Yeah, the cheapest CBD I could find on Google was ~$30/g (pre- tax, shipping, etc). Good luck convincing people to spend $600/mo on their sleep! (I can already hear the HNers coming out of the woodwork to attest to their willingness to do so, how sleep is 1/3rd of your life and so if you're spending but the vast majority of people can't do that)
Ha, your parenthetical definitely anticipated me. If I could RELIABLY score a solid 8 hours every single night, I would call $600/mo steep — but worth it.
Also says something about the general cross section of HN users that $600/mo is "steep but worth it". There a lot of people for whom $600/mo is wildly unaffordable for anything, even essential medical care.
(FWIW, I'm with you, if I could wake up well rested every morning, I'd drop $1K/mo or more without a second thought)
You had the best sleep experience of your life. That doesn't translate to the healthiest sleep of your life. You were just very unconscious. THC is well documented for the unhealthy effects it has on your sleep cycles.
I'm sure it was healthier than the 2-3 hours of sleep I was running on before.
Yes, but the replier is saying that THC, the primary active compound in Cannabis, can in fact worsen some of the symptoms of schizophrenia. As someone with Type I Bipolar, which has many similarities to schizophrenia, I agree that this is often the case.
That's why it should be legal so people who need it won't have to fiddle with the dealers. Obviously big pharma pays a lot so that won't happen.
Just a data point. I dealt with anxiety my entire life, and too much weed absolutely destroys me but small amount of weed definitely calms me down. When I smoke too much weed, it really doesn't feel like my anxieties deep down are surfaces. It feels like my brain is making up new stupid things. To me, weed is a very strong sensory experience. When I'm too high it almost feels I'm hearing too much, feeling too much, s…
You probably need to try a strain with less THC and more CBD (like a 2:8 ratio).
Yes nowadays I smoke mixed CBD-only and THC-only strains this way I can make custom ratios. Weed's been orders of magnitude more comfortable since I started doing this.
Just a data point. I dealt with anxiety my entire life, and too much weed absolutely destroys me but small amount of weed definitely calms me down. When I smoke too much weed, it really doesn't feel like my anxieties deep down are surfaces. It feels like my brain is making up new stupid things. To me, weed is a very strong sensory experience. When I'm too high it almost feels I'm hearing too much, feeling too much, s…
What kind of made up anxiety have you encountered? I ask just to understand. I've never run into an anxiety after smoking weed that wasn't rooted in reality. I find it helpful for the same reasons the previous poster stated.
Like one time I accidentally dosed my weed wrong. I prepared a bowl with super-high THC strain (I live in a legal state) when I was trying to smoke a 1:1 THC:CBD strain (I wasn't trying to get high, I was trying to medicate against my chronic inflammation problem). I vaped the entire bowl. Continued to watch Portlandia and 30 seconds in, I realized something is wrong and I can barely keep my eyes open. After managing the initial disorientation, I got up to take a shower because my heart was beating at 150 bpm so I wanted to distract myself. When I got up I heard someone talking outside. It sounded like it's my coworker's sound. I got worried for some reason. I was worried that my coworker would see me high and think I'm a "loser stoner" getting high alone. Of course it was just my neighbor talking on his phone outside. Anyway, I never felt like this before or ever since. This was a unique paranoid experience I felt at that moment.
I have some current experience with my adult daughter suffering with severe anxiety. I started looking for over the counter treatments and found studies that used magnesium glycinate successfully as a treatment and it has worked wonders for her. She takes a 300 mg tab and in 20 minutes she's completely calmed down. It only lasts for about four hours but the effect is amazing. The downside is it can cause diarrhea whe…
+1 for Mg. I prefer the citrate salt as I find it faster acting and doesn't give me the same digestive issues, but it's so damned effective for general anxiety I even keep a bottle in my desk at work!
The dosages of CBD used in this study are far, far, too low to have any effect. Just like most CBD dosing in commercial situations. Usually scientific investigation use the actual useful dosages of 300-600 mg in humans. I guess these guys didn't do the required background review beforehand. CBD is not active at the CB1 or CB2 receptors. It has very low affinity for them. It has moderate affinity for the serotonin-1a…
Is there a more trustworthy study we should look at?
I have some current experience with my adult daughter suffering with severe anxiety. I started looking for over the counter treatments and found studies that used magnesium glycinate successfully as a treatment and it has worked wonders for her. She takes a 300 mg tab and in 20 minutes she's completely calmed down. It only lasts for about four hours but the effect is amazing. The downside is it can cause diarrhea whe…
I tend to worry a lot and it's fine during the day, but it really amps up at bedtime and I lie awake with racing thoughts. It sounds worth trying the magnesium glycinate (at least for a week) - from what you say taking it around half an hour before bed will let me know if it helps or not?
For the record I've tried melatonin etc - the issue is NOT being tired or even sleepy. My brain just refuses to shut off, to the point where I've started seeing things while awake, when one part starts dreaming and the other refuses to. This usually results in me jumping awake with an extra load of adrenaline to delay my sleep.
It's not untrue, there is no definition genetically of what a pure sativa/indica strain even is, see my other comment here.
What they were saying is anyone with experience in cannabis can tell you after a few minute of smoking if it's sativa or indica. Doesn't matter if there is no genetic definition, there are obvious differences.
There aren't, and those subjective reports can't tell us anything related to how 'sativa' or 'indica' some strain is. The only thing that affects high is CBD-THC ratios (and possibly other alkaloids) & those are independent of strain.
> Depends on whether you are smoking a sativa or indica People really need to stop repeating this. There are pure cbd sativas just as there are pure cbd indicas. There is no definition for what a sativa/indica is besides what the leaves look like. There's no bearing on subjective high and strains. What people are experiencing is differing THC/CBD ratios.
You need to stop incorrectly correcting people. CBD is neither sativa or indica. Which strain CBD comes from doesn't change how it effects you. All of the indica and sativa flower that I purchase is 0% CBD, yet I can most definitely tell the difference. It has nothing to do with the amount of CBD in it.
Your subjective n=1 sample of "I can feel the difference bro" doesn't really mean much to me, especially when it seems like you haven't even really grasped my argument.