It's up to you if you'd like to share more in the thread. We don't get a lot of this type of discussion, so it's certainly of interest. Just know, going in, that there's going to be a lot of push back, including from me. I'll tell you straight-up that I think this is a crock of shit. I'm interested to hear about your experience, here or by PM, but you're going to face some extremely skeptical voices in here. You can decide if you're up for it.
Hi Bagels! I am most definitely up to it, as I am potentially joining a study and documentary that will be testing the health of myself and my grandfather and compare it to the use of the oil. Again, I don't think this will help everyone and even though it CAN help with cancer and other things, an issue where your liver doesn't work then equates to the inability to administer the oil orally.
Now, before people talk about the thc and getting high, yes, this can get you high if you do a lot of it. No, I personally do not get high from it and I have both a high thc/cbd version for night, in which I believe the "high" never makes it to my awake state and the daytime version has less thc and more cbd.
How do I know I'm not "getting high" ? Because I've smoked the cannabis that people smoke for over 15 years on and off. I do not recommend smoking for people dealing with certain mental issues like severe depression and so on. I have bipolar 2 and while smoking has definitely helped me feel more relaxed, it's effectively like drinking to ignore the problems or taking aspirin over and over to numb the pain and not treat the source of the problem.
For my creative non-fiction class, which I just got back from, I will be writing a paper about my experience starting all the way back from my teen years and the roller-coaster of insanity that my emotions put me through up until I had an episode and was unable to easily determine what was real and what was not. That's when, at the request of my family, I admitted myself to a 72-hour hold and found out I was bipolar type 2.
Now, why do I believe this oil is helping me? Well, going into this, all I knew is what I had heard from friends and seen with my own eyes - which did include someone whom I last saw several years ago hooked up to machines, bald, sunken eyes and using their energy to say goodbye to me and the people I was with. Then, seeing them while in Los Angeles for some business in Santa Monica really threw me for a loop. Mind you, I accepted then that their claims of using the oil and going off radiation therapy was possible, but I was too mad / confused / skeptical to really know what to do.
It wasn't until I started using this, following a little bit of research, that I started noticing changes (side effects) that I didn't even expect. This includes feeling amazing without being hyper or out of control and feeling in-control / at peace with the world more so than I think I ever had. The abilify and depakote I was on for the greater part of the last 2 years (and the other combinations before then) all were rather terrible, but whilst under the influence of these SSRIs I was unable to communicate and express myself properly. Once off of it, I was free again, but I still needed something to help me deal with my bipolar otherwise my chance of relapse and such would soon arise.
Unfortunately, I have work at 7am (it's almost 11pm here) so I'll stop here. If you have any questions, please - PUSH BACK. I'd like to share whatever I can to shed some light on this. If I was someone who didn't know the difference between being high and being "normal" I would probably be in the same boat as many others without any evidence. I think the general outcry of everyone from Rick Simpson to other advocates of this is simply to please do more research on it as currently it's very difficult to get approval for this stuff.
