r/ukmedicalcannabis

I’m with Curaleaf and now it’s the weekend. I guess there’s nothing I can do but I’m going to just absolutely just suffer now.

I’m finding difficulty in finding a consistently good strain! Everything’s seems to differ, even the same batch. Are there any that are good solid choices up to 27% that you swear by?

Anyone else put a order in for repeat this morning and still not been accepted? Normally gets excepted within first 30mins

I am currently on my cannabis journey and finding what works for me ; I use the oil on an evening the 10/10 thc cbd , to give you insight 0.5 of that had me feeling very high so thats where my tolerance level is at 😂 . I have severe tinnitus in both ears which my anxiety stems from and chronic back pain, which it helps with alot with , finding a flower has been hard tho I got some high silver and it is nice but I find the high a bit overwhelming at the minute with my low tolerance so have opted for the familiar fruits 7thc / 10cbd.

Wondering if anyone has any experience with balanced strains ? Looking for day time relief from back pain and relaxation for my anxiety which is spiked by my tinnitus . Still finding my feet on my journey the oil is helping but trying to find that day tine flower then I will be happy 😊 any reccomendations / advice from the community 😊

I am 22 and just been approved for medical with Alternaleaf, after reading my documents i see i have a THC limit of 22%. Im not sure why i think it might be due to age is this a common thing? i have not heard of it before.

So guys after a few posts of mine finally had an appeal letter outcome today. And my appeal has failed so I haven’t got my job back.

Absolute farce.

Cannabis is covered in little hair-like structures called trichomes. Lots of plants have these, including roses, nettles, strawberries. Some of these trichomes on cannabis have glands within them that produce a type of resin. These are the things that appear like crystals all over your bud, and that you catch in your crystal-catcher in your grinder.

Almost all of the cannabinoids and flavourful compounds like terpenes that you want are produced in that resin, rather than the vegetable material of the plant.

The top of those resinous trichomes is like a ball, a thin waxy membrane containing the resin within. The ball-like top of the trichome (sometimes called the resin head) ,when mature, can easily detach from the rest of the trichome.

Hash is an attempt to isolate these resin heads using sieving. This can be done dry (like the crystal-catcher in your grinder or in the mountains of Morocco and Afghanistan) and is called drysift or in an ice bath which makes what we call bubble hash or water hash. The principle is the same - knocking off those mature resin heads, filtering them through sieves/screens. The benefit of using the ice bath method is you can use fresh flower, which retains more of the flavourful compounds like terpenes present in the fresh plant, and it's generally easier to isolate the trichome heads due to the water.

Freshly collected resin heads look like sand. When dried, heated and pressed together, they oxidise, turn brown, and this is the form of hash you're probably most used to seeing.

Like any powdery (unpressed) or dough-like (pressed) substance, hash can be contaminated to varying degrees, by dirt or plant material or dust or whatever.

Even if you have absolutely pure hash, that is 100% trichome resin heads, there are still many variables that affect the quality.

If the wax membrane of the trichome head is too thick, the hash will not melt well and will be harsher and less flavourful. The smaller the trichome head, the more wax membrane, so plants with smaller trichome heads are generally less favourable. The point being, even 100% hash is not all equal.

Static hash refers to drysift hash that has been sieved, but then refined further using static electricity to remove contaminants.

With hash, there is enormous variability. For example, you can imagine that water hash made in a clean lab and freeze dried will be cleaner than drysift made in a shack on a dusty mountainside. That said, drysift can be better than waterhash, a static-cleaned drysift might not be as good as another drysift that wasn't static-cleaned, all of this. It's all highly dependent on the quality of the starting flower, the hashmaking process, the storage thereafter.

Any remotely good hash will melt when heated. You hold a lighter to any resinous hash and you'll see it melting. THIS DOES NOT MEAN FULL MELT. Fullmelt hash refers to hash that is so good, melts so cleanly, it is as good as rosin. Full melt is when the hash is so well grown and so well extracted that there's no point trying to refine it further.

Rosin refers to a crude extract made by using heat and pressure to literally squeeze the resin out.

'Flower rosin' is where you put a bud of flower in between two hot plates, squish it with lots of pressure, and it squeezes out the resin.

'Hash rosin' is the same process but using the already isolated trichome heads (we wrap them in mesh - imagine squeezing a mesh bag of oranges between two hot plates).

Hash rosin, for virture of hash already being a concentrate, is a cleaner more refined product.

Butane Honey Oil or Hash Oil (BHO) and other solvent extracts

You can use solvents like butane, hexane, CO2, alcohols etc to make cannabis extracts too. These are called solvent extracts while hash and rosin are referred to as solventless extracts, to differentiate.

Butane (BHO) is the most common for making dabs, and it produces a product similar in consistency to rosin. 'Live Resin' is BHO.

Distillate I believe is often made with CO2 but someone can correct me.

Dirtier, more 'full spectrum' extracts that are good to take orally (if you've ever heard of the famous Rick Simpson's oil or Full Extract Cannabis Oil) are usually made by soaking the material in alcohol.

Consuming hash and concentrates Of course you can smoke hash like you can flower, or use your concentrate-pad in your vaporisers. Good hash, rosin and BHO are commonly dabbed though. Dabbing is just a crude form of a vaporisation, where a surface is heated and a small glob of extract is put onto the hot surface while you inhale. You can use a traditional 'dab rig' which is like a bong, or a modern electric device by brands like Puffco or Carta.

Conclusion If you're only interested in THC, you might question why hash rosin is worth more than flower rosin or live resin, when they have similar potency in terms of THC. The same with the difference between lots of different types of hash.

The answer is the enjoyability of the product and also the craftsmanship put into it. Flower rosin can be as potent as hash rosin, but is generally harsher and less flavourful. A world-class full melt hash can be better - more flavour, more potent and more smooth - than rosin. Solventless extracts generally demand more finesse and craft than solvent extracts.

Basically - there are levels to this shit. Not that dissimilar to how some flower is clearly much more enjoyable than others, cos it's been grown, dried and stored better. Hash is similar, but with the added variability of the hashmaking and there are many different ways to make hash. All of these things have their place. Some cannabis, like hazes for example, don't make good hash, so they're better to extract with solvents. Some products are meant to be dabbed or vaporised, some to be smoked, some to be used orally or rectally

It's a hard product to get your head around if you're new, because there is so much variety and different variables to consider.

I’ve always been an avid flower-only user, but since beginning MC recently I’ve considered carts (rosin & resin only for me I think, no hate to the distillate fans!) but the one thing that really irks me is I haven’t come across a single one on Montu that doesn’t list ‘botanical terpenes’ as an added ingredient and it puts me right off - especially given that there’s no further info on what they actually are in this context available anywhere.

In everyone’s experience are there ever carts available free from these, or is this just something we’ve got to hope for in the future?

I realise plenty of people won’t care about that and that’s absolutely fine, but I’m sure plenty do too so I’m curious?

Need advice - was open and honest around my prescription (my manager doesn't care and is all for person centred care - something our care company preaches - the irony.)

Work in care with vulnerable adults (learning disabilities and so on).

I am not part of a union ( stupid in hindsight I know - what a bitch)

Suspended with pay whilst they work it all out and awaiting a call from occupational health.

But im really REALLY anxious now - again the irony in which that is what my prescription is for alongside depression.

Any advice or anyone experienced anything like this?

I am in my second month of MC, for anxiety/depression and pain. I was prescribed 10:10 oil to start with, then flower capped at 15%. I had mango cheese (12:18) and pennywise (12:12?). After asking, my cap has been raised to 20% for next order.

I felt like it too a while to settle into. I haven’t had BM for many years so the feelings took adjusting too. I am also trying to find a sweet spot where i can take the smallest amount to help me get on with work without feeling too disconnected.

For a while i felt like I had it right, microdosing oil and topping up with flower if needed. It was brilliant - i was calm, focused, productive. While theres a little pain relief I am not able to stop taking ibuprofen or codeine.

Recently though, its not having the same effect. I take 0.5ml oil for next to no effect - but the oil effect has always been inconsistent. The flower is a little better, but while it eases anxiety, it just makes me feel a bit heavy and I'm not as clear headed and productive as I was a couple of weeks ago.

I understand my tolerance changes and maybe thats all it is, but i wouldn't want to just keep on having more and taking stronger THC. Is that how it works though - people just keep increasing ...? Is that why some people appear to get 80g or more a month?

Or, for those who do continue to use low THC, low dose, for daytime and working, do you just find you have the health benefits with less of the subjective sense of feeling medicated?

Or is it all about the flower? the ones I picked are both recommended for daytime/energy and people say the low THC doesnt matter.

And recommendations for flower under 20% that is energising and good for focus and creativity would be welcome!