Apropos to raw cannabis juice, what Courtney says makes so much intuitive sense.  It’s VERY hard to find high CBD strains, but this way you are almost guaranteed of  ingesting large amounts. Yeah, you have to be aware of THCA conversion to THC.  Don’t use the buds (make Simpson Oil from that!) and you’ll eliminate a lot of the psychoactive potential. And in general, take the same safety precautions that you’d make with any food product.  If you don’t grow your own, you’ll still probably have an easier time finding an organic grower than not.

GET CANNABIS OFF OF SCHEDULE 1 so that lots more research can be done on this amazing plant.

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/drug-law/jama-long-term-exposure-cannabis-smoke-not-associated-adverse-effects-pulmonary 

I am sending you massive beams of white light for a speedy and full recovery!
you are in our thoughts! 
KC

http://hermiene.net/short-stories/carcinoma_angels.html

Cancer is a very hetereogeneous thing; not all are created equal, not all respond equally in different people to the same treatments.

To suggest as a non-medical professional that laetrile is a cure-all for a completely different disease with completely different pathology in a completely different person does not hold up. Not well enough for me to ditch a proven course of action that may be brutal, but yields the proven result of life for people with my particular problem, my particular receptors, and so on.

Moreover, animals that eat a wide variety of plants and seeds also know this, which is why it is so common that jungle-eating animals also eat clay, which binds to toxins and removes them safely from the body.  These animals, birds and mammals alike, eat plants that are far more poisonous than cannabis or spinach, but they do not get poisoned.  (their poison is the encroachment of industrial capitalism, but that is another related story)  
       Anyone eating large amounts of cannabis or other green medicines for cancer or cancer prevention could, and should also drink or eat clay as part of their lifestyle.  It’s what the smart animals do, and besides, clays and charcoal has been shown to  remove radioactive isotopes from the body as well,  so clay may be the real wonder medicine that is older than any of the other herbal ones, and one we would do well to revive in these toxic industrial and radioactive days.   Let us not forget that our wise ancestors watched animals religiously, as attested by earliest cave paintings.   Who are we watching?  The super-rich and their media-outlets?
      Now to juicing.   Susan Weed, wise-woman herbalist, does not recommend juicing as a daily practice in her book about breast cancer because she believes that without the fiber, things go through the gut too quickly, and therefor cannot be absorbed completely as opposed to if taken as traditional chew-food.   Based on this probable hypothesis, an alternative to juicing would be the green-smoothie, which includes the pulp of the plant.    I don’t know the answer here, but juicing may be popular because of how it makes one feel immediately, like a fast-acting drug, and green-smootheeing less popular cause the blenders are so expensive.
        As to the ‘hairs’ on the plant.  I have eaten fresh cannabis leaves and made green-smoothies out of them and have never found it irritating.  It’s not like they are barbs.   Maybe we are dealing with people who just don’t like to eat vegetables in general.
         As for the ‘problem’ of getting ‘high’ from incidental THC in fresh cannabis leaf and flower which has been bruised: highly unlikely to get you ‘f@cked up’, but why would it be a bad thing to feel uplifted also in spirit?
          Bottom line:  Ganja is good:   smoked it protects us from the spiritual illnesses, eaten it protects us from the physical illneses.  It’s all one, it’s all good.    Go clay-lickers go!
 

A friend of mine had the same diagnose some time ago, she said cannabis really helped her, she felt much better then. Though i still think smoking is not very good during chemo.

Glad to see you’re well taken care of by a reputable provider. I begged my father and brother-in-law to try cannabis when they began chemo, and they wouldn’t even entertain the idea; it makes me sad to think how much relief they could’ve had during that time. Hang tough and God bless.

Only by way of corporate sponsored mass-media brainwashing…. follow the money.

You might also look into a ‘quack’ cure that cured my uncle of cancer over 25 years ago, known as laetrile. It is found in most all seeds except citrus.Or you can go down to Tijuana, Mexico like my uncle did for injections of the stuff. Cheaper than chemo; on your pocket, as well as your body.

I hope that whatever meds you’re getting somehow manage the pain you’re going through. Is there some special “Fatten Xeni Up” fund that we can send cupcakes or whatever to?

I believe that the use of cannabis to control nausea and pain is legitimate, and I have experience with someone close who uses a ‘prescription’ version of it in pill form (‘Sesamet’ is the name of the product) with very little effect but the desired pain control.

I can only wish that you were with us here in Canada.  I know it is cold comfort, but as Michael Moore observed, the number of people who went bankrupt here due to medical care last year was ….. zero.  You are like our brothers and sisters there, and we hate to see you suffer. 

By the way, if in your travels, you run into one of the many claiming cures, and offering expensive bunkum.  Please give them a swift kick where it will do the most good – from all of us who hate them with a passion.

wamm looks wonderful. it’s so funny how the language of legitimate medical marijuana collectives like this has been co-opted by businesses that really have nothing to do with providing care for the seriously ill. Anyway, I’m in good hands with a medical cannabis care provider in my area, thanks.

If you start eating when the symptoms appear, then, yeah. It’s really hard to catch up with edibles/sublinguals. But multiple chemo veterans have told me that starting *before* the symptoms start is the way to get ahead of the curve. YMMV, but that did it for me. So far that’s the longest-lasting and most potent way to cope with the nausea/vomiting.  There was one day when the nausea horse ran out of the barn and I couldn’t keep even the medicine cookie bits down.

The first round I went through was pure fucking hell and I puked my guts out, because we didn’t have the meds calibrated right (pharmaceuticals and otherwise).

1) Losing lots of money for something that may not be helpful, when having cancer in America can bankrupt you as it is
2) Even worse, possible adverse effect on chemo effectiveness.

When you’re going through chemotherapy, everything you eat and all the drugs or herbs or supplements you take has an effect on the process. You can’t just go off and try stuff without your oncologist’s okay and assume it won’t have an effect on the chemo. Even something as innocuous as vitamin C supplements or common over-the-counter medications can reduce the effectiveness of certain chemotherapy regimens!

There is, in fact, a very high range of risk associated with consuming *extraordinarily* high quantities of cannabis oil, which is the program the klaxon-triggering huckster fellow sells. That’s not the only way to use cannabis medically, by any means. Many oncologists, including my own, recommend using medical cannabis to ease symptoms. But not that specific program, which isn’t the outcome of peer-reviewed science and legit clinical trials.

There’s a lot to risk.

I’m sorry to hear about your diagnosis. If you are located in California, check out wamm.org, they are a great collective that provides cannabis oil to patients.

I have used the cannabis juice myself and seen some people really benefit from it. When mixed with lemons and apples, it tastes good. I’ve read a lot about Kristen Peskuski and Dr. William Courtney, and it’s a very interesting story. I hope that we will soon live in a world where NIDA and the DEA won’t block promising research for political reasons, and that eventually, clinical trials of marijuana on human subjects will provide definitive evidence of its medicinal value.

I don’t know much about cancer treatment, but if something like Oreganol will help, it’s worth looking into. I think it’s about $30 for a little dropper bottle of the stuff.

Trying it for a month seems like an obvious choice to me…

Or its evil twin:Freaking that the cab driver you told to fuck off has given your credit card number that you used to pay your fare to an identity theft ring, and oh yeah….writing rambling blog comments ; )

btw-I find, I mean, I’ve heard that the sublingual gels that fit nicely into listerine strip boxes when air traveling, are quite amenable and can be torn into fractions for titering up.  I have also heard that it is always very wise to titer up with ingestables and sublinguals.

                Good to see you back.

Also: take a jacket, it’s cold outside.