Lessons
4 short lessons in order, about 38 minutes in all. Read them before your first visit and the counter conversation gets much shorter.
Getting started
What cannabis is, what the main cannabinoids (THC, CBD, CBG, CBN) and terpenes do, how the endocannabinoid system works, and a short honest history from ancient medicine through prohibition to modern legalization.
- A plain-English cannabinoid primer
- The endocannabinoid system in about 400 words
- A short honest history of the plant
- The minimum to know before a first dispensary visit
How to read a label
Every dispensary label carries the same five things. Once you can find them, the wall of jars stops looking like a foreign language.
- mg versus percent, and why they mean different things
- Every field on a certificate of analysis, decoded
- Batch numbers and why they matter
- What to do when a label is missing information
Dose yourself
Start low and go slow. Titration schedules, onset and duration by route (inhaled, edible, tincture, topical), and the basics of microdosing.
- The 2.5 mg rule, and why it works
- Titration schedules by route
- When, and how, to take a second dose
- Microdosing, what it is and what it is not
Upsides and downsides
An honest read on the benefits with real evidence behind them, the risks that are real but often overstated, and the situations where cannabis genuinely should not be used.
- The benefits with the strongest evidence
- Real risks: tolerance, dependence, psychosis
- Who should not use cannabis
- How to spot a problem forming before it becomes one