Medical Marijuana Education

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If you’re 65, 45 or 25 years old and still think of pot as the best panacea to escape a mental meltdown from the stress and drama of life, you wouldn’t be far off. But in today’s cannabis world, you’re only hitting a small piece of the bigger pie. This isn’t yesterdays’ hippy marijuana stash from the 1970s. If you’ve just gotten your medical marijuana card (jump up and down with excitement now) and are at a loss on how to use it, we’ve created this Beginner’s Guide to Marijuana just for you.

Old school marijuana enthusiasts will still contend that this is their favorite way to take in the flavor and the feel of the flower, or dried marijuana. It’s all about the timing and the inhale.

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There’s an unspoken etiquette when smoking a joint, blunt or doobie — take a hit (inhale) and let it soak in. Blow it out. Repeat. Then pass it on. To get started, make sure to have rolling papers on hand. Take one, lay it out on a table or hold it in your fingers. Then sprinkle the flower evenly on the paper, making sure both ends have just enough to allow for easier rolling. Lick the sticky edge of the paper with your tongue. Gently roll the paper with your fingertips from the unsticky side first so the sticky side is the last end that folds over the rest. It might seem awkward at first, but with a little practice, you’ll be a pro.

Before smoking any type of marijuana cigarette, it’s important that you roast your joint to avoid canoeing (uneven burning that travels vertically up the joint). To achieve this, hold a lighter to the tip, rotating the joint to ensure it’s lit evenly around the whole circumference. Now, it’s time to smoke. For the first hit, puff inward briefly and a few times in succession to further ensure an even light. Then, take a longer, steadier hit until you feel the smoke reach beyond your throat, then steadily exhale to release the smoke. Remember – unlike a tobacco cigarette, you won’t need to finish the joint in its entirety; take a break or stop once you’ve achieved the desired effects.

If the thought of smoking anything brings you no appeal or you want a more full-body sensation for marijuana use, then cannabis edibles may be the perfect accompaniment to your lifestyle.

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Making marijuana an integral part of your day-to-day regimen is easy through delivery systems that add to what you already do, cook and eat. Cannabis honey or hot sauce are great as a go to, enhancing coffee, tea or fruit (with honey) or topping off a breakfast burrito or baked potato (hot sauce). Cannabis oil allows you to infuse your food with medicinal properties during mealtime at the moment that’s right for you. As with other edible forms of marijuana, it’s important to consume with caution. Drizzle a small amount on your food and use sparingly until you become accustomed to how the product will affect you. Then, you can increase your dosage as you become more experienced.

They include the nail and banger, which are the heating surfaces in the process. Bangers are more common, but both are usually made from glass or quartz.  Your torch (butane or propane) will heat up the banger or nail, which should take 15 to 45 seconds. (Told ya this was intense.) Then wait another 15 to 45 seconds for it to cool down.

To pull it all together, you’ll need a dab rig, similar to a small water pipe, and a dabber, which touches the concentrate to the heated area of the nail or banger. Wait for the concentrate to fall off the dabber. A carb cap will create an even vaporization of the concentrate, covering the opening of the dish. Take your hit. The concentrate comes in many choices, such as wax, resin or shatter, with varied flavors. Be sure to clean out residual concentrate (with a Q-tip) so the next hit is just as clean.

Discreet and chic, many cannabis enthusiasts have a vape cartridge, in addition to other systems, as it’s the easiest way to get a one hit wonder on-the-go. The structure is simple: a mouthpiece, battery and atomizer. Many people opt for the ones with the pre-loaded concentrate cartridge for convenience. Others like to have more control and pick a vape cartridge with a chamber, allowing for a change in concentrate and flavor at the user’s discretion. With either one, once the concentrate is loaded, turn the vape cartridge on, press the battery button (if it has one), and take your hit.

Just load your bong or pipe with flower as normal and add a little concentrate on top, or layer concentrate between the flower. Keep in mind that adding concentrate to your bowl increases the amount of THC you’ll ingest with each hit. For this reason, it’s important to start with a small volume of concentrate and limit the number of hits you take until you get a clear picture of how this unique combination will affect you.

For the novice cannabaseur, topicals provide the most user-friendly aspect of medicinal marijuana as the psychoactive aspects of the drug are removed. Many people with physical ailments due to injury, stress, exercise, and the aging process find relief in bath bombs, lotions, creams, balms or salves, oils and other forms of topicals. As such, they are readily available for use without the effects that prohibit the use of machinery, making this type of cannabis great for the workplace.

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These kinds of topicals provide precise relief. Apply directly on the skin where needed for effective relief on the spot. Direct topicals like salves, creams, gels, and other formulations are great for pain relief without any of the psychoactive properties held by other forms of marijuana. In addition, this active ingredient doesn’t cause kidney and liver issues as do many other pain relieving medications.