Article by Michael Moses
The Centre SPB and Triverde Health is a premier cannabis centric holistic health and education destination offering a full menu of wellness classes, special events, and workshops featuring yoga, medical marijuana recommendations, CBD and Delta 8 products, fitness, nutrition and cooking classes. We even have Natural Pet Herbals line of CBD for pets. The Centre has a partnership with Triverde Health, whose Dr. Luis Ycaza provides medical marijuana recommendations right at The Centre once or twice per week. Our full concierge service will guide you through the process of obtaining your card and medicine every step of the way. If you are new to cannabis, come in and speak with us and we’d be happy to guide you through the best way cannabis can bring relief to your life. CBD is a great non-psychoactive place to start if you’re new to the cannabis world containing many medicinal and anti- inflammatory benefits. Call The Centre at 727-258-2001.
What can it help with?
Peter Grinspoon, MD, wrote in the Journal of Harvard Medical School in April 2020, “There are few subjects that can stir up stronger emotions among doctors, scientists, researchers, policy makes, and the public than medical marijuana.
“Medical Marijuana is legal in 29 states, and in Washington, DC. About 85% of Americans support legalizing medical marijuana, and it is estimated that at least several million Americans currently use it. Least controversial is the extract from the hemp plant known as CBD (which stands for cannabidiol) because this component of marijuana has little, if any, intoxicating properties. Marijuana itself has more than 100 active components. THC (which stands for tetrahydrocannabinol) is the chemical that has several purposes, 1) opens up the endocannabinoid system to function effectively, 2) attack pain and 3) causes the ‘high’ that can go along with marijuana consumption. CBD-dominant strains have from ZERO to less than or equal to 00.3% (a pinch as my grandmother used to say in cooking) ‘a pinch of salt’ so patients report very little if any alteration in consciousness. Patients report many benefits of CBD, from relieving insomnia, anxiety, spasticity, and pain to treating potentially life-threatening conditions such as epilepsy and cancer.”
The most common use for medical marijuana in the United States is for pain control. While marijuana isn’t strong enough for severe pain (for example, post-surgical pain or a broken bone),it is quite effective for the chronic pain that plagues millions of Americans, especially as they age. Part of its allure is that it is clearly safer than opiates (it is impossible to overdose on) and it can take the place of NSAIDs such as Advil or Aleve, if people can’t take them due to problems with their kidneys or ulcers or GERD.
In particular, marijuana appears to ease the pain of multiple sclerosis, and nerve pain in general. This is an area where few other options exist, and those that do, such as Neurontin, Lyrica, or opiates, are highly sedating. Patients claim that marijuana allows them to resume their previous activities without feeling completely out of it and disengaged.
Along these lines, marijuana is said to be a fantastic muscle relaxant, and people swear by its ability to lessen tremors in Parkinson’s disease. I have also heard of its use quite successfully for fibromyalgia, endometriosis, interstitial cystitis, and most other conditions where the final common pathway is chronic pain. Marijuana is also used to manage nausea and weight loss and can be used to treat glaucoma. A highly promising area of
research is its use for PTSD in veterans who are returning from combat zones. Many veterans and their therapists report drastic improvement and clamor for more studies, and for a loosening of governmental restrictions on its study.
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A few months ago, we wrote and published a piece about an article in the September 2020 edition of Reader’s Digest entitled The Promise of CBD, in which the four people interviewed felt the same way about that over-the-counter, non-psychoactive, unregulated, cannabidiol component of the hemp plant.
How do you know what you need?
Sage advice is “Start Slowly and Small.” The key is to micro-dose the THC component and take larger dosages of the CBD component. Staff at The Centre and Triverde have experience and can help guide you.
The goal is not to get high, just to provide your system with the minimum stimulus it needs to do its magic. A micro-dose is often enough. For example, some people say “Five drops of CBD oil helps me sleep like a baby” or “A half hour after I eat half a gummy, my fibromyalgia symptoms fade away for hours.”
MuV makes three-day patches with just CBD, just THC and 50:50 that provide a continuous micro-dose ever 30 minutes over three days and range from $12-$15. Many people love those too.
Call The Centre at 727-258-2001 for more information or just stop in. We’re attached to Lenny’s Bike & Surf Shop, sharing a parking lot with Walgreens in St. Pete Beach. Enter from 76th Avenue.
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