The Medical Cannabis Guidebook. Mel Thomas
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Other than these changes, all you require is the cannabis oil itself. Do not buy this from dealers on the black market as the purity will not be sufficiently high. Make a pure, high-quality oil yourself using a cannabis indica variety high in CBD content such as Skunk Haze (from the CBD Crew) and follow the techniques described in this book. One pound of dried cannabis flowers will produce around two ounces of high-grade cannabis oil, which is sufficient to treat even the most serious of cancers, if taken early enough.
Chemotherapy is the general term for pharmaceutical cancer-inhibiting drugs. There is conflicting advice given on whether cancer patients should use cannabis oil before or during chemotherapy. Recently, a team of researchers looking into why cancer cells are so resilient discovered that chemotherapy seriously damages healthy cells and subsequently triggers them to release a protein that sustains and fuels tumor growth, making the tumor highly resistant to future treatment.17 Reporting their findings in the journal Nature Medicine, the scientists state that their findings were “completely unexpected.” After extensive research, Dr. Peter Nelson and his team at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle found that chemotherapy helps cancer to survive, grow faster, and resist treatment.18
The team was trying to explain why cancer is so resilient in the body, yet so easy to kill in the lab, and realized that the culprit is the interaction of chemotherapy and healthy cells surrounding the targeted tumors. When used on cancer, chemotherapy slows or stops the reproduction of rapidly dividing cells found in tumors, but it also damages the DNA of neighboring fibroblast cells, which normally help heal wounds. These cells then produce 30 times more than normal of a protein called WNT16B. This protein encouraged prostate tumors to grow and spread into surrounding tissue, as well as to resist chemotherapy. The team examined cancer cells from prostate, breast and ovarian cancer patients who had been treated with chemotherapy and found similar results. It is up to the patient to make an informed decision as to whether he or she wishes to undergo chemotherapy or not but certainly the earlier you start cannabis oil treatment the better.
The general consensus is that cancer sufferers require a treatment course total of 2 ounces (56 grams) of cannabis oil, to be ingested over a three-month period for maximum effectiveness. The dose is gradually built up to 1 gram a day. After this, many survivors continue a maintenance dose to keep the cancer at bay; this varies between individuals and the severity of their illness, but averages at 100-200 milligrams daily. The oil produced using the techniques we describe will be extremely potent, so patients are advised to begin their treatment with very small doses starting off with dabs the size of a match head to be taken four times a day. For initial doses patients generally find that having the oil in a syringe enables them to easily squeeze the required amount onto their finger and then place this into the mouth.
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The dose should be increased slowly every three to five days depending on the patient’s tolerance, until they are able to take one gram daily. A set of digital scales accurate to a tenth of a gram are required to enable patients to accurately measure their consumption, however, it is not possible to overdose on cannabis oil and your body will not become dependent. Medically a patient has to be in remission for five years before being declared cancer-free, so once the course has been completed, it is recommended that you continue a maintenance dose of cannabis oil, the general consensus being between one tenth to one fifth of a gram per day.
General Administration of Cannabis
There are basically five methods of administering cannabis: inhalation (smoking), ingestion (eating), suppositories (anally), topically (creams) and also by intravenous injection (IV).
When choosing a route of administration it is important to exercise caution and build up your dose slowly. The side effects of over-consuming cannabinoids wear off quickly and will not have any detrimental long-term effects, but the immediate experience can be unpleasant for some individuals. The two most widely used routes of administration are inhalation and ingestion.
Vaporizing or smoking cannabis is the preferred method for pain relief, as the effects are felt very quickly. When cannabinoids are drawn into the lungs, they rapidly enter the bloodstream, with the initial effects being felt within 20 seconds. First-time consumers who choose to try inhalation are advised to leave at least ten minutes between medications so they can gauge the effects. It is much easier to get the correct dosage when you inhale cannabis; as soon as you feel the effect you wish for, you should stop inhaling.
For most smokers, the preferred method is the traditional joint, which is simply made using cigarette papers rolled into a cigarette containing cannabis; it is not recommended that you include tobacco. When you smoke a joint, the combustion occurring at the tip generates temperatures of around 1,112°F (600°C); when you draw (inhale) the temperature rises to around 1,652°F (900°C). These temperatures deliver the cannabinoids. However, the act of combustion also creates harmful gases such as benzene and toluene. There are conflicting arguments concerning the harmful effects of smoking cannabis. Some studies have indicated that smoking cannabis without tobacco is much less harmful than when they are consumed together, but other studies have concluded that even the smoking of cannabis without tobacco is damaging.
Consuming cannabis with tobacco is not recommended.
The results from one of the most comprehensive studies ever carried out on cannabis use and lung disorders was published in The Journal of the American Medical Association.19 Researchers working on a long-term study of risk factors for cardiovascular disease (the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults or CARDIA study) tested the lung function of 5,115 young adults over the course of 20 years, starting in 1985 when they were aged between 18 and 30. Whilst tobacco smokers showed the expected decrease in lung function, the research found that cannabis smoke had unexpected and seemingly positive effects. Low to moderate users actually showed increased lung capacity compared to non-smokers on two tests. The first test, known as FEV1, is the amount of air someone breathes out in the first second after taking the deepest possible breath; FVC is the second test and records the total volume of air exhaled after the deepest inhalation. Dr. Mark Pletcher, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco and the lead author of the study, stated:
A pure cannabis joint containing no tobacco.
“FEV1 and FVC both actually increased with moderate and occasional use of marijuana. That was a bit of a surprise, there are clearly adverse effects from tobacco use and marijuana smoke has a lot of the same constituents as tobacco smoke does so we thought it might have some of the same harmful effects.