The Amazing Health Benefits of Juicing Raw Cannabis (Marijuana) Leaves

[Unknown Beatle]

Contrary to popular belief, the marijuana plant is a whole lot more than just a psychoactive drug that “stoners” use to get high.

In raw form, marijuana leaves and buds are actually loaded with a non-psychoactive, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-cancer nutrient compound known as cannabidiol (CBD) that is proving to be a miracle “superfood” capable of preventing and reversing a host of chronic illnesses.

Though you may not have heard much about it, the CBD found in the marijuana plant — marijuana is technically just a vegetable, by the way — is a highly medicinal substance with unique immune-regulating capabilities. Since the human body already contains a built-in endogenous cannabinoid system, complete with cannabinoid receptors, inputting CBD from marijuana can help normalize the body’s functional systems, including cell communication and proper immune function.

The way CBDs work is that they bridge the gap of neurotransmission in the central nervous system, including in the brain, by providing a two-way system of communication that completes a positive “feedback loop,” according to Dr. William Courtney, a medical marijuana expert and founder of Cannabis International. As opposed to a one-way transmission, which can promote chronic inflammation of healthy tissue, the unique two-way transmission system engaged by marijuana CBDs mimics the body’s own natural two-way communications system.

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[Champion Jack]

1. Kicked

[ms liberty]

2. K&R...n/t

[geckosfeet]

3. Sweet. Wish I had enough to juice....

[CrispyQ]

4. Too ripped to read now, but responding to read later.

[WheelWalker]

24. You're making that up, Shirley....

[CrispyQ]

49. I'm not Shirley.

[ohheckyeah]

5. For someone who lives in pain daily and has

for over 40 years this would be a miracle. Of course, where I live growing 30 plants would probably get you life in prison.

[awoke_in_2003]

63. My wife suffers from neuropathy...

and rheumatoid arthritis. I wish we would hurry up and legalize this stuff- the Vicodin she has to take does the body no good.

[ohheckyeah]

65. I'm sorry....that sucks.

I have metal rods and screws in my back and also suffer with interstitial cystitis. I don't take any narcotic pain relievers because they make me sick so basically I just have to live with pain.

[awoke_in_2003]

66. Sorry to hear that. nt

[Gregorian]

6. It's a vegetable? I never knew that.

But it sure explains how I got so vegged on it.

Also, I'm so bummed that in all of the years I grew I never thought to juice the leaves. Here comes an entirely new market. Yay!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

22. :D

Cool!!

[Gregorian]

39. Haha. My private life is revealed.

I'm straight as an arrow these days. But that may change if I ever buy a blender.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

59. lololol!

Blame it on the blender.

[Duer 157099]

56. Vegetable as opposed to what?

Aren't the only 3 categories: animal, vegetable, mineral?

[BlueToTheBone]

64. I think they meant vegetable in the food sense

as in broccoli and carrots.

[MattBaggins]

7. What a load

[ohheckyeah]

9. Your assessment is based on what?

Yet almost no one knows any of this beyond a handful of scientists, including two at the National Institutes of Health who were sufficiently impressed that they joined a Nobel laureate in patenting a cannabis molecule. Courtney hands a copy of their U.S. Patent 6630507 to occupants of the chair, typically midway through a jargon-rich spiel that sometimes hits the patient right in the wheelhouse and sometimes goes whizzing overhead.

[snip]

Quietly, one pharmaceutical firm has proceeded to FDA trials with a cannabinoid product. GW Pharmaceuticals, a British company, years ago bought the marijuana seed stock from a pair of Northern California botany enthusiasts who had decamped to Amsterdam, where it was safer to grow such things. After reading a GW report on a plant extremely high in CBD, Courtney for a while considered it the Grail, and looked high and low in Northern California. But in vain.

"What has happened is, almost all strains available in America through the black market are THC concentrates," said Ethan Russo, a Seattle area physician who is senior medical adviser to GW. "The CBD in almost all cases has been bred out. The reason is cannabis in this country has been cultivated for its intoxicating effect."

The company has produced an oral spray, called Sativex, approved in Canada for treatment of pain associated with multiple sclerosis and is pending in the U.K. and Spain for spasticity in MS. It has completed Phase II clinical trials in the FDA approval process as a treatment for cancer pain. The final trial awaits.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/31/AR2010053103231_2.html

[MattBaggins]

13. The whole wrapping of woo and fricking "juicing"

1. Take a scientificky sounding substance and misunderstanding of the bodies receptors
2. Use idiotic words like "miracle" and "superfood"
3. Claim it's "proven" to slice, dice, chop and sort your socks for you.
4. ???
5. Profit

Yes cannaboids have promise in medicine. "Miracle Superfood Juicing" bullshit is just that...bullshit

[rdharma]

17. You think they're trying to sell juicers?

Profit? Who will profit? Names please.

[longship]

29. Unfortunately Jack Lalanne has passed on.

His Juicer still lives, however.

Unitards are extra cost options.

Of course, there's always Vegamatic:

Look at those Cannibis blossoms, every seed in place.

There's a whole world of entrepreneurial capitalism open to this kind of medical quackery.

My favorite is the Ewe do it yourself sheep dip kit.

[JNelson6563]

46. Actually it's true.

I know folks who are into natural medicine and this is one that works very well.

It's a shame you are so biased as to not be able to discern fact from fiction. A common problem. The big pharma companies thank you though!

Julie

[bleever]

54. What is a "cannaboid"?

[EOTE]

68. You know very little about this issue. Speaking with great confidence does you no service.

There are quite a few actives in cannabis which are only active orally and there's a lot which aren't very fat soluble. There is a large amount that can only be effectively obtained by juicing. But I'm sure you know more because you're some internet rando who makes boisterous claims.

[Egalitarian Thug]

25. His opinion, which is based on nothing.

(at least nothing that can be discussed in a forum)

[madrchsod]

19. not according to 200 doctors in illinois that in favor of medical grass....

[mucifer]

30. A lot of the doctors want to use it in their regimen to control nausea and pain

and to relax people. It's another tool in the toolbox. It probably will work better for some people than for others. Some people will have adverse reactions. Most people probably won't.

In other words it's another medication that should be on the market.

[enough]

8. Would that include chewing it long enough that its juices and yours

become mixed? I'm enjoying this idea. As I get older (way older), the smoking approach seems to be too sudden and sometimes unpredictable.

[WheelWalker]

26. This ^^^^

[patrice]

51. +++1 organic please!

[waddirum]

10. I recommend using a "masticating" juicer.

That is the slow turning "wheat-grass" style juice rather than a high RPM centrifugal juicer. I also recommend mixing the cannabis leaves with carrot juice, as it is an "acquired taste".

Dr. William Courtney now recommends juicing the leaves AND the bud, for maximum benefit.

[Harry Monroe]

33. Is a "masticating" juicer something I can find in the local sex shop?

[WillyT]

11. This Is Interesting...

Link: http://www.cannabisinternational.org/about.php

[rdharma]

14. Thanks for that chart and link, Willy T!

[WillyT]

15. You Are Quite Welcome !!!

[amuse bouche]

12. Wow

I've really never had anything to do with pot, except that one time with my ex and it made me sick, but it is definitely worth studying

[rdharma]

16. What type/model of juicer did they use? nt

[Auntie Bush]

18. ALERT!

Buy stocks on juicers. A sure bet.

[loudsue]

20. It. Is. Time.

I'm sick of it that a NATURAL plant, as in NATURE grows it, is illegal. That is so fucking STOOOOOOOPID.

kickin'

[TexasTowelie]

21. I can't wait

until this is covered on Nadia G's Bitchin' Kitchen!

[tridim]

52. I saw an ad for that show. SMH.

"Ya ready to get bitchin'?"

Uhm, no.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

23. well, it pisses me off that we can't receive the benefits or even *try* it

safely (legalistically speaking), due to CONSERVATIVE fucking attitudes.

[Fumesucker]

45. President Obama fully supports keeping cannabis illegal

Indeed, his position is that it would have helped his life if he had been arrested, arraigned, tried and convicted for his own drug use as a teen and young man.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

60. would have helped his life?

How, I wonder? It's not like he was a slacker at any time.

This is one of his positions I disagree with.

[DevonRex]

27. Careful with the immune regulating claims. Looks like it suppresses T-cells. Some don't need that

Or want it. It could be harmful, even. I was hoping for immune system stimulation since I have a deficiency. Specifically in B-cells. Oh well. Anyway, you see what I mean. If somebody just heard it was good for immunity and it had the opposite effect of what they needed then could get really sick.

[Occulus]

50. All of the HIV patients I have ever known smoke pot

so there's that, FWIW.

[DevonRex]

55. Yes, it would actually be beneficial for HIV.

It's complicated, as I'm sure you know. In immune deficiencies there are many components. Some can be low while some are high. In HIV, the values are high because of so many different things being involved at the same time. They simply get overwhelmed if it's left unchecked. Suppression is a great thing for HIV.

It would also be great for anyone with Lupus or rheumatoid arthritis, or many other autoimmune disease.

I will still attempt it again for my migraines (I must be crazy). I just need to figure out which kind won't make me violently ill.

[noiretextatique]

57. there are so many options now

i prefer edibles and i bought a vaporizer that uses oil. there are many types of edibles available now, and there are also pills, tinctures and topicals made from leaf and/or bud. you might want to try a tinctures because you don't have to ingest a lot to feel an effect. good luck.

[DevonRex]

58. Thank you.

I found a good clinic that has all the options and I've tried to educate myself in the meantime. I'm just hoping to cobble together enough of different things to make life more tolerable.

[noiretextatique]

62. welcome...i have been doing the same

trying to manage pain without big pharma's help. good luck in finding something that works for you.

[KamaAina]

28. Coming soon to your local cafe, in Colorado and Washington, at least:

Green smoothies!!!

[Harry Monroe]

32. (..."smacks head"...) Damn I could have had a, uh ....

...what was I talking about again?

[KamaAina]

67. ...V-420?

[B Stieg]

31. What a waste...

[cui bono]

38. Why? n/t

[JNelson6563]

47. Actually it's good use of

what otherwise may go to waste. You don' juice the flowers.

Julie

[Mr.Pain]

34. Its great news

My son talks with the tribal elders at the pow wows and they always tell him that the plants are there for us as food and medicine. He already knows this as he has cured himself of allergic reactions to poison ivy. He has learned many plants in his years, white willow for pain, jewel weed for poison ivy, nettles for arthritis, and so on. We need the plants. Our government needs to be pressured even more to give up their reign of terror regarding natural medicines, and the pharma companies need to stop manufacturing their synthetic poisons. END AMERICA'S DRUG PROBLEM... RESPECT THE WEEDS.

[kenichol]

35. Opposition to the weed

This explains why the pharmaceutical industry, the alcohol industry, the legal system and the prison industry are so vehemently against legalization of Marijuana. Legalization is bad for the bottom line.

[blackspade]

36. Imagine the worker owned company growing fields of this stuff.

If the FDA owns the 'patent' to marijuana, doesn't that mean we as Americans own it?
Of the people, for the people, right?

[mountain grammy]

37. My marijuana doc explained CBD's and THC to me a few years ago

we grow accordingly.

[TheMadMonk]

40. Won't say it's BS outright, but it does feel a little bit like there's some conflation...

...happening there.

That said, there is research emerging that suggests we entirely forget about trying to pidgeonhole the gross symptomology of mental illness and simply treat the observed, QUANTIFIABLE, imballances in brain chemistry.

Nudge/push brain chemistry to "normal" and the theory goes:- Symptoms just fade away.

[Recursion]

42. It's a surprisingly 18th-century idea, that seems to have some merit

Rather than pursuing etiologies down that rabbit hole, catalog the symptoms and treat them based on a pre-existing model of what a correct balance of components is.

[TheMadMonk]

43. Um,no. Ignore the symptoms altogether. Symptoms all to often mislead...

...when it comes to brain function.

Manage serotonin, endorphins, canabinoid, dopamine, etc. levels directly.

[Recursion]

44. Good point. "symptoms" in the modern sense wasn't quite what I meant

I was thinking the specific imbalance of chemicals (which, when you replace "chemicals" with "humors" was what a doctor in 1789 would call a "symptom&quot .

[Recursion]

41. Too bad anti-oxidants apparently kill you!

Kidding (well, not about the fact that they make you die faster).

Unfortunately, the only way C sativa will ever be fully legalized is under the control of pharma and/or RJR and their ilk, so there won't be juiced raw leaf available for sale. (My main objection to full legalization as opposed to decriminalization is the evidence of what Big Tobacco has done to tobacco.)

[MineralMan]

48. Anytime I see "The Amazing Health Benefits of..."

I know I'm going to see woo. Sure enough.

[rhiannon55]

53. Someone should send this to the FLOTUS

She cares about health and she can influence her husband.

[madokie]

61. My days of cannabis use is over

All I can do now is dream of those days. My last visit to the va doc he told me he would have to report it if any more thc was found in my lab work. For the most part I'd quit toking but during my 65 bday celebration I eat some brownies and it showed up.
If we had medical pot here in ok I'd opt to go with cannabis for pain relief instead of hydrocodone as its a much better med for pain but I don't have that option.