Proof helps in this fight. I shut down the FB page that I had been using as a data sharing site after a large number of false claims were posted and the conversation degenerated into a shouting match between supporters of different solvents, neither side having any science behind their positions, just a lot of emotion. The anti-Monsanto, anti-GMO, anti-fluoride, vaccines, weather control... Look, without discussing any of those other things, I'd like to figure out how to survive here.
There is substantial data about the research trials that have been done so far, PubMed and similar sites contain a lot of genuine research data. Genuine because it was gathered using scientific methods, by trained people, primarily doctors. If I see another post about all doctors belonging to some vast conspiracy, my head will explode. So, if you want to really find out what will work to cure something, you start by identifying what you want to cure. Specifically. You cannot say that cannabis oil cures cancer. That is proven to be untrue. Many cancer types have killed many patients who tried the oil. You could probably say that the oil helped most of them, the idea of using cannabis as a palliative care medicine has quite of lot of support because of the evidence gathered by doctors who tried it on their patients and many actual patient reports. Sadly, the cure data is not as clear or as encouraging. But there are some exceptional stories, there are cases of cures and remissions, but the results are not so good that we can see a cure for "every type of cancer and disease", as some are claiming. Sorry, the evidence is not there.
But there is evidence that the oil has cured some people. So this is worth looking into, along with anything else that has been tried successfully in the past on others, FOR THE SPECIFIC CONDITION that we want to treat. I am convinced that the palliative care effects of cannabis oil justify the effort involved in making and taking it, at least with regards to brain cancer. The lab results with glioma cell apoptosis are very encouraging, tumors in mice and in a petri dish were "healed" by exposing them to THC, so that is good evidence that this might work in people. This is not proof of a cure, just one possible treatment that looks encouraging. For gliomas, this looks like it may help. Immunotherapy and the new polio virus genetic thing along similar lines look like the current cutting edge treatments with the most promise, but they are still a ways off, maybe a couple years at the soonest, so cannabis oil looks good right now.
Identify your enemy. Get the pathology of the disease identified first, then do the homework on that condition as far as what has been tried and then evaluate the historical results and decide if that's what you want to do. For glioma patients it depends which specific grade and type of tumor is involved, as far as which treatment helps. For grade 1 and 2, a surgery to remove the tumor is sometimes enough. Grade 3 and 4, the surgery is typically followed by chemo with Carboplatin or another awful poison, in an attempt to kill the cells without killing the patient, with not too encouraging results, but sometimes it works and, along with radiation, some patients have been saved, but not nearly enough. Please do not tell me the doctors do this just for money. I met many oncologists and can tell you that they are fighting a war to save people and will use whatever they think will work. If we can show the medical community that cannabis oil works against something they will use it. Research is getting underway currently at University of Colorado, funded with cannabis tax dollars and conducted by doctors and medical professionals, but this is very early and the results are not going to be applicable to every disease, just what the study is designed for.
I'll post up the method that I use to make the oil at home with Everclear. The advice about sugar looks like good advice, same with eliminating alcohol, but is there any evidence that this actually affects disease or improves the patient's condition, or is it a best guess? I have lost 80 pounds and find that any time I can eat something I should, simply to increase my caloric intake to slow or stop this wasting away. I have started making beer because I like it, it makes me happy, euphoric, like with cannabis, and has a lot of calories, so it should help with maintaining weight. I also crave candy after smoking and indulge in sweets, which makes me smile, so there needs to be some genuine scientifically proven reason to cut it from my diet, or I will continue to eat it. Do not tell me that cancer cells eat sugar and that I will be cured by changing my diet to exclude the stuff I like. I listen to my body and it tells me that it wants a cookie, oatmeal with chocolate chips.
Sorry to rant, but this has been a difficult conversation to have, among hundreds of diseased people, all trying to find something, intermingled with thousands of people who enjoy smoking weed, many of whom want to make a living by engaging in the sale of related products and many who already are. If you are selling a cannabis oil product and giving dosing instructions AND telling people to stop taking what their doctors are prescribing, you may be hurting or killing someone, so use some common sense. If you are a patient do the research yourself, using a legitimate resource for accurate data. The magazine articles are entertaining, especially the ones written by people trained in writing instead of medicine, but they are not good research data and can only give opinions and what sick people need is real medicine. All that being said, here is what I have decided to do. I am increasing my dose to around 650mg per day of high CBD oil made with R4/CW/R14er and 150mg of high THC oil made with a variety of mainly Indica strains.
