Oh good Scooby, I’m really glad you enjoyed listening to Mara Gordon. I know [...] is as blown away by her totally analytical approach to cannabis medicine and research as I am. Her work with cancer patients is incredible. She's a phenomenal woman oh how I wish we all had access to her level of knowledge and analytics.
Yes, I do think you [...] consider easing yourself into a higher ratio of thc. I found thc levels generally below 10% were not nearly enough thc, at least for me. Most of the strains I use now are right around the 20% range. I’ve been using medical cannabis a little [...] a year now. I was one of the first medical patients in my state and our product availability did not include flower tinctures or oil infusions for literally the first 6 months. It was a very tough start involving rationing and very limited product choices, mostly vape cartridges and capsules. Thankfully that’s all changed and I’m extremely pleased with the dispensary selection. Now I can more easily even pick up a single gram of flower at a time to experiment with new strains.
Here are a few of my favorite daytime strains.
White Poison 21.15% thc 0% cbd.
Green Cush aka Green Crack 18.89% thc 0% cbd.
Kosher Tangie 19.78 thc 0% cbd
Cherry Diesel 18.86% thc 0% cbd
The cbd dominant strains I use have very different range of ratios and will obviously give different results so I dose accordingly. These are two strains I use frequently.
Harlequin 15.7 % cbd 7.8% thc
The Wife 18.31 % cbd 0.75% thc
I use both a high thc strain and a separate high cbd strain at the same time first thing in the morning as soon as I wake up. I then tend to alternate primarily thc then cbd a few hours apart.
You could add a higher thc strain to the one you’re using now in equal parts with or without using the cbd strain to ease yourself gently into a higher range. Or you could use the higher strain alone. Or with the cbd combined or used an hour or so later.... multiple ways to experiment, you see?
When I began easing myself into using higher levels of thc I quickly found I didn’t need more than one or two 5 second draws of a .25 mg dosage of flower depending on the potency of the strain.
0.25 mgs of flower equals a 2.5 mg dosage, 0.50 in flower weight equals a 5 mg dose. So depending on how many draws you take you can semi accurately a single mg increment if you want that kind of precision as I do during the day. I do use a Gemini mg scale for precise weighing. This is a way to go up gently by very tiny increments. If at any time it's too much thc for you, you can also use extra cbd for more balance but maybe you simply need more thc its hard for anyone to say, you know? It’s one of those experiments I always talk about with cannabis but that’s the beauty of how well both thc and cbd work together for me.
I’d personally try all kinds of controlled experiments with the thc strains alone and or combined with the cbd and also try some alternate dosing of the thc then cbd in various hour intervals. Lots of options for you to explore Scooby! Sorry for the delay it takes me forever to compose posts like this.
