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THC (marijuana) Helps Cure Cancer Says Harvard Study – YouTube.

This is not a new story but I feel like it should be spread until everyone knows about it. Lou.


Letter from Rick Simpson

My name is Rick Simpson. I have been providing people with instructions on how to make Hemp Oil medicines for about 8 years. The results have been nothing short of amazing. Throughout man’s history hemp has always been known as the most medicinal plant in the world. Even with this knowledge hemp has always been used as a political and religious football.

The current restrictions against hemp were put in place and maintained, not because hemp is evil or harmful, but for big money to make more big money, while we suffer and die needlessly. Look at a proposal such as this; if we were allowed to grow hemp in our back yards and cure our own illnesses, what do you think the reaction of the pharmaceutical industry would be to such a plan? Many large pharmaceutical companies that still exist today sold hemp based medicines in the 1800′s and early 1900′s. They knew then what I have recently found out. Hemp oil if produced properly is a cure-all that the pharmaceutical industry can’t patent.

Two years a go I contacted the Liberals, the Conservatives and the New Democratic Party about this situation. I also provided them with evidence to backup what I was saying. No one lifted a finger, in most cases I was lucky to get a reply. I contacted the R.C.M.P. along with many other organizations and Public Interest TV shows, with little or no response.

Why are all these people trying to avoid such a simple truth? If I am in some way wrong in what I have been saying then I invite the system to come and prove it. I would be happy to put on a public demonstration of what this oil can do. That would answer this question for the Canadian public once and for all. It seems unbelievable that we have a law in Canada that will not allow us to cure our own diseases with a natural herbal remedy.

Rick Simpson

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The Importance of Drinking Rather Than Smoking Cannabis | MyScienceAcademy.

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March 2013

by Alyx Kerr
Cannabinoids can prevent cancer, reduce heart attacks by 66% and insulin dependent diabetes by 58%. Cannabis clinician Dr. William Courtney recommends drinking 4 – 8 ounces of raw flower and leaf juice from any Hemp plant, 5 mg of Cannabidiol (CBD) per kg of body weight, a salad of Hemp seed sprouts and 50 mg of THC taken in 5 daily doses.Cannabis – whether Sativa, Indica, Ruderalis, male, female, hermaphrodite, wild, bred for fiber, seeds or medicinal resin – is a vegetable with every dietary essential we can’t synthesize: Essential Amino Acids, Essential Fatty Acids, Essential Cannabinoid acids and hundreds of anti-Cancer compounds.Cannabis clinician Dr. William Courtney recommends drinking 4 – 8 ounces of bud and leaf juice of any Hemp plant, 5 mg of CBD per kg of body weight, a salad of Hemp seed sprouts and 50 mg of THC daily, divided into 5 doses with an Arachadonic acid source, such as Hemp seed oil.

“If you heat the plant, you will decarboxylate THC-acid and you will get high, you”ll get your 10 mg. If you don’t heat it, you can go up to five or six hundred milligrams & use it as a Dietary Cannabis. . . and push it up to the Anti-oxidant and Neuro-protective levels which come into play at hundreds of milligrams,” stated Dr. William Courtney.

“The amount of Cannabinoids we need would be difficult to get through smoked Cannabis without feeling the intoxicating effects,” said Kristen Courtney.

The Endocannabinoid System (ECS) maintains our biological systems by regulating each cell tissue. It uses Arachadonic acid/Omega 6 to make Endo-Cannabinoids: fatty molecules that communicate harm between cells. Dietary Cannabis mimics the ECS by providing Cannabinoids when there is an Arachadonic acid deficiency or Clinical Cannabinoid Deficiency.

The body regenerates best when it’s saturated with Phyto-Cannabinoids, which takes 3 months of Dietary Cannabis use.
Patients exceeding 4 decades need Dietary Cannabis daily.

Patients using blood pressure, birth control, Epilepsy, Anti-psychotic or any Cardiac medicines need more Dietary Cannabis to elevate their serum Cannabinoid levels.

Oxidative diseases and Amphetamine, radiation or Alcohol damage can be prevented or treated with Cannabinoid therapy.

Cannabinoids are particularly effective in the treatment of oxidative associated diseases of the CNS because they cross the Blood Brain Barrier and exert their anti-oxidant effects.

Hemp juice has lowered blood pressure an average of 10 points within 2 hours.

Patients suffering from end stage Cancer need to eat buds whole.

Plants sprayed with anything shouldn’t be juiced, but some pests are edible, such as Spider mites.

To prepare leaves for a juicer, avoid rinsing – soak them in water for 5 minutes.

Masticating juicers are efficient for leaves, buds and sprouts; a centrifugal juicer may need additional vegetables to chop fibers.
To preserve juice fill containers so that air is minimized; a dose of juice frozen in an ice cube tray retains medicinal value.

A sprout’s prophylactic, analgesic, anxiolytic, anti-oxidant and activities peak within 1-2 weeks.

For CBD without dysphoria from THC psycho-toxicity, heat bud to 166 degrees with a heat gun – the longer a bud is boiled, the less THC remains.

D9THC boils at 157C, D8THC boils at 175C, CBD boils at 188C.

Drinking heated juice for THC is more potent because there is less vaporization, adhesion and degradation to decrease potency.
When calculating a dose of heated juice from a new strain make sure to begin with smaller doses: the amount of THC in a cup of juice can exceed 100 joints worth – which could leave one unconscious for a number of days – and even heated leaves can be psycho-active.

A 20 mg dose of THC causes most patients to stagger, after 30 mg THC most are unable or unwilling to stand.

“The Hemp plant is actually an excellent plant because the THC content can be low, that’s if you’re treating a condition for which appears CBD food supplement is in order. . . The plants we’re using in Luxembourg have only 1% CBD, a 1% CBD plant is providing you with 19 times more CBD per pound than Oranges provide you of vitamin C. A 1% is an excellent source, you can make tremendous concentrates you can eat the plant raw – and the absence of the THC – you can heat Hemp, which you can’t do with other strains because the THC acid comes out and you end up with a psycho-toxic substance,” says Dr. William Courtney

Viable Hemp seed from the detoxyourworld, happilyraw and gojiking.co.uk websites approach pure CBD.

Steam or UV sterilized Hemp seeds sprout at a lower germination rate; such as seeds from Nuts dot com, Avian Organics and Persnickety Parrot websites.

Canadian Hemp seed oil contains 10 mg per kg of CBD; Swiss and Finland sourced Hemp seed oil can contain up to 50 mg of THC per kg.

Swiss Hemp “essential” oil contains 540 mg of CBD and 3 mg each CBD, CBG and CBN per kg with no acids.

Raw Cannabis produces non-psychoactive acidic Cannabinoids. It’s medicinal at lower doses than heated preparations because constituents have an Entourage effect when they act synergistically. 90% of the medicinal constituents are destroyed with heat – such as terpenoids, which can greatly prolong the amount of time a Cannabinoid affects our body.

“It’s the poster-child for raw food.”

Acidic Cannabinoids are absorbed by our body 400% better than neutral Cannabinoids and do not require a Cannabiniod receptor to produce medicinal activity.

Neutral Cannabinoids are the product of aging, heat or light.
THC – the only psycho-active group of Cannabinoids – and all other neutral Cannabinoids are barely present in raw Cannabis.

There 16 possible classes of Cannabinoids and over one hundred Cannabinoids in each trichome; in a ratio that changes throughout development with variations between cultivars. Each act differently: CBD-acid has anti-biotic activity but CBD doesn’t.

Contact The Humboldt Patient Resource Center, Canna Culture Collective, Leonard Moore Co-op or ask local growers in a Cannabis forum for fresh Cannabis leaves.

For more info on Cannabis, visit
CannabisInternational.org
harmreductionjournal.com
oregon.gov
pothoo.com
cannabisclinicians.org
medicinalgenomics.com
youtube.com

Alyx S. Kerr is a 24 year old Cannabis enthusiast who has no doubt that Cannabis is the most important biomass for Biological, Ethical and Environmental systems. Visit his website at www.RawHemp.tk

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How Hemp Threatens the Corporatocracy _ Brainwash Update – YouTube.

Hemp can replace plastics, oil, paper, lumber, metals, and so much more. It can do so without harming the environment. Why is illegal ? Follow the money. It will threaten corporate profits.  Lou

Marijuana Heals Cancer …Cannabinoid Receptors In The Human Body – YouTube.

Cannabinoid Receptors are the most dense and most populated receptors in our brains and our bodies. Whether you believe in the Theory of Evolution or the Theory of Intelligent Design, the results are clear. Our bodies are designed to accept Cannabinoids. If someone tells you cannabis has no medical value, they are either ignorant or lying.

Aug 25, 2010

BBC special on Cannabinoid Receptors…below an article by Steve Kubby, Sierra Times …A new study published in Nature Reviews-Cancer provides an historic and detailed explanation about how THC and natural cannabinoids counteract cancer, but preserve normal cells.

It is hard to believe that the knowledge that cannabis can be used to fight cancer has been suppressed for almost thirty years , yet it seems likely that it will continue to be suppressed. Why? According to Cowan, the answer is because it is a threat to cannabis prohibition . “If this article and its predecessors from 2000 and 1974 were the only evidence of the suppression of medical cannabis, then one might perhaps be able to rationalize it in some herniated way.

However, there really is massive proof that the suppression of medical cannabis represents the greatest failure of the institutions of a free society, medicine, journalism, science, and our fundamental values,” Cowan notes. Millions of people have died horrible deaths and in many cases, families exhausted their savings on dangerous, toxic and expensive drugs. Now we are just beginning to realize that while marijuana has never killed anyone, marijuana prohibition has killed millions.

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In past we had reported,”Marijuana Cure Cancer: U.S. Govt. acknowledges Cannabis As Alternative Treatment For Cancer

In latest development we learns, on October 7, 2003 The United States Government as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services was granted a U.S. Patent (#6630507) on any and all uses and applications of: Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants.

In other words, THE GOVERNMENT ALREADY OWNS THE ORGANIC THC OIL BY FORCE… and now THEY OWN THE SYNTHETIC THC OIL BY PATENT along with any and all combinations of the beneficial compounds found in cannabinoids.

The Abstract of the patent reads as follows:

This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of a wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and auto-immune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and HIV dementia.
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‘Master growers’ Cultivating a Higher Grade of Marijuana.

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March 27, 2012

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‘Master Growers’ Cultivating a Higher Grade of Marijuana

Behind the bolted steel doors of an old brick warehouse, Big Wes meets a nutrient company scientist to see if he can increase his crop yield. Rows of hydroponic marijuana plants soak up solution flowing through plastic troughs and light blazing from high-pressure sodium lamps.

Big Wes has spent more than half his life calibrating his system of growing high-grade marijuana to its utmost efficiency. At 50 years old, he harvests a crop of dozens of plants every week from five rented warehouses scattered along the rutted streets and alleys around the docks of Oakland.

His problem is that OG Kush, the ultra-popular strain he specializes in, produces notoriously low yields of bud per plant. For this reason the scientist has come with a nutrient solution made from deep-sea algae, which he promises will boost the output. Big Wes — who asked that his real name or certain identifying traits not be revealed because his career could land him in federal prison — is going to test it against his usual concoction, and try 15 different combinations of the two.

Big Wes is new breed of cultivator, a “master grower” who produces marijuana that is potent and mold-free, tastes smooth and has a pleasing aroma — the kind of product now expected by ever-more discriminating consumers who frequent medical cannabis dispensaries.

He and others like him have revolutionized weed in recent years, growing sophisticated new varietals with scientific precision and assembly-line efficiency. Their expanding role in the burgeoning industry is shifting cultivation from clandestine rural plots to highly controlled indoor grows in urban centers.

“It’s kind of becoming the big leagues now,” said Kyle Kushman, a writer for High Times magazine and a grower who teaches organic and “veganic” cultivation classes. “Just like any other industry, as it gets older, the talent gets better.”

Pot connoisseurs can talk about the complexity of cannabis like vintners do wine. They detect sweet flavors, and musky ones, and hints of berries, sandalwood, citrus, mint, pine and almond. An array of more than a hundred chemicals called terpenes brings out the taste and aroma.

Pot connoisseurs can talk about the complexity of cannabis like vintners do wine. They detect sweet flavors, and musky ones, and hints of berries, sandalwood, citrus, mint, pine and almond. An array of more than a hundred chemicals called terpenes brings out the taste and aroma.

Dusting the buds like a light snow are resin glands full of 80 or more cannabinoids, most notably the psychoactive one, THC.

According to George Van Patten, a.k.a. Jorge Cervantes, a renowned grower and author of the 484-page “Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower’s Bible,” the many combinations of these chemicals produce a complex range of sensations.

“This explains why certain medical patients find more relief with specific varieties,” he said. “The THC molecule is the same in all cannabis plants. It is the mixture of other elements that play a vital role in changing the psychoactive effect.”

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Decriminalizing Drug Use in Argentina Is a Correction to Bad Policy – NYTimes.com.

February 9, 2012,

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina.Enrique Marcarian/ReutersPresident Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina.

BUENOS AIRES — “When we first started, no one would consider advertising with us,” says Sebastián Basalo, the founder of THC, a magazine devoted to marijuana and its fans. (THC is the main psychoactive agent in the cannabis plant.) “Now we even get some big companies once in a while.”

When a publication that coaches readers on how far to place the lamp from the reefer plant gets corporate backing, you know times are changing. Argentina is becoming more liberal on several key social issues, like same-sex marriage, which was legalized in 2010. Now the government of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner seems poised to back the full decriminalization of illegal drugs for personal use.

This would be a long-overdue corrective to drug-control policies that have been an utter failure. Drug use and trafficking have continued to flourish even as law enforcement has cracked down hard on small players. Around one-third (pdf) of the country’s prison population is made up of drug criminals, the vast majority users, small-time dealers and drug mules. Consumption nonetheless is on the rise. In 2010, some 3.5 percent (pdf) of Argentinians said they had smoked marijuana over the previous year, up from 1.9 percent in 2004. In 2009, almost 10 percent (pdf) of high-school students reported using illegal drugs over the previous year, compared with just above five percent in 2001.

Decriminalizing personal use would both advance individual freedom and unclog Argentina’s notoriously slow judicial system. It would also free up resources for drug education, which is practically nonexistent today, and for tackling the real scourges of trafficking and addiction. It might even serve as an example for other countries in the region: except for Uruguay, where possession is not criminalized, most imprison too many people without putting a dent in the supply chain.

In December, Kirchner appointed the former foreign minister Rafael Bielsa as the new head of SEDRONAR, the government agency responsible for combating drug addiction and trafficking. Bielsa replaces the antagonistic José Granero, who spent more than seven years opposing any suggestion of decriminalization even after the Supreme Court held unanimously in 2009 that penalizing drug possession for personal use violated one’s constitutional right to privacy if it harmed no other party.

Bielsa faces a system that is grossly inefficient. Since the Supreme Court ruling, most judges throw out small-time drug cases, but the police keep making arrests. Around 70 percent (pdf) of all drug cases concern personal use. Sometimes suspects are in pretrial detention for weeks. The penalties are still too high, especially for minor offenses: one to six years in prison for possession alone (without consumption) and three to 15 years for growing marijuana, compared with four to 15 years for trafficking.

The current approach is also out of step with changing realities. Cocaine labs have cropped up, and Argentina is increasingly becoming a land of big traffickers, an important transit point between producers in Bolivia and Peru and consumers in Europe.

Several bills to decriminalize drug possession for personal use have been presented in Congress over the past year or so. Following Kirchner’s overwhelming reelection victory this autumn, which also gave her control of Congress, anything she backs will almost certainly win approval. But she has yet to express a full opinion beyond saying she doesn’t want addicts to be treated as criminals and allowing, during her previous term, her then-Cabinet Chief Aníbal Fernández to publicly advocate decriminalization. Bielsa has also been mum, but he is expected to go the way the government wind seems to be blowing these days.

The cover of THC’s first issue in December 2006 announced that Argentina was “close” to changing its drug law. Five years later, that prediction finally looks close to becoming a reality.

FDA may legalize pot medicine, but only for Big Pharma.

(NaturalNews) The pressure is on for researchers and pharmaceutical companies to develop drug-based, non-synthetic versions of marijuana for medical use, as the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is poised to approve such varieties in the near future. But this potential approval appears to be reserved only for Big Pharma, as the marijuana plant itself could continue to remain a controlled substance at the federal level with no recognized health benefits.

The Associated Press (AP) reports that GW Pharma, a British pharmaceutical company, is currently undergoing advanced clinical trials for the world’s first drug made from raw marijuana, which it will seek FDA approval for by the end of 2013. There are currently a number of synthetic cannabinoid drugs on the market that have been approved by the FDA, but none that incorporate actual marijuana (http://www.justice.gov/dea/ongoing/marinol.html).

Known as Sativex, the marijuana spray contains both delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol, which are considered to be raw marijuana’s two most well-known active components. GW Pharma is hoping to receive US FDA approval of Sativex for the treatment of cancer pain, as the drug has already been approved in several other countries for the treatment of muscle spasm pain caused by multiple sclerosis.

While this is great news on the medical marijuana front in America, it does not necessarily imply that either the FDA or the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) will loosen its regulatory grip on the actual marijuana plant. Like regulators did with the stevia plant, marijuana could receive approval only in patented form from drug companies (http://www.healthynewage.com/blog/stevia-fda-approved/).

“To the extent that companies can produce effective medication that utilizes the components of [marijuana], that’s great. But that should not be the exclusive access for people who want to be able to use medical marijuana,” said Kris Hermes, a spokesman from the pro-marijuana group Americans for Safe Access.

“That’s the race against time, in terms of how quickly can we put pressure on the federal government to recognize the plant has medical use versus the government coming out with the magic bullet pharmaceutical pill.”

If the federal government does approve Sativex and other drug-based forms of real marijuana, though, it will have to change its official position that marijuana has no medical benefits. If the plant’s two most known ingredients are approved for medical use as a drug, in other words, the government’s only choice to remain consistent will be to finally admit that marijuana does have medicinal value, and thus legalize it.

Victoria woman’s chronic pain relieved by cannabis cookies, court told.

By Louise Dickson, timescolonist.com January 25, 2012

A Victoria woman who suffers from chronic pain told a court Wednesday that her family doctor refused to help her obtain approval from Health Canada to use medical marijuana.

“She was against it. She said ‘I don’t want to be a drug dealer,’” Sandra Large testified from her wheelchair at Owen Edward Smith’s trafficking trial in B.C. Supreme Court.

“It made me angry. I think a doctor’s purpose is to help patients.”

Smith, 29, the head baker for the Cannabis Buyers’ Club of Canada, has launched a constitutional challenge against Health Canada’s medical-marijuana access regulations.

He was charged on Dec. 3, 2009, with possession for the purpose of trafficking THC and unlawful possession of marijuana after the manager of an apartment building complained to police about a strong smell wafting through the building. Police obtained a search warrant and discovered that the suite was being used as a bakery. Officers recovered substantial quantities of cannabis-infused olive and grapeseed oil, as well as pot cookies, destined for sale through the club.

Large, who has been a member of the club for at least five years, testified that her doctor tried to push pharmaceutical drugs on her.

Large told Justice Robert Johnston that she was badly injured in a motorcycle accident and suffered a debilitating stroke in 1995. She also has epilepsy, irritable bowel syndrome, arthritis and fibromyalgia, which makes her feel like her joints are locked.

Large experiences tremendous pain from migraine headaches and developed congenital heart failure. She also had cancer.

“That club is something I truly believe in,” Large testified. “If it wasn’t for the cookies and lozenges, I don’t think I would have any pain relief.”

Large eats a cannabis cookie every day and described the cannabis-infused lozenges as “phenomenal.”

After two pharmaceutical prescriptions from a dentist failed to heal an abscess in her mouth, she put a lozenge directly on the sore and it disappeared by the next day, she testified.

Defence lawyer Kirk Tousaw asked her to describe the relief she gets from eating the pot cookies.

“It almost takes away the fibromyalgia completely,” Large said. “It reduces the headaches . . . It makes all the pain go away and that is very important to me.”

When she is pain free, she can leave the house and socialize, something she was not able to do for years, said Large.

Smoking cannabis also appears to prevent epileptic seizures, she testified.

“As long as I have a joint, I know I’m not going to have a seizure that day.”

Large’s family doctor said she could not condone the use of marijuana and was concerned about mixing it up with the number of medications she already takes, Large recalled.

“But if something is going to relieve pain and stress, I’m going to continue using it,” said Large, who testified that she had never had any adverse side-effects.

Federal prosecutor Kristina Guest asked Large if there were the medical risks from taking cannabis.

“There are no medical risks that I’m aware of,” Large replied.

Large said she was given an orientation to the club by a staff member who goes by the nickname Spud. He did not tell her if he had any medical or pharmaceutical training, she testified.

Large recalled that she took her medical history to the club. She was not asked if she suffered from heart, liver or kidney disease, or if she, or anyone in her family, suffers from schizophrenia or bipolar disease.

She was asked if she suffered from depression and was warned her about mixing cannabis and alcohol, Large said.

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Trust a key ingredient of cannabis cookies, court told.

The court is told: “But this is cannabis. There are no catastrophic consequences,” he said.

By Louise Dickson, timescolonist.com January 24, 2012

A cannabis expert agreed Tuesday that people eating medical marijuana cookies would have to trust their baker.

David Pate, who holds a masters degree in biology and a PhD in pharmaceutical chemistry, agreed with Health Canada‘s information for health-care professionals, which states that precise dosages of cannabis have not been established.

“The complex pharmacology of cannabinoids, interindividual differences in cannabinoid bioavailability, prior exposure to and experience with cannabis, the variable potency of the plant material, and different dosing regimens used in different research studies all contribute to the difficulty in reporting precise doses or establishing uniform dosing schedules,” Crown prosecutor Peter Eccles read into the court record.

“Natural products all have that foible,” said Pate, who was testifying at the trial of Owen Edward Smith, the head baker for the Cannabis Buyers’ Club of Canada.

Smith 29, was charged on Dec. 3, 2009, with possession for the purpose of trafficking THC and unlawful possession of marijuana after the manager of an apartment building complained to police about a strong smell wafting through the building. Police obtained a search warrant and discovered that the suite was being used as a bakery. Officers recovered substantial quantities of cannabis-infused olive and grapeseed oil, as well as pot cookies, destined for sale through the club.

Smith has launched a constitutional challenge against Health Canada’s medical-marijuana access regulations. His defence lawyer, Kirk Tousaw, is challenging the validity of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act regarding marijuana. Tousaw is arguing that the medical marijuana program is unduly restrictive and constitutionally flawed because those authorized to use medical marijuana can possess it only in dried form.

Health Canada has rough dosing guidelines for smoked or vaporized marijuana, said Eccles. But the health-care guidelines indicate that absorbing marijuana in baked goods, such as cookies or brownies, or drinking it in tea is slow and erratic.

“I would agree with the slow and erratic,” said Pate. “I will also contend that dosing is more reliable orally than by smoking it.”

Pate said he would be more comfortable taking a known oral dose than a smoked dose.

“But this is cannabis. There are no catastrophic consequences,” he said.

Eccles also pointed to information in the Health Canada literature that cautions patients with no prior marijuana experience to begin at a very low dose and to stop therapy if unacceptable side effects occur. He suggested the manufacturer of edible products may not know exactly what’s in them.

“For example, people could be eating a cookie with five to seven different strains of marijuana in it. You’d have to trust the baker,” said Eccles.

“You’d have to trust the baker … And you’re along for the ride,” Pate said.

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