• Yttra@lemmy.world
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        21 minutes ago

        Instructions unclear, now someone’s hosting an execution-themed costume party downtown while blasting Childish Gambino Bonfire mashups

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    6 hours ago

    I’m going to run with a little cynicism.

    I live somewhere where cannabis is not legal. There’s pressure, sure, but there’s resistance too.

    One of the factors that helped it legalized in western countries like Canada and the US is the notion of health. Pain relief. Treatment for some chronic illnesses.

    That’s cool. But imagine a pharmaceutical company isolates those health things.

    No need to legalized cannabis anymore.

    This stuff supports the anti-lefalisation movement by taking the benefits from it.

    Damned if we want to use if recreationally.

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    But sure how that’s possible because the high is what relieves the pain for me. Not thinking about pain when I’m stoned off my ass.

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    Hey, that’s cool! This seems promising for enabling people dealing with chronic pain to have more options for ways to control pain without needing to potentially compromise mental function when they need it. Now to scroll through the comment section to see everyone’s completely reasonable and measured takes.

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    Yall are fuckin wierd lol. I absolutely love cannabis, both recreationally and medically. But if there’s an additional choice to isolate the pain relief aspect without the psychoactive effects of THC, that would be amazing as well. It’s not an either/or choice - there are absolutely use cases for both. Regardless, I’m pretty skeptical that terpenes are any more useful for pain control than essential oils are.

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      15 hours ago

      This industry relies on innuendo and bots to fill comments on Reddit, anything but actual clinical trials with placebo controls. Same thing with terpene sleep aids.

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      19 hours ago

      If I’m not wrong, essential oils are rich in terpenes and maybe that’s what makes them useful as a pain treatment.

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            You have friends that have made a therapeutic ritual out of using essential oils which helps them only because the placebo effect can be very powerful for pain. Literally anything could stand in for the essential oils. Swap their oil vials out with convincing fakes and they’ll never know the difference because it’s the ritual of smelling and/or applying the oils that’s helping them, not any real physical mechanism of the compounds in the oils interacting with their biology.

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      Thing is, this is strain that’s gonna be legalized if any. So any fun use would still be illegal.

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        The states in the US that have already legalized weed are not going to let go of that tax revenue anytime soon.

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    This is so stupid. Just more pointless research to make you look the wrong way. Like Cannabis is this miracle plant that could offer us things we didn’t have access to before.

    I love Cannabis, she has been one of my best friends for over 25 years but let’s not kid ourselves. These terpenes aren’t unique to Cannabis, you shouldn’t be getting them from Cannabis, you should be getting them from your food.

    Unfortunately the food you are sold is dead and empty. Not only are processed foods stripped of all you actually need to support a healthy body, the fruits and veggies you buy are mostly dead strains that are grown in dead soil. It’s cheaper upfront, but then you have to pay for it in supplements, taxes and hospital bills.

    Geraniol: Citronella, rose, lemongrass

    Linalool: Lavender, mints, citrus, coriander, basil

    Beta-caryophyllene: Black pepper, rosemary, cloves, hops

    Alpha-humulene: Sage, hops, ginseng, ginger, mints

    Terpenes are the key. Spice up your lives.

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      They already did this a long time ago, with Marinol, a course of which costed like 20k, while a 50 dollar baggie of weed would better do the job.

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    Because god forbid anyone ever feel a high that doesnt benefit corporate cartels.

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    My dad his disautonomia so he has to smoke weed in order to cope with the pain from his nervous system.

    He’d rather not use pain killers aka morphine aka opiates for risk of getting addicted to those.

    Hopefully this compound will help his pain tolerance without giving him the high

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      Call me when they invent weed that makes me feel like I’m wearing grade 7 nipple clamps

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      Huh…I’ve always heard “giraffe pussy.” Lol I never thought about it the other way.

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      I hate the pain relief/numbing aspect of some strains, it makes me get comfortable in positions that don’t make me feel bad til the nexy day and then I feel bad for a week

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      Call me when they develop weed that gives all the pain and none of the relief!

      Let’s spice things up, russian roulette with weed instead of bullets.

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        so they have these gummy bears with a shitton of capsaican, like 9,000,000 scovilles or something. you’re supposed to chew them for 5 minutes, and they say it’s like getting maced in the mouth. maybe a 6/10 of pain or something, it’s intense but it’s over fast. also you can make it easier with milk, that’d probably drop it down to a 4/10 or something. But 5 minutes and it’s over.

        if you want a pain russian roulette, use those.

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      Maybe you and I can go splits. You can have my share of the stone if I can have the pain relief part.

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      Ngl that just sounds like my normal weed for years. Originally took it for foot pain after work and it did nothing, but I was high as fuck and didn’t care that much

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        that’s kind of how it works though. The first time i took weed I was doing 12 hour shifts in kitchen work, and i noted how it didn’t remove the pain, it just made me stop careing about it.