Although the realization of a legal framework or THC and CBD is still in fairly primitive phases, there is already some progress.
It is common to hear, either by legislators or defenders of medical marijuana, that while Tetahydrocannabinol (THC) has the components that produce the desired psychoactivity in the consumer, Cannabidiol (CBD) is the compound from which applications can be born
Medical cannabis. The problem is that they cannot be spoken as completely insulated elements, neither for medicine nor for the common psychoactivity of the plant.
"For the ignorant legislator, CBD is the medicinal component and THC is the most aggressive component," says political scientist Jorge Tinajero. It is precisely there that the apology for the use of cannabidiol with low concentrations of THC begins. For an "unscientific" approach that sees THC pernicious and CBD friendly when, in reality, it must be kept in mind whenever the effects are achieved from the interaction between the two.
Those with more than one percent will have the need to make a prescription or have an electronic medical prescription made by the treating doctor who also has to go through an approval process of the Federal Commission for Protection against Health Risks (COFEPRIS ) so that CBD-based medications can be imported in a controlled manner.
The conversation between CBD and THC, however, is a different one from the recent news about legal protections that could turn the personal use of marijuana into jurisprudence. “They should not be confused. These shelters are located within another framework, as it is independent of the medical potential. Here it is a question of the limits of the State vis-à-vis the individual and about the freedom of older adults to exercise their conscious freedom, ”says Tinajero. "What is sought with the amparos is to be able to carry out private cultivation without commercial purposes."
Those with more than one percent will have the need to make a prescription or have an electronic medical prescription made by the treating doctor who also has to go through an approval process of the Federal Commission for Protection against Health Risks (COFEPRIS ) so that CBD-based medications can be imported in a controlled manner.
The conversation between CBD and THC, however, is a different one from the recent news about legal protections that could turn the personal use of marijuana into jurisprudence. “They should not be confused. These shelters are located within another framework, as it is independent of the medical potential. Here it is a question of the limits of the State vis-à-vis the individual and about the freedom of older adults to exercise their conscious freedom, ”says Tinajero. "What is sought with the amparos is to be able to carry out private cultivation without commercial purposes."
VICE: What is THC and what is CBD?
Pedro Motta: THC is the most popular cannabinoid. He was the first to be discovered, isolated or identified. For decades it was considered the main cause of the effects of cannabis. He still has a reputation for doing that, but it is already known that there are many other cannabinoids that have other contributions for psychoactive and holistic / medicinal effects. I make no distinction between the psychoactive medicinal effect and the medicinal effect because, for me, the psychoactive effect is also medicinal. It is also the most popular because it is the most found. In a cannabis sample from here to Japan, it will have the same pattern of THC predominance: 80 or 90 percent THC. That is the profile of the herbs that are used as psychoactive substances.
The CBD was discovered about 40 years ago, but it gained fame 10 years ago. After popularization, hybridization began to take a different approach to reach higher levels of CBD. Today, there are plants that produce a resin that instead of having a greater part of THC cannabinoids, has a greater part of CBD, although it maintains other secondary cannabinoids. When they discovered the CBD they also discovered that there is a holistic role in the final effect of both psychoactivity and medicinal effects that depends on the presence of other cannabinoids: especially THC and CBD because they are the most present components; CBD is the second most present with 10 or 5 percent, maybe less. I say these percentages in total terms. That is, what I am talking about is the total composition of cannabinoids, as if you only grab the resin.
Does CBD have an active role in psychoactive effects?
Does CBD have an active role in psychoactive effects?
The THC let's say it flies, and the CBD pulls back down. His psychoactivity is more "calm", less noticeable, less abrupt, less provocative than THC. The presence of CBD also causes more THC to pass through the blood brain barrier and that THC fits into a larger number of receptors and stays longer within the brain. That is, the presence of CBD makes THC more powerful and more durable.
This is the synergistic effect that was coined in the entourage, which is the conjugation of all the elements among themselves that makes the final effect a product of that interaction and not of the sum. It is an enhancement: that CBD + THC is not THC x 2, but that it is THC x 100.
This is the synergistic effect that was coined in the entourage, which is the conjugation of all the elements among themselves that makes the final effect a product of that interaction and not of the sum. It is an enhancement: that CBD + THC is not THC x 2, but that it is THC x 100.