Finding Your Minimum Effective Dose – The Art Of Starting Low, Going Slow And Staying Low

For the vast majority of patients choosing cannabis, there will be a therapeutic dose of cannabinoids that will be below a dose that gets you high- this is referred to as your Minimum Effective Dose (or MED). If you’re a patient using cannabis as a medicine, it works to your benefit to find the lowest dose of cannabinoids that will bring the relief you’re looking for.

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Cannabis Microdosing Made Easy

Microdosing often gets brought up as today’s world shift in cannabis acceptance has us reinventing the wheel, but with a greater understanding of how the body interacts with cannabis. Before prohibition, no one even knew we had endocannabinoid systems (or ECS). Along with this new knowledge we have testing and imaging choices the world hadn’t even dreamed of in the 1930s that allow us to see how effective our dosing is.

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SweetSue’s Practical Guide to Safe & Easy Cannabis Infusions, Pt. 2

In Part One we covered the foundational knowledge it benefits one to know when approaching cannabis infusion methods. Armed with a basic understanding of the need to decarb, an awareness of the importance of choosing the most beneficial carrier oil for your needs, and knowing some simple ways to improve the bioavailability of your cannabinoids we’re ready to venture into the fun part, oil making.

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SweetSue’s Practical Guide to Safe & Easy Cannabis Infusions, Pt. 1

In this article on preparing cannabis infusions, we’ll learn a thing or two about decarboxylation (decarbing), talk a bit about different kinds of cannabis discuss simple ways to improve the bioavailability of your cannabis infusion oils & consider our choice of carrier oils. Cannabis flower buds are unsurpassed in their concentration of essential oils, rich in cannabinoids.

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