Eating raw cannabis for Fibromyalgia

[feelsgreen]

Hello friends!

This is my first post. First of all, let me thank you all for such a great community you created here. Living in a country where the doctors can't help with cannabis related questions, communities like this one are our best chance for learning.
My girlfriend have severe Fibromyalgia. After tons of hours of reading about the endocannabinoid system, cannabis in general and specially, after seeing that cannabis is what seems to work best for her, we decided to go that way all in. We are taking small steps into growing our own product so that we don't have to buy it. Soon (when I can harvest) we will try to make some edibles or cannabis infused coconut oil capsules to see if that way she can get a better sleep through the night.
Several days ago, we discovered that eating fresh raw cannabis is actually a thing and that it can be a whole therapy if one could eat around 600mg of THCA every day. The benefits seem to quick in in 4-8 weeks, and for us, it seems like a light at the end of the tunnel. First of all, THCA is not psychoactive. It won't fit into CB1 receptors, so the effects will not be cerebral, but that does not mean it will not interact with the body. THCA, CBDA and all the rest of canabinoids and terpenes will store in fat cells and regulate the body of someone with ECS deficiency. It sounds encouraging and gives us hope. I wish it would be true! For now, I would like to ask you, people with far more experience and knowledge in that matter what is your idea. Is that true? Could eating raw cannabis every day help regulate the ECS?
I'm trying to understand first if its worth a try because its something that for us is not easy to achieve. If we ever try it, I'm planning of planting one plant every week, for 12 weeks straight. After 12 weeks, I would have 12 plants, where the oldest one is about ready to be consumed, and maintaining that would provide us with one fresh plant for about every week. Easier said than done, but if we come to the conclusion that this is worth it, we will try.
I'm sorry for the long text. I'm just a desperate loving one in search of any kind of advice that could ease her pain. Please, if anyone could help us with something, we would be very thankful.
Thank you in advance.
Peace.

 

[oldskol4evr]

i can only speak for myself,ive tried ediables and nothing ever has happened to me,i also have cbd i smoke and the sativa doesnt do anything and idica is just a slight help,with your plans for consuming the plant as you speek ,wheat is your plan for feeding them,if you use the chemical nutrient to grow them seems like that taste would be kinda rank in my opinion,excess nitrogen alone make for poor tasting smoke if not flushed,that being said there is organic,but the twist on that is you cant depend on the once a week harvest in soil,some grow quick some dont if you dig.
so that leaves hydro growing which is all controled and very quick,more expensive and can be flushed before a harvest,but perpetial growing is a little bit more involved than you think.
any and which way you go you have to take in mind,bugs, defienceies and just plain mistakes,but i really hope this works out for yall it could be interesting

 

[feelsgreen]

Thank you for your reply oldskol4evr.
What do you mean by "nothing ever has happened to me"? Sativas seem not to work as well as hybrids or indicas for her. Im using only Biobizz products, so everything should be organic. Bugs, mold and other issues are a real treat. That´s why by no meaning I think this is a easy task. I dont even know if its possible in my case. For now, if we could just try that and understand if it works, that would be a big big plus. If it works, it opens a new world for us.

 

[MIMedGrower]

Our edibles are a lifesaver if you can tolerate them. They are very potent. We jar cure all close trim and little or loose buds along wih the big buds and then combine the material from at least 4 plants and make infused coconut oil.

Mrs. MMG bakes cupcakes and also makes chocolate candies that are 1/4 the dose of a cupcake.

This oil helped her to eliminate life long internal cysts. When she went to the specialist 6 months after a lab test to see the cysts the doctor thought she had the wrong test results. Her new test showed more than a 50% reduction in the cysts.

I was born with a deformed colon and some other pre mature birth issues and the edibles help with my belly pain and spasming. Nothing else does. I have tried to feel better for 30 years. Cannabis is the medicine that works.

 

[feelsgreen]

MIMedGrower thank you! That´s encouraging! Unfortunately, in the country where we live, if we want edibles, we will have to do them ourselves (which we would like to do soon).

 

[feelsgreen]

Guys, I found those lab tests, that, instead of what I was thinking, are showing that the THCA is present in raw cured bud. I always thought that it degrades a lot into THC and then into CBN with time, light and room temperature. Now, those lab test are showing this is not the case, and only a very small amount will convert into THC. We dont know how long those buds were cured or other information, but that alone is enough to make me think about trying raw cured buds. What do you think?
Another question I have is: Do you think we can grind the herb very fine and put it into some gel capsules for intake, just the way it is, cured, without any fats? Will it get through the stomach acid barrier? I heard (at least for the THC) that in order for the cannabinoids to get to our blood through eating method, they must be covered in fat cells, otherwise they can be deteriorated by the stomach acid.
Thank you

 

[Kiwichick]

i can only speak for myself,ive tried ediables and nothing ever has happened to me,i also have cbd i smoke and the sativa doesnt do anything and idica is just a slight help,with your plans for consuming the plant as you speek ,wheat is your plan for feeding them,if you use the chemical nutrient to grow them seems like that taste would be kinda rank in my opinion,excess nitrogen alone make for poor tasting smoke if not flushed,that being said there is organic,but the twist on that is you cant depend on the once a week harvest in soil,some grow quick some dont if you dig.
so that leaves hydro growing which is all controled and very quick,more expensive and can be flushed before a harvest,but perpetial growing is a little bit more involved than you think.
any and which way you go you have to take in mind,bugs, defienceies and just plain mistakes,but i really hope this works out for yall it could be interesting

CBD has no THC in it that’s why it never worked

 

[Dan789]

In my limited experience my wife’s sjogren’s and fibromyalgia, I’ve arrived at a solution that is satisfactory. In the past we were purchasing a concentrated cbd and thc which were in paste form and in 1cc syringes and very concentrated. We ended up forgoing the concentrate largely because of the escalating costs which we couldn’t sustain ($1500/mo). For a while we were doing the tincture route, but the alcohol was affecting the lining of her stomach and even tried a veg glycerin that I tried to make a tincture with. That wasn’t immediately a success and not to long afterward dropped that effort completely. Now it’s both dry decarb’d MJ and a coconut infusion by way of a magic butter maker, which both cuts, mixes and heats the mixture to setable lengths of time. Focusing more on the strain and quality of the MJ I’m growing and how it’s cured to arrive at the best most effective (reads highest potency) product available to us. My thoughts are without the THC, the CBD (only) route for pain management is jawboning at best, for this level of pain, for everyday you and I ache’s it might suffice...but really doubt its effectiveness.