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1. update: strain high in CBD coming to my state soon
Wed Sep 3, 2014, 11:51 AM
Sep 2014

I'm a legal med marijuana patient in CT due to cancer and the dispensaries are set to open in mid-Sept. Growers are required to test the mm and give patients information re: concentrations of CBD, THC and other substances. Met with my nearby dispensary owner who's a pharmacist and knowledgeable about CBD's antitumor/antimetastasis properties, and she said she expects one strain will be high in CBD so I'm hopeful I can get it and continue on my good health path.

Also in CT, the approved growers cannot use pesticides or other "additives" in their products, which is great.

The crazy part is that without human trials, no one knows what the dosage should be. The dispensary will be asking patient volunteers to fill out forms about progress and side effects---essentially it will be a human trial, albeit unsanctioned by NIH which can't get its act together 12 yrs after patenting CBD to hold a trial.

It's a fantastic thing there's now a mm community of professionals very interested in helping patients like me. Conventional oncologists know nothing about mm and are useless in this regard. I feel that I've got partners in this experimental treatment now.

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