Explores How The Cannabis Plant Procreates

Explores How The Cannabis Plant Procreates

Cannabis and sex go together like peanut butter and jelly...flavored lube. Surely you’ve mixed the two before, but while you were bumping uglies, stoned and sensationally sensitive, did you ever stop to think about how cannabis plants procreate?

 (Going half on some seeds is what it’s about for them, not getting a glorious nut off at least according to the weed we’ve spoken to.) Whether or not you’ve pondered cannabis coitus, MERRY JANE has the lowdown on how it goes down. Watch the latest episode of our original series “Journey Into Weed” to see the differences between male and female plants, how a single male can impregnate a whole field of females, how you can beat the seed out of males (ouch), and what causes marijuana to become hermaphroditic. And unlike the sex vids you usually watch at work, it’s (mostly) SFW.

 

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Does Cannabis Cure Cancer?

Does Cannabis Cure Cancer? 

Man Who Discovered The Cause Of Cancer Wrote A Book On Curing It

 Dr. Otto Warburg was the man who discovered the cause of cancer

he was awarded the Nobel prize in 1931 for his work. Initially it was my understanding that he discovered cancer but he actually discovered the cause which in my opinion is even more valuable than discovering cancer. Many people have recognized a problem, a disease, a tumorous lump growing on someone and labeling it a disease. The cause of that disease is even more important and relevant than the disease itself if you want to do something about it. His work came to be known as the “Warburg Effect” or the “Warburg Hypothesis” which basically entailed that cancer cells live off sugar (glycolysis) and that they also thrive in an anaerobic environment. These causes lead me to believe the opposite would help to reverse the cancer growth. What do you think?

He’s one of the most relevant figures in our history when it comes to cancer, what causes it and how to really treat it. Most people have no idea who this man is though, why is that? is it because of what he has to say about cancer and about disease in general? There’s no question that he was a brilliant man during his time. The first man to discover the cause of cancer is somewhat like the first man landing on the moon! it’s just the micro and macro scale of things.

His discovery led him to certain conclusions. These conclusions that he was led to may be true or false to you but I'm going to leave that up to you to decide. I trust this man (the discoverer of it) more than the American Cancer Society or any other medical organization though because he’s worked to get to a place of excellence and understanding of cancer. Large organizations that take your money for a ‘cure’ or to walk around in a circle wearing pink shirts haven’t done a whole lot with the BILLIONS of dollars poured in for research.

Oddly enough Dr. Otto Warburg gave his two cents on what can be done to treat and heal cancer and what changes need to take place in the human body for the human body to no longer have cancer. Let me say that again! the man who discovered cancer shared practical information on how cancer can cease to exist based on his understanding of cancer in his research.

So what was his thoughts on cancer? First, he was quoted as saying:

"No disease, including cancer can exist in an alkaline environment"

His first belief was that cancer itself cannot exist in an alkaline environment. What conclusion could you draw from this? Foods and drinks that are alkaline are beneficial for helping to remove cancer from the human body. From his research his conclusion was that cancer can not live in an alkaline environment. If you have cancer then wouldn’t it be a natural conclusion to put alkaline foods and drinks such as water into your body as much as possible as opposed to acidic foods which may in fact feed the cancer growth? It’s just a thought.

Dr. Otto Warburg also said “Cancerous tissues are acidic, whereas healthy tissues are alkaline. Water splits into H+ and OH- ions, if there is an excess of H+, it is acidic; if there is an excess of OH- ions, then it is alkaline.”

“All normal cells have an absolute requirement for oxygen, but cancer cells can live without oxygen a rule without exception. “Deprive a cell 35% of its oxygen for 48 hours and it may become cancerous.” Dr. Warburg has made it clear that the root cause of cancer is oxygen deficiency, which creates an acidic state in the human body. Dr Warburg also discovered that cancer cells are anaerobic (do not breathe oxygen) and cannot survive in the presence of high levels of oxygen, as found in an alkaline state.

Dr. Wargburg understood the importance of oxygen and an alkaline environment around the cancerous growth. He even went so far as to say that “No Disease, including cancer can live in an alkaline environment” too. So from Dr. Warburg some of the best cancer and disease prevention (and healing, according to him) advice would be to give your boxy more oxygen and an alkaline environment.

How do you do that? More deep breathing. More nature. If you live in the city you are being bombarded by chemicals and decreasing oxygen levels. The country and nature have higher levels of pure oxygen and this was one of the keys according to Dr. Warbug to help the body be in an alkaline environment. Not only that but eating alkaline foods such as vegetables and fruits can help to alkalize the body environment as well.

Believe it or not Dr. Otto Warburg also wrote a book entitled “Dr Otto Warbug cancer: it's cause and it's cure” which blows my mind.

Cannabis, Cancer and Alkalinity

Evidence has shown that high doses of the cannabinoid THC can destroy cancer cells. It’s not that THC causes cancer cells to ravenously and indiscriminately destroy themselves. Rather, by binding to certain cell-surface receptors, THC activates a cell signaling pathway that leads to cell death.

In 1976 President Gerald Ford put an end to all public cannabis research and granted exclusive research rights to major pharmaceutical companies, who set out to develop synthetic forms of THC that would deliver all the medical benefits without the “high.” These synthetic lab made derivatives of cannabis have been used since the 1980’s to relieve the side effects of cancer drugs.

Thanks to Rick Simpson publishing his findings after treating his own skin cancer, the use of cannabis oil for treating cancer finally began receiving the media attention it deserved.

The regimen that has been used to fight numerous types of cancer is to ingest pure cannabis oil made via a medical grade alcohol extraction at a rate of 1 gram per day and to ingest 60 grams in a 90 day period for the full effectiveness of the medicine. There are numerous blogs, YouTube videos and websites dedicated to teaching patients and their families how to make this life saving oil at home. Patients have used this cannabis oil in conjunction with an alkaline diet to reduce their tumor size in not only skin cancer but numerous other types of cancer as well.

Since the 1930’s we have been adjusting our pH balance as means of cancer treatment. The principles of pH therapy are very simple. The metabolism of cancer cells has a very narrow pH tolerance for cellular proliferation (mitosis), which is between 6.5 and 7.5. As such, if you can interfere with cancer cell metabolism by either lowering or raising the internal cancer cell pH, you can theoretically stop cancer progression. There is general agreement among us natural healers and medical professionals alike, that changing a cancer patient’s diet is extremely helpful when someone is confronted with a cancer diagnosis.

Alkaline foods:

·         Alfalfa

·         Barley Grass

·         Beet Greens

·         Beets

·         Broccoli

·         Cabbage

·         Carrot

·         Cauliflower

·         Celery

·         Chard Greens

·         Chlorella

·         Collard Greens

·         Cucumber

·         Dandelions

·         Eggplant

·         Fermented Veggies

·         Garlic

·         Green Beans

·         Green Peas

·         Kale

·         Kohlrabi

·         Lettuce

·         Mushrooms

·         Mustard Greens

·         Onions

·         Parsnips

·         Peas

·         Peppers

·         Pumpkin

·         Radishes

·         Rutabaga

·         Spinach, green

·         Spirulina

·         Sprouts

·         Sweet Potatoes

·         Tomatoes

·         Watercress

·         Wheat Grass

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Making Cannabis Candy

Making Cannabis Candy Marijuana Edibles

There are a lot of people that think making cannabis candy is a difficult process, when quite simple. As it usually is when making edibles, getting it right is tough. The candy not only has to be potent enough to be considered medicine but taste good as well! The candy is worthless if it doesn’t have both of those qualities. But making the perfect batch of cannabis candy treats is in the following recipe!

Ingredients:

Candy molds
Cooking spray
Metal spoon
2/3 cups white corn syrup
1 tsp flavoring of your choice (adjust if you want but this is really the perfect amount!)
Food coloring (so they look nice, obviously!)
Candy thermometer
1 cup water
2 cups sugar
9.5 grams of dry powdered hash or Tincture

Directions:

First things first, spray the candy molds with cooking spray so that the mix doesn’t stick when you get to the step that requires it. Put the sugar and corn syrup together in a pot and put it on high heat until the mix begins to boil. Reduce the heat to low medium and keep an eye on the temperature. Once the temp hits 300, remove the heat and add in the hash and food coloring. Stir this mix vigorously. You need to make sure that the hash has been completely mixed in. About a minute should do it because the mix will start to harden soon after that. Add your candy mix in to the molds. You can either make them just candies or you can add in sticks to make them lollipops!

Let the mix harden in the mold and then remove and wrap them. This recipe will give you about 40 candies. You can always add in more hash but be sure that that’s the form of cannabis that you use. Kief could also be used in this recipe if you have enough of it. These candies last a good amount of time, about 2 to 3 hours on an empty stomach and an hour after a meal. No one should be afraid to make cannabis candy , especially when it’s such a benefit to those who are always on the go and enjoy eating their weed rather than smoking it.

Best Cannabis Gummies

Ingredients:

(1) package of Jello 6oz size or (2) 3oz packages any flavor
(4) envelops of Knox Gelatin or (1) box usually 4 to a box.
(1/2) cup cold water
(2) grams of your Favorite Kief or Tincture
(1) teaspoon of Canola oil or Canna Oil.

First you will need to Decarboxylize your Kief.
Preheat your Oven to 275 degrees and put your Kief in an Oven safe dish.
Heat your Kief for 10 minutes. Allow to cool.
Mix Kief with oil to make it able to be mixed in jello mixture, put aside.

In small sauce pan mix Jello and Gelatin in pot. Add water to make sugar mixture.
Put sauce pan on stove Medium Heat allow mixture to heat but not boil.
Stir in Kief oil. Continue stirring while heating watching for mixture just to start to thicken.
Remove from stove and quickly spoon into molds. stirring while pouring to keep Kief even in Mixture.
Put molds in Freezer for 10 Minutes.
Pop them out and eat.
Place back in Refrigerator to keep fresh

I’m going to go ahead and say my first time Making Cannabis Candy was completely painless and made a delicious cannabis candy that helps me stay pain free.

Making Cannabis Tincture

Making Cannabis Tincture Chasing the Green Dragon

Great news! You can make full-spectrum cannabis tinctures in your own kitchen with almost no work. Formerly, this job was a messy, smelly, tedious, time-consuming, and dangerous chemistry experiment involving flammable liquids and a stovetop burner (not a great combination). In 2012 it became vastly simpler with the invention of an appliance called the Easy Butter 2 Stick Magic Butter Maker

 

The general idea behind preparing a cannabis tincture involves grinding and soaking high-quality buds in high-proof ethyl alcohol such as Everclear or Bacardi 151. The alcohol dissolves the THC and CBD (cannabidiol), leaving the plant matter behind. You then simply strain your alcohol/bud mixture to remove any debris from your final tincture.

For this alcohol extraction process, what could be easier than a self-contained, push-button device with digital programming that handles everything for you? Just put your herb and alcohol inside the countertop extractor, push a couple of buttons, and save yourself the intense labor that goes into making a tincture caveman-style. (Here’s a video of how easy it is.) It even comes with its own super tough, reusable nylon filter bag. So you can leave the cheesecloth, coffee filters, and pantyhose in the drawer.

Consuming fresh, raw cannabis or its cannabis tincture can’t get you high because the THC is locked in its “acid” form (cleverly named “THC acid”, or THCA). Fortunately, somewhere along the line, a cannabis enthusiast who happened to be a scientist discovered an incredibly simple step called decarboxylation. This process uses heat to create THC from the THCA within the herb. You can decarb your sample before adding it to your MagicalButter machine by baking it for half an hour at 250°F/120°C, generating some kushin’ for the pushin’!

Where does the green in green dragon come from? When soaking your herbal delights, you get a little more than you bargain for: Much of the plant’s chlorophyll seeps through, along with the desired cannabinoids and terpenoids. Chlorophyll has many healthful properties, from potent antioxidant and body deodorant effects to cellular cleansing and appetite suppression. And it gives your tincture its distinctive, deep, dark green color. Often, though not always, the darker the green, the danker the dragon.

This is the best part. You can do nearly anything with the cannabis tincture at this point, from mixing it into a milkshake to adding to any recipe you can think of and many more recipes that you never would have dreamed of. For maximum potency it can even be reduced by evaporating most of the alcohol, creating MagicalButterOil of Cannabis.

The sublingual method of tincture administration, say, a medicine dropper full held under the tongue, will provide the quickest onset of effects (about 15-30 minutes). You can also throw it straight down the hatch and in 30-90 minutes reap your reward. But where’s the fun in that?

From gummy creations of every shape and size, along with your choice of flavors, you can make your confectionery dreams come true. And it doesn’t stop there: You can create make soups, salad dressings, sauces, an oral mist, cocktails, even edible healing salve. The possibilities are without limits. So be creative, be experimental, and be responsible, because your “concoction” can be pretty potent!

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Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia

Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia

Cannabis Could Be Helping Alzheimer’s Patients

If you’ve been keeping an eye on medical marijuana studies in the recent years, you probably already know the fact that cannabis compounds are demonstrating great promise in the lab.

1. THC Slows Buildup of Neural Plaques
2. Cannabis Fights Inflammation
3. CBD Could Prevent Cell Death
4. Cannabinoids Stimulate Cell Growth
5. Alleviate Other Alzheimer’s Symptoms

Cannabis is essential to all of us
Cheers to all out there making this research happen despite political obstacles and pitfalls.

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Five Cannabinoids (Besides THC and CBD)

Five Cannabinoids (Besides THC and CBD) You Might Not Know About

Most medical cannabis patients are familiar with THC and CBD the two most common chemical compounds you can find in a cannabis plant. THC, or delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, is marijuana's main psychoactive element that gives you the feeling of euphoria. CBD, or cannabidiol, is the non-psychoactive chemical that is believed to be responsible for the majority of cannabis' miraculous medicinal effects: from reducing pain to easing nausea to stopping severe seizures. But there are a lot more to cannabis: we will tell you about five cannabinoids that are less famous but still extremely beneficial to our health.

CBC is a non-psychoactive cannabis compound, which means it won't get you high. This cannabinoid may be helpful in reducing the severances of pain and inflammation. CBC may also help slow down the growth of cancer cells.

It looks like CBC really loves sunlight and hot weather because it is easier to find this cannabinoid in cannabis strains that were grown in warmer climes. The average content of CBC in marijuana strains grown in colder regions is less than 1 percent.

CBG is also a non-psychoactive chemical compound, plus, it is one of the cannabinoids that can be easily found in hemp. Most cannabis strains, however, contain less that 1 percent of cannabigerol.

The main medicinal benefit of CBG is its ability to inhibit the growth of cancerous and tumorous cells. CBG is also believed to be helpful in reducing pain and inflammation.

It is pretty difficult to find even the smallest amounts of CBN in live cannabis plants. This chemical compound shows itself when the levels of THC begin to decrease; mostly in harvested cannabis when it is exposed to air and light.

CBN is considered to be mildly psychoactive and is usually used in combination with CBD. Together, these two compounds work best for combating insomnia, reducing muscle spasms and pain.

The chemical structure of THCV, also known as THV, is quite similar to the one of THC. Just like THC, THCV is psychoactive but has a bit different effects: while it still makes you feel high, your head and thoughts remain clear.

As for the medicinal benefits of THCV, the chemical is believed to be able to:

    Reduce the severances of seizures;
    Suppress appetite;
    Normalize blood sugar levels.

CBDV is a homolog of CBD that is most frequently found in wild cannabis strains from Nepal and India. Domesticated marijuana plants contain only trace amounts of the chemical.

Just like CBD, CBDV does not have any psychoactive effects and therefore cannot get you high. What it can do is reduce the quantity and severances of seizures in patients with epilepsy.

These five cannabinoids are not the only chemicals contained in cannabis plants. There are plenty of others, and their medicinal potential is yet to be explored.

Why Whole Plant Cannabis Is Essential To All Of Us

Why Whole Plant Cannabis Is Essential To All Of Us

Whole plant cannabis. We’ve all probably heard the term. Companies use it to promote their products, patient groups campaign for the right to use it, yet the majority of scientific research into medical cannabis ignores it, choosing to focus on single compounds like THC and CBD. Globally, medical cannabis use and regulation is riddled with contradictions, inconsistencies, and hypocrisy, but for many the near impossibility of bringing whole plant cannabis medication to market is the biggest travesty of all.

The FDA says there’s not enough proof that the cannabis plant has therapeutic use, but its continued schedule 1 status means it’s a bureaucratic nightmare to research.

Patients see first hand that whole plant extracts treat their symptoms better than isolated cannabinoids, yet no pharmaceutical company will invest millions researching a plant that can’t be patented.

At the heart lies a seemingly irrevocable tension between what anecdotal evidence from patient experience suggests to be effective and what ultimately will keep pharmaceutical company shareholders and government regulators happy.
Cannabis a complex plant So why does it matter anyway if the whole plant is researched or not? Surely if we know that certain cannabinoids have therapeutic effects, we should just concentrate on those, right?

Well, that would be the easy answer if the cannabis plant fitted in with the current single molecule model of scientific research. But cannabis is a complex beast. With approximately 420 molecules, including 113 cannabinoids, over 200 terpenes, plus flavonoids, amino acids, proteins, enzymes, fatty acids, and sugars, it’s easy to see that the cannabis plant has a whole lot of botanical stuff going on.

So far, it’s the two headline grabbing cannabinoids Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and Cannabidiol (CBD) that have been most widely researched, with many scientists believing they are key players in the piece.

The Real OG Jack Herer Cannabis activist

The Real OG Jack Herer Cannabis Activist The Hemperor

Jack Herer most readers don’t know the whole story; Herer’s efforts resulted in much more than a strain of pot named after him. Herer’s famous book, The Emperor Wears No Clothes, launched this Buffalo-raised Californian to fame.

The activist known as “the Hemperor” was also the subject of the 2005 documentary Emperor of Hemp, bringing his enlightened message of hemp legalization and environmentalism to an even wider and more mainstream audience.

In 1973, on the advice of his friend Ed Adair, Herer began collecting information about hemp and cannabis for a book. Twelve years later, in 1985, he published the first edition of The Emperor Wears No Clothes.

The ground-breaking book precisely documents the politics and bigotry that led to the federal-level prohibition of cannabis in the United States in 1937.

The Emperor Wears No Clothes has also been embraced by environmentalists for its focus on the thousands of uses of hemp, including its role for food, clothing, housing, fuel, and medicine.

This pioneering activist famously offered $100,000 to anyone who could disprove any part of his book. Herer’s book was so well researched, however, that no one ever took him up on the offer. Most casual tokers are unaware that Herer gave much more to the cannabis culture than merely a best-selling book about hemp.

In 1998, the tireless activist was shown a unique aluminum pipe in Jacksonville, Florida. “Each hit was the perfect hit. But there was a problem; it got hotter and hotter and hotter and hotter,” Herer told me during an interview from his Northern California home in 2006.

Coincidentally, Herer owned a small pipe company at the time. This enabled him to experiment with a variety of designs. He was obsessed with creating a pipe that avoided the heat buildup of the aluminum model he discovered in Florida.

Herer explained how standard single-hole pipes burn up to 30% of a gram of cannabis in only one or two hits. Herer and one of his sons have sold more than 30,000 of the pipes. The unique paraphernalia is marketed as a “double barrel, double venturi, ricocheting vortex” effect pipe and is available in a limited  number of head shops on the West Coast and from a few online vendors. Jack Herer is a Sativa-dominant strain that combines a haze hybrid with a Northern Lights #5 and Shiva Skunk cross. It was bred by Sensi Seeds in Amsterdam, with the participation and permission of Herer.

During one of my interviews with the famous activist, he explained how the company offered him either a percentage of the seed sales of the strain or the red carpet treatment when Herer was visiting Amsterdam, then the epicenter of European cannabis culture.

Cannabis For Brain tumor First Human Trials Begins

Cannabis For Brain tumor First Human Trials Begins

Cannabis For Brain tumor Sativex is an oral spray made from ingredients derived from the whole cannabis plant. The two main compounds in cannabis CBD and THC Brain tumor are present in Sativex in an equal 1:1 ratio.

Both cannabis compounds (known as cannabinoids) have shown anti-cancer properties in pre-clinical studies, and seem to be effective against a wide range of cancers.Brain tumor Anecdotal reports also suggest that cannabis and cannabinoids have the ability to fight cancer.However, GW Pharmaceuticals is the first company to initiate clinical research on cannabis-based medicine as a cancer therapy.

“We are very excited about moving this compound into more humans study and the prospects of cannabinoids as new anti-cancer treatments. This is GW’s first clinical study of cannabinoids as a potential treatment to inhibit tumor growth.”The company plans to investigate Brain tumor Sativex as an add-on to the standard chemotherapy agent temozolomide, rather than a stand-alone. According to GW Pharmaceuticals, pre-clinical research suggests that cannabinoids can improve the anti-cancer ability of temozolomide.

The Phase 1b/2a trial announced on Monday will involve 20 patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), an aggressive and rare form of brain cancer that accounts for about 50% of all brain cancers diagnosed in the U.S. each year. The trial will first have to prove the safety of the combined treatment regimen before further research can be done on its effectiveness.

In the U.S., clinical trials of cannabinoids for cancer are also expected in the near future. Sean McAllister, Ph.D and his colleagues at California Pacific Medical Center hope to begin the first human studies of CBD for breast cancer within the next 12 months.Sativex is currently approved in more than 20 countries for the treatment of multiple sclerosis symptoms and is also being studied as a treatment for cancer pain.

While Sativex has been GW’s leading product, the company has a number of other cannabinoid-based drugs in its pipeline, including an epilepsy drug called Epidiolex.Epidiolex, which contains more than 98 percent CBD, recently began clinical trials in the U.S. and U.K as a treatment for pediatric epilepsy.

Raw Cannabis Advantages

 Eating Raw Cannabis

Raw Cannabis Prevents Bowl Cancer, Fibromyalgia, and Neurodegenerative Diseases
cannabis is taken in different forms all over the world, while being primarily smoke, being eaten raw has been proven to provide incredible health benefits, while also being non-psychoactive, therefore more appealing to a wider range of people marijuana can be described as the new superfood it contains over 400 chemical compounds containing beneficial vitamins essential oils and acids Dr. William Courtney have come to call weed a dietary essential marijuana contains extremely high concentrations of cannabinoids acids which it has been discovered are essential for cell function while active THC and CBD have their own health benefits a downside is that the human body can only cope with a certain amount of these activate cannabinoids Dr. Courtney explains


When eaten raw the body is able to process much larger amounts of THCa and CBDa and it can then convert these acids into essential nutrients through its metabolism


Here are some other recipes to try if you want to enjoy the benefits of raw cannabis