It took me almost a year to convince my friend Beth to visit the cannabis dispensary.
Because she grew up in a time when marijuana was considered entirely horrible to mental health and productivity, she had a hard time with the prejudice against it.
I tried to explain that it is simply a plant. Cannabis has been used as a medicinal treatment since the 1800s, and no one has ever died from an overdose from consuming cannabis. It doesn’t create the long-term harmful side-effects of pharmaceuticals. I told her all about the endocannabinoid proposal in the human body and how the cannabinoids from the cannabis plant bind with receptors to influence balance and homeostasis. After lots of long chats, Beth finally agreed to take a look around. My friend suffers from extreme arthritis in her hands. Her joints swell and her knuckles become so painful that she can’t make a fist. She struggles to open jars, type on a computer, weed in her garden, craft and paint. She was forced to give up the majority of her favorite activities. She wasn’t having much fortune with conventional medicine. At the dispensary, all of us explained her issues to one of the budtenders who recommended applying topicals and consuming tinctures. He recommended strains with a higher ratio of CBD and lower percentages of THC. The combination of THC and CBD certainly working together provide exceptional benefits. However, the lower THC degree avoids the severe psychoactive effects. After just a week of using the topicals and tinctures, our friend Beth noticed a significant improvement. There was far less inflammation and pain.
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