The Medical Cannabis Guidebook. Mel Thomas

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       CHAPTER SIX

       Hemp Nutrition and Health

       The Healing Seed

       Hemp Nut (Hulled Hemp Seed)

       Hemp Seed in Traditional Medicines

       Further Benefits of Hemp Seed

       Recommended Dosage

       Hemp Balls (Nai Lao Yi Qi)

       Hemp Balls: A Contemporary Recipe

       Hemp Milk

       Hemp Nut Coleslaw

       Juicing Raw Cannabis

       CHAPTER SEVEN

       The Cannabis Kitchen

       Decarboxylating Cannabis

       Canna-Flour

       Canna-Butter

       Potency and Dosage Calculator for Canna-Butter

       Canna-Ghee

       Canna-Infused Oil

       Canna-lnfused Vinaigrette

       Green Dragon Rum Infusion

       Easy Canna-Edible Recipes

       Contemporary Bhang Recipe

       Hot Buttered Bhang

       Quick and Simple Bhang Recipe

       Chocolate Brownies Made with Cannabis-lnfused Oil

       Cannabis Chocolate

       Contemporary Lozenge Recipe

       CHAPTER EIGHT

       Medicinal Cannabis Growing

       Nutrients

       Humidity and Temperature

       Light

       Standard Lighting Schedule

       Water Requirements

       Germinating Seeds

       Identifying Cannabis Gender

       Basic Cloning

       Vegetative Growth

       Flowering

       Harvesting

       Curing

       CHAPTER NINE

       Frequently Asked Questions

       APPENDIX I

       Cancer-Fighting Foods

       APPENDIX II

       Marijuana Legal Issues

       Miranda Rights in the U.S

       Canada

       European Union

       APPENDIX III

       Standardized Medication

       Gas Chromatography

       Calculating Dosage

       References

       Bibliography

       About the Authors

       Index

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INTRODUCTION

       Why is Cannabis Illegal?

      Referred to variously as marijuana, ganja, weed and herb amongst many other slang terms, cannabis is one of the safest medicines available. As well as giving us the dried buds that can be smoked, the plant produces nutritious seeds from which healthy edible oils can be pressed, the plant fibers are durable and versatile with many commercial uses, the crop is environmentally beneficial and many parts of the plant were in use for thousands of years before prohibition. Unlike many pharmaceutical medications, there has never been a single recorded fatality from cannabis use. No one has ever died as a direct result of ingesting cannabis, nor have there been any instances of brain receptor damage through its use; unlike alcohol and other drugs cannabis does not wear out the brain receptors, it merely stimulates them. One estimate of THC’s lethal dose for humans indicates that 1500 pounds (680 kilograms) of cannabis would have to be smoked within 15 minutes (approximately) for the smoker to die. If you wanted to kill someone using 1500 pounds of cannabis you would be better advised to drop it on them.

      LD50, also called median lethal dose, is the standard measure of the toxicity of a material through ingestion, skin contact or injection. LD50 is measured in micrograms (or milligrams) of the material per kilogram of the test-animal’s body weight. The lower the amount, the more toxic the material. The estimated LD50 (lethal threshold) for cannabis, СКАЧАТЬ