I have some new posts up at Rockford For Safe Access.
Cannabis CBD Videos – one of the videos has a report by a schizophrenic.
Helping Schizophrenics with high CBD cannabis
Update: This rash of medical cannabis posts was inspired by this story: New York’s medical marijuana law excludes some who seek the drug.
Patients will have little say in the marijuana they are prescribed and people like Oliver – who could benefit from a specialized strain known as Charlotte’s Web that is high in the compound cannabidiol, or CBD, – would be cut out entirely.
“With this one medication, it’s stopping their seizures or dramatically reducing their seizures,” said Miller, 49, as her son lay in a playpen in their home near in Atlantic Beach, east of New York City.
And of course the medical profession is getting its licks in:
Orrin Devinsky, an epilepsy expert at New York University who has treated Oliver, said data about the safety and effectiveness of “Charlotte’s Web” is scant.
“In medicine, the roadside is littered with drugs and compounds and plants that people have sworn by,” said Devinsky, who is preparing a clinical trial using a nearly pure form of CBD. “The available data right now in humans is anecdotal – single cases where there could be a tremendous amount of bias in the results.”
Well OK doc. But what if “pure” CBD doesn’t work the same as when it is mixed in with all the other cannabinoids in cannabis. If you go to the links above you will find reports on high CBD low THC strains of cannabis such as “Charlotte’s Web”. Medicine as currently done does not have a model for mufti-compound medicines. Multi being more than 2 or 3. And as the doctor implies – they like dealing with single compounds in a few diferent dose sizes the best. Except when prescribing a cocktail. One for the condition, one or more for the side effects of that drug, more for the side effects of the side effect drugs etc.