I can only base my premise on patient feedback, which has been fantastic when using both high CBD flowers together with high THCA flowers. Again, the full spectrum of canabinoids working synergistically I feel is the best case scenario.
As I understand it, you have to decarb cannabis in order to convert CBD-A to CBD just as you have to decarb to convert THC-A to THC. My dad with ALS responds better to the activated THC more than the THC-A.
These are good points and questions. I can only say that the the two patients that I make this for do *not* want to get high when taking this and have both been doing exceptionally well. One patient has dravets syndrome, and prior to taking this oil would have dozens of seizures a day, and is now down to a couple seizures a month and has almost fully removed himself off of all pharmaceutical meds. My other patient has ulcerative colitis and has been taking the oil for about 5 months now. He has dropped his prednisone (steroid) intake from 20mg a day down to 4mg a day and dropping. He was scheduled for a surgery which would have forced him to use a colostomy bag to go to the bathroom in, and the doctors have cancelled the surgery as he is doing so well. It has been life changing for both of them.
I have decarboxylated high CBD cannabis (14% CBD .75% THC) at 300 degrees in an oven for 20 minutes and then put it in a smoothie and drank it ...... and it gets you high. This was about a 1 gram bud. This is fine for people that don't mind catching a buzz, but there are plenty of people who don't want that ie children, elderly people, etc. It works amazingly well without being decarbed. I'd sure like to know the science behind this to find out if the decaroxylization process brings any therapeutic value to the table beyond a no-heat extraction process.Well, I can tell you that HempMeds does decarboxylate their hemp extracts, which are mostly CBD, so I guess they think it's a required process.
That 14% CBD .75% THC was what the flower tested at. Hemp tests nowhere near that high. A concentrate made from hemp may test at those levels, where as a concentrate from marijuana would tests at 50%-60% CBD. And yes, CBD will give you a buzz once it's decarbed. I didn't believe it until I tried it myself. I was floating on a cloud for 5 or 6 hours after eating that decarbed bud.That's a very similar cannabinoid profile to hemp, and with less than 1 percent THC, I'm surprised that you got any noticeable effect from it.
There is obviously a whole lot that we don't know about the benefits of using cannabis, and especially the other compounds and terpenes, that have neuroprotective qualities or bronchodialator effects and probably many other benefits.
Yes. There are much higher percentages of cannabinoids in marijuana vs hemp.Are you actually saying that a concentrate made from marijuana is somehow different than a concentrate made from hemp?
Both are the same, and you can make your concentration however you want.
Very interesting. The only thing I've been basing this off of is patient feedback. I have made oils on the stove top before, and it's night and day compared to a dry ice sift. My patients are getting stoned from the stove top method, and no buzz at all from the dry ice method. Your post confirms what I have believed to be true.
ok question. In a column witch is the orange THC or CBD? witch is the red THC or CBD? or better yet witch would fall first THC or CBD I`am running 70-200 mesh. I`am getting good seperation orange always falls first followed a very small yellow band then red mostly well 2 more bands behind that. Sample was decarboxed. Cause I just sampled what I thought was CBD & I`am having a hard time typing this LOL so now I`am all backwards it`s got to be THC that I isolated. "Still Cool!" but if anyone can help ?Are you actually saying that a concentrate made from marijuana is somehow different than a concentrate made from hemp?
Both are the same, and you can make your concentration however you want.
