so I know a lot of people consider the males and hermaphrodites completely useless (aside from intentional pollenation) but I always at least made bhang, brownies, cannabutter, or would just dry the pollen sacks and leaves and smoke them after killing the males or hermies. I don't know, just doesn't feel right to let good cannabinoids go to waste lol. obviously the ones I've done were not fully mature because they didn't fully develop pollen sacks, no females got fertilized, but me and my friend seemed to get at least mild medical benefits and a faint buzz. whenever a dry spell hit us and we were desperate we would smoke bowl after bowl after bowl of leaves and eventually felt better and "different" than we did before smoking. one time my friend accidentally grew a hermaphroadite and didn't catch it till it was already mature. he pulled it and gave it to me, I ground it up really fine, stems, leaves, bud/sacks and put a shot of liquor in and then warm milk and let it steep for a few hours in the refrigerator. I definitely got effects from that. I've heard research that says inactive doses of THC can boost and even bring back the effects of opioids after they start to wear off. it can boost analgesia by 1.5-10+% depending which opiate/opioid is used. for example methadone is 4 times stronger when THC is present, even though the level of THC administered would be considered an inactive THC dose. so even if the amount of psychoactive compounds present in males is "useless" to most people, its possible pain patients could benefit from using their males instead of throwing them out.
does anyone else find any use for males and hermaphrodites? if you had a HUGE amount would it be worth trying to make a tincture?

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Hon, where did you get your info on the opioid boost? A link to the study would be nice.


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Opiate & Cannabinoid Interactions, with Sandra Welch PhD @ 2004 Cannabis Therapeutics Conference

Enhancement mu opioid antinociception by oral delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol: dose-response analysis and receptor identification
by
Cichewicz DL, Martin ZL, Smith FL, Welch SP
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology,
Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond, Virginia, USA.
Jpn J Pharmacol 1999 Apr; 79(4):427-31

Cichewicz DL, McCarthy EA. Antinociceptive synergy between delta(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol and opioids after oral administration. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2003;304(3):1010-5.

Cannabidiol is an allosteric modulator at
mu- and delta-opioid receptors
by
Kathmann M, Flau K, Redmer A, Trankle C, Schlicker E.
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology,
School of Medicine, University of Bonn,
Reuterstr. 2b, 53113, Bonn, Germany,
m.kathmann@uni-bonn.de.
Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol. 2006 Feb 18;

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