A question from a fellow grower:
I want to grow outdoors ( northwest washington state ) and juice leaves. Juice will be consumed for radicular pain in back and legs with, hopefully, no psychoactive effects. Please recommend a strain.
A question from a fellow grower:
I want to grow outdoors ( northwest washington state ) and juice leaves. Juice will be consumed for radicular pain in back and legs with, hopefully, no psychoactive effects. Please recommend a strain.
I would think you would want to juice the buds or nuggets as well. However, Iâm not surer how well this method will treat pain. Most of the active ingredients in cannabis need to be decarboxylated to be processed by the human body, especially to be psychoactive. So juicing the entire plant will likely not get you âhighâ. There may be many nutritious benefits from âjuicingâ cannabis plants without seeds, as many plants, in general, have many beneficial compounds including the chlorophyll itself.
Iâm not extremely familiar with eating âun-cookedâ (un-decarboxylated) cannabis and its benefits, however something to consider as to the âpsychoactiveâ effects. One could argue that âpain killingâ is a psychoactive effect. Opium and Morphine certainly can have other âpsychoactiveâ effects besides âpain killingâ in many individuals. Different strains may have different effects on different people. However the overall effects of each strain are kinda standard for âmostâ people as given by the popular descriptions of a strains effects by the general public and so Iâd recommend reading up on various strainsâ described effects and choose some that seem to fit what you are looking for. You probably want something low in THC and higher in the other cannabinoids (CBD and CBN) for more âbody effectâ and less âmind alteringâ.
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BTW, juicing the seeds is very very healthy. They are very high in good fats and good cholesterol, as high or higher than in olive oil and soybeans. They have no mind altering effects at all, but Iâm not sure if they have any âpain killingâ properties other than the general musculature and skeletal joint pain relief found with foods high in Omega Fatty Acids.