:33,580 some patients, they can't be taking any oil into their gut, and so, 1062 01:06:33,580 --> 01:06:38,340 or else you know, it, it causes, um, you know, lots of grief and suffering. So, 1063 01:06:38,340 --> 01:06:40,900 so that might be a case as well. Um, 1064 01:06:40,900 --> 01:06:44,660 I'm sure that there are other ones that I haven't come across, right? Like, 1065 01:06:44,660 --> 01:06:49,140 you know, potential, uh, ulcers or lacerations in the gut that, that, 1066 01:06:49,280 --> 01:06:53,340 you know, you might not want to get oil in as well. Um, 1067 01:06:53,360 --> 01:06:57,660 but for some people, they, they need to, uh, skip the gut. 1068 01:06:58,270 --> 01:07:01,660 Um, also there, there are some other, uh, 1069 01:07:02,370 --> 01:07:06,860 ailments that, that suppositories are just a great idea for, for example, 1070 01:07:07,470 --> 01:07:10,660 um, for mittal cramping, right? For menstrual cramping, um, 1071 01:07:10,660 --> 01:07:15,100 you can use a suppository either in the rectum or in the vagina, and, um, 1072 01:07:15,100 --> 01:07:19,940 you will get more targeted placement of the cannabinoids 1073 01:07:19,950 --> 01:07:22,740 to relieve your symptoms. Um, 1074 01:07:22,740 --> 01:07:26,180 if you are gonna put cannabis oil in, um, a vagina, 1075 01:07:26,350 --> 01:07:29,380 be really careful about the amount you use, um, 1076 01:07:29,380 --> 01:07:33,300 because you don't want to throw off the pH and, and cause other issues. 1077 01:07:34,110 --> 01:07:38,060 Um, luckily we don't really have the same kind of, uh, pH issues, uh, 1078 01:07:38,060 --> 01:07:42,460 for the rectum. Um, also rectal cancer, right? 1079 01:07:42,460 --> 01:07:47,340 If you are, uh, you know, if you are dealing with, uh, uh, tumors or, or, 1080 01:07:48,110 --> 01:07:52,940 uh, such, um, in the rectum, a placing the cannabis oil right there, 1081 01:07:53,230 --> 01:07:57,140 um, um, is going to increase the level of, you know, 1082 01:07:57,140 --> 01:08:01,220 targeting that you can do for it. And then also if you've got, like, you know, 1083 01:08:01,220 --> 01:08:03,460 just general hip pains, right? If you've got, 1084 01:08:03,460 --> 01:08:08,460 if you've got pains or discomfort in, you know, in the area between, say, 1085 01:08:08,460 --> 01:08:12,180 your belly button and your thighs, right? Like that whole area, 1086 01:08:12,570 --> 01:08:17,320 applying it to the rectum may be a solution that works for you. 1087 01:08:17,340 --> 01:08:21,360 Now, granted, most people are going to take it orally, and it can work great, 1088 01:08:21,360 --> 01:08:24,080 but, um, you know, this is where you decide, 1089 01:08:24,080 --> 01:08:29,080 because every patient works out their own protocol in the end. Um, you, you, 1090 01:08:29,080 --> 01:08:33,080 you know, you, you learn these things from people who have done it before you, 1091 01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:35,160 like, I have, but you know, 1092 01:08:35,160 --> 01:08:38,920 you do this for two weeks and now you are gonna become the expert on your body. 1093 01:08:39,220 --> 01:08:41,280 And that's what we're, that's what, you know, 1094 01:08:41,510 --> 01:08:46,160 good cannabis educators are gonna do, is give you all of the options and say, 1095 01:08:46,160 --> 01:08:49,360 choose what works for you. Um, instead of saying, all right, 1096 01:08:49,360 --> 01:08:52,880 I have the solution for all patients because, um, you know, 1097 01:08:53,230 --> 01:08:56,840 each patient is unique, just like growing, um, 1098 01:08:56,840 --> 01:09:01,160 different types of cannabis are unique, you know, uh, and, uh, 1099 01:09:01,160 --> 01:09:04,280 and we need to, we need to treat each person, um, 1100 01:09:05,030 --> 01:09:08,900 in a way that works the best for them. So, um, if, 1101 01:09:08,900 --> 01:09:12,060 if you've decided that suppositories are something that, um, 1102 01:09:12,060 --> 01:09:13,340 that might be appropriate for you, 1103 01:09:13,340 --> 01:09:17,660 there's lots of great kits out there for making your own at home. Uh, on, 1104 01:09:17,660 --> 01:09:21,980 for example, eBay, um, uh, they, they sell these little molds, um, 1105 01:09:21,980 --> 01:09:25,180 that mold them into like a, like a little suppository, like a football, 1106 01:09:25,180 --> 01:09:29,660 you know. And, um, there's a bunch of different recipes, uh, that you can, um, 1107 01:09:29,660 --> 01:09:33,740 that you can use. Some people use shea butter, some people use coconut oil. 1108 01:09:33,740 --> 01:09:38,380 Some people use a combination along with a little bit of, uh, 1109 01:09:38,380 --> 01:09:42,580 full extract cannabis oil. And, um, you know, 1110 01:09:42,580 --> 01:09:45,820 people find what they like. 1111 01:09:46,090 --> 01:09:51,060 Some people won't use Shay at all because they don't care for it. Uh, 1112 01:09:51,060 --> 01:09:55,660 some people will have different, uh, percentages of each, right? 1113 01:09:56,190 --> 01:09:59,620 Um, and so what you do is, you, you would, you would make up, 1114 01:09:59,620 --> 01:10:03,460 you'd fill up these little molds with whatever you're gonna put in your 1115 01:10:03,580 --> 01:10:06,500 suppository, and then you put 'em in the freezer, right? And then they get hard, 1116 01:10:06,500 --> 01:10:10,780 and then you pop 'em out, like ice cubes out of an ice cube tray. And, um, 1117 01:10:10,780 --> 01:10:13,620 and then when, when it's time to dose, 1118 01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:17,220 you just like pop one of those outta the freezer and you, 1119 01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:22,300 you put it where you're gonna put it. And, um, um, you know, , 1120 01:10:22,300 --> 01:10:25,580 it's, you might be cold for a moment, but, uh, it doesn't last long. 1121 01:10:25,580 --> 01:10:29,660 It's not like they're that big. And, um, and then it, it melts where you put it. 1122 01:10:29,720 --> 01:10:33,700 And so, um, that can be a really great win for, um, a lot of folks. 1123 01:10:34,430 --> 01:10:38,940 Um, that said, it doesn't have to be that much work. 1124 01:10:39,190 --> 01:10:39,540 Um, 1125 01:10:39,540 --> 01:10:44,460 when I was first learning about suppositories and practicing with them so 1126 01:10:44,460 --> 01:10:48,420 that, um, I could, um, teach it to patient groups, um, 1127 01:10:48,610 --> 01:10:52,500 I went through that whole process and I'm like, oh my God, this is so much work. 1128 01:10:52,680 --> 01:10:56,300 And, um, you know, it's so like, kind of oily and everything on my fingers. 1129 01:10:57,350 --> 01:10:59,980 Um, in the end, um, you know, 1130 01:11:00,530 --> 01:11:05,420 I realized that you can also just take a boring cellulose 1131 01:11:05,440 --> 01:11:10,020 cap that, um, that you would use for cannabis oil. 1132 01:11:10,080 --> 01:11:12,500 You know, up in the cannabis oil section when we talked about that, 1133 01:11:13,220 --> 01:11:14,720 you can just put your, 1134 01:11:14,720 --> 01:11:19,680 your cannabis oil in a cellulose cap and put that in your rectum too. Ah, 1135 01:11:19,680 --> 01:11:24,120 I don't think I would do that vaginally. Um, I haven't had that experience. Um, 1136 01:11:24,120 --> 01:11:28,800 but, but, um, but in your rectum it works. And, um, you know, the, 1137 01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:33,440 the, the fluid or that's in your rectum will break down the, 1138 01:11:33,440 --> 01:11:36,840 the cap. And, and then you will, you'll, you'll get the oil through the, 1139 01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:41,200 the rectal rectum wall, and that works. Um, you know, 1140 01:11:41,570 --> 01:11:43,440 um, but you know, 1141 01:11:43,440 --> 01:11:47,760 most people do recommend against it just because it's, it's kind of in elegant. 1142 01:11:48,500 --> 01:11:50,920 But, um, but you know, if you're, if you're, 1143 01:11:50,930 --> 01:11:55,520 if you're a serious cannabis patient and you are already to the point that you 1144 01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:59,520 need to be taking suppositories, you are probably, um, 1145 01:11:59,680 --> 01:12:04,040 doing what you need to do and don't really care about elegance anyway. Um, 1146 01:12:04,570 --> 01:12:06,440 so by the time you're at that point, 1147 01:12:06,440 --> 01:12:09,840 you're doing what you need to do to not suffer. But, you know, there is, there, 1148 01:12:09,840 --> 01:12:12,040 there are the great options cuz you know, 1149 01:12:12,240 --> 01:12:16,280 there is nothing as luxurious as a shea butter and coconut oil suppository 1150 01:12:17,040 --> 01:12:21,320 , but, but you know, if you don't have the time for that, um, or, 1151 01:12:21,330 --> 01:12:25,080 or the money for the inputs, um, putting it in a, uh, 1152 01:12:25,080 --> 01:12:29,560 a vegan cellulose cap works as well. Um, alright, so that, 1153 01:12:29,560 --> 01:12:33,480 that was a great topic to end this set on. Um, so, uh, 1154 01:12:33,480 --> 01:12:38,160 so my goal at this point in the show was for you to have, um, 1155 01:12:38,190 --> 01:12:42,480 a really solid understanding of the different methods, 1156 01:12:43,050 --> 01:12:45,920 um, of cannabis, uh, intake, 1157 01:12:46,140 --> 01:12:49,560 and a good picture for yourself of the endocannabinoid system, 1158 01:12:49,660 --> 01:12:54,440 why we are taking cannabis at all so on from this platform. 1159 01:12:54,970 --> 01:12:59,800 Um, we will now in the second set, um, uh, go into, uh, 1160 01:13:00,160 --> 01:13:05,000 specific cannabinoids and understanding the amount of each that we would 1161 01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:07,480 wanna take, um, to reach different effects. 1162 01:13:08,410 --> 01:13:11,160 So we're gonna go ahead and take a short break and be right back. 1163 01:13:11,220 --> 01:13:15,800 You are listening to the hundredth episode of Shaping Fire. 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During the first set, 1259 01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:22,200 we talked about the endocannabinoids and made sure you had a decent 1260 01:19:22,200 --> 01:19:23,360 understanding of that, 1261 01:19:23,420 --> 01:19:27,240 and then we talked about the different methods of getting cannabinoids into your 1262 01:19:27,240 --> 01:19:27,980 body. 1263 01:19:27,980 --> 01:19:32,440 And so you're starting to get an idea of how your body functions 1264 01:19:32,620 --> 01:19:36,280 and the different ways that we can add the cannabinoids, um, 1265 01:19:36,410 --> 01:19:40,120 to meet your particular needs, um, as a cannabis patient. 1266 01:19:40,610 --> 01:19:44,840 So now on, um, set two, what we're gonna talk about is, um, 1267 01:19:44,840 --> 01:19:46,960 the specific dosing, um, 1268 01:19:46,960 --> 01:19:51,800 for particular cannabinoids that are commonly available 1269 01:19:51,800 --> 01:19:55,400 and that we have actually got some decent research on. So, you know, 1270 01:19:55,400 --> 01:19:59,640 I'm not gonna go through all of the cannabinoids that exist because some of them 1271 01:19:59,650 --> 01:20:03,040 we barely know anything about yet. Um, however, um, 1272 01:20:03,040 --> 01:20:04,800 we do know quite a bit about, uh, 1273 01:20:05,020 --> 01:20:09,800 THC and cbd B D and we know a bit about cbg 1274 01:20:10,220 --> 01:20:13,800 and so we are going to cover those. And the idea is that, you know, 1275 01:20:13,800 --> 01:20:18,520 with those three, you can get well on your way to, uh, relieving your symptoms. 1276 01:20:19,170 --> 01:20:23,320 Um, and also once you understand how to think about individual cannabinoids, 1277 01:20:23,530 --> 01:20:27,800 as new cannabinoids become popular and the research starts to come out, um, 1278 01:20:27,800 --> 01:20:28,120 you'll, 1279 01:20:28,120 --> 01:20:32,600 you'll have a good idea of how to think through bringing a new cannabinoid into, 1280 01:20:33,090 --> 01:20:36,720 um, you know, your health protocol. So, you know, 1281 01:20:37,250 --> 01:20:42,160 we have to start with a conversation about isolates and whole plant, 1282 01:20:42,410 --> 01:20:47,000 um, resin. Um, I would've originally, and I would've been the old days, 1283 01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:51,880 say that whole plant resin versus isolates because historically I have 1284 01:20:51,880 --> 01:20:54,680 not been a fan of isolates. But, um, 1285 01:20:54,680 --> 01:20:59,680 over time as the quality from some distributors have increased and, 1286 01:20:59,970 --> 01:21:04,800 um, you know, some people don't have access to certain novel cannabinoids. 1287 01:21:05,170 --> 01:21:08,440 Um, it does, there is a place for isolates, uh, 1288 01:21:08,490 --> 01:21:13,040 in the health program of many cannabis patients. And so, uh, 1289 01:21:13,040 --> 01:21:16,600 I really can't, um, justify writing them off anymore. Um, 1290 01:21:16,600 --> 01:21:20,320 though it's very important to know what their good uses are and where their 1291 01:21:20,320 --> 01:21:24,760 limitations are. So, so first of all, let's, um, let's go back a little bit. 1292 01:21:24,760 --> 01:21:29,360 So historically people sought whole plant cannabinoids 1293 01:21:29,390 --> 01:21:32,640 simply because, um, it was the only thing that existed. I mean, 1294 01:21:32,660 --> 01:21:37,440 the people took the plant and they used the resin as they got it off the plant, 1295 01:21:37,440 --> 01:21:40,160 either by smoking the plant or, or, uh, 1296 01:21:41,080 --> 01:21:45,840 mechanically removing the trichomes and making hash, um, or, 1297 01:21:45,900 --> 01:21:50,600 you know, as, as, uh, solvents were developed, um, mixing it with, uh, 1298 01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:53,800 ethanol alcohol. Um, so whole plant was like the whole deal. 1299 01:21:53,980 --> 01:21:57,680 But as technology evolved, um, the creation of isolates became possible. 1300 01:21:57,940 --> 01:22:01,800 And pharmaceutical companies were very interested in isolating these compounds 1301 01:22:02,090 --> 01:22:05,800 so that they could study 'em for potential future healing products in the 1302 01:22:05,800 --> 01:22:09,640 future. And, um, you know, if you're not familiar with the term isolate, 1303 01:22:09,640 --> 01:22:14,600 the isolate just means a single molecule of the cannabinoids. 1304 01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:15,050 So, 1305 01:22:15,050 --> 01:22:19,960 so one single molecule of thc or one single molecule of cbd, 1306 01:22:20,130 --> 01:22:24,640 whereas in a whole plant resin, you're getting a melan of, 1307 01:22:24,640 --> 01:22:29,240 of different, um, cannabinoids and flavanoids and, you know, 1308 01:22:29,270 --> 01:22:33,120 fats and all these other things that, that make for this particular synergy, 1309 01:22:33,120 --> 01:22:37,480 which works so well with the human body. So, you know, 1310 01:22:37,480 --> 01:22:40,480 the first time I saw that there was a really good, uh, 1311 01:22:40,480 --> 01:22:43,800 reason to consider CBD is, was in the early days of cbd, 1312 01:22:44,030 --> 01:22:48,960 before CBD plants were available just anywhere. Um, there was a time, 1313 01:22:48,960 --> 01:22:51,960 you know, not too long ago, let's see, um, 1314 01:22:52,320 --> 01:22:55,360 let's call it like seven or eight years ago, um, 1315 01:22:55,360 --> 01:23:00,080 where people started wanting C B D, but getting your hands on, 1316 01:23:00,330 --> 01:23:02,680 on plants that were bred with CBD was, 1317 01:23:02,680 --> 01:23:06,400 was pretty challenging unless you lived in California, you know, when you were, 1318 01:23:06,400 --> 01:23:09,320 you were getting 'em from folks there who were intentionally trying to spread 1319 01:23:09,320 --> 01:23:11,840 them out. And so, um, 1320 01:23:12,290 --> 01:23:17,120 we got to a point where people wanted CBD and they especially wanted C b D in 1321 01:23:17,120 --> 01:23:18,960 their cannabis oil concentrate, 1322 01:23:19,100 --> 01:23:23,960 but it just wasn't to be had in any kind of significant dosage. And so, 1323 01:23:24,290 --> 01:23:28,440 uh, companies started filling that void by, uh, 1324 01:23:28,440 --> 01:23:33,360 extracting CBD single molecule isolate from the cannabis plant and selling 1325 01:23:33,360 --> 01:23:38,280 that separately as a powder. And, you know, like I said, I was pretty, uh, 1326 01:23:38,280 --> 01:23:43,080 pretty against that at the time as, as being an overprocessed product. Um, 1327 01:23:43,380 --> 01:23:47,280 but after I got over myself and realized that, you know, 1328 01:23:47,280 --> 01:23:50,880 you didn't have to take CBD powder alone and, 1329 01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:55,200 and we would eventually find out that CBD powder is helpful for some 1330 01:23:55,460 --> 01:23:56,440 applications, 1331 01:23:57,430 --> 01:24:02,320 that the important thing was people should have the understanding 1332 01:24:02,320 --> 01:24:06,960 that they can spike their regular THC dominant cannabis 1333 01:24:06,960 --> 01:24:11,400 oil with C B D to expand the benefits. A great deal. 1334 01:24:11,500 --> 01:24:14,640 And I, uh, I remember speaking first with Dr. 1335 01:24:14,680 --> 01:24:18,920 Sunil Agarwal at the, uh, Washington Cannabis Conference. 1336 01:24:19,270 --> 01:24:23,720 I asked him while he was speaking whether or not he thought that spiking 1337 01:24:23,940 --> 01:24:28,440 THC dominant cannabis oil with C B D to make it 1338 01:24:28,800 --> 01:24:33,240 slightly more whole plant, right? Since, since CBD used to be in, uh, 1339 01:24:33,240 --> 01:24:36,400 land race plants, but we progressively bred out over the years, 1340 01:24:36,610 --> 01:24:41,200 so our cannabis plants were stronger in thc. So, you know, a a land race, 1341 01:24:41,270 --> 01:24:45,760 a natural plant actually has a lot more C b D in it. Then, um, 1342 01:24:46,270 --> 01:24:47,960 then the bread plants that, 1343 01:24:47,960 --> 01:24:52,680 that are are used for more recreational, um, uh, 1344 01:24:52,680 --> 01:24:55,920 use nowadays. And he said, yeah, he's like, he said, 1345 01:24:55,920 --> 01:25:00,240 that would make sense to me, uh, to him, Dr. Sunil Agarwal. And he said that, 1346 01:25:00,240 --> 01:25:01,640 um, you know, until, 1347 01:25:01,800 --> 01:25:06,400 until more plants can be evolved that have a significant amount of CBD 1348 01:25:06,610 --> 01:25:08,880 in them, and they can be distributed across the country, 1349 01:25:09,490 --> 01:25:12,680 if you can get CBD isolate, go ahead and, and, 1350 01:25:12,680 --> 01:25:17,240 and add that into your brew when you are making your, 1351 01:25:17,450 --> 01:25:21,200 um, your THC dominant RSO or cannabis oil. 1352 01:25:21,620 --> 01:25:25,680 And I was caught off guard, but I considered myself, um, you know, 1353 01:25:25,680 --> 01:25:28,840 smarter for it. And then, um, on an episode with Dr. 1354 01:25:28,840 --> 01:25:32,480 Ethan Russo about five years ago, I asked him the same question. He said, yeah, 1355 01:25:32,480 --> 01:25:37,160 yeah, you know, if if you, if you need CBD and you can't find whole plant cbd, 1356 01:25:37,230 --> 01:25:40,560 well go ahead and, and take the isolate and then spike your, 1357 01:25:41,070 --> 01:25:45,800 your cannabis oil because your THC dominant canus oil will have the thc of 1358 01:25:45,800 --> 01:25:49,320 course. Plus it'll have a whole bunch of those other, you know, um, 1359 01:25:49,320 --> 01:25:53,560 flavonoids and can flavin and, and, and novel cannabinoids and trace amounts. 1360 01:25:53,560 --> 01:25:56,640 And then you're adding a, um, you know, 1361 01:25:56,650 --> 01:26:01,640 he dose of C B D from the isolate. And while, um, 1362 01:26:01,840 --> 01:26:03,960 everyone agreed that, that when possible, 1363 01:26:03,960 --> 01:26:08,760 it's always better to just extract the plant and take the plant as is, um, 1364 01:26:08,760 --> 01:26:11,400 you know, we don't live in a perfect world. And sometimes you need to, 1365 01:26:11,400 --> 01:26:15,400 sometimes you need to spike your oil with a cannabinoid you need. So, um, 1366 01:26:15,930 --> 01:26:19,280 so another thing that's, uh, interesting to consider when comparing, um, 1367 01:26:19,280 --> 01:26:23,000 ice isolates and the whole plant is that in the early days of cannabis research, 1368 01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:26,200 they were doing cannabis research with the whole plant resin, right? 1369 01:26:26,200 --> 01:26:29,320 And so the early studies that you can look up when you, 1370 01:26:29,320 --> 01:26:33,560 when you read what they were using and, and how they actually performed it, um, 1371 01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:35,640 they were extracting a, uh, 1372 01:26:35,640 --> 01:26:40,200 a THC dominant resin and experimenting with that. But as, 1373 01:26:40,410 --> 01:26:44,240 um, you know, creeping normalization started and, and companies, 1374 01:26:44,240 --> 01:26:47,400 pharmaceutical companies started, um, uh, 1375 01:26:47,720 --> 01:26:50,560 considering what pharmaceutical products they were gonna make out of it. Well, 1376 01:26:50,560 --> 01:26:54,480 suddenly the medical study scientific studies started, uh, 1377 01:26:54,480 --> 01:26:56,920 focusing more on isolate. Because, you know, 1378 01:26:56,920 --> 01:27:00,240 the two main advantages of isolate are that number one, 1379 01:27:00,340 --> 01:27:02,560 you do isolate the molecule. 1380 01:27:03,060 --> 01:27:06,360 And so you can be sure, um, 1381 01:27:06,360 --> 01:27:10,920 for repeatability of results because, um, you can, 1382 01:27:12,580 --> 01:27:17,400 you can make that isolate molecule discreet from all the other 1383 01:27:17,550 --> 01:27:21,560 components that are usually in resin. And then second, you can't, um, 1384 01:27:23,300 --> 01:27:24,840 you can't patent the plant. 1385 01:27:25,020 --> 01:27:29,920 But if they made a medicine and they made it out of isolate, uh, well, 1386 01:27:29,920 --> 01:27:32,480 then they would be able to patent that and call it a product and sell it, 1387 01:27:32,480 --> 01:27:36,000 which is how you get products likes ofx. So, um, 1388 01:27:36,170 --> 01:27:39,960 so if you look at the, uh, if you look at the scientific studies now, 1389 01:27:39,960 --> 01:27:44,560 they are much more dominantly using isolate now, 1390 01:27:45,330 --> 01:27:48,440 um, to varying results. And, um, and, 1391 01:27:48,440 --> 01:27:52,120 and one thing we know is generally you need to take a whole lot more isolate to 1392 01:27:52,120 --> 01:27:56,320 get the same kind of results that you normally get with a whole plant resin. 1393 01:27:56,940 --> 01:28:00,080 And, uh, and that when you take isolate, um, it, 1394 01:28:00,080 --> 01:28:04,680 your efficacy goes up to a point and then it plateaus. Whereas, um, 1395 01:28:04,680 --> 01:28:08,440 when you take whole plant because of all the synergistic materials, um, 1396 01:28:09,320 --> 01:28:13,280 generally speaking, the more you take, the more reaction you're gonna get. 1397 01:28:13,280 --> 01:28:15,680 It's worthwhile to note too that, uh, 1398 01:28:15,680 --> 01:28:19,720 whether or not you want to use isolates or a whole plant often just depends on 1399 01:28:19,720 --> 01:28:21,160 how much money you've got. Um, 1400 01:28:21,160 --> 01:28:24,560 there is no question that isolate is far more affordable than a whole plant 1401 01:28:24,560 --> 01:28:28,160 resin. Um, you know, your mileage may vary with it, but if, 1402 01:28:28,160 --> 01:28:31,600 if it's what you can afford and it happens to give you benefit, we'll then, 1403 01:28:31,600 --> 01:28:35,480 you know, you should definitely go for it. Um, it's really interesting, um, 1404 01:28:35,480 --> 01:28:40,360 as the market for cannabis medicines and other fund products evolve, 1405 01:28:40,580 --> 01:28:44,480 how odd the, the price ratios work. So, for example, um, 1406 01:28:44,960 --> 01:28:49,760 whole plant resin is very expensive compared 1407 01:28:49,850 --> 01:28:53,560 to isolate single molecule. And so, you know, 1408 01:28:53,560 --> 01:28:57,080 you need to have enough money to be able to afford the resin. 1409 01:28:57,180 --> 01:28:59,400 And when it comes to CBD resin, 1410 01:28:59,470 --> 01:29:04,040 most patients their dosages as much as they can actually afford, 1411 01:29:04,040 --> 01:29:07,040 because they always want more. And so in this case, 1412 01:29:07,260 --> 01:29:11,760 the the resin is very expensive and the isolate is very inexpensive. However, 1413 01:29:11,850 --> 01:29:16,600 in contrast, if you are a cancer patient and you are trying to use, 1414 01:29:17,050 --> 01:29:20,600 um, THC to straight up beat the cancer, 1415 01:29:20,980 --> 01:29:25,320 and you're taking a 90 day THC protocol versus doing chemo, 1416 01:29:25,470 --> 01:29:30,000 well suddenly now a THC cannabis oil is very 1417 01:29:30,000 --> 01:29:32,080 affordable, right? Because, you know, 1418 01:29:32,830 --> 01:29:36,320 spending 1500 to $2,000 for, um, 1419 01:29:36,480 --> 01:29:40,520 60 syringes to take over 90 days, um, 1420 01:29:40,810 --> 01:29:45,560 is very affordable versus a round of chemo and all the associated costs 1421 01:29:45,560 --> 01:29:50,360 of that. So, you know, um, we can't jump to any conclusions about this is, 1422 01:29:50,360 --> 01:29:53,640 you know, cannabis medicine is so expensive, or cannabis medicine is so cheap, 1423 01:29:53,640 --> 01:29:55,240 or don't use this, or don't, 1424 01:29:55,330 --> 01:30:00,160 we really need to think it through for each patient what their 1425 01:30:00,320 --> 01:30:03,520 unique needs are and what their financial capabilities are. 1426 01:30:03,520 --> 01:30:05,920 So yet another reason why, you know, 1427 01:30:05,920 --> 01:30:10,480 we really don't wanna just group cannabis patients into big buckets and tell 1428 01:30:10,480 --> 01:30:14,520 them what's good for everybody, because, because each patient is really unique. 1429 01:30:15,490 --> 01:30:19,550 All right? With that discussion of whole plant resin versus isolates, um, 1430 01:30:19,550 --> 01:30:22,790 past us, um, let's go ahead and talk about, um, 1431 01:30:22,790 --> 01:30:26,390 the first cannabinoid we wanna talk about in detail. And that, 1432 01:30:26,390 --> 01:30:31,350 of course is the very popular thc. And by that I mean delta nine thc, 1433 01:30:31,630 --> 01:30:35,990 tetra hydro cannabinol. And so this is the one that, um, you know, 1434 01:30:36,020 --> 01:30:40,190 people have known about, um, forever. And it's the one that if you take enough, 1435 01:30:40,440 --> 01:30:44,790 um, you can get intoxicated. Um, they referring to that as a euphoric. 1436 01:30:45,320 --> 01:30:47,070 Um, but you don't have to take that much. 1437 01:30:47,070 --> 01:30:50,870 And for most of the things that patients need, um, you do not need to take, uh, 1438 01:30:50,870 --> 01:30:54,030 enough that, that you will necessarily get high. But, 1439 01:30:54,030 --> 01:30:56,070 but let's talk about in in detail. 1440 01:30:56,600 --> 01:31:01,150 So a THC strongly activates the CB one receptors in the body and the 1441 01:31:01,150 --> 01:31:04,710 endocannabinoid system triggering a feeling of euphoria. 1442 01:31:05,450 --> 01:31:09,070 And this activation also increases the blood flow, 1443 01:31:09,070 --> 01:31:12,550 blood flow to the prefrontal cortex in the front of your brain, 1444 01:31:12,670 --> 01:31:16,670 which is the area that controls your ability to focus as well as your motor 1445 01:31:16,670 --> 01:31:21,630 skills and attention and memory and like your, your ability to make decisions. 1446 01:31:22,050 --> 01:31:26,950 And then THC also interacts with CB two receptors, uh, providing the, 1447 01:31:26,950 --> 01:31:30,270 the analgesic or pain relieving effect, um, 1448 01:31:30,270 --> 01:31:33,710 also giving muscle relaxation and antic effects, 1449 01:31:33,710 --> 01:31:36,310 which is like helping with nausea and vomiting. 1450 01:31:36,310 --> 01:31:38,390 When we're thinking about THC dosing, 1451 01:31:38,390 --> 01:31:43,110 we have to be really aware that there are two different timeframes for thc. 1452 01:31:43,270 --> 01:31:44,020 You've got, 1453 01:31:44,020 --> 01:31:48,870 what can THC help with me today and what will THC 1454 01:31:48,870 --> 01:31:51,110 help me with over, over the time? 1455 01:31:51,640 --> 01:31:56,550 So the short term effects of THC are, number one, it's an analgesic that, 1456 01:31:56,550 --> 01:32:00,520 uh, lessens and softens your experience of the pain. Um, 1457 01:32:00,520 --> 01:32:04,160 it's a distracting and meaning that you forget about your ailment and you can 1458 01:32:04,160 --> 01:32:06,120 focus on other things for a while, like, you know, 1459 01:32:06,120 --> 01:32:10,800 working or caring for the kids or focusing on a fun activity. And, um, you know, 1460 01:32:10,800 --> 01:32:12,240 when I say it's a distracting, it, 1461 01:32:12,370 --> 01:32:16,280 it kind of just makes you forget about the thing that you are suffering from, 1462 01:32:16,280 --> 01:32:19,680 which is why it's especially good for PTSD patients, right? 1463 01:32:19,910 --> 01:32:21,600 They can set aside their, 1464 01:32:21,600 --> 01:32:25,760 their memories of a trauma or of a war zone or a of a bad experience, 1465 01:32:26,380 --> 01:32:30,840 and for a moment be distracted by the use of the thc, 1466 01:32:30,840 --> 01:32:35,720 which allows them to do other things that give their life, um, value. And so, 1467 01:32:35,720 --> 01:32:36,560 and, and honestly, 1468 01:32:36,560 --> 01:32:41,240 that's one of the I I'd additional ways that THC is an analgesic, 1469 01:32:41,240 --> 01:32:41,600 cuz like, 1470 01:32:41,600 --> 01:32:45,320 not only does it soften your experience of the pain and kind of turn down the 1471 01:32:45,320 --> 01:32:48,040 volume, but then it distracts you from it as well. 1472 01:32:48,040 --> 01:32:52,080 And so THC actually helps with pain in, in two different modes. 1473 01:32:52,470 --> 01:32:55,520 It's also an anti-inflammatory. And so, um, 1474 01:32:55,520 --> 01:32:58,960 this is used a lot by people who are experiencing, you know, 1475 01:32:58,960 --> 01:33:00,960 rheumatoid arthritis or, you know, 1476 01:33:00,960 --> 01:33:05,120 just regular arthritis or of swelling or in inflammation of the joints. 1477 01:33:05,690 --> 01:33:09,080 Uh, so in the, in the short term, once you take some thc, 1478 01:33:09,520 --> 01:33:13,080 those will go down temporarily as part of the short term effects. 1479 01:33:13,080 --> 01:33:16,200 We'll talk about that more in the longer term effects. Um, as mentioned, 1480 01:33:16,200 --> 01:33:19,520 it's also an amatic, um, meaning that it decreases nausea. 1481 01:33:19,750 --> 01:33:24,240 It's a muscle relaxant, which, which decreases spasticity. And, and, 1482 01:33:24,240 --> 01:33:27,600 and if you're unfamiliar with that, that is the, the, 1483 01:33:27,600 --> 01:33:32,440 the involuntary clenching of your muscles that make your body feel all tight 1484 01:33:32,440 --> 01:33:35,880 and stuff. And and we can apply this to lots of different types of patients, 1485 01:33:35,880 --> 01:33:40,400 right? Um, Parkinson's patients, uh, who, um, have got tremors, 1486 01:33:40,650 --> 01:33:44,840 uh, also Parkinson's patients who start to get crampy and they, they start to, 1487 01:33:44,840 --> 01:33:46,920 um, hunch over, um, 1488 01:33:46,920 --> 01:33:51,000 people who have got pain pretty much anywhere in their body because very often 1489 01:33:51,340 --> 01:33:55,960 the other side of their body starts to clench in response to the side that 1490 01:33:55,960 --> 01:33:58,680 you're trying to, um, keep safe, right? 1491 01:33:58,680 --> 01:34:02,080 You're trying to keep one side of your body, um, out of harm's way, 1492 01:34:02,080 --> 01:34:04,960 which means that your other side of your body is doing more work. 1493 01:34:05,060 --> 01:34:09,040 And those muscles, uh, tend to get tight and annoyed. Um, 1494 01:34:09,140 --> 01:34:12,520 and then also when you have muscles that are relaxed, 1495 01:34:12,520 --> 01:34:16,760 it decreases your experience of stress. I mean, so often with stress, we, again, 1496 01:34:16,760 --> 01:34:20,320 we clench our body and as soon as we're like, ah, 1497 01:34:20,340 --> 01:34:23,960 and you can kind of like open up and your muscles feel relaxed, um, 1498 01:34:23,960 --> 01:34:28,480 your anxiety will go down with it and the thc, THC can, um, 1499 01:34:28,480 --> 01:34:30,480 help with that as well. And then finally, 1500 01:34:30,570 --> 01:34:33,040 it can help with sleep due to relaxation, 1501 01:34:33,040 --> 01:34:37,200 because if you're having a hard time sleeping because you're stressed out and 1502 01:34:37,200 --> 01:34:39,200 tight and in your pain, um, 1503 01:34:39,200 --> 01:34:44,080 you add some THC and suddenly your muscles are relaxed and your pain is turned 1504 01:34:44,080 --> 01:34:47,600 down and you're kind of distracted from it, and, um, 1505 01:34:47,710 --> 01:34:52,360 some varieties of THC can cause drowsiness and lethargy will boom, 1506 01:34:52,360 --> 01:34:55,280 there you go. It's gonna help with, um, with your sleep now. 1507 01:34:55,860 --> 01:34:58,800 And that lethargy can be used for other things too, 1508 01:34:58,800 --> 01:35:01,680 or combined with other things. So if, if you were to get a, 1509 01:35:01,950 --> 01:35:06,640 a THC plant that also is high in terpenes like Meine or Lin Lu, 1510 01:35:06,640 --> 01:35:09,120 which are both relaxing, um, you're, 1511 01:35:09,120 --> 01:35:13,360 you're really setting up a good combination for somebody who has insomnia, 1512 01:35:13,360 --> 01:35:18,240 especially if they're insomnia is compounded by discomfort when 1513 01:35:18,240 --> 01:35:21,640 they're trying to, um, go to sleep. It's also, uh, 1514 01:35:21,640 --> 01:35:23,720 really good for people who are, uh, 1515 01:35:23,720 --> 01:35:27,640 who have just had surgery because so many of us, after we've had surgery, 1516 01:35:27,640 --> 01:35:29,080 we're like, okay, I'm feeling better. 1517 01:35:29,080 --> 01:35:31,280 I wanna like start moving around the house. And we're like, no, 1518 01:35:31,280 --> 01:35:33,920 you're supposed to stay in that bed for a week and, and like, 1519 01:35:33,920 --> 01:35:37,400 I'm supposed to bring you food and, and people start to get antsy. 1520 01:35:37,400 --> 01:35:42,040 But if you give them some, some cannabis tincture, well, you know, 1521 01:35:42,040 --> 01:35:45,480 they can, they can enjoy that lethargy, 1522 01:35:45,750 --> 01:35:49,720 take more naps and like, you know, be more easily entertained with like, 1523 01:35:49,720 --> 01:35:54,000 color book coloring books and crosswords and word searches and stuff. 1524 01:35:54,000 --> 01:35:56,880 Stuff that just like keeps them in bed so their body can heal. 1525 01:35:57,740 --> 01:36:00,840 And the last short term effect of thc, I'm gonna hit it here, is, um, 1526 01:36:00,840 --> 01:36:03,240 as an appetite, uh, stimulant. And, you know, 1527 01:36:03,890 --> 01:36:06,800 we can all joke about getting the munchies and, 1528 01:36:06,800 --> 01:36:11,040 and sometimes it is very funny and sometimes it's dangerous cuz we eat all of 1529 01:36:11,040 --> 01:36:15,560 our food. But, um, but for folks who actually are having a difficulty eating, 1530 01:36:16,010 --> 01:36:19,400 um, perhaps because they are going through, um, you know, 1531 01:36:19,470 --> 01:36:22,720 a cancer treatment or some other kind of treatment that, um, 1532 01:36:23,080 --> 01:36:26,160 suppresses the appetite or they're depressed or, 1533 01:36:26,250 --> 01:36:29,080 or anything that's gonna decrease the appetite, um, 1534 01:36:29,080 --> 01:36:33,480 very often if you use cannabis while suddenly, um, you're feeling snacky, 1535 01:36:33,810 --> 01:36:38,680 um, because THC interacts with the hunger part of the brain and also, 1536 01:36:38,850 --> 01:36:42,840 uh, thc, um, makes food taste better and smell better. 1537 01:36:42,980 --> 01:36:46,760 And so you're more likely to, uh, to smell or, you know, 1538 01:36:46,760 --> 01:36:49,440 smell food being made in the other room and start to salivate and you're like, 1539 01:36:49,440 --> 01:36:52,200 oh my gosh, I'm actually hungry. And so, uh, 1540 01:36:52,200 --> 01:36:54,600 so those are the short term effects of thc. 1541 01:36:54,600 --> 01:36:58,920 So there are additional benefits for specific ailments, but this, 1542 01:36:58,920 --> 01:37:02,520 this list gives you a good understanding of the most commonly used benefits of 1543 01:37:02,660 --> 01:37:05,840 thc. And, and one or more of these are, 1544 01:37:05,840 --> 01:37:09,440 are probably appropriate for you or the patient that you're working with. So, 1545 01:37:09,650 --> 01:37:12,680 so those are all the things that THC will do for you now, today, 1546 01:37:12,930 --> 01:37:16,160 as soon as you take it. So now, 1547 01:37:16,160 --> 01:37:21,080 when taken over time from once a day to twice a day or more for a few 1548 01:37:21,080 --> 01:37:25,680 weeks, these daily benefits start to stack up. Um, 1549 01:37:25,940 --> 01:37:29,520 one of those reasons is a decrease in chronic inflammation, right? If, 1550 01:37:29,520 --> 01:37:34,160 if you're taking THC and in that moment you're pushing back 1551 01:37:34,180 --> 01:37:38,800 the inflammation a little bit, if you continue to do that over time, 1552 01:37:39,260 --> 01:37:42,600 you will be decreasing your overall inflammation, 1553 01:37:42,740 --> 01:37:46,520 not just decreasing it a little bit for, for the next four hours. 1554 01:37:47,020 --> 01:37:50,600 But if you decrease it now and then you take THC again in four hours, 1555 01:37:50,600 --> 01:37:53,520 and then you take it again in four hours, and then you do that tomorrow, 1556 01:37:54,060 --> 01:37:57,520 you can, um, decrease your, I guess, 1557 01:37:57,920 --> 01:38:00,880 standard inflammation that your body has, uh, 1558 01:38:00,880 --> 01:38:05,720 which buys you some time to decrease your discomfort while you are 1559 01:38:05,720 --> 01:38:09,360 trying to figure out what is causing your inflammation and, 1560 01:38:09,360 --> 01:38:13,320 and decreasing those and decrease those causes. Um, 1561 01:38:13,520 --> 01:38:18,360 the second long term THC benefit that I will tell you is probably 1562 01:38:18,540 --> 01:38:22,240 the one that's the most important, and that is, uh, apoptosis, um, 1563 01:38:22,460 --> 01:38:25,800 THC kills cancer cells. And, um, 1564 01:38:25,990 --> 01:38:29,720 it's very interesting to watch it happen in a Petri dish. 1565 01:38:29,950 --> 01:38:34,760 A a THC molecule come up against a cancer cell 1566 01:38:35,300 --> 01:38:38,080 and, and burst its side wall, um, 1567 01:38:38,240 --> 01:38:42,480 which I swear has gotta be the word where the term apoptosis comes from. 1568 01:38:42,900 --> 01:38:47,560 And, um, and it kills the cancer cell. And so, you know, if you just took, 1569 01:38:47,930 --> 01:38:52,760 um, THC today, um, you know, it would kill some cancer cells and that's great. 1570 01:38:52,860 --> 01:38:57,120 And that's why a lot of people use it as a, um, you know, some, 1571 01:38:57,120 --> 01:39:00,720 a preventative for cancer. Because if there are any cancer cells in your body, 1572 01:39:01,100 --> 01:39:04,480 the THC will hopefully mop them up while they're still small. 1573 01:39:04,620 --> 01:39:09,480 But if you are taking THC every day, you're, you're, you're, 1574 01:39:10,360 --> 01:39:14,970 you're killing cancer cells now and then you're killing more in four hours and 1575 01:39:14,970 --> 01:39:17,170 then more in four hours, and then more in four hours, 1576 01:39:17,170 --> 01:39:18,970 and then you sleep and then you do it again tomorrow. 1577 01:39:19,350 --> 01:39:24,130 And so as you start to stack these days, um, next to each other, um, 1578 01:39:24,130 --> 01:39:28,890 suddenly you are decreasing the size of tumors and other forms of cancer. And, 1579 01:39:28,890 --> 01:39:32,010 and we have seen significant, um, you know, 1580 01:39:32,010 --> 01:39:36,370 both scientific and anecdotal evidence that this works for a great many people 1581 01:39:36,460 --> 01:39:41,090 on a variety of cancers. And so, um, you know, uh, 1582 01:39:41,090 --> 01:39:44,410 hopefully there will be another episode like this where, um, 1583 01:39:44,410 --> 01:39:48,650 where I'll be doing it solo and I can, I can lay out the, um, you know, 1584 01:39:48,650 --> 01:39:52,730 the entire application of, of the cancer protocol. But, uh, for now, 1585 01:39:52,730 --> 01:39:56,730 just understand that it causes apoptosis and it's a great thing to take as a 1586 01:39:56,730 --> 01:40:00,250 preventative. And finally, um, kind of in the same category as the, 1587 01:40:00,250 --> 01:40:04,090 as the appetite stimulant, that's a short term effect long term, um, 1588 01:40:04,090 --> 01:40:06,690 you can get weight gain from the appetite. And, 1589 01:40:06,710 --> 01:40:11,610 and so for people who have got like a wasting disease or they're just losing 1590 01:40:11,610 --> 01:40:15,530 weight long term because they're depressed, well, you know, the, the, 1591 01:40:15,530 --> 01:40:18,690 the munchies that you have today and tomorrow and the third day, 1592 01:40:18,690 --> 01:40:21,250 they start to add up and you start putting weight on and, 1593 01:40:21,250 --> 01:40:25,570 and hopefully start feeling better. So, okay, so, um, 1594 01:40:25,570 --> 01:40:29,370 now that we've kind of got an idea of what the short term effects are and the 1595 01:40:29,370 --> 01:40:32,810 longer term effects of taking, uh, THC generally, um, 1596 01:40:32,810 --> 01:40:37,650 let's start about talking about some real specifics of, of the amounts, the, 1597 01:40:37,650 --> 01:40:41,890 the milligrams that we're talking about when taking thc. So, um, 1598 01:40:41,890 --> 01:40:44,650 the first benchmark we wanna look at is, um, 1599 01:40:44,840 --> 01:40:49,810 a generally a sub perceptible dosage of 2.5 1600 01:40:50,210 --> 01:40:55,000 milligrams. Now at 2.5 milligrams, um, you really shouldn't feel it at all. 1601 01:40:55,000 --> 01:40:59,600 It would be, it would be a surprise if your patient felt it. Now, um, 1602 01:40:59,600 --> 01:41:03,640 they may have anxiety about it, and so they may think that they're feeling it, 1603 01:41:03,650 --> 01:41:07,200 um, because placebo is a strong thing. Um, 1604 01:41:07,340 --> 01:41:11,600 but generally at 2.3, unless, unless somebody is exceptionally sensitive, 1605 01:41:11,600 --> 01:41:14,120 they're not gonna feel it yet. So 2.5 is, 1606 01:41:14,530 --> 01:41:19,320 is generally pretty safe for most people, um, who are either, um, 1607 01:41:19,430 --> 01:41:24,160 scared of the intoxication experience or they've got control issues and they 1608 01:41:24,160 --> 01:41:27,200 don't like to feel like they are in any way, um, out of control. 1609 01:41:27,650 --> 01:41:30,240 Or perhaps they had a really negative, um, 1610 01:41:30,780 --> 01:41:34,920 THC high when they were younger, and they just never wanna feel that again. 1611 01:41:34,920 --> 01:41:39,240 And yet they need THC for some reason. And so for these people, 1612 01:41:39,240 --> 01:41:43,920 we start them off at, uh, 2.5, uh, milligrams, which honestly, 1613 01:41:44,540 --> 01:41:49,520 the most of us who use cannabis regularly might scoff at 2.5. 1614 01:41:49,850 --> 01:41:54,760 If you're taking 2.5 milligrams of thc three to four times a day every 1615 01:41:54,760 --> 01:41:57,040 three to four hours, and you're doing that every day, 1616 01:41:57,340 --> 01:42:01,760 you are going to see tremendous results with your arthritis and, 1617 01:42:01,780 --> 01:42:06,600 and other sorts of inflammatory, um, issues, um, 1618 01:42:06,750 --> 01:42:11,560 that just need to be addressed every day in a small amount and not 1619 01:42:11,560 --> 01:42:15,640 today in a large amount. So, so don't rule out, um, 1620 01:42:15,640 --> 01:42:18,840 2.5 milligrams. Uh, it can also be used to, you know, 1621 01:42:18,840 --> 01:42:22,620 create appetite and, uh, to a lesser extent, 1622 01:42:22,620 --> 01:42:24,260 but it is true to, uh, 1623 01:42:24,260 --> 01:42:27,020 give you a little bit of muscle relaxation for just like physical comfort. 1624 01:42:27,590 --> 01:42:31,820 So that, that would be our first, our first benchmark is 2.5 milligrams, but, 1625 01:42:31,820 --> 01:42:36,380 but five milligrams is where most people start to feel it in some way. 1626 01:42:36,910 --> 01:42:41,660 Um, it's often compared to one glass of wine for most people, and this is, this, 1627 01:42:41,660 --> 01:42:46,060 five milligrams is a, is the baseline dose for most cannabis patients. 1628 01:42:46,330 --> 01:42:49,060 Once patients get comfortable here, um, 1629 01:42:49,290 --> 01:42:53,700 many to most we'll move up to 10 milligrams if they also like 1630 01:42:53,940 --> 01:42:58,860 the feeling of it being a slight euphoric, right? Because if, 1631 01:42:58,860 --> 01:43:01,740 if the job that you need is getting done at five milligrams, 1632 01:43:01,740 --> 01:43:06,380 but if you take 10 milligrams and it's also pleasurable, well, 1633 01:43:06,440 --> 01:43:10,940 you know, a lot of people go to that 10 milligram mark pretty quickly, um, 1634 01:43:10,940 --> 01:43:13,860 just because they're like, well, if my medicine can make me feel good, like, 1635 01:43:13,860 --> 01:43:18,540 okay, let's do that. Um, you'll find that, uh, the majority of, uh, 1636 01:43:18,740 --> 01:43:23,460 edibles that are sold in, um, medical and licensed recreational shops, 1637 01:43:23,950 --> 01:43:28,740 um, are 10 milligrams because it, it just seems to be a, um, a, 1638 01:43:28,740 --> 01:43:31,700 a uniform dose that can, um, 1639 01:43:31,730 --> 01:43:36,500 help a wide range of people. And so they'll give you, you know, whatever it is, 1640 01:43:36,670 --> 01:43:40,060 uh, 10 milligram gummies, 10 milligram cookies, um, 1641 01:43:40,060 --> 01:43:43,540 10 milligram gum drops, you know, like whatever. Um, they'll, they'll, 1642 01:43:43,540 --> 01:43:45,860 they'll likely give you 10 of those to a package. 1643 01:43:45,860 --> 01:43:47,700 So there'll be 10 milligrams each, 1644 01:43:47,760 --> 01:43:50,700 and then they'll be in a package of a hundred milligrams that you can just take 1645 01:43:51,320 --> 01:43:55,160 yourself. And so, um, at, at this, 1646 01:43:55,170 --> 01:43:59,720 at this five to 10 area, um, you're gonna need to, 1647 01:43:59,990 --> 01:44:03,440 I mean, if you don't have an experience with cannabis already, um, 1648 01:44:04,790 --> 01:44:08,520 starting with 10 milligrams might surprise you. And so, um, 1649 01:44:08,520 --> 01:44:13,080 this is one of the reasons why I recommended, um, tincture earlier in the show, 1650 01:44:13,450 --> 01:44:18,320 because if, if you have zero experience with cannabis, um, starting with 10, um, 1651 01:44:18,680 --> 01:44:23,040 milligrams, it might be great, but then also it, it might not be for you. 1652 01:44:23,040 --> 01:44:25,800 There's, there, there is a lot of variability in folks, 1653 01:44:26,140 --> 01:44:30,280 and even though 10 milligrams sounds low to people who use cannabis all the 1654 01:44:30,280 --> 01:44:31,320 time, um, 1655 01:44:31,320 --> 01:44:35,800 to somebody who's particularly sensitive and they've got a lot of CB one and CB 1656 01:44:35,800 --> 01:44:36,480 two receptors, 1657 01:44:36,480 --> 01:44:40,960 and so their body takes on a lot of that THC really fast. 1658 01:44:41,310 --> 01:44:44,440 They could have an uncomfortable, um, you know, 1659 01:44:44,560 --> 01:44:48,880 dysphoric experience and it happens all the time. So whenever possible, 1660 01:44:48,880 --> 01:44:49,800 you know, um, 1661 01:44:49,810 --> 01:44:54,640 perhaps start with a tincture and experiment at 2.5 and five 1662 01:44:54,640 --> 01:44:59,120 and 10 and kind of find out what your appropriate dosage 1663 01:44:59,330 --> 01:45:03,800 is for what you're trying to take care of. Um, and then, and then to, 1664 01:45:04,090 --> 01:45:08,680 to understand what the really high end of the numbers look like. Um, let's, 1665 01:45:08,680 --> 01:45:11,720 let's, let's talk about extreme examples. So, so, 1666 01:45:11,720 --> 01:45:15,360 so if we're talking about like five or 10 milligrams for most folks, 1667 01:45:15,410 --> 01:45:18,680 if taken regularly, um, in contrast, 1668 01:45:18,680 --> 01:45:23,360 it's common for cancer patients seeking to beat the cancer to take as much as 1669 01:45:23,360 --> 01:45:28,120 750 milligrams of THC of whole plant oil extract 1670 01:45:28,120 --> 01:45:32,880 every day divided into three servings of 250 milligrams. 1671 01:45:32,890 --> 01:45:33,330 So, 1672 01:45:33,330 --> 01:45:38,160 so we're comparing a potential 10 milligram THC serving to 1673 01:45:38,160 --> 01:45:41,360 a 250 milligrams serving three times a day. 1674 01:45:41,360 --> 01:45:46,320 That's a whole bunch and actually a devastating amount actually. And, um, 1675 01:45:46,320 --> 01:45:49,360 you know, you don't start at that, at that dosage. You know, 1676 01:45:49,360 --> 01:45:53,120 part of the cannabis, uh, cancer protocol is that you tight trade in. 1677 01:45:53,120 --> 01:45:55,760 So you're starting with, you know, lower amounts and then over, 1678 01:45:55,760 --> 01:45:59,720 over the weeks you increase the amount that you're taking with the hope that by 1679 01:45:59,720 --> 01:46:03,480 the time you're taking 250 milligrams at a time, um, 1680 01:46:03,480 --> 01:46:08,120 that you've got some amount of THC and awareness of what it is to be high 1681 01:46:08,120 --> 01:46:11,400 and, and, you know, awareness of what it means to be, um, 1682 01:46:11,470 --> 01:46:14,000 kind of uncontrollably high. Um, 1683 01:46:14,000 --> 01:46:18,440 there are certainly people who can handle 250 milligrams, um, you know, 1684 01:46:18,440 --> 01:46:19,273 no sweat, 1685 01:46:19,300 --> 01:46:24,280 but the vast majority of people will be absolutely blown out at 1686 01:46:24,280 --> 01:46:28,160 250 milligrams to the point that, you know, 1687 01:46:28,160 --> 01:46:30,400 they could be questioning their sanity, right? Which is, 1688 01:46:30,400 --> 01:46:35,360 which is why you don't just take 250 milligrams without knowing what 1689 01:46:35,360 --> 01:46:37,280 you're doing and in a cancer protocol, 1690 01:46:37,340 --> 01:46:42,040 why you titrate your your way in so you build up over time. 1691 01:46:42,550 --> 01:46:45,520 It's also important to understand that the, the, 1692 01:46:45,520 --> 01:46:50,400 the maximum dose of THC that is necessary for a patient is really their 1693 01:46:50,400 --> 01:46:51,180 call. 1694 01:46:51,180 --> 01:46:56,160 And even though somebody might not be taking high levels of THC intentionally to 1695 01:46:56,160 --> 01:46:57,640 cause apoptosis in cancer, 1696 01:46:57,960 --> 01:47:02,920 there are other very unique patients who take extraordinary amounts 1697 01:47:03,050 --> 01:47:06,080 of, of thc. Um, you know, my, 1698 01:47:06,210 --> 01:47:10,840 my my most significant example is my buddy Nick Ryden, um, back in Michigan. 1699 01:47:10,840 --> 01:47:14,400 He's a cannabis and dog breeder who also has Lyme disease. 1700 01:47:14,400 --> 01:47:17,280 And when I first visited him at his home, uh, 1701 01:47:17,280 --> 01:47:22,040 I was astonished to see him taking 400 or 500 milligrams of THC and cannabis 1702 01:47:22,040 --> 01:47:26,760 oil three to four times a day. And I was just astonished as, as he's just like, 1703 01:47:26,820 --> 01:47:31,000 you know, squirting these syringes into his mouth to, um, 1704 01:47:31,050 --> 01:47:35,520 to help quell his seizures and ease his pain. And, and, and I was, 1705 01:47:35,520 --> 01:47:38,960 I was just astonished watching it, and I was actually afraid for him, 1706 01:47:38,960 --> 01:47:42,800 but he's like, oh man, I do this every day. This is, this is all right. And, 1707 01:47:43,020 --> 01:47:44,960 and so, you know, this is, 1708 01:47:44,960 --> 01:47:49,400 this is where patients start to really have to grow their own cannabis because 1709 01:47:49,400 --> 01:47:54,120 being able to afford that much as a patient on the open market is, is, um, 1710 01:47:54,120 --> 01:47:58,840 very unrealistic. And so why I always, um, you know, stand up for, 1711 01:47:58,840 --> 01:48:02,680 for patients having the rights to grow their own and be, um, self-sufficient. 1712 01:48:04,000 --> 01:48:06,310 So the next thing we're gonna talk about is, um, you know, 1713 01:48:06,310 --> 01:48:08,070 once you're going over 10 milligrams, 1714 01:48:08,070 --> 01:48:12,390 you're gonna learn how your particular body responds, um, from thc, 1715 01:48:12,390 --> 01:48:17,350 and you can move away from dosage guidelines, um, like this one. Um, 1716 01:48:17,350 --> 01:48:21,470 because all it's gonna take is, is a couple weeks of you, uh, 1717 01:48:21,470 --> 01:48:26,150 taking THC every day and, and you are going to learn what works for you. 1718 01:48:26,450 --> 01:48:31,230 And so guides like this are to help you understand 1719 01:48:31,230 --> 01:48:35,230 how to think about cannabis dosing, but once you're doing it, 1720 01:48:35,970 --> 01:48:39,750 you become the expert for your body because everybody's body really is 1721 01:48:39,750 --> 01:48:43,550 different. This is why I always recommend that people keep a, uh, 1722 01:48:43,550 --> 01:48:47,270 a dosing journal of their cannabis use because, um, 1723 01:48:47,270 --> 01:48:51,590 over time you might forget how much you used to take for this or that, or, 1724 01:48:51,590 --> 01:48:56,510 or you, you might wanna look back and see how you try titrate it in. Um, also, 1725 01:48:56,600 --> 01:48:56,950 if, 1726 01:48:56,950 --> 01:49:01,750 if you're gonna bother to tell your doctor about your THC use as, 1727 01:49:01,750 --> 01:49:04,950 as part of your overall health solution, um, 1728 01:49:04,950 --> 01:49:08,510 doctors like really dig it if you can show them that you're taking, that you're, 1729 01:49:08,510 --> 01:49:11,870 you know, keeping a journal and that you're tracking this stuff, um, 1730 01:49:11,890 --> 01:49:15,590 cuz so many doctors are already very suspicious of cannabis medicine, 1731 01:49:15,610 --> 01:49:20,590 but if you can show that you're doing it in a controlled air quotes 1732 01:49:20,590 --> 01:49:24,950 responsible way, um, you know, they might be more likely to, to, 1733 01:49:25,170 --> 01:49:29,350 you know, play with you and, and, and not give you, you know, 1734 01:49:29,350 --> 01:49:33,370 a hard time about using it. So, um, 1735 01:49:33,370 --> 01:49:38,090 there are two varieties of black swan patients that we need to talk about 1736 01:49:38,090 --> 01:49:42,650 before we end this, um, this discussion of, of THC specifically. 1737 01:49:43,300 --> 01:49:48,080 Um, the first one, um, we're gonna talk about our rapid metabolizers. Um, 1738 01:49:48,080 --> 01:49:52,760 there is a variety of human that just metabolizes everything super fast. 1739 01:49:53,460 --> 01:49:54,040 And, uh, 1740 01:49:54,040 --> 01:49:58,560 I have worked with these patients and they metabolize THC so fast and, 1741 01:49:58,780 --> 01:50:03,480 and often mushrooms and Ls, L S D and, um, you know, 1742 01:50:03,760 --> 01:50:04,680 anything you give them, they, 1743 01:50:04,680 --> 01:50:08,760 they metabolize it super fast to get almost no effect. 1744 01:50:09,460 --> 01:50:13,280 And, um, we have to know that these folks exist. I, 1745 01:50:13,280 --> 01:50:16,080 I worked with this one patient who, um, 1746 01:50:16,300 --> 01:50:21,160 had no experience with cannabis prior, and then they decided that they, 1747 01:50:21,170 --> 01:50:25,760 um, you know, needed to take it for their health. And so they started with, 1748 01:50:25,760 --> 01:50:26,720 you know, the, you know, 1749 01:50:26,720 --> 01:50:31,360 the 2.55 milligram 10 milligram and like didn't feel anything, 1750 01:50:31,360 --> 01:50:34,880 and so then moved up to 40 and didn't feel anything and, 1751 01:50:35,020 --> 01:50:38,200 and they found that their, um, uh, 1752 01:50:38,200 --> 01:50:40,720 efficacious dose was actually, um, 1753 01:50:40,720 --> 01:50:44,280 80 milligrams of THC at a time. And, 1754 01:50:44,340 --> 01:50:48,400 and this patient was still like doing stuff around the house and being 1755 01:50:48,400 --> 01:50:50,360 productive and it's, it's, 1756 01:50:50,360 --> 01:50:55,080 it's actually what they needed to take care of their, um, 1757 01:50:55,080 --> 01:50:58,040 their ailment and function like a normal human. But, 1758 01:50:58,040 --> 01:51:02,640 but if you told me that somebody who had only been taking THC for two weeks was 1759 01:51:02,640 --> 01:51:06,920 already at 80 milligrams, I would fear for them, you know, that they, that, 1760 01:51:07,200 --> 01:51:09,880 that they were taking so much that, um, you know, if, 1761 01:51:09,880 --> 01:51:13,840 if they took that 80 milligram amount that they would have a very bad day. Um, 1762 01:51:13,840 --> 01:51:14,520 and yet this, 1763 01:51:14,520 --> 01:51:18,080 this patient just like worked titrated themselves up over the course of four or 1764 01:51:18,080 --> 01:51:21,440 five days, and now they sit at 80 milligrams and you know, 1765 01:51:21,630 --> 01:51:24,840 that kind of rapid metabolizer is very rare, 1766 01:51:25,180 --> 01:51:27,440 but if you are a caregiver, you know, 1767 01:51:27,600 --> 01:51:32,600 it's also important that you know that it exists. And if you are a patient, um, 1768 01:51:32,740 --> 01:51:35,240 now you have keywords to, um, 1769 01:51:35,240 --> 01:51:39,640 to search so that you can show your caregivers that yes, you, you, 1770 01:51:39,640 --> 01:51:42,920 you may require this much thc. Um, 1771 01:51:43,820 --> 01:51:48,040 the second variety of black swan is that it's estimated that about one in 10,000 1772 01:51:48,040 --> 01:51:52,640 patients are wildly sensitive to thc. Um, the point where, 1773 01:51:52,640 --> 01:51:55,880 you know, only a, a gram or two, or excuse me, 1774 01:51:55,880 --> 01:51:58,720 a milligram or two is, uh, 1775 01:51:58,720 --> 01:52:03,240 going to give them a very bad experience. And I've only seen this once. Um, 1776 01:52:03,570 --> 01:52:07,840 uh, a patient, uh, reached out to me during their very bad experience. They, 1777 01:52:07,840 --> 01:52:09,280 they took a, um, 1778 01:52:09,670 --> 01:52:13,200 a five milligram tincture that they got at the, uh, 1779 01:52:13,360 --> 01:52:17,080 licensed store and they experienced dysphoria, 1780 01:52:17,420 --> 01:52:18,840 hallucinations and, 1781 01:52:18,840 --> 01:52:23,520 and like intense energy for 12 hours from such a small dose. 1782 01:52:24,180 --> 01:52:27,560 And honestly, I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't first, 1783 01:52:27,970 --> 01:52:29,680 if I hadn't seen it firsthand. 1784 01:52:29,680 --> 01:52:32,840 And I was familiar with that product and knew that, um, 1785 01:52:32,840 --> 01:52:35,840 that analytics on it were, were likely right and, 1786 01:52:35,840 --> 01:52:38,680 and that that dose is so small and, 1787 01:52:38,680 --> 01:52:43,360 and should have such an incredibly small effect. But I, I saw it happen. 1788 01:52:43,360 --> 01:52:44,440 And so, um, 1789 01:52:44,450 --> 01:52:48,920 we do do need to be aware that on the rare occasion you can give a very small 1790 01:52:48,920 --> 01:52:53,240 dose to a patient and they will have an outside resized 1791 01:52:53,920 --> 01:52:58,080 response to it. And, um, they're gonna need some support in, you know, 1792 01:52:58,080 --> 01:53:01,320 just trying to stay calm and feel okay until it wears off, 1793 01:53:01,320 --> 01:53:04,600 like towards the end of the day. So, um, you know, 1794 01:53:04,600 --> 01:53:08,760 I hope for you that you don't come across either rapid metabolizers or, 1795 01:53:08,810 --> 01:53:13,200 or hypersensitive folks to THC because, um, it, 1796 01:53:13,200 --> 01:53:17,800 it's always a real surprise and, and as a caregiver, um, you know, 1797 01:53:17,800 --> 01:53:20,360 you feel so bad for 'em, you know, because they're, they're, they're, 1798 01:53:20,360 --> 01:53:24,600 they're trying to do their best with cannabis medicine and now they're like 1799 01:53:24,600 --> 01:53:28,840 blown out and they've had a really bad experience and, um, 1800 01:53:29,100 --> 01:53:33,600 and now they, they now they really hate cannabis medicine. So, um, so I, I, 1801 01:53:33,600 --> 01:53:37,840 I hope that, um, I hope that you aren't one and I hope that you don't, you know, 1802 01:53:37,840 --> 01:53:41,990 come across them in your work. All right, so let's move on to CBD Now, 1803 01:53:41,990 --> 01:53:46,310 you probably have got a pretty good idea how to work with THC at this point, 1804 01:53:46,310 --> 01:53:51,030 hopefully. So, so cbd, um, which stands for cannabidiol, 1805 01:53:51,280 --> 01:53:54,670 uh, it activates the CB one and CB two receptors, 1806 01:53:55,090 --> 01:53:58,750 but to a much lesser extent than THC does. Um, 1807 01:53:58,750 --> 01:54:03,070 it doesn't cause intoxication, but it's is certainly psychoactive. You know, 1808 01:54:03,070 --> 01:54:07,070 a lot of people say, oh, it's not psychoactive, but, um, while it, 1809 01:54:07,070 --> 01:54:11,110 it won't get you high like THC will, um, it is definitely, 1810 01:54:11,110 --> 01:54:15,830 certainly psychoactive in the sense that it can change perceptions by bettering 1811 01:54:15,830 --> 01:54:17,430 your mood. Um, 1812 01:54:17,430 --> 01:54:22,190 how CBD exerts its therapeutic impact on a molecular level is still being 1813 01:54:22,190 --> 01:54:26,550 sorted out. Um, cannabidiol is a pleo pleotropic drug, 1814 01:54:26,550 --> 01:54:28,270 which I don't usually have much, 1815 01:54:28,420 --> 01:54:32,630 much opportunity to say in that it produces many effects through multiple 1816 01:54:33,030 --> 01:54:33,990 molecular pathways. 1817 01:54:34,290 --> 01:54:39,270 The scientific literature has identified more than 65 molecular targets of 1818 01:54:39,270 --> 01:54:43,590 C B D, and the study of these pathways has always only just begun. 1819 01:54:43,600 --> 01:54:48,470 So while we do talk about C B D interacting somewhat 1820 01:54:48,470 --> 01:54:50,470 with the CB one and CB two receptors, 1821 01:54:51,000 --> 01:54:54,030 it isn't that they overdose don't interact with receptors, 1822 01:54:54,030 --> 01:54:58,990 they interact with a lot of things, and we're just now trying to, 1823 01:54:58,990 --> 01:55:03,710 you know, figure out what those, what those other types of, of receptors, um, 1824 01:55:03,710 --> 01:55:04,990 might be, what those might look like. 1825 01:55:06,340 --> 01:55:10,960 CBD is a very active signaling molecule, and it's one of the most useful, 1826 01:55:11,610 --> 01:55:15,600 um, cannabinoids for the endocannabinoid system. Um, 1827 01:55:15,600 --> 01:55:20,120 because of this variety of 65 plus targets. Um, 1828 01:55:20,120 --> 01:55:23,160 it does a lot, uh, to support the endocannabinoid system. 1829 01:55:23,410 --> 01:55:27,480 It feels very much like a utility player, like whatever's needed, you know, 1830 01:55:27,480 --> 01:55:30,400 come, you know, fill in, you know, uh, 1831 01:55:30,400 --> 01:55:35,000 phyto cannabinoid version of CBD to replace endo cannabinoids. 1832 01:55:35,500 --> 01:55:40,080 And so it's, um, it's definitely a workhorse. Um, similar to thc, 1833 01:55:40,080 --> 01:55:44,040 CBD has benefits now and benefits later, uh, 1834 01:55:44,040 --> 01:55:47,080 for certain THC is more of a, help me today, 1835 01:55:47,080 --> 01:55:51,680 cannabinoid and CBD is a bit more of a help me tomorrow cannabinoid, 1836 01:55:52,050 --> 01:55:54,360 because for most of its applications, 1837 01:55:54,360 --> 01:55:57,560 it takes time to strengthen the endocannabinoid system. 1838 01:55:58,260 --> 01:56:02,480 But it's true that CBD two has some today benefits. So, so let's, 1839 01:56:02,480 --> 01:56:05,880 let's talk about short term and long term benefits just like we did with thc. 1840 01:56:06,650 --> 01:56:10,800 So, uh, shorter term benefits of cbd. Number one, 1841 01:56:10,800 --> 01:56:15,040 the most low hanging fruit, uh, brain chemistry, mood, anxiety, 1842 01:56:15,220 --> 01:56:19,600 and stress. Um, this is of, of all the things that I tell people, you know, 1843 01:56:19,600 --> 01:56:24,600 you need to give CBD some time to do its job when it comes to mood, 1844 01:56:24,600 --> 01:56:28,520 anxiety and stress. This is something that it can help you, um, you know, 1845 01:56:28,520 --> 01:56:33,120 like within an hour depending on dose and your receptibility to it. Um, 1846 01:56:33,120 --> 01:56:33,960 then the reason is, 1847 01:56:33,960 --> 01:56:38,600 is because cannabidiol stimulates the five h t one a 1848 01:56:39,280 --> 01:56:40,360 serotonin receptor. 1849 01:56:40,660 --> 01:56:45,560 And so you take it and it goes and it activates it and, um, 1850 01:56:45,910 --> 01:56:50,760 your mood, your brain chemistry will start to even out. Um, 1851 01:56:50,890 --> 01:56:54,400 as we talked at the top of the show in the first set, the, 1852 01:56:54,400 --> 01:56:58,280 the main goal of the endocannabinoid system is to balance, 1853 01:56:59,380 --> 01:57:01,170 um, the body's other systems. 1854 01:57:01,630 --> 01:57:04,970 And that is what's what's happening in this effect if, 1855 01:57:04,970 --> 01:57:09,330 if your chemistry has swung one way or another, causing you to be either be, 1856 01:57:09,330 --> 01:57:11,450 you know, depressed or anxious, um, 1857 01:57:11,750 --> 01:57:16,170 CBD will help bring you back to the balance place where you can be your best. 1858 01:57:16,700 --> 01:57:21,450 Um, it is also an antiemetic and an anti nausea like THC is. 1859 01:57:21,550 --> 01:57:25,450 And when you use them together, they work together to be even more effective. 1860 01:57:26,760 --> 01:57:31,700 And then C b D binds to, uh, they're called Trip V one receptors, uh, 1861 01:57:31,820 --> 01:57:36,660 T R P V one receptors, which also function as ion channels. 1862 01:57:36,680 --> 01:57:41,140 And so these trip V one s are known to mediate pain, um, 1863 01:57:41,360 --> 01:57:43,860 and inflammation and body temperature. 1864 01:57:43,860 --> 01:57:48,420 But the main thing that people are looking to it for is to mediate pain. 1865 01:57:48,550 --> 01:57:51,100 So, um, CBD of course, 1866 01:57:51,100 --> 01:57:55,180 is handling the experience of pain very differently than THC does. 1867 01:57:55,240 --> 01:57:59,620 And so when people put cannabis all in one bucket on how it helps with pain, 1868 01:58:00,150 --> 01:58:03,620 um, you know that they don't really understand the medicine very well because, 1869 01:58:03,950 --> 01:58:06,060 uh, thc, as we've already learned, 1870 01:58:06,270 --> 01:58:10,380 it helps by being a natural analgesic and decreasing the, um, 1871 01:58:10,640 --> 01:58:15,460 the muscle contraction as well as, uh, being a distraction, right? 1872 01:58:15,460 --> 01:58:19,500 Well, C B D in its own way, um, it, uh, 1873 01:58:19,860 --> 01:58:24,140 activates the trip V one, which mediates the pain perception. 1874 01:58:24,140 --> 01:58:28,780 So it kind of just like turns down the volume of your experience of it. 1875 01:58:28,950 --> 01:58:32,460 So when, again, when you have CBD and THC together, um, 1876 01:58:32,460 --> 01:58:36,580 they work really well at decreasing pain today. 1877 01:58:38,070 --> 01:58:42,240 So the longer term pen of benefits of CBD are usually what people are going for. 1878 01:58:42,240 --> 01:58:46,200 Very often the short term benefits, people are looking to, uh, 1879 01:58:46,500 --> 01:58:50,680 THC for help, and, and they may have heard CBD helps, but, 1880 01:58:50,680 --> 01:58:53,080 but realistically, c's, um, 1881 01:58:53,630 --> 01:58:58,600 most effective role is to strengthen the endocannabinoid system so 1882 01:58:58,600 --> 01:59:00,680 it can do its job, right? 1883 01:59:01,020 --> 01:59:05,040 And so the longer term benefits of CBD would be number one, 1884 01:59:05,040 --> 01:59:09,920 first and foremost to strengthen the endocannabinoid system so it 1885 01:59:09,920 --> 01:59:14,160 can do its job in rebalancing, uh, the various body's systems. 1886 01:59:14,660 --> 01:59:16,400 And the body can heal itself. 1887 01:59:16,400 --> 01:59:20,480 It just needs some more signaling molecules and cbd, 1888 01:59:20,570 --> 01:59:23,880 because it targets these, um, 65, uh, 1889 01:59:23,880 --> 01:59:26,440 different receptors. Um, 1890 01:59:26,690 --> 01:59:30,240 it has a little bit of help for all the different systems. 1891 01:59:30,580 --> 01:59:35,120 And so it is a great thing to supplement yourself with every day to strengthen 1892 01:59:35,120 --> 01:59:37,440 your body's ability to take care of itself. 1893 01:59:38,790 --> 01:59:42,650 CBD also exerts an anti-cancer effect as well, 1894 01:59:42,750 --> 01:59:46,650 and I won't get too much into the mechanics of it, but, 1895 01:59:46,650 --> 01:59:51,410 but what it does is it, it, it has an anti-proliferative effect, which means, 1896 01:59:51,820 --> 01:59:56,050 um, it slows down cancer's ability to replicate itself. 1897 01:59:56,590 --> 02:00:01,210 And, uh, again, if you're taking it every day over time, uh, 1898 02:00:01,210 --> 02:00:05,970 you would have, uh, the CBD slowing the, uh, 1899 02:00:06,250 --> 02:00:08,290 increase in number of cancer cells, 1900 02:00:08,390 --> 02:00:12,050 and then you'd also have THC coming in and bursting those cells. 1901 02:00:12,050 --> 02:00:15,090 So they're a very good team in this regard. Um, 1902 02:00:15,090 --> 02:00:17,210 also another great thing is that, um, 1903 02:00:17,210 --> 02:00:21,370 CBD tends to kick off the body's housekeeping mechanisms. 1904 02:00:21,550 --> 02:00:26,250 And so it is helping take care of, of things that if, 1905 02:00:26,250 --> 02:00:29,890 if allowed to go neglected over a long term, um, 1906 02:00:29,950 --> 02:00:34,530 can get especially worse. So for example, um, uh, 1907 02:00:34,600 --> 02:00:37,170 when you take C B D, um, 1908 02:00:37,620 --> 02:00:40,530 it activates the P P R gamma, 1909 02:00:40,650 --> 02:00:45,210 which degrades the amyloid beta plaque in the brain. 1910 02:00:45,550 --> 02:00:48,290 And when this plaque builds up, 1911 02:00:48,500 --> 02:00:51,610 it is linked to the development of Alzheimer's disease. 1912 02:00:52,030 --> 02:00:56,010 And so when you are taking C B D as a 1913 02:00:56,110 --> 02:01:00,690 prophylactic, like daily, just so things don't get bad or worse for you, 1914 02:01:01,070 --> 02:01:04,410 you are actually sting off a, 1915 02:01:04,720 --> 02:01:08,050 a certain amount of potential of Alzheimer's in the future. 1916 02:01:08,530 --> 02:01:10,970 We've also seen patients that have, like, 1917 02:01:10,970 --> 02:01:15,970 they're starting to have dementia and then they start with a pretty heavy daily 1918 02:01:16,070 --> 02:01:20,850 use of C B D and their dementia tends to calm down. 1919 02:01:21,380 --> 02:01:25,170 Um, both probably because of this, uh, 1920 02:01:25,170 --> 02:01:28,050 p P ar gamma activation. Um, 1921 02:01:28,230 --> 02:01:33,210 but also because C B D causes neurogenesis the creation of 1922 02:01:33,210 --> 02:01:38,010 new brain cells, new neurons, especially the ones that are, 1923 02:01:38,060 --> 02:01:38,440 uh, 1924 02:01:38,440 --> 02:01:43,200 dopamine excreting and these dopamine excreting neurons, 1925 02:01:43,490 --> 02:01:47,360 um, help stave off, um, things like Parkinson's. 1926 02:01:47,380 --> 02:01:52,280 And so it really is helpful to use C B D on a daily basis. 1927 02:01:53,170 --> 02:01:55,560 Um, you know, probably for everybody, 1928 02:01:55,840 --> 02:01:59,920 since we know that just about everybody is suffering from endocannabinoid 1929 02:01:59,920 --> 02:02:04,080 deficiency, but especially as you're getting older and 1930 02:02:06,170 --> 02:02:08,860 your body isn't working as well as it used to, 1931 02:02:08,860 --> 02:02:12,060 and you're starting to forget things and you're starting to be more aware of a 1932 02:02:12,060 --> 02:02:15,140 potential dementia or Parkinson's in your future, like, 1933 02:02:15,140 --> 02:02:19,740 like you don't wanna go too long without supplementing your 1934 02:02:19,740 --> 02:02:23,180 endocannabinoid system so it can do the business of keeping you healthy. 1935 02:02:25,650 --> 02:02:28,510 Now, if you really wanna dive into understanding cbd, 1936 02:02:28,570 --> 02:02:33,470 the only place I recommend is project c b.org that I mentioned at the top 1937 02:02:33,470 --> 02:02:36,550 of this show. Um, founder Martin Lee has put together a, 1938 02:02:36,550 --> 02:02:40,030 an exceptional cannabis resource for patients, 1939 02:02:40,030 --> 02:02:42,950 and it's the only online source that I fully trust. 1940 02:02:43,080 --> 02:02:45,630 So the articles are written in layman's terms, 1941 02:02:45,850 --> 02:02:50,310 and then they also provi provide direct links to the original scientific papers. 1942 02:02:50,960 --> 02:02:54,710 So, so don't forget project c d, it is a, it is a great, 1943 02:02:54,710 --> 02:02:56,950 and as far as I'm concerned, the only place to go online. 1944 02:02:57,800 --> 02:03:02,630 So there's a great deal of confusion and debate about the proper dosing 1945 02:03:02,720 --> 02:03:06,550 of C B D. So when using whole plant, 1946 02:03:06,720 --> 02:03:09,670 we can offer c b milligram suggestions, 1947 02:03:09,670 --> 02:03:14,590 but the other cannabinoids in the resin will always play an uncontrolled 1948 02:03:14,590 --> 02:03:19,510 role because we don't know how C B D might interact with the canna 1949 02:03:19,510 --> 02:03:23,870 flavin that is also in the resin and what they might be doing synergistically 1950 02:03:24,150 --> 02:03:29,110 together. So CBD in a whole resin goes further than just a CBD 1951 02:03:29,400 --> 02:03:32,910 isolate because it's got its partners in the resin, 1952 02:03:32,910 --> 02:03:34,950 all the other components of the resin, they're with it. 1953 02:03:35,410 --> 02:03:39,870 And so because of that CBD whole resin will almost, nearly always give you a, 1954 02:03:40,040 --> 02:03:40,950 um, a better 1955 02:03:42,980 --> 02:03:47,320 efficacious experience than just isolate alone. But again, 1956 02:03:47,490 --> 02:03:52,400 if you don't have access to CBD resin or you can't afford it 1957 02:03:52,400 --> 02:03:57,040 at the amount that you need, uh, by all means give a high quality cbd, 1958 02:03:57,170 --> 02:04:01,870 isolate a try and see if that will help you. All right. 1959 02:04:01,870 --> 02:04:04,670 So with that, let's talk to, let's talk some specific numbers. 1960 02:04:05,160 --> 02:04:10,030 So looking back to 2015, when I was first recommending CBD to patients, 1961 02:04:10,250 --> 02:04:10,750 you know, 1962 02:04:10,750 --> 02:04:15,470 doctors willing to take a position at all said that about 10 milligrams 1963 02:04:15,470 --> 02:04:19,470 per day of whole plant cbd, um, 1964 02:04:19,650 --> 02:04:20,910 was good for, 1965 02:04:20,910 --> 02:04:24,590 as a supplement that would support a healthy person to stay healthy. 1966 02:04:25,250 --> 02:04:29,830 And I think that the actuality for healthy people is probably 1967 02:04:30,310 --> 02:04:32,790 twice that. So 10 milligrams twice a day, 1968 02:04:32,790 --> 02:04:36,910 once in the morning and once again after lunch, um, not in the evening. 1969 02:04:36,960 --> 02:04:41,240 Cuz about 20% of people find CBD stimulating and, um, 1970 02:04:41,240 --> 02:04:44,560 not stimulating in a way of like coffee or caffeine or anything like that. 1971 02:04:44,560 --> 02:04:47,640 It more stimulating where, um, when people take this cbd, 1972 02:04:47,640 --> 02:04:51,560 suddenly their body wants to do that housekeeping stuff like removing the plaque 1973 02:04:51,560 --> 02:04:56,320 on the synapses in the brain and, uh, cleaning up the mucus off the, 1974 02:04:56,340 --> 02:04:59,600 the, the, um, Celia in the gut. 1975 02:05:00,020 --> 02:05:04,360 And so you don't really want to kick all that stuff off, 1976 02:05:04,690 --> 02:05:09,280 um, as you are, um, you know, trying to, trying to go to sleep. And so, 1977 02:05:09,280 --> 02:05:11,160 but you know, that's only about 20% of patients. 1978 02:05:11,160 --> 02:05:15,800 But I don't recommend that people take, uh, C B d uh, 1979 02:05:15,800 --> 02:05:18,880 in the evening unless they've already had a trial, right? 1980 02:05:18,880 --> 02:05:21,520 And you don't wanna do your trial like on a work night or a school night or 1981 02:05:21,520 --> 02:05:24,240 something like that. Try it on a, try it on a Saturday. So, 1982 02:05:24,240 --> 02:05:28,400 so that you make sure that you're not reactive to C B D and, uh, 1983 02:05:28,400 --> 02:05:33,080 making it more difficult to sleep. So as soon as you have something wrong, 1984 02:05:33,310 --> 02:05:37,240 that number of 10 milligrams twice a day will jump up. 1985 02:05:37,660 --> 02:05:42,560 And if you're actively working on an issue like arthritic inflammation, 1986 02:05:43,080 --> 02:05:45,880 migraines, IBS, or something like that, um, 1987 02:05:45,880 --> 02:05:50,400 you immediately are gonna wanna jump up to more like 20 to 40 milligrams twice a 1988 02:05:50,400 --> 02:05:52,760 day. Um, and, 1989 02:05:52,760 --> 02:05:57,040 and that will work on your endocannabinoid system at a rate that you're likely 1990 02:05:57,200 --> 02:05:59,120 to see something even maybe within a week. 1991 02:05:59,340 --> 02:06:04,120 But I always recommend a full month of daily C B D as a trial 1992 02:06:04,250 --> 02:06:05,240 because it, 1993 02:06:05,240 --> 02:06:10,200 it does take your body some time to rebuild the endocannabinoid system enough to 1994 02:06:10,360 --> 02:06:14,600 probably meet your goals. And we don't know how many, uh, uh, 1995 02:06:16,020 --> 02:06:20,430 c b receptors that you have in your body. You might have more or less. 1996 02:06:20,430 --> 02:06:25,230 So it may take longer for your body to get the reaction to the daily 1997 02:06:25,230 --> 02:06:29,950 supplementation of CBD that you're looking for. And, you know, a month is, 1998 02:06:30,020 --> 02:06:33,430 it's not too long, but it is enough, right? If, if, 1999 02:06:33,430 --> 02:06:37,750 if you've taken it for a month and you're taking enough every day and you're not 2000 02:06:37,750 --> 02:06:40,070 really seeing results at the end of the month, well, 2001 02:06:40,070 --> 02:06:43,070 you might as well put your money elsewhere. Now, 2002 02:06:43,080 --> 02:06:46,990 if you're dealing with something big and chronic like rheumatoid arthritis or 2003 02:06:46,990 --> 02:06:50,310 lupus, or multiple sclerosis or just wicked joint pain, 2004 02:06:51,330 --> 02:06:56,030 the right answer for most people is probably to take as much as you can 2005 02:06:56,030 --> 02:07:00,750 afford. And this is so frustrating to patients when I'm talking to them because, 2006 02:07:00,880 --> 02:07:01,470 um, you know, 2007 02:07:01,470 --> 02:07:06,230 if they've got something serious and whole plant is expensive and sometimes 2008 02:07:06,230 --> 02:07:11,140 hard to find, um, they're just all like, well, how much do I need? 2009 02:07:11,140 --> 02:07:14,780 And, and I'm all like, well, you know, it's expensive. How much can you afford? 2010 02:07:14,780 --> 02:07:17,580 And which is a very frustrating answer, and I, and I understand that. 2011 02:07:18,390 --> 02:07:22,580 So I try to give them an idea of how many milligrams of CBD they want, 2012 02:07:22,800 --> 02:07:26,460 and then they start doing the math and they're like, oh man, you know, that's, 2013 02:07:26,460 --> 02:07:29,940 that's half of a cbd, uh, syringe, 2014 02:07:30,680 --> 02:07:33,980 and I need that, you know, twice a day. So you're going through like one a day. 2015 02:07:33,980 --> 02:07:36,160 And depending where you are in the country, 2016 02:07:36,160 --> 02:07:41,080 those CBD syringes can be anywhere between 30 and 80 bucks each. And, 2017 02:07:41,080 --> 02:07:43,960 um, it's not like the old days where, um, you know, in, 2018 02:07:43,960 --> 02:07:48,600 in many states medical systems when you were buying from, from the grower, 2019 02:07:49,170 --> 02:07:53,520 um, there was always a discount to people who had, uh, chronic illnesses, 2020 02:07:53,760 --> 02:07:56,640 especially people who, um, were fighting cancer. 2021 02:07:56,640 --> 02:08:00,760 Because by the time you're fighting cancer, most people are broke when they, 2022 02:08:00,760 --> 02:08:04,480 when they find their way to cannabis. And so, um, 2023 02:08:04,480 --> 02:08:09,280 it's very challenging to recommend CBD for people who 2024 02:08:09,280 --> 02:08:13,080 who need a lot of it. And, you know, perhaps for some of those people, 2025 02:08:13,510 --> 02:08:17,040 a good solution will be to purchase C B D, um, 2026 02:08:17,040 --> 02:08:20,920 whole plant oil in a syringe, and then maybe even spike it with, 2027 02:08:20,920 --> 02:08:25,610 with isolate to get more bang for your buck. Now, um, 2028 02:08:25,760 --> 02:08:29,450 I have a chronic disease and I take 80 milligrams twice a day, 2029 02:08:29,950 --> 02:08:32,050 but I grow my own and I make my own oil. 2030 02:08:32,050 --> 02:08:36,770 So my costs are much lower than at a licensed store. And this, again, 2031 02:08:36,770 --> 02:08:40,010 is why I'm a big proponent of cannabis patient self-sufficiency. 2032 02:08:40,350 --> 02:08:44,850 And I really hope that our society continues to increase our support of that. 2033 02:08:45,700 --> 02:08:50,410 So before I go on to the Black Swan patients around 2034 02:08:50,410 --> 02:08:51,243 cbd, 2035 02:08:51,640 --> 02:08:56,530 I wanna kind of like wrap up the numbers of dosing that I was suggesting into 2036 02:08:56,530 --> 02:08:59,890 a little nicer package because, um, I can imagine that it, 2037 02:08:59,890 --> 02:09:02,650 it might feel a little, a little vague at this point, 2038 02:09:02,650 --> 02:09:06,410 especially when I've all like, take as much as you can afford, right? So, 2039 02:09:06,410 --> 02:09:10,530 so we essentially have got three different levels of, 2040 02:09:10,740 --> 02:09:12,490 of dosing and, 2041 02:09:12,490 --> 02:09:17,050 and to find out where your dosing may need to be for your particular 2042 02:09:17,050 --> 02:09:21,810 ailment, again, I send you back to, um, the, uh, 2043 02:09:21,810 --> 02:09:25,410 project CBD site because on project cbd.org, 2044 02:09:25,410 --> 02:09:29,970 you can find the actual studies and you can find out how much CBD they're giving 2045 02:09:29,970 --> 02:09:32,250 the patients, what their results were like, 2046 02:09:32,250 --> 02:09:37,170 and if they were using a whole plant or an isolate, uh, preparation. 2047 02:09:37,470 --> 02:09:41,090 And because at this point you understand that, um, 2048 02:09:41,270 --> 02:09:46,050 the whole plant tends to be more, more effective and then isolate, you can, 2049 02:09:46,050 --> 02:09:50,450 you can start to kind of gauge where your particular needs are, 2050 02:09:50,740 --> 02:09:54,330 uh, for where you wanna start your, your dosing, 2051 02:09:54,390 --> 02:09:57,250 and then you can start making your changes after, 2052 02:09:57,250 --> 02:10:01,450 after you see or don't see, um, effects. So those, 2053 02:10:01,450 --> 02:10:03,850 those three levels are, um, if you're, 2054 02:10:03,850 --> 02:10:06,570 if you're generally healthy and you wanna stay that way, um, 2055 02:10:06,570 --> 02:10:10,210 shoot for 10 milligrams of CBD twice a day as a minimum, 2056 02:10:10,210 --> 02:10:12,490 if you can afford or get your hands on more, well, that's, 2057 02:10:12,490 --> 02:10:15,530 that's all the better. But, um, but the, 2058 02:10:15,530 --> 02:10:19,090 the doctors that I have talked to and interviewed say that, you know, 2059 02:10:19,090 --> 02:10:21,690 if you're not actually actively trying to fix something, 2060 02:10:21,760 --> 02:10:25,410 taking 10 milligrams twice a day for 20 milligrams a day is a, 2061 02:10:25,410 --> 02:10:28,810 is a great place to go. Um, the next level up are, 2062 02:10:28,810 --> 02:10:33,010 if there is something actively you're trying to work on, like you're, um, 2063 02:10:33,240 --> 02:10:35,240 like migraines, like ibs, 2064 02:10:35,240 --> 02:10:38,920 like arthritic inflammation in the arms or, or in, or, 2065 02:10:38,920 --> 02:10:43,040 or in your knees or whatever, and that, that you're really talking about, um, 2066 02:10:43,040 --> 02:10:46,760 like 40 milligrams twice a day at that middle, middle place. 2067 02:10:47,140 --> 02:10:50,520 And then of course, there's this high end where, you know, if, 2068 02:10:50,520 --> 02:10:54,400 if they're using 200 milligram doses in trials, um, 2069 02:10:55,060 --> 02:10:59,280 not a lot of people can afford 200 milligrams of whole plant CBD 2070 02:10:59,930 --> 02:11:04,520 or maybe even isolate cbd. And so you just, you know, 2071 02:11:04,520 --> 02:11:06,120 you take as much as you can and, 2072 02:11:06,120 --> 02:11:10,890 and perhaps you can find yourself a syringe of c whole plant 2073 02:11:10,890 --> 02:11:15,050 and then spike it with some isolate and get creative. And so, um, 2074 02:11:15,250 --> 02:11:19,210 while that seems a bit on the vague side, there's a lot of different things. 2075 02:11:19,210 --> 02:11:23,850 There's dozens of different ailments that CBD can help with. And, 2076 02:11:24,100 --> 02:11:27,730 um, you know, this isn't a show just about dosing cbd. 2077 02:11:28,000 --> 02:11:30,930 I wanna teach you how to think about how to dose cbd, 2078 02:11:31,470 --> 02:11:34,890 and then you can continue with a little bit more of your own research. 2079 02:11:35,310 --> 02:11:37,010 And this will provide a, 2080 02:11:37,160 --> 02:11:41,210 a context for you to put that new information in as you are, um, 2081 02:11:41,210 --> 02:11:45,210 designing your own protocol. All right, so OneNote on, uh, 2082 02:11:45,210 --> 02:11:47,210 black swan patients around cbd. 2083 02:11:47,460 --> 02:11:52,210 So I have worked with one immune compromised patient who also had 2084 02:11:52,570 --> 02:11:53,610 rheumatoid arthritis, 2085 02:11:53,870 --> 02:11:58,570 and we become delirious and experience missing time after simply 2086 02:11:58,570 --> 02:12:03,250 ingesting 10 milligrams of C in a whole plant cannabis 2087 02:12:03,250 --> 02:12:06,430 oil. And, you know, 2088 02:12:06,430 --> 02:12:09,150 and it was really hard to believe it unless I had seen it. 2089 02:12:09,150 --> 02:12:10,470 And I saw it a few times. 2090 02:12:10,850 --> 02:12:15,590 And we know that it wasn't very high in THC in the 2091 02:12:15,590 --> 02:12:19,110 oil because it was hemp extracted and lab tested. 2092 02:12:19,290 --> 02:12:23,110 And so we're certain that the THC component was under one milligram, 2093 02:12:23,250 --> 02:12:27,430 and yet something in this patient was definitely activated. 2094 02:12:27,970 --> 02:12:29,590 And on more than one occasion, 2095 02:12:29,590 --> 02:12:32,750 because the patient had a long history of using this same oil, 2096 02:12:34,100 --> 02:12:38,670 suddenly when they took the oil at this low amount 2097 02:12:39,120 --> 02:12:41,670 of just 10 milligrams, they were, 2098 02:12:41,670 --> 02:12:44,350 they were losing entire afternoons and, 2099 02:12:44,410 --> 02:12:48,830 and were kind of delirious and tired and had to sleep the rest of the day. 2100 02:12:49,920 --> 02:12:54,110 We still don't know what that is. And when I talked to, you know, 2101 02:12:54,590 --> 02:12:57,430 canna apathic scientists, um, they, 2102 02:12:57,430 --> 02:12:59,470 they're skeptical and they don't wanna believe me, 2103 02:12:59,470 --> 02:13:03,430 but I've been doing this a long time now and I know this stuff to rule out and 2104 02:13:03,430 --> 02:13:05,910 so I see it. So, um, 2105 02:13:05,910 --> 02:13:10,070 I don't really tell you this to caution you against CBD cuz CBD is so safe. 2106 02:13:10,600 --> 02:13:12,990 Um, but you know, 2107 02:13:12,990 --> 02:13:16,470 this is an extraordinarily rare thing and I bring it up in case you are a 2108 02:13:16,470 --> 02:13:19,950 caregiver and you come across a patient like this. Um, know, 2109 02:13:19,950 --> 02:13:23,550 just know that it's possible humans are incredibly varied and knowing that 2110 02:13:23,550 --> 02:13:24,470 something is possible, 2111 02:13:24,470 --> 02:13:29,190 even if rare can help us guide patients should they have this sort of 2112 02:13:29,190 --> 02:13:33,540 rare reaction. So before we close this CBD section, 2113 02:13:33,540 --> 02:13:38,020 it's worthwhile to mention that C B D A, um, 2114 02:13:38,260 --> 02:13:43,100 which is the acid and raw form unheated form of CBD that is 2115 02:13:43,100 --> 02:13:44,420 present in the cannabis plant, 2116 02:13:44,850 --> 02:13:48,780 also has a strong affinity for the five HT one A receptor, 2117 02:13:48,970 --> 02:13:50,820 even more so than cbd. 2118 02:13:51,760 --> 02:13:56,260 And preclinical studies indicate that CBD A is also a potent 2119 02:13:56,290 --> 02:14:00,460 antiemetic nausea stronger than CBD or thc, 2120 02:14:00,460 --> 02:14:02,740 which also have the antinausea properties. 2121 02:14:02,880 --> 02:14:06,420 And the reason why I dropped this in here is just to kind of, uh, 2122 02:14:06,420 --> 02:14:10,700 ignite the idea in you that while most of the 2123 02:14:10,700 --> 02:14:14,540 preparations of medicine that we have are not the acid forms, 2124 02:14:14,550 --> 02:14:17,980 so most of the time what is available to us is C B D, 2125 02:14:18,320 --> 02:14:23,020 not C B C B D A. And by the time we take thc, 2126 02:14:23,020 --> 02:14:27,940 it's THC and not thc A we need to remember that the acid forms that have 2127 02:14:27,940 --> 02:14:31,700 not be been decarboxylated or heated, um, 2128 02:14:31,730 --> 02:14:34,220 they have their own, uh, 2129 02:14:34,220 --> 02:14:38,020 sets of ways that they help the endocannabinoid system. And, 2130 02:14:38,020 --> 02:14:42,940 and don't be shy about taking your cannabinoids raw right from the plant. 2131 02:14:43,390 --> 02:14:47,980 Um, say for example, by making hash and just eating it instead of, uh, 2132 02:14:47,980 --> 02:14:52,980 using some kind of preparation that, uh, you have to heat it either by, 2133 02:14:53,830 --> 02:14:58,780 uh, making an extracted cannabis oil, which you have to heat to remove the, 2134 02:14:58,910 --> 02:15:02,660 um, the ethanol, um, or, or, you know, 2135 02:15:02,660 --> 02:15:07,620 traditionally smoking thc where the burning of it is the 2136 02:15:07,640 --> 02:15:10,620 decarboxylation process. So it's just in, 2137 02:15:10,620 --> 02:15:13,820 it's just valuable to understand that these acid forms of these cannabinoids 2138 02:15:13,820 --> 02:15:17,940 often have entirely different useful properties than their non-acid forms. 2139 02:15:18,660 --> 02:15:23,350 Okay, so the third one we're gonna cover, um, in this set is, 2140 02:15:23,350 --> 02:15:25,870 is cbg. And, and we're gonna cover this, um, 2141 02:15:25,880 --> 02:15:30,870 in a shorter amount of time than THC and C B D cuz I would say that the vast 2142 02:15:31,270 --> 02:15:36,030 majority of people who are here are looking for dosing recommendations for THC 2143 02:15:36,030 --> 02:15:36,530 and cbd, 2144 02:15:36,530 --> 02:15:39,710 cuz those are the ones that have been studied the most and the ones that we can 2145 02:15:39,710 --> 02:15:44,390 get our hands on the most. But CBG is now becoming increasingly available, 2146 02:15:44,680 --> 02:15:48,830 uh, ever since some C B G dominant, um, 2147 02:15:49,270 --> 02:15:53,510 cannabis plants, um, found their way into the market, you know, 2148 02:15:53,510 --> 02:15:56,750 about five years ago now. So, so now there are, uh, 2149 02:15:56,750 --> 02:16:01,430 many hemp farms that are growing cbg, CBG dominant plants. 2150 02:16:01,730 --> 02:16:06,590 And so CBG is now available in isolate form and, um, 2151 02:16:06,930 --> 02:16:10,430 and as a whole plant resin too. Uh, I must admit, 2152 02:16:10,430 --> 02:16:15,190 I don't see CBG resin available just anywhere. And, 2153 02:16:15,200 --> 02:16:15,790 um, you know, 2154 02:16:15,790 --> 02:16:19,350 I have to grow my own plants and make it myself if I want it because, um, 2155 02:16:19,350 --> 02:16:22,550 it's not, it's not available in the licensed recreational, um, 2156 02:16:22,620 --> 02:16:23,990 system where I live. 2157 02:16:24,600 --> 02:16:29,440 So one of the newest cannabinoids to get attention and one with 2158 02:16:29,440 --> 02:16:33,640 very specific NU uses is CBG cannabigerol. 2159 02:16:34,370 --> 02:16:38,720 So I'm going to delineate two specific uses for CBG and then, 2160 02:16:38,720 --> 02:16:40,560 and then give you the dosing regimen for it. 2161 02:16:40,970 --> 02:16:45,920 So we found when we did our research here on Vaon Island 2162 02:16:45,920 --> 02:16:50,680 three years ago when we gave CBG to a round of patients and then did a 2163 02:16:50,680 --> 02:16:54,560 questionnaire afterwards that, um, the number one, um, 2164 02:16:55,530 --> 02:16:59,360 uh, the number one thing that people responded to was that it helped neuropathic 2165 02:16:59,470 --> 02:17:00,303 pain. 2166 02:17:00,410 --> 02:17:05,200 So that's pain from some kind of nervous system damage or dysregulation 2167 02:17:05,200 --> 02:17:05,520 like, 2168 02:17:05,520 --> 02:17:10,360 like a stabbing pain that seems without cause or cold or numb 2169 02:17:10,360 --> 02:17:15,200 fingers or limbs, that, that feeling of pins and needles, for example. Um, 2170 02:17:15,530 --> 02:17:19,720 um, and, and especially on your, um, um, periphery, right? 2171 02:17:19,720 --> 02:17:24,400 The external parts of your body. And so when people, uh, 2172 02:17:24,470 --> 02:17:29,080 take cbg, um, it decreases that experience. 2173 02:17:29,260 --> 02:17:33,560 And, um, it is true. We don't, we don't know exactly know why yet, but, uh, 2174 02:17:33,560 --> 02:17:36,120 we do know that it happens and it, and it happens, um, 2175 02:17:36,790 --> 02:17:39,800 pretty consistently across the board. Some of the, 2176 02:17:39,800 --> 02:17:42,760 some of the things that cannabis help with, we have to very much say, oh, 2177 02:17:42,760 --> 02:17:44,760 your mileage may vary. But, um, 2178 02:17:44,800 --> 02:17:49,240 these two attributes in CBG seems to be pretty reliable across the board. 2179 02:17:49,620 --> 02:17:53,440 And one of the great things about CBG is that, um, it doesn't have intoxication. 2180 02:17:53,570 --> 02:17:56,520 So it, it, it, unless you are, 2181 02:17:56,540 --> 02:18:01,440 are taking a CBG from a plant that it's married to 2182 02:18:01,860 --> 02:18:03,440 THC in the preparation, like, 2183 02:18:03,440 --> 02:18:08,280 like you don't grow a CBG hemp plant. Instead, you, 2184 02:18:08,280 --> 02:18:12,880 you grow a one to one plant that's one part CBG and one part 2185 02:18:13,180 --> 02:18:17,680 thc. So long as you're, you're not intentionally adding the THC component, 2186 02:18:18,020 --> 02:18:19,720 CBG on its own won't get you high, 2187 02:18:19,720 --> 02:18:24,000 which makes it very reliable for lots of people who have 2188 02:18:24,270 --> 02:18:28,360 pain, but they don't want to feel any level of intoxication. 2189 02:18:28,360 --> 02:18:31,200 And CBG is incredibly reliable for this. 2190 02:18:32,360 --> 02:18:37,020 The second great use for CBG is, uh, actually anxiety. Um, 2191 02:18:37,020 --> 02:18:40,620 I was really surprised when we got back the questionnaires and, and there were, 2192 02:18:40,620 --> 02:18:44,620 there were multiple different flavors of anxiety that people found great help 2193 02:18:44,620 --> 02:18:47,380 with. So, um, the first one was social anxiety. 2194 02:18:47,380 --> 02:18:50,700 People said that it kind of like calmed them down and it allowed them to be 2195 02:18:50,700 --> 02:18:55,460 social and interact with other people. Uh, we also heard from people that, um, 2196 02:18:55,550 --> 02:19:00,060 it, uh, softened performance anxiety, so public speaking or, 2197 02:19:00,270 --> 02:19:03,900 um, at the beginning of covid when everyone was getting on Zoom meetings for the 2198 02:19:03,900 --> 02:19:08,220 first time, you know, zoom meetings are very socially awkward situations, 2199 02:19:08,220 --> 02:19:13,100 and a lot of people found it very uncomfortable to be doing these Zoom meetings. 2200 02:19:13,480 --> 02:19:18,300 And CBG helped people like cool out so that they could, um, tolerate the, 2201 02:19:18,300 --> 02:19:23,100 the awkwardness stay calm and engaged and, and be productive, uh, 2202 02:19:23,100 --> 02:19:27,320 in their Zoom meetings. And then the third one was a real surprise. 2203 02:19:27,510 --> 02:19:30,960 Many patients would explain it to me by, by putting their, 2204 02:19:30,960 --> 02:19:32,360 their hands on their hips and, 2205 02:19:32,360 --> 02:19:35,920 and thrusting their chest out like a superhero would. And, and they'd say like, 2206 02:19:35,920 --> 02:19:40,440 it gives me the confidence of a superhero. And after I heard that enough times, 2207 02:19:40,470 --> 02:19:45,450 I, I really had to start like listening and thinking about it because people 2208 02:19:45,770 --> 02:19:48,810 really seem to get an increase of confidence from it. Like, 2209 02:19:48,830 --> 02:19:51,930 and how they described it is, I feel like, um, 2210 02:19:52,600 --> 02:19:56,930 I feel like I have the resources to get what I need to get done today 2211 02:19:57,120 --> 02:20:01,610 versus, you know, if you wake up with rumination and you're like, oh my gosh, 2212 02:20:01,610 --> 02:20:04,170 I just don't, I just don't have what it takes to get through the day, 2213 02:20:04,170 --> 02:20:07,330 that can really just like hold you back your entire day. 2214 02:20:07,470 --> 02:20:11,890 But if you start your day with a little CBG and suddenly you're all like, okay, 2215 02:20:12,000 --> 02:20:14,810 I can handle this, let's go. And, um, 2216 02:20:15,500 --> 02:20:19,090 it showed up very significantly in the questionnaires that we got back. 2217 02:20:19,110 --> 02:20:23,050 But then also in the three years since then, um, uh, I just, 2218 02:20:23,050 --> 02:20:25,250 I just see it in patience all the time when they, 2219 02:20:25,720 --> 02:20:30,620 when they tell me that they have sourced it and they're using it and they're 2220 02:20:30,620 --> 02:20:34,540 loving it and they never wanna not have it again. And so, um, 2221 02:20:34,720 --> 02:20:38,460 CBG cannabigerol can be relied on for, um, 2222 02:20:38,470 --> 02:20:42,860 as a really reliable anti-anxiety with no intoxication. Okay, 2223 02:20:42,860 --> 02:20:44,980 so now the specific numbers and milligrams that, 2224 02:20:44,980 --> 02:20:48,660 that we're seeing people have success with, um, uh, 2225 02:20:48,660 --> 02:20:53,580 10 milligrams of CBG every three hours does a great job for 2226 02:20:53,580 --> 02:20:58,180 both. So if you want to use it as a pain reliever, 2227 02:20:58,280 --> 02:21:00,980 10 milligrams of CBG every three hours does, 2228 02:21:00,980 --> 02:21:04,380 does usually has fantastic results. Um, 2229 02:21:04,380 --> 02:21:07,180 if you have got a very high background anxiety, 2230 02:21:07,240 --> 02:21:10,780 you might need to take CBG multiple times throughout the day, 2231 02:21:11,040 --> 02:21:12,580 but really for most folks, 2232 02:21:12,710 --> 02:21:17,020 they'll take it in the morning and it kind of sets them on the, 2233 02:21:17,020 --> 02:21:19,340 on an anti-anxiety path for the day, 2234 02:21:19,400 --> 02:21:22,740 and they just seem to be like okay with that one dose. Now, 2235 02:21:22,740 --> 02:21:25,100 if they have like a stress event in the afternoon, um, 2236 02:21:25,100 --> 02:21:27,860 many people will take it again. But really, um, 2237 02:21:27,970 --> 02:21:31,020 unless you already have chronic anxiety, 2238 02:21:31,020 --> 02:21:34,780 if you just like have a bit of anxiety or if you have like morning rumination 2239 02:21:34,780 --> 02:21:36,060 that you need to get rid of, 2240 02:21:36,160 --> 02:21:40,660 you may get away with just taking 10 milligrams of whole plant CBG just once in 2241 02:21:40,660 --> 02:21:43,100 the morning and good for the rest of the day. But, you know, 2242 02:21:43,100 --> 02:21:46,180 if your anxiety continues throughout the day, you can certainly take it, um, 2243 02:21:46,270 --> 02:21:50,740 as needed because taking more, um, has got no negative impact. Now, 2244 02:21:50,740 --> 02:21:55,580 20 milligrams makes it happen even faster and with a bit more, um, spun. 2245 02:21:56,550 --> 02:21:58,980 So, uh, let's say that, um, you know, 2246 02:21:58,980 --> 02:22:02,780 generally you take 10 milligrams just because you've got a high background 2247 02:22:02,780 --> 02:22:07,060 anxiety, but, um, today you need to give a presentation, right? 2248 02:22:07,200 --> 02:22:11,980 And so your, your, your anxiety is going to be especially peaked. 2249 02:22:11,980 --> 02:22:16,740 Well then go ahead and take 20 milligrams and, and don't monkey around with it, 2250 02:22:16,740 --> 02:22:20,940 right? Um, and those are, those are great low numbers, right? You know, if you, 2251 02:22:20,940 --> 02:22:25,560 if you think back to the thc we were talking, you know, um, you know, 10, 2252 02:22:25,560 --> 02:22:30,320 you know, five or 10, but then the c we were talking 80 and 200, well, 2253 02:22:30,320 --> 02:22:32,520 this is back down to, uh, 2254 02:22:32,580 --> 02:22:35,960 THC levels more like 10 or 20 milligrams and, uh, 2255 02:22:35,960 --> 02:22:38,880 makes it much more affordable if you can find it, 2256 02:22:38,880 --> 02:22:43,600 because the CBG that is available to you, um, just lasts a whole lot longer. 2257 02:22:44,730 --> 02:22:49,580 Okay? So, uh, to wrap up this second set, we looked at, um, 2258 02:22:49,580 --> 02:22:50,740 the, the, you know, 2259 02:22:50,740 --> 02:22:55,380 how to think about dosing for THC and for C B D and for 2260 02:22:55,600 --> 02:23:00,500 cbg. And granted there are a lot of other cannabinoids out there, but, 2261 02:23:00,710 --> 02:23:01,543 um, 2262 02:23:02,160 --> 02:23:07,070 between the lack of availability in most places and 2263 02:23:07,070 --> 02:23:11,590 the lack of the research about what is an effective dose, um, 2264 02:23:11,980 --> 02:23:16,590 I don't wanna give you information that is not solidified yet. And, 2265 02:23:16,650 --> 02:23:21,230 and so since these are the three cannabinoids that most people, um, 2266 02:23:21,230 --> 02:23:26,110 have easier access to, this is, this is what we are going to talk about today. 2267 02:23:26,770 --> 02:23:31,230 And as new cannabinoids become more available in the future, 2268 02:23:31,230 --> 02:23:36,110 like for example, cbn, we're gonna be seeing a lot more of CBN soon. Um, 2269 02:23:36,110 --> 02:23:38,910 you know, when that comes, you will have, um, 2270 02:23:38,910 --> 02:23:43,910 you will have the proper understanding and context to look at the studies that 2271 02:23:43,910 --> 02:23:48,910 are coming out and being published on project cbd.org and learning 2272 02:23:48,910 --> 02:23:53,470 how to add that to your own particular health protocol with cannabis medicine. 2273 02:23:54,090 --> 02:23:56,350 All right, so, um, uh, 2274 02:23:56,350 --> 02:23:59,430 we're gonna take our short break and when we come back with set three, 2275 02:23:59,430 --> 02:24:03,310 we're gonna talk about, um, some use cases, um, uh, 2276 02:24:03,310 --> 02:24:07,110 like arthritis and leg and joint pain and neuropathy. And, and, 2277 02:24:07,110 --> 02:24:11,110 and we'll just talk about, um, thinking through some of these use cases, um, 2278 02:24:11,120 --> 02:24:15,150 to make sure that you really understand how to think through doing your dosing. 2279 02:24:15,150 --> 02:24:19,110 Because like I've said, everybody's dosing in the end is unique. We, 2280 02:24:19,110 --> 02:24:22,390 we can give you these guides to get you started, but in the end, 2281 02:24:22,390 --> 02:24:23,590 you will be divide, 2282 02:24:23,590 --> 02:24:28,350 devising your own protocol as you get to understand how cannabis medicine works 2283 02:24:28,350 --> 02:24:31,910 and how it works with your own body. So, uh, 2284 02:24:31,910 --> 02:24:33,790 we're going to take a short break and be right back. 2285 02:24:33,790 --> 02:24:37,350 You are listening to the hundredth episode of Shaping Fire. 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So here we are in the third set, 2368 02:29:35,330 --> 02:29:37,330 the big wrap up. So during the first set, 2369 02:29:37,380 --> 02:29:41,730 we learned about how our endocannabinoid system functions and considered some of 2370 02:29:41,730 --> 02:29:46,330 the different ways to take cannabis medicine into your body based on what, uh, 2371 02:29:46,330 --> 02:29:50,210 is gonna be best to suit, uh, the ailment that you are working with. 2372 02:29:50,280 --> 02:29:53,770 During the second set, we talked about very specific, um, 2373 02:29:53,770 --> 02:29:57,730 dosing strategies and how to consider dosing protocols, um, 2374 02:29:57,730 --> 02:30:01,130 for the most popular three cannabinoids that people, um, 2375 02:30:01,130 --> 02:30:05,650 look to supplement with thc, C, B, D and cbg. 2376 02:30:05,950 --> 02:30:10,210 And here in set three, which hopefully will be, uh, shorter than the first two, 2377 02:30:10,500 --> 02:30:14,930 um, we're gonna talk about, um, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 specific, 2378 02:30:15,820 --> 02:30:16,890 um, um, 2379 02:30:17,400 --> 02:30:20,970 issues that people come to me asking for dosing strategies for. 2380 02:30:21,150 --> 02:30:23,930 And we'll go over those kind of swiftly since, 2381 02:30:23,930 --> 02:30:27,290 since you've heard most of the analysis already earlier in the show. Um, 2382 02:30:27,290 --> 02:30:31,290 I'm just gonna tie them together, um, which should, you know, 2383 02:30:31,290 --> 02:30:34,850 kind of give you a roadmap to how you can think about them yourself. So, 2384 02:30:34,850 --> 02:30:36,290 alright, let's get right to it. 2385 02:30:36,420 --> 02:30:40,090 So the first one we're gonna talk about is kind of this bucket of issues, 2386 02:30:40,090 --> 02:30:44,410 which is arthritis, leg and joint pain and neuropathy. 2387 02:30:44,780 --> 02:30:48,370 Um, the thing that these all have in common is that, uh, 2388 02:30:48,370 --> 02:30:52,810 it is an ongoing chronic discomfort or pain, um, 2389 02:30:52,810 --> 02:30:55,370 most likely caused by inflammation. 2390 02:30:56,030 --> 02:31:00,930 And so even though it, it manifests differently in these different issues, um, 2391 02:31:00,930 --> 02:31:02,410 they, they really do have, uh, 2392 02:31:02,410 --> 02:31:04,650 a lot of similarity in how we're gonna treat them. 2393 02:31:05,150 --> 02:31:09,170 And so if somebody came to me with one of three these, this is what I would say, 2394 02:31:09,460 --> 02:31:11,490 um, first of all, I would recommend, uh, 2395 02:31:11,490 --> 02:31:16,170 2.5 to five milligrams of THC if they are intolerant of thc 2396 02:31:16,260 --> 02:31:18,570 or are especially concerned about, you know, 2397 02:31:18,570 --> 02:31:23,040 feeling out of control or high in any way. Um, and then if they, 2398 02:31:23,670 --> 02:31:28,160 I would also tell them that once they built up a comfort with, uh, 2399 02:31:28,160 --> 02:31:32,480 taking thc, or if they already take thc, perhaps they are a, you know, 2400 02:31:32,480 --> 02:31:33,960 a recreational toker or something, 2401 02:31:33,960 --> 02:31:36,960 then go ahead and start with five to 10 milligrams. You know, 2402 02:31:36,960 --> 02:31:40,120 if they are THC tolerance, um, you know, 2403 02:31:40,120 --> 02:31:42,120 if you build up a tolerance from daily use, 2404 02:31:42,120 --> 02:31:44,840 this number can go as high as a hundred milligrams or more. 2405 02:31:44,840 --> 02:31:45,880 As we've already talked about, 2406 02:31:46,240 --> 02:31:50,120 these patients could probably benefit from a tolerance break from the thc. 2407 02:31:50,120 --> 02:31:53,200 And I understand that some patients cannot live a day without thc, 2408 02:31:53,200 --> 02:31:56,760 so I'm not being cocky about it or ableist. What I'm trying to say is, 2409 02:31:56,760 --> 02:32:01,760 if you can work it out for a day or two or more to not take THC to 2410 02:32:01,760 --> 02:32:04,840 bring your tolerance down from needing to take a hundred milligrams a day, 2411 02:32:05,170 --> 02:32:09,320 it would probably be both physically and financially of benefit to you. 2412 02:32:10,020 --> 02:32:13,920 And the last thing I would say here is to consider a topical, um, 2413 02:32:13,950 --> 02:32:18,320 with arthritis and leg and joint pain and often neuropathy, um, 2414 02:32:18,320 --> 02:32:23,320 you can actually use a THC based topical localized and targeted to where 2415 02:32:23,320 --> 02:32:24,520 the discomfort's coming from. 2416 02:32:24,700 --> 02:32:28,040 And then that way you are taking cannabinoids orally, 2417 02:32:28,280 --> 02:32:32,160 which will help with, uh, systemic anti-inflammation. 2418 02:32:32,220 --> 02:32:36,160 But also when you place the topical locally, you're getting, you know, 2419 02:32:36,160 --> 02:32:40,080 you're doubling down on making sure that you're applying cannabinoids in the 2420 02:32:40,080 --> 02:32:40,913 proper area. 2421 02:32:41,410 --> 02:32:45,560 If you are making your own tinctures and you are aware that topicals are 2422 02:32:45,560 --> 02:32:46,270 expensive, 2423 02:32:46,270 --> 02:32:51,080 I encourage you to just take some of your tincture and, you know, 2424 02:32:51,080 --> 02:32:53,680 a ramn like they serve you ketchup in at the restaurant. 2425 02:32:53,810 --> 02:32:57,320 Go ahead and put some kind of a hand lotion or a massage lotion or like 2426 02:32:57,320 --> 02:33:01,160 luberderm or something in one of those little, uh, ketchup rams. 2427 02:33:01,160 --> 02:33:04,560 And then put just a little bit of your tincture in it and swirled around with, 2428 02:33:04,560 --> 02:33:08,400 with your finger. And now you have made instant topical. Um, 2429 02:33:08,400 --> 02:33:12,440 it's what I used in the early days, um, before I learned how to make topicals. 2430 02:33:12,440 --> 02:33:14,240 And it works absolutely fantastic. 2431 02:33:14,850 --> 02:33:18,280 So you can consider that and save a lot of money on the kind of prices that they 2432 02:33:18,280 --> 02:33:21,600 charge for topicals at the licensed stores. All right, 2433 02:33:21,600 --> 02:33:25,240 so that's a quick run through of arthritis leg and joint pain and neuropathy. 2434 02:33:25,240 --> 02:33:27,480 Let's talk about cancer symptom relief. 2435 02:33:27,490 --> 02:33:31,680 So we're not talking about the full fight cancer protocol here and, 2436 02:33:31,680 --> 02:33:33,520 and hopefully we'll do this again sometime and, 2437 02:33:33,520 --> 02:33:36,120 and I'll talk about the cancer fighting protocol in detail. 2438 02:33:36,230 --> 02:33:38,400 What we're talking about here is, um, 2439 02:33:38,620 --> 02:33:42,640 for patients who have got cancer and are, um, 2440 02:33:42,640 --> 02:33:45,840 either simply just suffering from the cancer and they, they're, 2441 02:33:45,840 --> 02:33:47,240 that's all they're doing. Um, 2442 02:33:47,240 --> 02:33:51,840 so they're looking for comfort or more commonly they've chosen to go the route 2443 02:33:51,930 --> 02:33:54,560 of, uh, some variety of, uh, chemotherapy. 2444 02:33:54,860 --> 02:33:59,440 And so they are dealing with the symptoms from the chemo, um, 2445 02:33:59,440 --> 02:34:03,800 stacked on top of the discomfort and, um, from the cancer, 2446 02:34:04,290 --> 02:34:07,000 uh, experience itself. So for these people, 2447 02:34:07,660 --> 02:34:11,320 the first thing I would recommend is, um, uh, thc. 2448 02:34:11,700 --> 02:34:14,080 And that's gonna help them in so many ways. 2449 02:34:14,220 --> 02:34:18,400 The first thing it's gonna do is just make them them a little more comfortable 2450 02:34:18,400 --> 02:34:21,880 in their body. By the time cancer has gotten advanced, 2451 02:34:21,880 --> 02:34:26,360 and especially if you are, um, taking any kind of chemo, your, 2452 02:34:26,430 --> 02:34:31,360 your human meat suit is just not feeling like your ally anymore. Um, 2453 02:34:31,360 --> 02:34:35,840 you've got aches and pains and things aren't working properly and fluids aren't 2454 02:34:35,840 --> 02:34:40,840 moving properly, and it's just all around lack of comfort. But, um, 2455 02:34:40,840 --> 02:34:45,840 taking five to 10 milligrams of THC based tincture is going to 2456 02:34:45,840 --> 02:34:49,480 put you in a place where you feel a little more comfortable in your body. 2457 02:34:49,480 --> 02:34:53,840 Your muscles are a little more relent relaxed instead of just being clenched. 2458 02:34:54,620 --> 02:34:58,600 And, um, and you're a little distracted from the THC too. 2459 02:34:58,980 --> 02:35:01,960 And you know, you haven't really changed the status of your body. 2460 02:35:01,960 --> 02:35:06,320 Your body is still incredibly uncomfortable and sick. However, 2461 02:35:07,180 --> 02:35:11,800 you can get a little bit of respite just from the THC and the relaxation and 2462 02:35:11,800 --> 02:35:13,560 the, and the easing of your human. 2463 02:35:14,150 --> 02:35:18,320 Also that THC is very likely to give you an appetite as well. 2464 02:35:18,700 --> 02:35:22,040 And as we know, um, cancer patients, especially in chemo, 2465 02:35:22,040 --> 02:35:25,560 tend to lose their appetite. And we really don't want you thinning down. 2466 02:35:25,560 --> 02:35:30,200 At the same time, we wanna try to help you keep weight on so that, um, 2467 02:35:30,200 --> 02:35:34,880 you know, you don't slip into some kind of a, a wasting, um, cycle. Uh, 2468 02:35:34,880 --> 02:35:38,200 cuz that's, that's not usually a good sign. Um, 2469 02:35:38,200 --> 02:35:41,480 if you have access to thc, a that's the, um, 2470 02:35:41,630 --> 02:35:46,240 that's THC that has not been heated or decar vaccinated THC 2471 02:35:46,330 --> 02:35:48,920 is actually really effective in, um, 2472 02:35:48,920 --> 02:35:53,080 cancer patients for helping rebuild appetite as well. Um, 2473 02:35:53,080 --> 02:35:54,480 just in case for you, 2474 02:35:54,900 --> 02:35:59,520 THC is not appetite forming, uh, try the acid form. 2475 02:35:59,570 --> 02:36:04,280 Um, we get a lot of good results with that here on the island, um, 2476 02:36:04,280 --> 02:36:07,880 ever since we started talking about it. So that's been, uh, real positive. 2477 02:36:08,540 --> 02:36:09,200 And so, 2478 02:36:09,200 --> 02:36:13,240 and the last thing for cancer symptom relief is to just simply take as much 2479 02:36:13,240 --> 02:36:17,920 whole plant C b D oil as as you can afford, as we discussed earlier, 2480 02:36:17,920 --> 02:36:22,840 because your body's endocannabinoid system is probably a 2481 02:36:22,840 --> 02:36:26,920 wreck from all of the pharmaceuticals and especially if you are taking chemo 2482 02:36:27,740 --> 02:36:32,040 and your body's natural balancing system is, 2483 02:36:32,220 --> 02:36:33,760 has been totally traumatized. 2484 02:36:34,140 --> 02:36:37,600 And so you're not properly making signaling molecules and, 2485 02:36:37,880 --> 02:36:42,880 and endocannabinoids and you could really benefit from dumping as much c b D 2486 02:36:42,880 --> 02:36:47,000 into your body as you can likely afford. So, um, you know, 2487 02:36:47,000 --> 02:36:49,840 I I guess I should put a a top on it. I wouldn't put, you know, 2488 02:36:49,840 --> 02:36:54,760 more than 400 milligrams of whole plant into, um, you know, 2489 02:36:54,760 --> 02:36:58,520 a day. You, you probably, your body probably couldn't process more than that. 2490 02:36:58,620 --> 02:37:03,560 And I actually don't have an opinion on, uh, how much isolate is a maximum. Um, 2491 02:37:03,560 --> 02:37:04,960 and, and especially for cancer, 2492 02:37:05,030 --> 02:37:09,920 I would really recommend that you use a whole plant preparation so 2493 02:37:09,920 --> 02:37:13,800 that you're getting all the secondary, uh, novel cannabinoids and, um, 2494 02:37:14,020 --> 02:37:18,480 the other synergistic components that we're not entirely certain how they help 2495 02:37:18,480 --> 02:37:21,640 out yet, like canif, flavin and the others. For example, 2496 02:37:23,350 --> 02:37:28,070 let's talk about migraines. So migraines, um, they're kind of low hanging fruit, 2497 02:37:28,360 --> 02:37:30,910 um, either works or it doesn't, 2498 02:37:31,330 --> 02:37:36,110 but what the dosage is is pretty basic and it's 20 milligrams of whole 2499 02:37:36,110 --> 02:37:38,950 plant CBD two times a day minimum. 2500 02:37:39,560 --> 02:37:43,510 So you can take more if you'd like, of course. Um, but, uh, 2501 02:37:43,510 --> 02:37:47,150 20 milligrams two times a day, uh, seems to work pretty well for folks. 2502 02:37:47,740 --> 02:37:52,630 Once people realize whether or not they are of the 20% of people who 2503 02:37:52,630 --> 02:37:57,350 are kept awake at night by CBD because of it activating the 2504 02:37:57,350 --> 02:38:00,030 body's housekeeping, if you're not one of those 20%, 2505 02:38:00,030 --> 02:38:02,670 go ahead and take it in the evening too, which, uh, 2506 02:38:02,670 --> 02:38:05,750 hopefully will act as a prophylactic so you don't wake up in the morning with a 2507 02:38:05,950 --> 02:38:10,870 migraine. But be aware that if you are one of the 20% of people that CBD 2508 02:38:11,150 --> 02:38:12,750 keeps up at night, um, 2509 02:38:12,770 --> 02:38:17,110 you wanna avoid that cuz that probably will increase your likelihood of actually 2510 02:38:17,110 --> 02:38:21,300 waking up with a migraine. I also would have you consider, uh, 2511 02:38:21,300 --> 02:38:25,940 a small amount of THC for muscle relaxation because we know that 2512 02:38:26,120 --> 02:38:30,980 not only does a relaxation of the muscle sets help 2513 02:38:31,380 --> 02:38:35,100 decrease the likelihood of migraines, but if you are, uh, 2514 02:38:35,100 --> 02:38:36,780 pretty severe migraine patient, 2515 02:38:37,370 --> 02:38:41,580 your body's fear of having another migraine and going through that, 2516 02:38:41,580 --> 02:38:46,020 that cycle of pain and discomfort itself can cause the body 2517 02:38:46,270 --> 02:38:49,180 to, um, constrict, 2518 02:38:49,300 --> 02:38:53,220 which in and of itself can cause migraines and, and it just feels bad. 2519 02:38:53,220 --> 02:38:58,180 So if you're not resistant to, uh, trying thc, um, 2520 02:38:58,180 --> 02:39:02,460 taking five milligrams of a THC tincture along with 2521 02:39:02,840 --> 02:39:06,540 the 20 milligrams of C B D, um, uh, 2522 02:39:06,540 --> 02:39:11,380 will likely help you either move out of a migraine or even 2523 02:39:11,380 --> 02:39:15,900 better, uh, be a preventative. I would also consider, uh, have you consider, um, 2524 02:39:15,900 --> 02:39:19,220 microdosing psilocybin mushrooms at uh, 2525 02:39:19,600 --> 02:39:24,540 one milligrams, um, taken 20 days a month. Um, 2526 02:39:24,540 --> 02:39:28,620 if you'd like to learn more about working with your migraine using psilocybin 2527 02:39:28,740 --> 02:39:33,700 mushrooms, I encourage you to listen to shaping fire episodes 67 with Dr. Russo, 2528 02:39:33,700 --> 02:39:38,380 where we talk all about treating migraines with cannabis and, um, 2529 02:39:38,720 --> 02:39:43,260 soy mushrooms. It's a good one. The next one we're gonna talk about is insomnia. 2530 02:39:43,410 --> 02:39:45,700 Insomnia is incredibly common, um, 2531 02:39:45,960 --> 02:39:49,940 for me to hear about because so many people have got it for different reasons 2532 02:39:49,940 --> 02:39:54,540 and it is actually pretty easy to treat with, um, with cannabis. 2533 02:39:55,000 --> 02:39:56,780 The first question I always ask people though, 2534 02:39:56,780 --> 02:40:00,140 when they tell me that they have insomnia is not one that they generally like, 2535 02:40:00,280 --> 02:40:02,060 and that question is always, um, 2536 02:40:02,270 --> 02:40:05,780 do you drink coffee in the morning because that is the first thing to go. 2537 02:40:06,000 --> 02:40:10,620 The halflife of the drug we call caffeine is 14 hours. 2538 02:40:10,910 --> 02:40:15,520 So by the time you are drinking tomorrow morning's coffee, 2539 02:40:15,900 --> 02:40:19,600 you are still on yesterday's caffeine that you took in the morning. 2540 02:40:20,060 --> 02:40:22,560 And if this is continuing every day, 2541 02:40:22,950 --> 02:40:25,480 you're never not on caffeine, 2542 02:40:25,560 --> 02:40:28,560 which means that when you're trying to go to sleep at night, 2543 02:40:28,740 --> 02:40:33,680 you are always fighting against a stimulant that you took not only that 2544 02:40:33,680 --> 02:40:35,920 morning, but yesterday morning as well. 2545 02:40:36,460 --> 02:40:40,400 And so that would be the first place is to stop drinking caffeine. 2546 02:40:41,170 --> 02:40:41,840 Um, second, 2547 02:40:41,840 --> 02:40:44,680 I would ask them what they think their source of their insomnia or what, 2548 02:40:44,680 --> 02:40:49,440 what's the flavor? Um, insomnia tends to fall into two categories. 2549 02:40:49,460 --> 02:40:52,800 One being some sort of discomfort or pain, 2550 02:40:52,980 --> 02:40:56,800 and then the other sort being some sort of anxiety or rumination. 2551 02:40:57,180 --> 02:41:01,400 And then I would suggest for them solutions for the pain 2552 02:41:01,850 --> 02:41:04,640 or the anxiety rumination. Um, 2553 02:41:04,780 --> 02:41:09,640 but oddly they do tend to be both the same cannabis prescription, 2554 02:41:09,640 --> 02:41:14,400 which is five to 10 milligrams of an indica tincture 2555 02:41:14,830 --> 02:41:17,760 made using purple flowering cannabis plants. 2556 02:41:17,780 --> 02:41:21,960 Now I know that the terms sativa and indica are antiquated, 2557 02:41:22,100 --> 02:41:26,360 but people are still using them and they can be helpful when going to, 2558 02:41:26,660 --> 02:41:29,280 you know, a licensed store and talking with a bud tenderer. 2559 02:41:29,280 --> 02:41:32,840 But what we're looking for are, uh, a tinctures, 2560 02:41:33,310 --> 02:41:37,640 preferably made from plants from the, you know, Afghanistan, 2561 02:41:37,960 --> 02:41:42,360 Pakistan region, um, that are purple because these plants, um, are, 2562 02:41:42,690 --> 02:41:47,600 uh, heavily narcotic and lethargic and that's what we wanna do, right? 2563 02:41:47,600 --> 02:41:52,280 We want to cause drowsiness and we want to cause muscle relaxation 2564 02:41:52,280 --> 02:41:56,240 and we want to slow you down and make you feel a little dreamy and then put you 2565 02:41:56,240 --> 02:42:00,560 to sleep. Also, these plants, these purple flowering cannabis plants, um, 2566 02:42:00,560 --> 02:42:02,920 they're usually packed with the turpen, 2567 02:42:02,980 --> 02:42:05,920 the terpenes mirroring and lulu, 2568 02:42:06,080 --> 02:42:10,880 which also help you feel drowsy and have you go to sleep. Um, 2569 02:42:10,880 --> 02:42:15,080 specifically if the insomnia is caused by anxiety and rumination, um, 2570 02:42:15,080 --> 02:42:19,720 it would be really great, uh, to add some CBG tincture to that as well. 2571 02:42:20,300 --> 02:42:24,120 And if the person that you're working with or yourself, um, 2572 02:42:24,570 --> 02:42:29,400 is THC intolerant either on principle or, or they're sensitive to it, um, 2573 02:42:29,400 --> 02:42:31,640 you can just give them cbg um, 2574 02:42:32,020 --> 02:42:36,520 CBG helps with both pain and anxiety rumination. Um, 2575 02:42:37,050 --> 02:42:41,560 so taking between 10 milligrams and 20 milligrams of CBG 2576 02:42:41,740 --> 02:42:46,120 for insomnia is very effective for folks, especially if, um, 2577 02:42:46,120 --> 02:42:49,560 they are very much not interested in taking THC 2578 02:42:50,800 --> 02:42:51,650 depression. 2579 02:42:51,760 --> 02:42:56,050 Depression would be 20 milligrams two times a day of CBD 2580 02:42:56,530 --> 02:43:00,330 where you're taking that because your goal is to build up the endocannabinoid 2581 02:43:00,330 --> 02:43:04,850 system and to help regulate the brain chemistry. Um, 2582 02:43:05,120 --> 02:43:07,850 this is something that you wanna do long term, right? 2583 02:43:07,850 --> 02:43:11,680 CBD is not something that you're just gonna take Monday and then Thursday and 2584 02:43:11,680 --> 02:43:16,160 then Sunday. No, no, no, you want to take CBD every day because the benefits, 2585 02:43:16,160 --> 02:43:20,840 the primary benefits come from building up your endocannabinoid system and 2586 02:43:20,840 --> 02:43:25,120 making it burley so it can do its job regulating your body's systems. 2587 02:43:25,730 --> 02:43:29,280 So that would be, um, 20 milligrams two times a day, 2588 02:43:29,560 --> 02:43:33,280 three times if you can take it in the evening, uh, of C B D. 2589 02:43:33,980 --> 02:43:37,880 And also to put yourself in a good mood and make things a little more tolerable 2590 02:43:37,880 --> 02:43:40,480 while you're trying to change yourself systemically. 2591 02:43:40,850 --> 02:43:44,200 Go ahead and try to get your hands on some CBG tincture or oil as well, 2592 02:43:44,620 --> 02:43:49,280 and take 10 milligrams of that twice a day in the morning and then after lunch. 2593 02:43:49,770 --> 02:43:51,720 Um, that cbg my goodness, 2594 02:43:51,720 --> 02:43:56,200 is it an effective anti-anxiety and it just makes things feel a little better 2595 02:43:56,260 --> 02:44:00,760 and the confidence that it brings really helps even out the 2596 02:44:00,760 --> 02:44:03,680 depression vibes of hopelessness. 2597 02:44:04,760 --> 02:44:09,540 And then I would also recommend microdosing, psilocybin, microdosing psilocybin, 2598 02:44:09,750 --> 02:44:10,100 um, 2599 02:44:10,100 --> 02:44:14,900 really helps improve your neural network and pull you out of a funk. 2600 02:44:15,470 --> 02:44:18,060 Um, there's lots of research on it to support it, 2601 02:44:18,060 --> 02:44:20,620 and I encourage you to check out the, um, 2602 02:44:20,620 --> 02:44:23,940 the microdose psilocybin episodes on Shaping Fire. 2603 02:44:24,990 --> 02:44:29,090 And the last one we're gonna talk about here is neuro divergent support. Um, 2604 02:44:29,090 --> 02:44:30,130 more and more people, 2605 02:44:30,130 --> 02:44:34,770 especially during quarantine when our lives got less 2606 02:44:34,770 --> 02:44:39,730 thrilling and we were creating less dopamine from having relatively 2607 02:44:39,730 --> 02:44:42,890 boring quarantined lives. Um, 2608 02:44:42,890 --> 02:44:47,130 a lot of people realized that they have some flavor of neuro divergence. 2609 02:44:47,670 --> 02:44:49,970 And while you figure that out, um, 2610 02:44:49,970 --> 02:44:53,850 by doing your reading and checking out the, uh, neuro, 2611 02:44:53,850 --> 02:44:58,850 neuro divergent community on TikTok, I also recommend, um, these, um, 2612 02:44:58,850 --> 02:45:02,010 as potential things to help you get through as you figure out the best 2613 02:45:02,010 --> 02:45:05,650 combination for you. Uh, 40 milligrams of cbd, 2614 02:45:05,650 --> 02:45:08,330 whole plant oil two times a day. Um, 2615 02:45:08,330 --> 02:45:11,730 this is of course because we wanna build up that endocannabinoid system and we 2616 02:45:11,730 --> 02:45:16,610 wanna give our brain as many signaling molecules as it can to do its 2617 02:45:16,610 --> 02:45:19,330 job because neuro divergent brains, 2618 02:45:19,330 --> 02:45:23,810 they are running hotter and faster than other people's brains and they need 2619 02:45:23,810 --> 02:45:28,130 intentional support. Um, you're not driving a, you know, 2620 02:45:28,130 --> 02:45:29,810 a regular car like everybody else. 2621 02:45:29,810 --> 02:45:34,370 You're driving a Formula One and Formula One cars. They need specialty tires, 2622 02:45:34,370 --> 02:45:38,730 specialty oils, specialty fluids, and so do you, my friend. 2623 02:45:39,300 --> 02:45:44,250 Um, and I was also helpful to, you know, keep things in a good perspective by, 2624 02:45:44,260 --> 02:45:49,210 um, supplementing with CBG 10 milligrams two times a day. Um, and, 2625 02:45:49,210 --> 02:45:52,810 and the reason is just simply, it's hard out there for neuro divergent folks. 2626 02:45:52,810 --> 02:45:56,570 This world was not designed for the neuro divergent brain, 2627 02:45:56,750 --> 02:46:01,690 and that can get incredibly frustrating. And so taking some cbg giving you that, 2628 02:46:01,690 --> 02:46:05,530 that confidence and a feeling that you've got the resources to make it work, 2629 02:46:05,620 --> 02:46:10,240 it can really make your days more tolerable. Um, I'd also recommend, uh, 2630 02:46:10,240 --> 02:46:14,280 200 milligrams of L theanine. Now, this is not a cannabis, uh, product, 2631 02:46:14,280 --> 02:46:15,840 that's for sure. Um, 2632 02:46:15,940 --> 02:46:20,680 but I know that neuro divergent folks who run hot and anxious, um, 2633 02:46:20,680 --> 02:46:24,600 find that L theanine, 200 milligrams of it, um, 2634 02:46:24,600 --> 02:46:28,200 really evens out the spiky parts of the day, 2635 02:46:28,200 --> 02:46:32,040 the days that where you get overstimulated and or harshed out 2636 02:46:32,790 --> 02:46:37,120 from, uh, from, you know, feeling over sensory inputted. 2637 02:46:37,490 --> 02:46:40,600 Um, altheine does a really great job taking out this, 2638 02:46:40,600 --> 02:46:44,960 the scratchiness of your day. And if you happen to be a person that's into thc, 2639 02:46:44,960 --> 02:46:45,520 well, you know, 2640 02:46:45,520 --> 02:46:50,200 having some THC tincture just to make you too feel more comfortable in your 2641 02:46:50,200 --> 02:46:54,920 body, that can o often feel strange to you. Um, feel free to add, you know, 2642 02:46:54,920 --> 02:46:59,040 five to 10 milligrams of thc, um, as you wish. 2643 02:47:00,360 --> 02:47:04,860 And good luck. So these, these, uh, 2644 02:47:04,860 --> 02:47:07,540 these six areas that I just, you know, 2645 02:47:07,710 --> 02:47:12,060 swiftly went through how I would think through dosing 2646 02:47:12,060 --> 02:47:15,460 suggestions, I, I did this not because, you know, 2647 02:47:15,460 --> 02:47:19,780 I can't go through everyth all the issues that everybody has, but the idea is, 2648 02:47:19,780 --> 02:47:21,580 I I wanted to give you a couple pictures, 2649 02:47:21,580 --> 02:47:26,260 a couple examples of how you can stack different, uh, cannabis, 2650 02:47:26,260 --> 02:47:30,900 different cannabinoids along with different antigens like 2651 02:47:30,900 --> 02:47:35,420 psilocybin mushrooms, um, along with occasional, you know, 2652 02:47:35,420 --> 02:47:39,900 herbal supplements like Altheine and some common sense like perhaps don't drink 2653 02:47:39,900 --> 02:47:44,470 coffee if you're having somnia. Um, so that you can, 2654 02:47:44,570 --> 02:47:47,950 you know, figure out a stack for yourself that meets your needs. Um, 2655 02:47:47,950 --> 02:47:51,630 you don't have to do it the way other people do. Individualized medicine is, 2656 02:47:51,630 --> 02:47:55,750 is a thing and your body is unique. And so, um, keep a journal, 2657 02:47:56,020 --> 02:47:58,190 figure out what works for you and, 2658 02:47:58,190 --> 02:48:02,270 and don't let your family or doctors push you around. Um, 2659 02:48:02,300 --> 02:48:07,030 I am a strong advocate of patients rights as, as everybody knows, especially, 2660 02:48:07,280 --> 02:48:11,830 um, uh, cannabis patient self-sufficiency. So, um, 2661 02:48:11,830 --> 02:48:15,350 it's your body take notes and, and learn what's best for you. 2662 02:48:16,220 --> 02:48:19,400 And I guess that's a wrap. Um, if you are still with us, uh, 2663 02:48:19,400 --> 02:48:22,320 thank you so much for listening to this entire episode. Um, 2664 02:48:22,320 --> 02:48:24,920 it is the longest shaping fire episode that, um, 2665 02:48:24,920 --> 02:48:29,280 I have published and I wanted to get this all in one document, right? 2666 02:48:29,310 --> 02:48:31,160 I have been thinking about this show and, 2667 02:48:31,160 --> 02:48:33,440 and working on notes for it for a long time now. 2668 02:48:34,020 --> 02:48:38,880 And if you know you have found the time to listen to it for yourself, um, 2669 02:48:38,880 --> 02:48:39,960 I congratulate you. 2670 02:48:40,260 --> 02:48:44,240 And if you are listening to this because you were a caregiver or someone you 2671 02:48:44,240 --> 02:48:49,160 love uses cannabis medicine, well I really appreciate you too because, um, 2672 02:48:49,400 --> 02:48:53,600 cannabis patients need all the help and support and love that we can get. 2673 02:48:54,290 --> 02:48:56,560 So, um, if you would like to learn more, uh, 2674 02:48:56,560 --> 02:49:01,280 please peruse the first hundred episodes of the Shaping Fire podcast and 2675 02:49:01,520 --> 02:49:04,280 subscribe to the show in your favorite podcast app. 2676 02:49:04,280 --> 02:49:07,600 There are so many great episodes for, uh, 2677 02:49:07,600 --> 02:49:12,520 patients about patient health and for how to cultivate your own cannabis in a 2678 02:49:12,520 --> 02:49:16,280 healthy and organic regenerative way. Um, who knows if you're a patient, 2679 02:49:16,280 --> 02:49:18,040 maybe growing will be your new hobby. 2680 02:49:18,510 --> 02:49:21,680 I also recommend that you check out the Shaping Fire YouTube channel, 2681 02:49:22,000 --> 02:49:25,560 where there are nearly 200 videos of speakers, um, 2682 02:49:25,840 --> 02:49:30,120 from all sorts of different conventions and such that I have attended over the 2683 02:49:30,120 --> 02:49:33,920 years. And, um, I've just always posted the videos there. Um, 2684 02:49:33,920 --> 02:49:38,840 so you can find those, um, uh, topics ranging from cannabis to, 2685 02:49:38,890 --> 02:49:43,760 uh, mushrooms to IBO gain, all sorts of different videos there on YouTube, 2686 02:49:43,760 --> 02:49:46,720 just, uh, search YouTube Shaping Fire. 2687 02:49:47,450 --> 02:49:52,240 So thanks for being here for episode 100 of Shaping Fire and I am 2688 02:49:52,240 --> 02:49:53,920 your host SHEO Lo. 2689 02:49:54,720 --> 02:49:58,260 You can find more episodes of the Shaping Fire Podcast and subscribe to the 2690 02:49:58,260 --> 02:50:02,740 show@shapingfire.com and wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoy the show, 2691 02:50:02,740 --> 02:50:05,540 we'd really appreciate it if you would leave a positive review of the podcast. 2692 02:50:06,020 --> 02:50:10,300 Wherever you download your view will help others find the show so they can enjoy 2693 02:50:10,300 --> 02:50:12,380 it too. 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