The ingestion of raw cannabis is a new way in which scientists and doctors are finding that the plant can help people. By not heating the THC before consumption, patients can receive a far greater dose of THC, without getting high. Only the medicinal benefits are felt. Here’s why:
When you heat cannabis, whether by smoking it, vaporizing it, or making baked goods out of it, you convert THC acid, which is non-psychoactive, into THC, which gets you high. A strong dose of heated THC is considered to be about 10mg.
However, if you eat the plant raw, you are ingesting the THC acid the way it is found in the plant. Juicing raw cannabis allows you to get 500-600mg of the non-psychoactive parts of THC, which is 60 times more THC than a person could tolerate if the THC were heated. Because it’s not psychoactive, a person can drink this as a therapy and not have to be high.
All this, according to this video from Cannabis International:
Kristen Peskuski is a researcher and patient who put her systemic lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, interstitial cystitis, and numerous other conditions into remission by juicing fresh cannabis. Dr. William Courtney of Mendocino, California is her doctor and they are both members of Cannabis International, an organization involved in researching, promoting, regulating and reporting about the benefits of raw cannabis.
The organization helps make sense of the science behind patients’ recoveries from a diverse range of medical conditions, including osteo and rheumotoid arthritis, autoimmune disorders, and cancer. Attorneys, physicians, law enforcement, medical care providers, patients and their families come together through the organization to discuss their experiences using medical cannabis. They specifically focus on juicing fresh cannabis, which is non-psychoactive and contains medical properties 200-400 times stronger than traditional, heated cannabis.
Kristen Peskuski was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatory arthritis when she was 16. Over the years, this evolved into a lupus condition and an autoimmune disorder. She was on over 40 different medications — extremely potent anti-inflammatory pills, painkillers and antibiotics. One of the medications almost completely destroyed her vision and steroid toxicity made her so swollen that her face became the shape of the moon. She was bed ridden for four years.
Finally she asked Dr. William Courtney about using cannabis and started to use it in juicing form. Four to six weeks after she started the juicing, she had no more pain and was able to stop using her painkillers. She felt the best she had felt in years. Kristen’s doctors had also told her she would never live to the age of 30. Four of her doctors told her that she had to have a hysterectomy, and would never be able to have a child. Now, she is 30 and has a healthy daughter.
Another incredible story about the success of using raw cannabis involves Baby Amber, a two year old who was diagnosed with terminal brain tumors. Amber went through a 24-hour operation and was given a 10% chance of survival with treatment. The baby then completed all treatments available — surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, but the tumors were still growing and multiplying. Doctors told her parents to take the baby home and make her comfortable because there was nothing else they could do. Her parents then began juicing marijuana plants and giving Amber a shot glass of the juice every day. After some time, Amber was taken in for a cat scan which showed that the tumors had shrunk and were disappearing. Cannabis juice is saving Baby Amber’s life.
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