Work is really slow today, so i have been surfing around and i came across a pretty all-encompassing read on herb that i figured would be good for both noobs and seasoned tokers alike.
http://www.psychedelic-library.org/high_culture1.htm
http://www.psychedelic-library.org/high_culture2.htm
http://www.psychedelic-library.org/high_culture3.htm
http://www.psychedelic-library.org/high_culture4.htm
http://www.psychedelic-library.org/high_culture5.htm
http://www.psychedelic-library.org/high_culture6.htm
http://www.psychedelic-library.org/high_culture7.htm
http://www.psychedelic-library.org/high_culture8.htm
http://www.psychedelic-library.org/high_culture9.htm
http://www.psychedelic-library.org/high_culture10.htm
http://www.psychedelic-library.org/high_culture11.htm
http://www.psychedelic-library.org/high_culture12.htm
http://www.psychedelic-library.org/high_culture13.htm
http://www.psychedelic-library.org/high_culture14.htm
There are 14 chapters of really good info.
enjoy
Definitely a lot of info.
If you're a seasoned toker reading the first few chapters you may be thinking, "DUH, colonel." But the later chapters have some pretty in-depth stuff.
i love this:
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Being High
"Our normal waking consciousness," wrote William James,
is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the flimsiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness....[8]
While William James was interested in drugs, he was not thinking of marijuana when he wrote these words. Still, his observation sounds familiar to contemporary marijuana users, for whom the drug's effects represent what is commonly referred to as an altered state of consciousness.
As marijuana smokers are well aware, contemporary Western society operates under a common and convenient myth that holds that there is only one real and operative form of consciousness, variously known as the ego state, rationality, or logic. This, we are told in many ways, is what is known as "reality," while other forms, other states of consciousness, be they dreams, physical sensations, drug-induced states, hypnosis, precognition, or intuition, have been—and for the most part still are—considered to be distortions and aberrations.
Many marijuana users find it difficult to adhere to these beliefs of what constitutes reality. Indeed, for some, marijuana has served as a teacher whose principal lesson has been that life holds multiple forms of reality. "Marijuana has helped me to see the phenomenal power of plural" is how one man puts it, continuing: "There is more than one way to look at something, and marijuana has made me aware that perception and consciousness can come in more than one kind of package." A computer programmer speaks of "getting into another realm, and, when that isn't possible, at least accepting that there is another realm."
It is only in recent years that social scientists and others have begun to pay serious attention to altered states of consciousness, which include such diverse phenomena as parapsychological manifestations, meditation, and prayer. Of those who have investigated states of consciousness resulting from marijuana and other drugs, Andrew Weil has made an especially significant contribution. After completing work on the 1968 marijuana study in Boston, Weil went on to write a book about states of consciousness, with and without drugs. The Natural Mind was published in 1972, and it is something of a classic among marijuana users, being a lively and imaginative theoretical treatment of the marijuana experience.[9]
Weil believes that all people are high all of the time on some level, and that the point of using drugs is not so much getting high as connecting with a high that is already there. And so for most users, Weil writes, smoking marijuana becomes an opportunity, and sometimes an excuse, to experience a mode of consciousness that is actually available to everyone all the time without drugs, even though most people do not know how to get there in other ways. Drugs, Weil insists, do not contain highs; highs are latent in the human nervous system, waiting to be triggered or released by various mechanisms. This is a message that marijuana users hear all the time from opponents of drug use, but coming from Andrew Weil, it carries more credibility and seems far less of a moral prejudice.
In one way or another, many of the people I interviewed for this book made a similar point: "I don't think marijuana really adds anything that isn't there in the first place," I was told repeatedly. "It just enhances and brings out what's inside of you." Again and again, smokers described variations on this basic theme, not casually but thoughtfully, and often after a decade or more of smoking marijuana. Although these various articulations of the same idea mean that it has become part of the conventional wisdom about marijuana, it is interesting that each person came to this realization individually, and nobody seemed aware that many other marijuana users had come to believe the same thing.
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http://www.drugtext.org/library/articles/cannabis2.html
http://www.drugtext.org/library/articles/balexander.htm
http://www.drugtext.org/library/articles/five3.html
http://www.drugtext.org/library/articles/ericks7.htm
12 MJ myths
http://www.drugtext.org/library/articles/marmyt1.html
http://www.drugtext.org/library/articles/howmar1.html
http://www.drugtext.org/library/arti...lMcCartny.html
http://www.drugtext.org/library/articles/cannabis3.html
http://www.drugtext.org/library/book...as/default.htm
http://www.drugtext.org/sub/cannabis1.html
Hemp FAQ:
http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=11818
Preserving MJ potency:
http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=12461
Reflections on the use of Marijuana:
http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=15145
The Social Psychology of Cannabis Consumption: Myth, Mystery and Fact:
http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=16557
Interview with a Cambridge Pharmaceutical Lab rep:
http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=12887
An amazing plant:
http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=11828
Cannabis and Amotivational syndrome:
http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=12454
Chronic Cannabis Use
An Examination of Benefits and Adverse Effects of Clinical Cannabis
Ethan Russo
Mary Lynn Mathre
Al Byrne
Robert Velin
Paul J. Bach
Juan Sanchez-Ramos
Kristin A. Kirlin
http://www.maps.org/mmj/russo.4-2001.html
http://www.maps.org/mmj/prelimresults.html
The entire study in PDF form.
http://www.maps.org/mmj/russo2002.pdf
And some other great links:
http://www.parliament.the-stationery.../151/15101.htm
http://www.nih.gov/news/medmarijuana...lMarijuana.htm
http://www.cmcr.ucsd.edu/geninfo/Can...Report2002.pdf
http://newton.nap.edu/html/marimed/es.html
http://www.cmcr.ucsd.edu/geninfo/Grant_CNR.pdf
http://www.cmcr.ucsd.edu/geninfo/macleodLancet.pdf
http://www.cmcr.ucsd.edu/geninfo/Can...ancet11-03.pdf
http://www.cmcr.ucsd.edu/geninfo/Modulation.JAMA.pdf
http://www.cmcr.ucsd.edu/geninfo/Pac...in.comment.pdf
http://www.cmcr.ucsd.edu/geninfo/lancetART2003.pdf
http://www.cmcr.ucsd.edu/geninfo/Iversen.pdf
http://www.cmcr.ucsd.edu/geninfo/cannabis3.pdf
Ganja in Jamaica
Analyses
http://www.rism.org/isg/dlp/ganja/analyses/medical.html
Essays on Marijuana:
http://www.marijuana-uses.com/read.html
Medical Reports Scientific Research Studies
On Medical Marijuana - Cannabis & Illness's
Collection Of:
Medical Marijuana- Cannabis, Research Reports,
Medical Case Studies, Clinical Study's.
http://www.onlinepot.org/medicalreports.htm
Erowid anyone?
http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis.shtml
More in-depth info on each of these components can be found here:
http://www.omma1998.org/McPartland-Russo-JCANT%201(3-4)-2001.pdf
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Originally Posted by Summary of the study
SUMMARY.
A central tenet underlying the use of botanical remedies is
that herbs contain many active ingredients. Primary active ingredients
may be enhanced by secondary compounds, which act in beneficial synergy.
Other herbal constituents may mitigate the side effects of dominant
active ingredients. We reviewed the literature concerning medical cannabis
and its primary active ingredient, Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
Good evidence shows that secondary compounds in cannabis may enhance
the beneficial effects of THC. Other cannabinoid and non-cannabinoid
compounds in herbal cannabis or its extracts may reduce THC-induced
anxiety, cholinergic deficits, and immunosuppression. Cannabis terpenoids
and flavonoids may also increase cerebral blood flow, enhance cortical
activity, kill respiratory pathogens, and provide anti-inflammatory activity.
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Phytocannabinoids, their boiling points, and properties
Δ-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
Boiling point: 157*C / 314.6 degree Fahrenheit
Properties: Euphoriant, Analgesic, Antiinflammatory, Antioxidant, Antiemetic
cannabidiol (CBD)
Boiling point: 160-180*C / 320-356 degree Fahrenheit
Properties: Anxiolytic, Analgesic, Antipsychotic, Antiinflammatory, Antioxidant, Antispasmodic
Cannabinol (CBN)
Boiling point: 185*C / 365 degree Fahrenheit
Properties: Oxidation, breakdown, product, Sedative, Antibiotic
cannabichromene (CBC)
Boiling point: 220*C / 428 degree Fahrenheit
Properties: Antiinflammatory, Antibiotic, Antifungal
cannabigerol (CBG)
Boiling point: MP52
Properties: Antiinflammatory, Antibiotic, Antifungal
Δ-8-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ-8-THC)
Boiling point: 175-178*C / 347-352.4 degree Fahrenheit
Properties: Resembles Δ-9-THC, Less psychoactive, More stable Antiemetic
tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV)
Boiling point: < 220*C / <428 degree Fahrenheit
Properties: Analgesic, Euphoriant
Terpenoid essential oils, their boiling points, and properties
β-myrcene
Boiling point: 166-168*C / 330.8-334.4 degree Fahrenheit
Properties: Analgesic. Antiinflammatory, Antibiotic, Antimutagenic
β-caryophyllene
Boiling point: 119*C / 246.2 degree Fahrenheit
Properties: Antiinflammatory, Cytoprotective (gastric mucosa), Antimalarial
d-limonene
Boiling point: 177*C / 350.6 degree Fahrenheit
Properties: Cannabinoid agonist?, Immune potentiator, Antidepressant, Antimutagenic
linalool
Boiling point: 198*C / 388.4 degree Fahrenheit
Properties: Sedative, Antidepressant, Anxiolytic, Immune potentiator
pulegone
Boiling point: 224*C / 435.2 degree Fahrenheit
Properties: Memory booster?, AChE inhibitor, Sedative, Antipyretic
1,8-cineole (eucalyptol)
Boiling point: 176*C / 348.8 degree Fahrenheit
Properties: AChE inhibitor, Increases cerebral, blood flow, Stimulant, Antibiotic, Antiviral, Antiinflammatory, Antinociceptive
α-pinene
Boiling point: 156*C / 312.8 degree Fahrenheit
Properties: Antiinflammatory, Bronchodilator, Stimulant, Antibiotic, Antineoplastic, AChE inhibitor
α-terpineol
Boiling point: 217-218*C / 422.6-424.4 degree Fahrenheit
Properties: Sedative, Antibiotic, AChE inhibitor, Antioxidant, Antimalarial
terpineol-4-ol
Boiling point: 209*C / 408.2 degree Fahrenheit
Properties: AChE inhibitor. Antibiotic
p-cymene
Boiling point: 177*C / 350.6 degree Fahrenheit
Properties: Antibiotic, Anticandidal, AChE inhibitor
borneol
Boiling point: 210*C / 410 degree Fahrenheit
Properties: Antibiotic, Δ-3-carene 0.004% 168 Antiinflammatory
Δ-3-carene
Boiling point: 168*C / 334.4 degree Fahrenheit
Properties: Antiinflammatory
Flavonoid and phytosterol components, their boiling points, and properties
apigenin
Boiling point: 178*C / 352.4 degree Fahrenheit
Properties: Anxiolytic, Antiinflammatory, Estrogenic
quercetin
Boiling point: 250*C / 482 degree Fahrenheit
Properties: Antioxidant, Antimutagenic, Antiviral, Antineoplastic
cannflavin A
Boiling point: 182*C / 359.6 degree Fahrenheit
Properties: COX inhibitor, LO inhibitor
β-sitosterol
Boiling point: 134*C / 273.2 degree Fahrenheit
Properties: Antiinflammatory, 5-α-reductase, inhibitor
If any of you vapo heads have a digital temp guage on your devices, do some experimenting
I should have one on the way in the coming months.
