hemp oil combustion

It would be nice to find some use for it. There was a TV segment showing legal growers in California going broke. They sell their weed for about twice what the illegally grown stuff sells for. Regulations are making the difference according to the segment.

It is all a matter of cost to obtain and purify it. Like shale oil out of Canada if commodity price is low they have to shut down.

Illegal hemp ? huh ? .. hemp isn't weed. You'd need to smoke a ridiculous amount of hemp to get a high.

" Cannabis that contains very low amounts of THC in its flowers and leaves (less than 0.3%) is classified as hemp."

Flowers and leaves from the cannabis plant up to 30% THC. Cannabis extract dissolved in oil. < for edibles > up to 3%. Physically concentrated extracts ( eg hash/kief) up to 60%. Chemically concentrated extracts (hash oil, shatter, budder) up to 90% John T.

That adds to the confusion in the CBD market. In the US hemp derived CBD is legal at the federal level although there may be local restrictions. 'Full spectrum' CBD, while there isn't enough THC to affect most people, isn't federally, although since marijuana in general is legal in this state you can but it (with a 23% excise tax if you don't have a medical card).

fwiw, my personal assessment of it is 'snake oil'.

In the US of A it's currently approved for treatment of two types of epilepsy.

Its use for anxiety is growing as well as other various conditions. Some chronic pain sufferers are reportedly finding that it helps their condition without the serious side-effects of all the prescription products. and no THC high. John T.

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IN the 8th grade, I was mistakenly diagnosed with epilepsy and given methobarbitol and diphenylhydantoin. It was also the year I got a D in English, when I normally got A's.

Just to point out what side-effects can be.

Not that hemp would have helped, since I didn't have it to begin with. I would get faint when I stood up, if reading and concentrating or if watching TV in the dark. One time I fell all the way to the floor, and that was the time my mother was watching. I don't blame her for being scared.

Despite the normal EEG, not only did the GP jump to the wrong conclusion, but the neurologist I saw a few weeks later confirmed it and added a 3rd drug. A few weeks after that and a 2nd EEG, a neurosurgeion took me slowly off all the drugs.

When I was 18 a bigger neurolgist, who helped to invent the EEG, told us I didn't have epilepsy and never had it. Orthostatic hypotension, that what I"m reading now say 6% of people and at least 10 to 30% of older people have. But what I read years ago is that maybe 40% of people have it to some extent. Maybe anxiety has raised everyone's blood pressure.

The first doctor was a GP who made other mistakes too, though not involving drugs. The second and third guys I saw only once or twice.

After he said that, I guess he wanted to confirm the hypotension. It was Friday, and it was going to take a full day to set up the test in their lab, and my mother didn't want to stay in a motel for an extra 3 nights, because of the cost. Then the secretary came up with the idea of a polygraph, because one of the 3 tests that are used is a continuous measure of blood pressure. And she arranged something for the next morning, at what I assumed was a well respected polygraph place in the near north side of Chicago, probably the most expensive part of town.

Not a normal workday, Harrleson made a special trip in from the suburbs. At the time I thought it was a burden, but now I think he just loved this stuff.

Before it even started, he told my mother in the waiting room, Don't worry "Mrs. Micky, we had a case like this last week and it was all in her head". Even allowing for the way this sort of thing is done, he asked a bunch of stupid questions, and eventually sent a report to the doctor in Chicago, who sent it to the doctor in Indianapolis who called me to come get a copy and didn't say anything to me when I did. The report said he thought I was malingering, so of course the first doctor was annoyed. But I wasn't. Everything was true, nothing was exaggerated, Before I fainted in front of my mother, I had partially fainted a dozen or more times in lectures when I had to stand up, and I continued to do so later. The last time I was about 20, because I've learned to avoid it. Streching, straining my muscles right after standing up made it much more likely. That is called the Valsalva maneuver, but I'd never heard of that until the 3rd doctor told me about it***.

And the report was full of half-truths and lies. When he was telling a half-truth he would put the true part in quotes. When he was outright lying, he didn't use quotes.

Finally 40 years later I found a book by him where one of the reviews labeled him a quack or fraud. I already knew that.

Deception, Truth & the Polygraph Hmmm, there are only 2 reviews there now, one of them positive. The long, negative one from 6 years ago is mine. Maybe I read aobut his being a fraud somewhere else. Although I thought there was more than one review when I wrote mine.

But I just found 3 other negative articles about him I had not seen before:

"Leonard H. Harrelson (1924-2004), whom Barefoot alleged disclosed classified information..." "The CIA said "HARRELSON is believed to be a person of poor morals." I haven't read the rest yet. I KNOW hhow bad he can be. Even if he behaved well some other times, well gosh, no one screws up all the time.

article shows Harrelson botching his report to the state in a criminal case, saying something was true when he had no basis to say whether it was or not, or something like that. It's confusing. And that he never finished his "preliminary" report. But I can't copy from it with Ctrl-C.

There are other articles about him at

ones from book vendors are positive, repeating what the same reviewers have said. I haven't read the others yets.

Somewhere I should have a copy of his report and the letter I wrote to the GP afterward, but it's been 55 years and it would be hard to find.

There were a half dozen problems with it, but one example I remember is, before the machine was turned on, he asked a lot of questions including, "Have you always told the truth to the doctors?" And being a college sophomore with the not-unusual literal nit-picking use of words, I coudln't say Yes because I had been mistaken, I thought, about one thing. I said, "Well, I actually have this problem maybe 4 times a month, not 3 as I told the doctor". IOW it was worse than I had said before. In his report, he wroted "Asked what he had lied to his doctor about, he said it was the frequency of attacks."

(BTW, my mother had asked the first doctor, What should he do about the epilepsy when he's old enough to drive? He replied, Don't tell them.)

***The neurosurgeon attended the second EEG and had me stretch, to see what the EEG showed then, but all the muscle activity made too much "noise" in the EEG so it proved nothing. Similarly, the polygraph blood pressure test didn't show anything, I think because it wasn't quick enough or something, or it did and Harrelson didn't include it.

I certailnly understand why lie detector tests are not admissable in court. They should keep it that way. Too much, almost everything, is the opinion of the examiner. There is often talk about people able to lie and fool the examiner, but too little is said about those who are not lying but the examiner says they are. Maybe that's because so few are as dishonest as Harrelson. I hope that's the reason.

I was curious if it would help with assorted joint pains from a long, hard life. I first tried gummies with CBD and CBG and then full spectrum CBD oil. I don't know what I expected but there was no effect I could perceive.

Maybe it works for some people but I was underwhelmed.

I've experienced that infrequently, usually if I'm squatting for a while like looking on the bottom shelf at the library and stand up fast.

Here's another one for you to worry about.

When I was in the hospital for a hip repair my first trip with a walker ended with me waking up surrounded by a crowd. Being a hospital that resulted in a flurry of tests including a heart ultrasound, bladder ultrasound, some kind of MRI thing, and a few others. Nothing conclusive. On the plus side I'd been taking lisinopril for several years and they decided I didn't need it anymore.