Posted by myco on March 30, 2009, at 17:17:12
In reply to Re: new paper on endocannabinoids and depression » bleauberry, posted by Neal on March 30, 2009, at 16:41:43
Don't mean to hijack bleauberry's post here but the active ingredients in cannabis are a variety of compounds that may illicit different effects as different species will have different amount/distributions of the active ingredients in them. This has alot to do with environment in which the plant has grown...selective advantage to having different compounds. Many of those compounds in the plant have antiherbivory properties to protect against microorganism and insects etc...some will even play a role in symbiosis with the microfungi that live in association with the root systems (endophytes) of each plant....i.e. you provide me with the nitrogen and complex compounds I need to survive and I will provide you with various sugars and food compounds to be able to survive within the host.
Ya they would know which variety they have for sale for sure. Pretty knowledgable people actually for the most part...alot of counterculture involved in those "organizations"...see 'Mark Emery' vs the USA (a canadian being sought in the usa for federal prison time for selling seeds online to anericans)....big counterculture guru and advocate of "compassion clubs" (those you mentioned) as well as leader of the marijuana party of canada.lol sorry for the long exhale there...you struck some interests of mine hardcore there
myco
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> Just curious, say you had a doctors OK to try it, could you go to one of pot stores near where I live. Can you go in and say, "I want C. Indica?" Or "C. Sativa?" I mean, would they know which variety their stuff was? Or do you have to grow your own to be sure? I never though of it that way, that the two species were different in their effect.
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> > Well, I can't comment on the abstract. But I can comment on the substance involved.
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> > That is, cannabis, marijuana. Never in all my days have I seen a substance so profoundly capable of instantly treating a wide array of symptoms. For example:
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> > Manic state getting out of control? A couple puffs of Indica.
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> > Dark depression? A couple puffs of Sativa.
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> > Pains? A Sativa/Indica hybrid.
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> > Anxiety, panic? Indica.
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> > Wasting syndrome? Any.
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> > Appetite stimulation? Any.
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> > Insomnia? Indica.
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> > Anhedonia, lack of motivation? Sativa.
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> > Concentration, focus? Sativa.
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> > Keep in mind, when I speak of marijuana for medical purposes, I am talking about doses of it, just like we would meds. And if you get high, you took too much. The idea is not to get high, but to treat the symptoms, which usually respond very well very fast to even miniscule amounts.
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> > I would put cannabis up against any of man's best invented drugs. It would be a one round knockout punch. Nothing compares. As far as I am concerned, it is the world's best mood stabilizer because it does whatever you need it to do whenver you want it to, the world's best antidepressant, best anti-anxiety, best sleep aid, best appetite stimulant, and when other pain meds fail, the best pain med.
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> > I haven't smoked in over 3 years. Too risky. Too expensive. But I have to say honestly, when I did, I did it like a medicine in small controlled doses for specific reasons, and there was nothing a pharmacy had that could come anywhere close to competing with its efficacy.
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> > I am a firm believer the endocannibinoid network is involved with a wide variety of illnesses and symptoms.
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