Stoner Schematics

“This category is about something that everyone is doing… we are doing it, you are doing it, everyone is making their own Stoner Schematics. Wait! You might be asking yourself, what in the hell is this… Stoner Schematic? Well I am glad that you subconsciously reached into your head and spat out a question such as this for us. Stoner Schematics are Stoner’s (‘hence the name’) Schematics (blueprints, instructions, whatever your vernacular…). It is what the Stoner creates, be it canabutter, some crazy rolling technique, or even just a great way to blow smoke… that is a Stoner Schematic.”
——–> Got suggestions for schematics? E-mail Pistachio or E-mail Dignan

Recently, I was checking out some of the other sites on the internet that offer services to humble smokers like ourselves. One place, Strain Brain, was especially cool. Using an artificial intelligence similar to facial recognition technology, Strain brain is able to accept user uploaded photos of Cannabis and identify them based on the photo collection it has previously amassed. In short, submit your pot, and get a list of possible matches to the photo you have uploaded.

This service is hands-down something that the medicinal community has to have in order to #1 identify strains and #2 on that identification decide if the medicine procured serves the users personal needs. Also, it just removes confusion and possible Tom Foolery. As if that was too much for you, they also are affiliated with the website Pot Locator whom are able to submit to the user possible medicinal locations based to obtain more of the photo they have provided (great for searching).

I believe this is a great program that even in its infancy offers multitudes of possible solutions to very solid and current issues in our community. If that was not enough to splatter your brain across the back of your computer chair (or wherever your juxtaposition) they are also supposed to be bringing it to mobile phones. Yes, that is right, anyone, anywhere, anytime, we will prove you wrong when you say you have the bud you clearly do not.

“Half-baked is probably one if not the greatest Stoner movies of all time and we believe this category is best summed up by the great, talented, and verbose Jon Stewart.
Enhancement Smoker (Jon Stewart): “Did you ever see Scent of a Woman?”
Scarface: “Yup.”
Enhancement Smoker: “You ever seen Scent of a Woman… on weed? That’s the way to see it. It’s just wacked.”
That is what this is, high movies or shows. Not necessarily ratings or anything like that, but movies or shows… well … high.”
——> Got suggestions for movies or shows? E-mail Pistachio or E-mail Dignan

Trailer Park Boys is a show I came across recently that follows the antics of several residents of the Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Canada. The two main characters, Ricky and Julian, are constantly in and out of the correctional system for the over-the-top schemes they try to pull off to get by in this crazy world. Most noticeably, they are always trying to grow cannabis in any spot they can: in the back of the car, their converted grow-op trailer, or the fields surrounding Sunnyvale. Every resident of Sunnyvale has a unique personality that adds to the community of the show. Personally, my favorite character is Bubbles with his centimeter-thick glasses and shed house filled with what he deems “kitty cats.” The show has been running since 2001 in Canada, but many people in the U.S. (myself included) have never heard of it due to so few networks in the U.S. that have syndicated it. Luckily for everyone, Netflix has all of the seasons and movies up on the instant queue, so you can tune in any time for some trailer park antics.

“Laws are changing everything around us as well as the world that cannabis lives in. Sometimes it is time to sit down the bowl and really focus on the issues. Well then pick it back up, politics is stressful…”

Recently, The National Cancer Institute just released their new findings concerning Cannabis. This report breaks down Cannabis into several different categories: General Information, History, Laboratory/Animal/Preclinical Studies, Human/Clinical Studies, Adverse Effects, Overall Level of Evidence for Cannabis and Cannabinoids. These prospective categories then delve into each of their respective categories while using scholastic research articles in order to buttress the research that they propose. Over several posts (this being the first) I plan to go through these findings by the NCI highlighting or debunking the research findings and methods.

Cannabis has several chemicals inside of it that the scientific community lumps together and places under Cannabinoids. Cannabinoids are technically any chemical that has phytocannabinoids or that show effects similar to that of phytocannabinoids (or C21 aromatic hydrocarbons). Many of these, as we have explored before, have an outstanding potential for treating multitudes of diseases and ailments (refer to the graph below). The National Cancer Institute themselves recognize this potential in the statement:

“The potential benefits of medicinal Cannabis for people living with cancer include antiemetic effects, appetite stimulation, pain relief, and improved sleep. In the practice of integrative oncology, the health care provider may recommend medicinal Cannabis not only for symptom management but also for its possible direct antitumor effect.”

This is an outstanding change for the formal recognition of the remedial abilities of Cannabis as the NCI has this statement in their General Information section. Another important part that I lavished especially was underneath the Adverse Effects section.

One study done by the Department of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio (The association between marijuana smoking and lung cancer: a systematic review.) set out to prove that there was a correlation between Cannabis and lung cancer. Unfortunately for the man…

“[A] systematic review assessing 19 studies that evaluated premalignant or malignant lung lesions in persons 18 years or older who inhaled marijuana concluded that observational studies failed to demonstrate statistically significant associations between marijuana inhaling and lung cancer after adjusting for tobacco use.”

Finally, a sensible research facility came to a conclusion that does not support ignorant fallacies and flaws in method in order to uphold a biased opinion! This new concession is especially important since the president Ronald Reagan paraded a study by Berkeley in the 1970′s that found ganja to be “one-and-a-half times as carcinogenic as tobacco”. That study, unlike this one, compared both the broad plant leaves of both marijuana and tobacco in order to find their carcinogenic properties. Funny thing is (as you all know) marijuana is smoked through the flowers not the broad fan leaves that are purely there in order to factory larger buds. People will say anything… stand by for part 2.

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“It is a widely accepted fact that cannabis (…and other great hallucinogens) have been linked numerous times to allowing people everywhere; from writers, to artists, and even amongst the most advent doodlers as being a smooth gateway to better and more insightful pieces of art. So take your brush of choice and blow some minds… this is Stoner Art.”

I was gazing across the sea of darkness that is this celestial chaos known as the internet and happened upon this immaculate picture by a lovely lady aliased as Deannajean. Now Deannajean mentioned to me that it was just 2 years ago that she had to endure an intense brain surgery, which led her to the organization Phoenix Tears. For those who do not know, Phoenix Tears (recently coupled with Patients out of Time) is an organization that is dedicated to “an educational endeavor to bring state of the art knowledge concerning the therapeutic use of cannabis to the United States and International health care community.” In short, these communities wish to push all boundaries of research to confirm the clear medicinal usages of Cannabis.

For example, the two chemicals Cannabidiol or CBD (pictured below) and Beta-Caryophyllene (pictured above) have both been proven time and time again to be medicinally helpful for people. Cannabidiol has been shown to inhibit the cell growth of cancer cells and relieve convulsions in people with multiple sclerosis on one hand; on the other, Caryophyllene is proven to be an extremely effective anti-inflammatory found in several other organically found items such as hops, rosemary, and cloves. Furthermore, Caryophyllene also has been shown to have the ability to treat pain, Atherosclerosis, and Osteoporosis in research studies. …and this is only the tip of the iceberg. The field of research of Cannabis in the past has been overbearingly restricted thus buttressing the ignorant perspective that pot makes you stupid. So we ask ourselves… when all facts (economical, social, political, medical, etc…) point toward the advantage of such a commodity, how do we not utilize it? Have we not come to a point in time in which waste has become a faux pas in all aspects?

This is another situation where the healing power of cannabis has been shown to be prevalent in studies amongst even the most random people that we may come across. Deannajean you are a fortunate soul and you should scream your story TO THE ROOFTOPS!!! … as that is what it should be deserved, nothing less. Today, I smoke WITH you.

“Why make a category for everything? The world lives on the brink of destruction, people are as apathetic as ever, and chronological whimsical forms of the structure are the things that are keeping us down. Fuck the system, Fuck the structure, and BY GOD here at Stoner Schematics we say FUCK Categories (…sometimes).”

Dignan and I were going through the local history museum when we came across this bottle of Cannabis Tincture. This certain tincture was produced by Parke Davis and is a collectible among cannabis antiques as it represents the height of botanical medical technology. A bottle in mint condition can go for anywhere in between of $1,000-$5,000.

One thing that struck my eye was the label “poison” on the bottle. In fact, “Despite the fact that NO ONE has ever been known to die from its use, many states and government agencies still required that the word be placed on the label.” Click Here for more info on Cannabis Tinctures