Having been a quite heavy user who fasted from cannabis for 13 months and recently began exploring thca with a week on/week off approach, i can attest to the difficulties of transitioning. I still find the herb quite enjoyable, but clarity is also quite enjoyable—so these days I alternate and experiment with what works best
Thank you, Dr. Grinspoon, for this clear-eyed and comprehensive discussion of CHS. Your much-needed review provides important information about what CHS is - and what it isn't. Appreciate your taking the time to discuss CHS!
Having used cannabis to alleviate chemotherapy nausea, I wrote to Lester about the area postrema, supposedly the only brain area not protected by the blood-brain barrier. The AP has many cannabis receptors, and it is also susceptible to detecting any poisons in the blood that wdnt be getting through the BB barrier, including the chemo "poisons". Seems that the AP can then cause nausea/ vomiting ("believing" that the poisons came from something eaten). For me, the stomach discomfort and nausea, about a half-hour after a small smoke, was "converted" into hunger pains! My theory, of course, was that the AP accomplished this change of perception.
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Having been a quite heavy user who fasted from cannabis for 13 months and recently began exploring thca with a week on/week off approach, i can attest to the difficulties of transitioning. I still find the herb quite enjoyable, but clarity is also quite enjoyable—so these days I alternate and experiment with what works best
Thank you, Dr. Grinspoon, for this clear-eyed and comprehensive discussion of CHS. Your much-needed review provides important information about what CHS is - and what it isn't. Appreciate your taking the time to discuss CHS!
Having used cannabis to alleviate chemotherapy nausea, I wrote to Lester about the area postrema, supposedly the only brain area not protected by the blood-brain barrier. The AP has many cannabis receptors, and it is also susceptible to detecting any poisons in the blood that wdnt be getting through the BB barrier, including the chemo "poisons". Seems that the AP can then cause nausea/ vomiting ("believing" that the poisons came from something eaten). For me, the stomach discomfort and nausea, about a half-hour after a small smoke, was "converted" into hunger pains! My theory, of course, was that the AP accomplished this change of perception.