EPISODE 387

What Makes Cannabis Medicine Versus Just Getting High With Ryan Sprague

Cannabis is a plant medicine that can do so much for one’s health when it’s grown properly and used very wisely.

Expert and educator Ryan Sprague explores the chemistry behind what makes cannabis work and explains why judging its quality solely on how much THC it contains is a very bad idea this week on Spirit Gym.

Learn more about Ryan and his work on his Highly Optimized website and on social media via Instagram here and here and YouTube. Listen to Ryan’s Highly Optimized podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to them.

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SHOW NOTES

4:44 How a highly optimized human uses cannabis wisely and as one of many tools.

10:00 Do Drugs Have Religious Import? by Huston Smith from The Journal of Philosophy.

21:28 Practice the Daoist not too much, not too little philosophy.

32:34 Psychedelics are meant to be challenging by design.

51:09 Why Ryan believes cannabis and hemp are the people’s plants.

1:05:26 “Cannabis is a medicine that works on one regulatory system that happens to deal with 80-plus different conditions and purposes.”

1:13:22 Could cannabis treat epilepsy?

1:27:42 How much THC do you realiy need in your cannabis?

1:34:18 Foods that help with endocannabinoid production besides cannabis.

1:43:45 The Sacred Smoke Collective.

1:49:02 The Emerald Triangle in California.

2:02:37 Dr. Daniel Amen’s movement against cannabis calls it a weapon of mass destruction.

RESOURCES & FURTHER READING

Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality by R. Gordon Wasson (FREE PDF link)

The Mastery of Self by Don Miguel Ruiz Jr.

Limonene

Dr. Sanjay Gupta on cannabis

Cannabis hyperemesis syndrome (CHS)/Scromiting

Ace Seeds

Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics by Allan Badliner and Alex Grey

The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion With No Name by Brian Muraresku

The work of Candace Pert, Brownie Mary and Terrance McKenna

Paul’s podcast conversations with Maestro Hamilton Souther and James Hollis

Drug Facts and Comparisons (2017)

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Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz), Composed, mixed, mastered and produced by Michael RB Schwartz of Brave Bear Music

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