Hey there! I am so glad to hear you're doing well with this.
Don't eat it raw, the cannabinoids need to absorb into something fatty (cannabinoids cling to fat), eating it raw will have little effect and probably won't do too much for relieving symptoms.

You can most definitely ingest cannabis and it do miracles for your symptoms. If you're interested in more info, message me and let me know.

:):hug:

I have not posted on this thread in a while. I did not have anything new to contribute other than continuing to vaporize but not really getting much beneficial effect.

The problem was that I felt a bit more relaxed but not really and it did not last more than 20 minutes before fading. Not really my thing to get up and "smoke" so much.

The study has begun but it was more trying to garner customers in the coming years and also to get my seeds in order to start a farm.

But my study caregiver did give me a mystery brand to try and also a small amount of cannabutter.

So here is good news though. I took the small bit of cannabutter and made a toffee treat. No MJ taste at all, just sugar and empty calories. I decided to start nibbling at four PM and time it for an hour, then nibble again.

Just a new way to approach MMJ. I am thrilled to report that my spasms relax and I can watch TV or go to sleep without nasty flexing jerking my body.

I thought it was just a coincidence but it has been about five days of this pattern. MMJ is actually working. I was compelled to log this because I see that B2Y is having problems and I wanted to share my findings.

DH also made cannabutter. It smelled the house but not as bad as anticipated. I had been given a strong candle so we lit it to try to deal with the stink. The butter took a day to render.

DH made a batch of brownies and they taste absolutely awful. Don't even want to choke one down and nibbling is such a mental turn off.

I am going to try my toffee recipe and see if it will mask this particular batch.

Great!! Do you have the same recipe for cannabutter, as your study caregiver?

Mmmm, Toffee treats! Please send Sally and I a sample for research. :D

Yeah, what surfer said..:D:p

Recipe for Toffee
 

What is your recipe for the toffee? I would love to try it. Thanks.

Since jerks and spasms are one of my big problems, I might be interested in marijuana, if I can't control these with magnesium, as I do now. I need at least 1000 mg of magnesium, however, nothing less will do. I do not know know if MJ would affect Porphyria, one of my other diseases, which make me react with an attack to many substances, but not all. I don't think MJ is on any safe/unsafe drug list for porphyria that I know of. I don't know if anyone on the Porph list takes it other than a dear friend in Australia, who does love the brownies, and they are one of the only things she can take, so possibly I COULD take it, if she can. I am probably not in an area where it would be as easy to find as in Phoenix (i am in Los Alamos, a scientific community in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico). Anyway, magnesium is working for me for now.

For Mother's Day DS (20) gave me a joint, saying "It's an unconventional present but you said you wanted some" He and his twin sister found it all hilarious and some of their friends do know and giggled. DD was a little amazed at me knowing what to do (hey, I went to HS in the 70's). Smoking is way too harsh for me throat, I like the ease of popping my Vicodin, MJ didn't seem better to me but if things changed, I'd try MMJ seriously.

New Research re: MMJ, MS and PN
 

You know it's nice to be proven right occasionally :rolleyes:....

http://blog.norml.org/2012/08/09/sci...al-conditions/

Great, thanks, and I hope this does move it right along to complete acceptance as a useful and relatively harmless medicine.