Cannabis Social V. Social Cannabis

[poledriver]

You have? Hrm sorry, I didnt know I wasnt accepting PM's, i'll look into it and see if I can change it. I've had some pm's not that long ago, weird.

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I have changed my messaging prefs, it was set to only allow PM's from people on my BL contact/friends list.

Dixie, I vape everyday and I dont get a sore or horse throat? Probably because I am used to it I guess. A few times I have had slightly irritated throat tho but it seems very rare for me. But I did used to smoke bongs so vapour doesnt seem very harsh to me at all. Everyone is different. Keep trying, gradually.

I attached some pics with temp guides. I hope you can slowly get into it more and more.

How about trying very small amounts of the bud (maybe .3 of a gram), chopped up a bit and just have some puffs as you feel you are able to and try and relax. Hopefully if you can get through doing that a bit then it'll get easier and wont give your throat stress.

The Success of Israel’s Medical Vaporizer Program

One day in 2009 Guy Kurgan, a South African immigrant to Israel, had an epiphany. As a shop tender at one of the tiny country’s eight licensed “Tikkun Olam” medical marijuana farms, he saw a daily stream of grateful patients who nonetheless faced a thorny conundrum: although they needed the rapid relief of inhaled cannabis, their fragile health contraindicated the harsh rigors of smoking.

Guy couldn’t get this image of suffering out of his head, so along with his brother Roi Kurgan, he began educating himself. Controlled studies had recently shown that vaporizers like the Volcano could produce medical vapors which were up to 95% pure, providing the immediate relief patients needed without potentially harmful smoke byproducts. Although the brothers heard a long litany of ‘no’ and filled out more bureaucratic red tape than they could have imagined, the compassionate duo persisted until they finally managed to work out a deal between the Israeli Ministry of Health and the Storz & Bickel company, makers of the Volcano vaporizer, to provide a special model, the “Volcano Medic,” to needy patients. Within a few years, the Volcano Medic could be found at Israeli children’s hospitals and oncology wards across the country, with all initial costs shared between Storz & Bickel and the philanthropic Kurgans. To this day, the “Volcano Medic” is the only vaporizer approved as a medical device for the administration of cannabis, and the work of the Kurgan brothers recently drew the recognition of Dr. Sanjay Gupta, whose CNN documentary “Weed” became a watershed event in the shifting of US public opinion on medical marijuana.

But the Volcano isn’t cheap, so the success of the program quickly transformed into yet another challenge: how to pay for the medical devices Israeli patients began more and more to demand. Fortunately for the patients, Guy and Roi have to date secured subsidies with 3 out of 4 Israeli HMOs, the Israeli Defense Ministry, the Holocaust Survivors Group, the Traffic Accident Survivors Group and many other civic organizations which have helped defray the cost of an urgent program. To date, approximately 400 Volcano Medics have been sold through the program, and thousands more have been rented, at a cost of about $100 US per month. Patients who need assistance vaporizing can medicate under the supervision of a nurse, who provides private balloons and easy instructions.

While Israel’s medical cannabis research program still faces significant challenges, the success of the Volcano Medic program has demonstrated what a handful of compassionate and entrepreneurial individuals can accomplish with persistence. Because private industry, public bureaucracy, insurance companies, generous foundations and concerned citizens were able to come together to work out solutions, sensitive patients now have access to advanced and affordable care.

 

[assclass]

320-420 is the range for baling dry buds.

Your mouth/throat will feel dry/scratchy as you are inhaling hot air that dries out your nice wet mouth

So have a cold drink

 

[thujone]

360 is a good max for vaping, i prefer to sip a few puffs to the cheek and then inhale with some fresh air mixed in to cool it.

I have a list of my needs, which are "mood lift, yet focused and productive, non-sedating but energetic, prefer NO munchies". Food hurts my gut even more. Pain relief would be a plus, but I don't believe that's going to happen.

Hmm well most of those boxes would be ticked by a sativa-dominant strain, like Cannatonic, but "focused and productive" is more attainable with an indica-dom IME. Although I haven't toked these strains in a while, Blue Dream and Hawaiian come to mind as ones that might meet your needs

 

[DixiChik]

THANK YOU EVERYONE!

Yes, I'm taking it slowly. I'm not even sure I'm inhaling properly...

I'm going to look at Blue Dream and Hawaiian, Thujone.

I appreciate all of your suggestions. Keep 'em coming!

 

[Jibult]

::sigh::


Out of curiosity, I've weighed myself before and after work every day this week. I was curious to see how much I was sweating every shift, so my dumb ass comes up with this genius idea. Anyways, counting today I've been losing an average of jussssst over 8lbs/day in water weight before fucking 8am.

That number just depressed me a little bit, so I think I'm gonna hide from the heat today and just drink beer and smoke bowls and fuck around with No Man's Sky while I eat a fuck ton of calories and try to gain some god damn, mother fucking weight back, god damnit.






tl;dr: I'm too skinny so I'm channeling my inner fat kid today




@DixiChik, Blue Dream is in my top 10 favorites. If you're able to get it, you won't be disappointed.


When it comes to "what strains do what," I've found www.leafly.com to be pretty consistently reliable. It's all user-submitted, though, so you always have to take what's on there with a grain of salt... and when someone's bullshitting on Leafly, it's pretty easy to look at what the majority of people say about a strain compared to what a single negative reviewer may have thought.

It's got its ups and downs and is by no means definitive, but it's a great place to start looking for the more obscure strains that you never would've been interested in otherwise (especially if you're not in a legal state). That's how I found out about Purple Monkey Balls, lol.... asked one of my weed-guys to ask around about the monkey balls, and like a month later I had a zip of it to myself. That shit was so fucking fire....

 

[Egzoset]

Finally forced to admit being unable to fight an addiction!!

Salutations,

It's been a life-long reflexion, in retrospective i must realize i've been dealing with this most persistant problem real early in my childhood, as if that were even possible on a Canuck land, on planet Itnoc!

As far as i can remember it's now all too clear to me, provided i'll use some modesty and accept my human condition, submitted as i am to an artificial source of satisfaction that i know now has put its grip on me so tight i just wish to never ever come to be short of it again:

Snif! Lets face it, as a legacy my loving parents imprinted into me some permanent dependency to (toilet) hygiene paper, i must confess!!​

M'yeap! I'm telling you this simple truth of life and it feels pretty much universal in my local environment actually, as far as i can tell, euh...

May we all have an unlimited supply of toilet paper until the end of civilisation!...

Good day, have fun!!

 

[DixiChik]

Hey Jibult...Thanks for the laugh, "Purple Monkey Balls". I like that name...Just reading it out loud gives me a chuckle. I needed that!

What kind of work do you do? Jeez...8 lbs. a day...Yea, channel that inner fat kid, enjoy!!!

I started a thread asking for help from WEED WIZARDS. Would you post your top 10 for me, if you're between bowls and meals?

I'll look into Blue Dream. I've got to figure this out (and soon). I'm not in a legal state, not even NEAR a legal state...but willing to risk it. My source is my dear friend, but I'm losing him to cancer. I can't burden him or his wife to shop for and ship my MMJ. It's not right.

So, my access is ending before I really had time to figure it out. Decades of grinding through my own pain without meds has caught up. Now my GI issues are SO FUCKING BAD...I can't tolerate meds. MMJ is my last best hope.

This SUCKS Purple Monkey Balls!

 

[Jibult]

actually listing the top 10... that's gonna be tough.... herrrrrrre we go:


1. Girl Scout Cookie(s)
2. OG Kush
3. Purple Monkey Balls
4. Silver Haze
5. Blue Dream
6. Cherry Pie
7. .....
8. .....
9. ....


Alright, so I struggle with a top 10. I'm in Maryland, a decriminalized but not yet regulated or legalized state, so I don't have legal access, either. My tree comes almost exclusively from local growers and from the opposite coast, and I can usually only tell the difference when there's recognized branding or in the price-- local is cheaper whereas imports from out-of-state are a fair bit pricier.


Me, though, I'm an anxious little fucker so I tend to gravitate towards "calming" buds-- strains that let me stop worrying about every little thing life has, might, or could but hasn't yet thrown at me and the near infinite possibilities those things could branch into.

Fuck that. I think too much. I get high to basically put my mind on screen-saver mode, because fuck anxiety.




Long story short, I load trucks for a living. I don't want to get more specific than that because.... well.... #consequences. But rest assured, I guarantee you've met one of my union Brothers and Sisters before, and there's a good chance you might even be pretty friendly with him or her.

Your dogs hate us, though.

 

[Jibult]

May we all have an unlimited supply of toilet paper until the end of civilisation!...

I hereby second that motion.

 

[DixiChik]

You're a funny "anxious little fucker"...laughter is medicine and all that. I think too much, too.

Hope I haven't hijacked this thread, as I "meant" for you to list your faves on MY thread. I started it last night, hoping to get some help. It's "Weed Wizards Wanted"...

BTW, my dogs don't hate y'all. They don't hate anybody. They've even served as mascots for the fire dept.

 

[Jibult]

this thread is one-size-fits-all, can't hi-jack it really. Someone could try and turn it into their own personal blog maybe, but that'd get shut down pretty fast.



Most dogs go on alert mode the second they hear our trucks. Hell, even mine do. Then they hear the screeching brakes and see some goofy dude walkin' up to the door and they go crazy, man, CRAZY. I actually won't open for deliveries like that until they leave.... my dogs just won't stay calm unless I start yelling at them over the barking and then holding them back and physically fighting them to stay in place, and even then the fucking cat'll pop out of nowhere to go outside, then see the deliveryman and freeze right in the middle of where the two dogs are snarling and pacing in front of the door, making things more chaotic.... and these dogs obey damn near every command I give in most other situations. That delivery, though... it's just too much.

I just thought all dogs were like that.

 

[PotatoMan]

all dogs go to heaven, jib.

 

[PotatoMan]

ima just merge this with the social...

 

[Burnt Offerings]

Another vote for Blue Dream. Definitely one of my favorite strains. Probably one of the more popular strains on the west coast IME, and it has some strong competition

 

[DixiChik]

Thanks, Burnt Offerings...I'm not getting much traffic on my thread. I'll take the suggestions any way I can get them.

These hoops are made for jumping through, I guess. I'm too late and too old to start now...even the "jumping" part!

 

[Felonious Monk]

Ooo top 10, that's tough, I don't get the same strains a lot--too many choices...

This is maybe more of like, if you had to pick your own garden strains for the rest of your life...

Not necessarily in any order:
OG Kush
Larry OG
Skywalker OG
Hawaiian Gold
Tangie
Thin Mint Cookies/Girl Scout Cookies
Strawberry Banana
Gorilla Glue
Sour Diesel
something Banana
something Lemon

Probably zkittlez too but I haven't yet had the opportunity to try it

 

[Jibult]

Thanks, Burnt Offerings...I'm not getting much traffic on my thread. I'll take the suggestions any way I can get them.

These hoops are made for jumping through, I guess. I'm too late and too old to start now...even the "jumping" part!

Honestly, without looking at who posted it, the title made me think it was some kind of bot/automated post.

That's just at a quick glance, though. Sounded to me like a Help Wanted title, and I was just like "...nahhh, let's see what else we've got." My b...

all dogs go to heaven, jib.

Mine'll probably try to bite God unless he's got a leash in his hand ready to go for a walk or to the park or somethin'.



But that was a dope ass movie, though, dude.

@felonious.... what the FUCK is zkittlez??? Interest: piqued. I'm researching this shit now.

[EDIT: ooooohhhhh, this sounds nice....:

"Zkittlez is an indica-dominant mix of Grape Ape and Grapefruit that is crossed with another undisclosed strain to produce this candy-flavored cannabis bred by 3rd Gen Family and Terp Hogz. This award-winning combination took 1st Place Indica at the 2015 Cannabis Cups in San Francisco and in Michigan. The chunky colas explode in a spectrum of light green hues and emit a sweet, tropical blend of fruit flavors. The effects of Zkittlez are surprisingly uplifting for an indica, leaving consumers focused, alert, and happy while relaxing the body to help unwind any time of day."]

 

[DixiChik]

Oh, FFS...No wonder I'm getting few responses on my thread.

Is there a way to change my title?

I thought it was a cheeky way to grab attention of all the folks who are WAY WISER (than I) in all matters of weed. That would be anybody and everybody.

I can't win for losing...fuck me running...gr-r-r-r-r...limping!

 

[Felonious Monk]

^yeah, it's really my choice I haven't tried it. I was at their booth at a recent High Times Cup but I just couldn't bring myself to pay $100/gram for the flower rosin. I probably should have, but I hadn't brought enough cash so that limited me.

Their booth is always MOBBED at events. The worst at the Emerald Cup though, they sold out of seeds in like an hour.

 

[Egzoset]

Salutations Jibult,

I hereby second that motion.

And i certainly second that seconding as i wish i had tought of a proper illustration myself! Euh... M'well...

In any case quality and quantity vary between individuals but i figure we're still all hooked to some degree, practically speaking...

Good day, have fun!!