Here's my brief history with THC and CBD
When I was younger, in the early 80's I started smoking pot. High School. It was a big part of my life, you could say I was a stoner. It was really enjoyable on a lot of levels until one day it was not. I really remember getting a lot from it creatively that helped me learn a lot of artistic things, at the same time kind of wrecking my grades because I was stoned all the time, with a young mind. I was doing other compounds too. We remember the 80's, right? Right, so all that stuff, too.
The strains back them were just starting to get potent I think and for some reason my pleasure turned to disaster and negative thinking and paranoia kind of took over my experience. so at the end of high school I quit smoking it, along with the other stuff and started to get myself worked out. I may have gotten myself in a bad place mentally from so many various indulgences, so that needed to be fixed. What I do remember from that time when I enjoyed pot was the creativity and almost innate mathematical process it gave me with everything I did. Maybe that was just my young, more precise mind.
Though the years I tried pot when friends had it and each time I experienced the negative thinking and paranoia, retreating into a weird non verbal place. IT sucked, was embarrassing and bummed me out.
Jump forward to about a year ago when I decided to get off my Seizure meds and treat my depression. I had had seizures since I was a kid but never diagnosed until 2005 when I was dropping unconscious all over NYC. In the street, subways, elevators. It was crazy. They put me on meds and I was okay. The meds were a drag and I was on anxiety meds to cut out the depression and enormous stress I had been carrying around for years, perhaps contributing to my frontal lobe overloading with electrical impulses and shutting me down.. The meds somewhat took away my anxiety so i could feel more comfortable in my skin. It was working pretty well but overall the meds were a drag.
Sorry for the lengthy personal shit but I have a point............
A year ago I start to go off my meds really slowly, I've just recently finished that process. during that time I found CBD oil from Pure CBD exchange that was 1000mg CBD in 15ml droppers. Whole plant. Because I was losing my shit and driving my wife nuts with lack of tolerance, depression and social anxiety.
Instantly this was a miracle for me. It reduced or eliminated my anxiety and depression which helped me come off my meds, which is a shitty and lengthy process accompanied by "brain zaps", depression and feeling generally really horrible. For the whole year. So this CBD was perfect because it kind of made all this bearable.
Then a friend of mine gave me some thc gummies and I tried about 2.5 mg of that along with the CBD and wow, total mood lift, anxiety gone, normal sociability regained, as much as I was normal to begin with, and I felt amazing. I was on the hunt for a dose-able weed source. I was also excited that maybe I could enjoy the good parts of weed again. I found that I could take up to 10mg of thc along with my CBD isolate and be in a good place, negative thinking mostly not present.
Then I tried Infinite CBD isolate in MCT oil. 5000 mg in 30 ml dropper. While this was more potent, it did not do the same thing as the whole plant CBD. I found that I could take more thc along with my CBD isolate and still be in a good place, negative thinking mostly not present, general good feels and motivation. So I read a bunch of stuff as to why that is and figured I'd grow weed. and here I am
I've just grown some Candida CD-1 and Jack Herer plants so I have a CBD rich strain and a THC rich strain to use. Again, the whole plant Candida is all the Pure CBD Exchange dropper was plus a bit of THC for that mixed effect that is so important. lifted mood, motivated, more sociable, not driving my wife crazy, sleep better, back and knee pain is greatly reduced, sometimes gone and I can smoke a bit of the Jack Herer and the CBD Candida will knock down and ill effects of the THC that I may start to feel. I'll also add that I'm much more tolerant of day to day life in general whereas this kind of thing had been a problem. The meds kind of threw a blanket over this for me which was a good thing. But they also threw a blanket over everything else, which was like being robbed because I depend on creativity. both for my livelihood and my well being. My wife uses the first oil I made.
it's really kind of perfect.
so what I've learned, for me.
1. THC in lower doses is very beneficial and enjoyable for me.
2. The CBD can help regulate the intensity of THC, keeping the effect under control while still being a great experience, allowing me to take more thc at times when I want to indulge. I can still manage to function around people.
3. the two together work for mood elevation, anti anxiety, pain control, possible seizure control. I haven't had a seizure in many years, which is why I came off the meds but still, no seizures off the meds. Not sure if it's related
4. I get that creative spark a lot now which was a big part of weed in the first place so long ago. Life seems a bit more fun and less of a chore
Coming off certain meds can be a long and painful process. This combo had made a lot of it a non issue while also helping me in other areas such as pain, mental stability and general happiness.
