Medicinal & Entheogenic Cannabis
"Verily the real, and only revolution and evolution is the one of Consciousness."
In our treatment, we use medicinal cannabis for therapeutic purposes to address various pathologies, conditions and ailments of mental-emotional and physical nature, likewise, when handled in a responsible, empathic, compassionate, understandable, honest, integral and wholesome manner, the patient can really benefit from its multiple properties.
The medicinal cannabis plant contains more than 400 compounds within its stems, leaves and flowers, of which more than 100 have been identified as cannabinoids, in addition to various terpenes, terpenoids and flavonoids, which provide different synergistic effects in the body and mind brain.
Both CBD and THC represent some of the most important substances. CBD or cannabidiol, is a chemical substance that provides benefits to the body and mind brain, making it function better, without giving it a ‘high’ effect, along with THC or delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, which contains multiple medicinal properties. Both substances are very similar to the chemicals that the body itself produces and that are involved in the immune response, appetite, memory, movement, pain, mood, and sleep, among others. This is how users can receive the benefits of this medicine.
Currently, various studies have been carried out, affirming the multiple benefits of cannabis not as a first-line therapy, but as an adjunct medical therapy. In addition, studies, research and practices are still being carried out where the usefulness of this wonderful medicinal plant continues to be revealed.
Our treatment benefits are as following:
- Relieves inflammation and pain.
- Reduces stress and tension.
- Fights certain types of nausea and vomiting related to chemotherapy.
- Stimulates, regulates and increase appetite in patients with cancer and AIDS.
- Enhances the immune system, help cancer treatment and tumour reduction.
- Improves eating disorders.
- Helps to treat distress, depression, anxiety, stress, tension, post-traumatic disorder, among others.
- Helps to treat mental retardation such as autism.
- Treats seizures, such as in cases of refractory epilepsy such as Dravet and Lennox Gastaut syndrome.
- Helps with glaucoma.
- Provides relief in spasticity in multiple sclerosis.
- Helps with tremors associated with Parkinson's disease.
- Helps with addictions.
- Others.
While some people have tried cannabis recreationally and many today use it medicinally to manage their mental-emotional health and other symptoms, neither of these applications reflects how useful it can be in an entheogenic psychotherapy session. Cannabis generally raises skepticism or concern in the mental-emotional health field because it can disrupt comprehension, cognition, meaning making, executive decision making, especially when used to avoid or numb life, which of course is an inappropriate and unhealthy use of it. In other words, all the ways that typical talk therapy works are considered to be disrupted by cannabis. However, if the model of therapy one is using deeply values mental-emotional and bodily states, and if one appreciates access to the unconscious layer of habitual programming and an autonomic nervous system that is activated to process tension, stress, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and various complications of trauma, cannabis is a very beneficial medicine to help and support that. Cannabis can be used strategically in the actual entheogenic psychotherapy session to greatly enhance therapeutic progress and processing.
Entheogens is what one calls results-dependent experiences. So the environment in which one takes them, one's internal state, the modality being used, and the skill determine their response. Take MDMA or what is more commonly known as ecstasy or molly, there are thousands of people who take the substance recreationally every weekend at a rave or party. In that situation, MDMA has little or no therapeutic benefit or may even cause harm. Now take the exact same substance and place it in an entheogenic psychotherapy environment specifically designed for it, one sees that MDMA becomes a beneficial medicine for processing different types of trauma. Exactly the same thing happens with cannabis. If one combines cannabis with a modality of psychotherapy, such as the entheogenic psychotherapy that was specifically designed to work within the non-ordinary state of consciousness that cannabis creates, it becomes a truly useful therapeutic experience in a healthy and appropriate context.
Perhaps more than any other entheogen one has come across, cannabis can bring about a real change and exhibit very different properties when used during entheogenic psychotherapy. It goes from being a calming or uplifting recreational tool to being a transformative experience of therapeutic support and deep unearthing.
Even patients who know cannabis well and use it daily are amazed at how different entheogenic therapy feels and what it can achieve. The patient will enter a non-ordinary state of consciousness. The default mode network (ie, the organizer between brain regions) is temporarily disrupted, meaning there is much less censorship and control by the brain and the conscious rational mind. Basically, the conscious mind-brain, identity, and defense mechanisms get out of their own way and allow more sensations, more repressed or suppressed thoughts, feelings, and emotions, and more memory to emerge from the unconscious mind to be seen, felt, recognized, processed and transformed. This is a very useful response from a therapeutic point of view.
Although one has limited data from any pilot studies and is currently collecting outcome data on the effectiveness of cannabis entheogenic psychotherapy, it can be said anecdotally that a cannabis therapy session looks virtually identical to an MDMA entheogenic psychotherapy session. It is impossible to differentiate one from the other based on the appearance of the sessions and the type of material that comes up for the patients. The entheogenic response and the innate healing intelligence that this catalyzes is the key healing factor, let alone the specifics of any particular entheogenic medicine.
According to a recent study, the consensus among participants who completed twelve 2-hour sessions of cannabis entheogenic psychotherapy was that approximately 75% of their PTSD had resolved. It is important to note that this was a treatment-resistant population of war veterans with enormous amounts of adult war trauma coupled with high levels of childhood developmental trauma.
The path that cannabis takes through a person's being is by no means very rational, linear, perceptually focused, or even verbal. This is another reason why this incredible medicinal and entheogenic plant is not often welcomed in traditional talk therapy.
However, it is particularly useful for giving more information, understanding or telling a story after the entheogenic psychotherapy session. Cannabis is very helpful in giving much greater access to areas of the mind and brain that one is not normally in contact with in ordinary, everyday, waking state of consciousness.
It shares this ability to dive into one's subconscious/unconscious mind with other entheogenic medicines. Getting under the defenses of one's ego structure allows one to see what has really been running the show and driving one's symptoms and signs.
Most importantly, cannabis entheogenic psychotherapy is a type of entheogenic psychotherapy that helps the body (the autonomic nervous system) to process the strong mental-emotional states and beneficial insights that arise from entheogenic psychotherapeutic experiences.
THE ENTOURAGE EFFECT AND MEDICAL CANNABIS
What is the entourage effect?
The entourage effect refers to the full spectrum of the cannabis plant working better together; the interaction between all the compounds in medicinal cannabis, such as phytocannabinoids and terpenes, come together to enhance its effects. The term generally refers to natural remedies that contain different compounds that work together to produce a particular impact on one's well-being, from relieving distress, anxiety, stress, tension, depression to reducing inflammation.
The entourage effect focuses on what happens when other compounds bind to cannabidiol (CBD), for example, as opposed to when CBD is in its isolated form. By using a range of different phytochemicals, one can experience a variety of positive effects.
Some examples of how these compounds work together include:
Terpenes are found throughout the natural world with over 20,000 known to date. Interestingly, terpenes are produced in greater quantity by the Cannabis plant, with more than 140 known to date. Terpenes are found in the form of aromatic compounds, the compounds responsible for the distinctive aromas of the medicinal plant.
THC and CBD: THC or delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol is the only cannabinoid compound known to date that is psychoactive. As for CBD or cannabidiol, it provides benefits to the body and mind brain, making it function better, without giving it a high effect, it can also regulate the psychoactive effects of THC. Of course, CBD on its own is still considered beneficial and is preferred by many due to its absence of THC.
Let's dive into the different types of CBD. One type of CBD, CBD isolate, is not included below because it does not provide an entourage effect due to the fact that all ingredients other than CBD were removed to make this product.
- Full Spectrum CBD – Provides most of the compounds of the medicinal cannabis plant. These products are defined as those that maintain the full cannabinoid profile of the plant, including some THC. One can avoid the psychoactive effects of THC by looking for a hemp-derived CBD product that contains trace amounts of THC below 0.3%. Typically, a full-spectrum CBD oil will also contain terpenes, flavonoids, fatty acids, and other minor cannabinoids.
- Whole Plant CBD – While many believe that Whole Plant CBD and Full Spectrum CBD are the same thing, the truth is that there are some key differences. To start with, whole plant CBD contains the entire plant, including waxes, fats, and other materials not found in full-spectrum oil. Essentially, whole plant CBD is a less refined version of full spectrum CBD.
- Broad Spectrum CBD – They generally have a variety of cannabinoids, and what many find most appealing about this option is that it has even lower amounts of THC. Most broad-spectrum products will have trace amounts of THC, but will appear as non-detectable (ND). These products are very similar to full spectrum products apart from this special care to the amount of THC.
The entourage effect is a fascinating theory that illustrates the variety of compounds and phytochemicals present in the medicinal cannabis plant, and all the different ways these can work together to enhance well-being and provide different benefits, as required.
THE ENTOURAGE EFFECT FOR THE TREATMENT OF MOOD DISORDERS AND ANXIETY DISORDERS
Mood disorders are the most prevalent mental-emotional difficulties encountered in psychological psychiatric practice. Many patients with mood disorders have treatment-resistant forms of depression, comorbid anxiety, other psychological psychiatric disorders, and bipolar disorders. Standardized essential oils, such as lavender (Lavandula officinalis, Family Lamiaceae), have been shown to exert clinical efficacy in the treatment of anxiety disorders. Since endocannabinoids are suggested to play an important role in major depression, generalized anxiety and bipolar disorders, different strains of Cannabis sativa or Cannabis indica or different hybrids of both were suggested for treatment. The endocannabinoid system is widely distributed throughout the body, including the brain, and modulates many functions. It is implicated in mood and related disorders, and its activity can be modified by exogenous cannabinoids. The CB1 and CB2 receptors primarily serve as binding sites for endocannabinoids and phytocannabinoids, produced by the inflorescences of the cannabis plant. However, cannabis is not a single compound product, rather it is known for its complicated molecular profile, producing a large number of phytocannabinoids along with a wide range of terpenes. Thus, the entourage effect is the suggested positive contribution derived from the addition of terpenes to cannabinoids.
Cannabinoids in the Treatment of Mood Disorders
Both THC and CBD have therapeutic potential. CBD exhibits relatively high potency in relieving and improving mood disorders: depression, anxiety, anguish, stress, tension, and bipolar disorder. THC, a direct agonist of the CB1 and CB2 receptors, has similar effects to antidepressant psychoactive drugs (and without secondary or adverse effects in non-risk group of patients), as well as potential efficacy in reducing depression when co-administered with CBD. CBD is a non-psychoactive component with positive effects on various psychological psychiatric disorders, neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis and epilepsy, and has neuroprotective characteristics. CBD has repeatedly exerted similar effects to antidepressants and anxiolytic drugs.
Cannabinoids in the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
There is great improvement in anxiety disorders using cannabinoids. CBD and THC reduce anxiety, the most common psychiatric disorder, in humans, reducing symptoms and regularizing anxiety levels.
In relation to the implication of terpenes and anxiety disorders, standardized essential oils (such as that of a common lavender, Lavandula angustifolia, syn. L. officinalis, Family Lamiaceae) exert clinical efficacy in the treatment of anxiety disorders. This supports the assessment that these natural products are an important potential source of new anxiolytic drugs.
CBD FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA
Schizophrenia is a mental-emotional disorder that affects a person's ability to think, feel, and behave with relative clarity. It can cause psychotic episodes, and treatment is commonly lifelong and involves antipsychotic medications with adverse side effects.
Cannabidiol (CBD) can treat schizophrenia with the same or sometimes better efficacy than antipsychotic drugs, and with far fewer side effects and adverse effects, in appropriate, non-risk group of patients.
CBD appears to provide antipsychotic relief by raising levels of anandamide, an endogenous cannabinoid compound that acts on the same brain receptors as THC. Thus, people with schizophrenia have levels of anandamide that are on average two times higher than people without the disorder, that is, they have too high levels of their own endocannabinoids. But in reality, it appears that the brain increases anandamide levels to buffer stress, tension, anxiety, distress, and relieve symptoms of psychosis. The higher the levels of anandamide in people with schizophrenia, the less severe their symptoms.
Importantly, in terms of medicinal cannabis and safety, one of the biggest health concerns and stigmas over time about cannabis use has been the hypothesis that it can cause psychosis in vulnerable people. Tests can never guarantee 100 % accuracy. It should be noted that it has even been shown through research and clinical practice that people diagnosed with schizophrenia who use medicinal cannabis (CBD) with no THC or very little THC function better cognitively than people with schizophrenia who do not use it. CBD
Effects of CBD in Schizophrenia
Cannabidiol (CBD) significantly reduces psychopathological disorders thanks to its antipsychotic effects, and unlike psychoactive drugs, it has fewer adverse and secondary effects. Because of this, CBD treatments in patients with schizophrenia are on the rise.
Pure Cannabidiol, without or with very few traces of THC, has been shown to have pharmacotherapeutic efficacy in the treatment of schizophrenia. CBD is a mesolimbic dopaminergic attenuator, which is showing successful results in suitable patients.
An essential protagonist in the development of schizophrenia is dopamine, a neurotransmitter present in various areas of the brain and whose antagonist is cannabinoids. Dopamine-producing cells are located in the pars reticulata of the substantia nigra of the midbrain. Cannabinoid receptors are grouped in this area and, therefore, cannabidiol (CBD) is attributed medicinal effects for mental illnesses such as schizophrenia.
Cannabinoids also promote neurogenesis in the hippocampus after continuous administration. This increase in neurogenesis has an association with anxiolytic-antidepressant effects.
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