Health Benefits of high-THC Cannabis

[Zenwind]

Intelligent Micro-Dosing is the Key / To the health benefits of THC.

 

Smoking Cannabis flower buds with high THC – which is much misunderstood, much maligned, and dismissed as a merely “recreational” herb – actually has incredibly profound therapeutic health benefits when used in judicious Moderation. 

 

I am an old guy in my 70s, with numerous debilitating health problems, and Thailand’s recent complete decriminalization of marijuana, specifically including high-THC weed, has helped restore my health and enriched my life immensely, mainly through pushing me to Exercise. 

 

What the THC high does is to motivate me, propel me and incite me to Move.  To get me up and to Exercise, even though my pain, stiffness, fatigue, and inertia resist.  (My Thai doctors emphatically tell me to “move more,” to exercise.)  In my long lifetime of experience, there is nothing remotely like a micro-dose of weed to radically incite healthful movement and activity. 

 

I have suffered from Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) for over half my life with debilitating acute pain and chronic fatigue.  Add to that a lower back injury within the last few years, with a compressed lumbar spine, leaving me with crippling sciatica pain.  I had been reduced to a limit of limping barely 100 yards, leaning heavily on a cane.  My life has been a screaming saga of pain and immobility until smoking high-THC cannabis within this last year. 

 

A mini-dose of only two or three morning tokes of good Cannabis sativa before my shower is all it takes to put me into a therapeutic Gymnasium Mentality.  It is unique in inducing me to complete my three healthy exercise components intensively and fully:  Tai Chi, Calisthenics, and Stretching. 

 

1. Tai Chi – I only know a handful of forms, but, after a couple of tokes of weed, I explore them, improvise on them, and I carefully and mindfully work out all my painful and stiff body areas.  It loosens up my sorry old body like nothing else.  I think of it as a Gymnastic Dance. 

2. The Calisthenics that follow are light, carefully mindful warm-ups – limbering up and loosening up routines.  They are derived from our initial warm-ups in US Marine Corps boot camp PT sessions in the 1960s.  Light – not violent – comprehensive range-of-motion flexibility. 

3. The Stretching is mainly my leg muscles, so I can march again on long walks in my Thai neighborhood.  Stretching is very boring, and I tend to neglect a completely adequate stretching routine unless toking. 

 

Two or three morning tokes and it is like I am transported to the Gym.  I do the above 1, 2, & 3 exercise routines again and again throughout the day as much as needed.  I really get into it.  If you want to call this “recreational” use, so be it – but I will admit, it is great fun to feel physically fit and healthy again.  I feel stronger and more pain-free at the end of that day. 

 

It had been a long time since I was able to walk my normal multi-kilometer neighborhood marching loop.  I could barely walk, even with a cane.  After several weeks of cannabis THC therapy (two or three tokes in the morning, followed by inspired repetitions of the three above exercises), I increased my walking distances in increments, and I finally completed this loop again.  Now I can march again, comfortably, no cane, and I have been going further and further distances ever since.  Feeling stronger every day.  It is great to feel so healthy again. 

 

I must emphasize again that this is a profoundly significant effect, with an astounding difference between exercising on a day when I micro-dose THC versus days attempting to exercise without it.  It is the huge increase in the degree of Motivation to Exercise that makes THC beneficial therapeutic medicine.  (In my old-age, I tend to be lazy, and I consider laziness a bit of a sin.)  Smoking a micro-dose of weed makes this old guy Get Up and Move Out, like never before. 

 

If you want to smoke weed that energizes you to exercise, as it does for me, choose the C. Sativa strain. Used in judicious Moderation, it is wonderfully therapeutic.  Smoke it on your feet – do not sit down or stall out – have your exercise shoes on, and have a To-Do List formulated in advance to steer you through your day’s activities.  Excelsior! 

 

Remember:  Micro-dosing makes sense.  If you drink way too much alcohol, you tend to get stupid – I know I do.  Likewise, if you smoke too much cannabis, you also get a bit stoned and may lose track of your exercise purpose.  Be sensible.  Be moderate.  Enjoy your fitness.  It is fun to be healthy. 

“Intelligent Micro-Dosing is the Key/ To the health benefits of THC.” 

 

-Zenwind. 

[Celsius]

Temporary relief. As if you didn't get enough P.M. 2.5 particles in Thailand, so you needed more.

 

Advice from an alcoholoic.

 

A hard pass.

 

 

[ezzra]

I'm all for the controlled use of the stuff for medicinal and health restoring purposes but not when the weed is abused for the sake of 'high' and having fun and recreational purposes no matter what all the pot lovers out will have to say.

[ubonr1971]

If I were in your situation I would get as high as a kite everyday as well. Good luck to you pal

[3NUMBAS]

your lungs will give out eventually

[patman30]

TLDR
but i dont know why you would need high THC weed for microdosing.....
if you are smoking actual high THC weed (25%+), 3 puffs is not exactly a micro dose
as its equivalant to say 10 puffs of bog standard thai stick

now i do not disagree with the health benefits
my wifes 2 grans were bed ridden last year
both very weak and frail and in pain with zero appetite
i made them oil, diluted with EVOO
they have a micro dose each evening,
i am not claiming some miraculous benefit
but the benefit for them is quite simple,
they get an excellent nights sleep and wake up hungry.
They were both mobile and eating properly within 2 weeks

making oil is simple, and it does not really matter so much what weed you use
you can save a packet buying organic thai weed to make oil
you can save even more if not organic

[patman30]

21 hours ago, ezzra said:

I'm all for the controlled use of the stuff for medicinal and health restoring purposes but not when the weed is abused for the sake of 'high' and having fun and recreational purposes no matter what all the pot lovers out will have to say.

just curious, do you have the same opinion of alcohol ?

[richard_smith237]

21 hours ago, ezzra said:

I'm all for the controlled use of the stuff for medicinal and health restoring purposes but not when the weed is abused for the sake of 'high' and having fun and recreational purposes no matter what all the pot lovers out will have to say.

Your negative bias is highlighted with your use of the word ‘abused’... 

 

Recreational weed users don’t ‘abused’ they ‘recreationally partake’ and that causes no one any harm and arguable less harm than those who recreationally partake in alcohol.

 

There is no issue whatsoever with recreational marijuana use. 

 

That said, as you pointed out, if abused problems can exist, but that is the same for abuse of any substance, even food. 

 

 

 

 

[taninthai]

Strange but they recommend cbd for medical use more than high strength thc,,,,,,,if I smoke high strength thc in the morning I be back in bed for a few hours ????????????????

[AverageBloke]

Does any one no whether cbd or the higher thc would be more beneficial for pain ?

I'm trying to avoid prescription medications because they often have unwanted side effects and I'm just exploring alternatives. Also, can it be purchased in an oil based form because I'd rather not smoke nowadays....cheers