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A Simple Way to Counter the Paranoia Side Effect of Marijuana
Close-up of cluster of female cannabis plant by Bokske via Wikimedia Commons
As someone who stopped smoking recreationally because of the paranoia/anxiety inducing side effects, this is rather interesting. Maybe I’ll try it out one day.
via AlterNet:
According to a recent report by Marijuana.com, sniffing black peppercorns could be the simple answer to reducing the paranoia effects sometimes felt after smoking pot. By simply smelling or chewing on peppercorns after lighting up, smokers can mitigate these effects, writes Jay Arthur.
Owen Smith writes in Canada’s Cannabis Digest that while at Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club, he witnessed the impact pepper had on pot. “Most patients who have tried this simply took a few sniffs of the black pepper to receive an almost immediate effect,” he wrote. “Others have reported that after chewing on pepper corns they felt relief within an hour, but that may be a delay most would seek to avoid.”
Why would this work? In a scientific review published by the British Journal of Pharmacology, author Ethan Russo writes of a “phytocannabinoid-terpenoid entourage effect” that can help with “pain, inflammation, depression, anxiety, addiction, epilepsy, cancer, fungal and bacterial infections.”
Although the review doesn’t contain any studies to pot and eating pepper, it aims to point out the connections between THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) and terpenoids found in plants such as pepper. For several years marijuana research has focused on THC for studying marijuana’s effects. Russo proposes we also turn our attention to the plant components found in terpenes. The combination of the two (in the right dosages) has great appeal for scientists studying medicines with cannabinoids.
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2014/08/a-simple-way-to-counter-the-paranoia-side-effect-of-marijuana/
A Simple”R” Way to Counter the Paranoia Side Effect of Marijuana: Don’t smoke or eat it.