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DJ25

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Hi this is my first post in CD, so high to all the regulars. Now I'm not really a smoker, my brother is the complete opposite and loves it. I suffer from anxiety and slight paranoia. I have been reading up on various strains re THC and CPC content. I'm basically looking for a low THC high or the highest you can get CPC grade weed.

I have researched and have come to the conclusion that indica may be my best choice. Someone suggested Buba Cush which I can access (seeds).

Basically when I went on holiday my brother and me bought some weed that was very euphoric, gigly, gave us confidence and an overall feeling of wellbeing. Now I'm assuming there was low/lowish THC and a high/medium CPC content (just assuming here) now I know it is hard to find the perfect smoke as we are all different in our reactions, I'm just looking for some ideas as I'm new to this scene.

Cheers for the help.
 
^ really? u never had a euphoric high once when you smoked weed for the first time or one of the few first times??? holy shit i never heard of someone like that before.

to op idk first few times smoking it didnt really matter if i smoked an indica or sativa dominant strain i was pretty much giddy and having fun, but yeah for anxiety maybe you should try an indica strain...but everyone has their own favorites, you just gotta see for yourself what type of strain you like, but that Bubba you can get is always a solid strain.
 
What's CPC? Do you mean CBD? Look for weed that has amber trichomes rather than clear or milky ones, as this is likely to have a lower THC to CBD ratio. If you grow it yourself, you can achieve this by harvesting later.
 
from personal experience with organic bubbah kush (classic and re-released strain) and I can say both are really nice

edit: When there growing I always see the plants have milky white hairs, but they always become orange when I get the harvest why's that?
 
^I guess you mean the pistils ("orange hairs"), not the trichomes ("crystals", which are a type of hair). The pistils are the plant's reproductive parts; the peak potency is achieved once the reproductive cycle is over and the hairs have all died back.
 
as far as I know it's the other way around high THC is good for laughing, hence no paranoia and CBD gives you bad feelings (paranoia)

Please don't quote me on this as I am not 100% sure but I swear I can remember watching something on this.

correct me if I'm wrong....

Ohh...I have discussed paranoia with other herre in the past before and concluded that it could be related to the state of mind you are in at the time, for example, You come home at the end of a hard week of working your ass off and send the wife to sleep at her sisters along with the kids; turn the music on (not too loud) roll a joint or have a mix (bong) kick back relax. Put it into your head before you smoke that this is my reward for being such a good person or for working my ass off all week and who cares who comes to the door or calls.....

I smoked for over 10 years sometimes over a quarter a week of all sorts of Mj. from the best to the worst. I never got paranoid only because of my state of mind, I was always relaxed, my mentallity was always "shit fuk you all", "I don't care", "too stoned to give a fuk", "relax man, your or I'm stoned"........

I hope this will help you overcome your paranoia.....
 
Nope, link here to a study on the reduction of THC-induced anxiety by CBD. CBD gives a narcotic, stoning edge to the high (indica strains tend to be higher in CBD, many sativa strains have virtually none) and also appears to reduce anxiety. In fact, I believe CBD has attracted a lot of interest from the medical community, and is currently being looked at more than THC. Link to a paper on the medicinal uses of CBD here.
 
Thank you Yerg.

I knew it was one of them, but was unsure.


duly noted ;)


....what are your thoughts on

"Ohh...I have discussed paranoia with other herre in the past before and concluded that it could be related to the state of mind you are in at the time, for example, You come home at the end of a hard week of working your ass off and send the wife to sleep at her sisters along with the kids; turn the music on (not too loud) roll a joint or have a mix (bong) kick back relax. Put it into your head before you smoke that this is my reward for being such a good person or for working my ass off all week and who cares who comes to the door or calls.....

I smoked for over 10 years sometimes over a quarter a week of all sorts of Mj. from the best to the worst. I never got paranoid only because of my state of mind, I was always relaxed, my mentallity was always "shit fuk you all", "I don't care", "too stoned to give a fuk", "relax man, your or I'm stoned"........"
 
Look for pure Indica strains or Indica dominant strains.

I also sometimes get anxiety from herb, depending on the situation and while Sativas are fun and everything I do not like smoking them and then having to go in public unlike Indicas.

Also if you start smoking more the anxiety/paranoia goes away as you get used to pot and what it does to you or you realize that herb can make you anxious but how it will quickly pass.
 
Amber trichomes are not a CBD indicator. You'd have to test the bud to know the contents. Couple of strains that have been confirmed to contain CBD are; Snowqueen, New Dame Blanche and Leb 27 or Libanon 30 (same strain, differing names).
 
Yeah, any indica strain will have higher levels of CBD than a sativa. Surely amber trichs indicate CBD to some extent though, as THC degrades to CBD over time.
 
THC degrades into CBN, not CBD. Amber trichs aren't even an indicator of CBN though.

On all the plants I've grown I've seen amber trichomes, sometimes even from the start. I've gotten some of my strains tested a week ago and only one sample contained a significant amount of CBN, that was my afghan. My lebanese sample (which has literally got a golden hue from amber trichs) came back negative for CBN, as did my dieselryder sample, which has also got quite a lot of amber trichomes. I don't know what gives the trichomes their amber glow; there's more than just cannabinoids present in trichomes, but I really don't think you could say it's an indicator of CBN (or CBD).
 
I know this isn't really relevant to the OP's question but I thought it was interesting:

It turns out that, while CBN is the main product of the degradation of THC, there is a rise in CBD levels in cannabis over time. In Indian hashish, the level of CBD rose by 42.7% on average in over the course of one year. The rise in CBN was much larger, 273% on average. Indian hash is hand-rubbed and so degrades faster than intact trichomes, but in any weed CBD levels should rise over time. This degradation won't make much of a contribution to the CBD levels of most commercially available green though.

The reference is Narayanaswani et al, 1978, "Stability of Cannabis Sativa L. samples and their extracts, on prolonged storage in Delhi", Bulletin on Narcotics 30(4):57-69
 
lol, me too..

Yerg, yeah, apparently a couple of refs speak of THC degrading into CBD in the absence of light and/or oxygen, iirc. But primarily, THC oxidizes into CBN. I think you can safely say that most (commercial) strains nowadays don't contain any (significant amounts of) CBD; hence the anxiety, lol.. You'd have to look at landraces in the Middle east & Northern Africa and such.

Only two of those three strains I mentioned are commercially available though, the Leb 27 and the Snowqueen.
 
^Would commercially available strains with Afghan genetics be worth looking in to?
 
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