My Experience with Rick Simpson Oil

[MarijuanaGames]

My mother is rapidly dying of triple negative breast cancer. She has been a lifelong pot smoker and when she was diagnosed she panicked and intensely researched nearly every purported cure and treatment out there. (She is an excellent researcher) She eventually settled on getting treated at Dana-Farber at a ridiculous expense. 8 months of chemo followed by months of radiation and her likelihood of survival is still pretty dim.

As she started chemo she learned about Rick Simpson oil and began to investigate, but it was far too late. You see, she is a very private person and even though she lives in Vermont and could easily get a medical marijuana card and grow her own bud, she won't do it because she doesn't want to be put on some "government list somewhere." This type of thinking assumes she's going to live long enough for that to be a problem.

So I considered getting my caregiver license and growing it for her, but I was dismayed when I read this thread and learned how much it would take to produce a small amount of the oil. She certainly can't afford to buy a QP of good bud and now of course I have moved to Barcelona where I can't grow for her anyway. (She worked with disabled people most of her life and badly damaged her wrists and cannot physically do the work needed to grow correctly.)

So, I know this is might be a ridiculous question, but is it reasonably possible to make oil with commercial brick weed? I mean, I can get a pound in Juarez for less than $400. ***In theory***, if I were to process this type of weed for its oil, would it be worth it? Based on the OPs description of the potency I am beginning to think it might work. After all, I used to smoked that shit and it got me high even when I typically only smoke dank. Therefore, it has a fair enough THC content. I'd say probably 7%-9%.

So my ultimate question is this: at what THC% is producing *medically effective* oil no longer reasonable?

[GrowGoddess]

My mother is rapidly dying of triple negative breast cancer. She has been a lifelong pot smoker and when she was diagnosed she panicked and intensely researched nearly every purported cure and treatment out there. (She is an excellent researcher) She eventually settled on getting treated at Dana-Farber at a ridiculous expense. 8 months of chemo followed by months of radiation and her likelihood of survival is still pretty dim.

As she started chemo she learned about Rick Simpson oil and began to investigate, but it was far too late. You see, she is a very private person and even though she lives in Vermont and could easily get a medical marijuana card and grow her own bud, she won't do it because she doesn't want to be put on some "government list somewhere." This type of thinking assumes she's going to live long enough for that to be a problem.

So I considered getting my caregiver license and growing it for her, but I was dismayed when I read this thread and learned how much it would take to produce a small amount of the oil. She certainly can't afford to buy a QP of good bud and now of course I have moved to Barcelona where I can't grow for her anyway. (She worked with disabled people most of her life and badly damaged her wrists and cannot physically do the work needed to grow correctly.)

So, I know this is might be a ridiculous question, but is it reasonably possible to make oil with commercial brick weed? I mean, I can get a pound in Juarez for less than $400. ***In theory***, if I were to process this type of weed for its oil, would it be worth it? Based on the OPs description of the potency I am beginning to think it might work. After all, I used to smoked that shit and it got me high even when I typically only smoke dank. Therefore, it has a fair enough THC content. I'd say probably 7%-9%.

So my ultimate question is this: at what THC% is producing *medically effective* oil no longer reasonable?

I cannot say for sure if the commercial brick would be adequate. What I do know is that the better the potency of the bud, the better. If that is your only option, give it a try. Try to get the best commercials you can find. I can say this. Most of the oil out there is made of small popcorn buds and leaf material. So using quality brick weed may do the trick. I wouldn't recommend it, but if that is your only option, I would choose that over chemo if it were me. It may require to consume more of the oil. Some people have a great reaction to the oil and they become cancer free easily, with a lower quality oil. Others, it is very difficult. 6 months minimum of taking top grade oil one gram per day. I am sure in some cases it may require a year. I would give the brick weed a try if that is your only option.

[GrowGoddess]

Came across this article the other day. At the bottom of the article there are more links. As far as I am concerned, the government and pharmaceutical companies are poison pushers, liars, and cheaters. They take information, cherry pick, and turn it into only what they want us to see. This is very common these days and seems like it is going on with everything.

Cancer Industry Exposed as Fraud “The Science is False” | Collective-Evolution

[kwilal]

Been a few months since I posted here. Nothing bugs me like folks who post a story about someone starting the Simpson Oil and then never giving an update as to progress or failure. Anyway, thanks WKRMN on your fathers update, saying a prayer for him. Let's see if I can keep this short & sweet, a Reader's Digest condensed version if you will.
August 2012 I get the news I've got pancreatic cancer.
September 2012 Got my guts removed with a Whipple Procedure which supposedly increased my 3-year survival rate from 6% to 20%.
December 2012-February 2013 Chemo & radiation. They left the chemo port in my chest, said they'd need it when they came back with more chemo this summer.
March 2013 rolls around and a guy I know ask me if I'm familiar with Simpson Oil. Check it out on the computer when I get home and figure I've got nothing to lose. This guy has a license in Michigan to grow pot legally and turns me on to a 10ml syringe full of this Simpson Oil. Looks, smells and taste like the bottom of an ashtray. Thick & sticky. Start taking it the beginning of May, eat about a ML (or gram) a day. The CT scan I had in April showed a few things still going on down there. I take the Simpson Oil every day while trying to educate myself on it.
July 2013 rolls around and we do another scan, somebody messed something up (or did they?) because the Doc (oncologist) was having a hard time trying to understand what they had written in the report. Doc gets pissed and decides we'll just do another scan in 2 months.
August 2013 I bought a rice cooker and coffee cup warmer (thanks for the recommendations, Growgoddess) and made my own using 99% ISO from Amazon, turned out fine.
Early October 2013 brings around another scan. Went to see the Doc last week for results (5 1/2 month mark for the Oil) and he's happy as hell. If you knew the Doc you'd know he ain't a happy kind of guy. He tells me it appears things are shrinking and for the first time in 15 months mentions the word remission. Says all my numbers are great. I haven't told him yet about the medical marijuana I've been doing, haven't decided if I ever will.
Is pot curing me? I don't know. It's still too early to tell and no one could have an intelligent answer based on one scan. Maybe it's the pot, maybe it's the holy water my sister buys me from Lourdes, maybe it's all the vitamins & supplements I've been taking, maybe it's the prayers. Hell, maybe it's all of them combined. All I know is that I'm getting better while fighting a disease that took my grandmother and now wants me. For the first time since this ordeal started I feel like there may be hope. A chance hit on a Googled website brought me to Cannibis.com and here, Growgoddess's post. The things I have learned may save my life, I surely hope so, and for that I thank all of you who have posted here.
So, that's where we stand today. Now that I've talked your ear off, it's time for another question. How much longer should I continue this regimen until I cut back to a maintenance dose? The main reason I'm asking is I've been off work since August 2012 and found out after 18 months it's in the contract that we lose our seniority. Don't want to lose that as I've been there 31 years. Not sure if it would lead to being dismissed (and losing my insurance) as no one has ever been out that long. Anyway, I figured I'd just keep doing the Oil until the end of December (another 2 months) then dry out for a month so I could take a return to work physical and hopefully pass a piss test. This would get me back before my end-of-February deadline. Ideally I'd like to stay on it full time until the next scan but I guess 2 months is better than nothing. Any input from Growgoddess and the rest of you would be appreciated. Thanks again for all you've done.
Ken

[GrowGoddess]

Ken, thank you so much for sharing your story with us!
I understand your predicament. This is just my opinion, but, I might see if the doc would do another scan before you decide to "dry out" and see how things are going. I had a patient that stopped taking just his maintenance doses and his cancer returned. He then had to start the full gram per day doses for a few months before the tumors shrunk away again. He has vowed to never stop taking maintenance doses and all has been well since. He is a lightweight and it was hard for him to work and take the oil, even maintenance doses.
I am a woman of faith and I believe that God has played a part in your recovery. I would recommend to you to pray about it and do what your heart tells you to do. That really stinks that you have to take a return to work physical and have to take a drug test as well.
My heart goes out to you. Peace and God bless.
We will pray for you.

[LBBill]

I do not want to hijack a thread but I thought this was the appropriate place to post this. My brother has been taking RSO for 3 weeks. We made Canna Caps from the RSO with coconut oil. He has liver cancer which has metastisized to tumors on his spine which is causing severe pain and difficulty walking. The weird thing is that for the last 6 months, there has been absolutely no cancer on his liver. Been through the radiation/Chemo/surgery multiple times and at this point, the doctors are unsure where to go from here. He is still at the smallest dose and is not building up any tolerance. Totally stoned all day every day. He is starting to get discouraged as he wants to start increasing dosages. He tried increasing last week but the effects were just too strong. Has anyone gone through a similar experience as far as building up tolerance? Thanks

[GrowGoddess]

I do not want to hijack a thread but I thought this was the appropriate place to post this. My brother has been taking RSO for 3 weeks. We made Canna Caps from the RSO with coconut oil. He has liver cancer which has metastisized to tumors on his spine which is causing severe pain and difficulty walking. The weird thing is that for the last 6 months, there has been absolutely no cancer on his liver. Been through the radiation/Chemo/surgery multiple times and at this point, the doctors are unsure where to go from here. He is still at the smallest dose and is not building up any tolerance. Totally stoned all day every day. He is starting to get discouraged as he wants to start increasing dosages. He tried increasing last week but the effects were just too strong. Has anyone gone through a similar experience as far as building up tolerance? Thanks

Yes, it is normal. It can take up to six weeks, sometimes more.

[GrowGoddess]

I see articles and video testimonies come across my facebook quite often regarding success with cannabis oil. Here are a couple of them.

I copied the text from a news link story I read. I was unsure about posting the link.

10-year-old is seizure-free after one year of cannabis oil
That's some pot
by Joshua Hutton, Colorado Springs Independent
Amid the sounds of children laughing as they bounce and roll down a giant, red inflatable slide, a crowd of more than 150 gathers, making a half-circle around Heather Jackson.

"I want to thank you all so much for coming," Jackson says. "There are some of you I don't even know â?? which is awesome. Again, thank you for coming out and helping us celebrate Zaki's first seizure-free year."

The crowd applauds. Zaki, Jackson's 10-year-old son, emerges from the crowd, smiling. His brow gleams from a light sweat, joyfully earned on the inflatable playground at Jump-N-Jacks, an indoor play facility on North Academy Boulevard. His mother puts one arm on his shoulder and fans him with a Realm of Caring laminated fact sheet.

He is normal. He is fine.

One year earlier, Mrs. Jackson sat with a friend who worked in hospice care, asking for advice concerning the next treatment for Zaki's Doose syndrome, a form of epilepsy found early in childhood. There is no known cause, and the condition is often unresponsive to medication.

Zaki's seizures began when he was 4 months old. At what his mother calls his "deepest valley," he experienced thousands per day. A 2008 electroencephalography reading revealed more than 200 per hour. To combat this, the child underwent 17 different pharmaceutical treatments â?? all of which failed.

As recently as May 2012, Zaki would have between 60 and 200 seizures while he slept. "They were brief, but very violent," Jackson says. "It was like someone was putting paddles to his chest. Then he began to have seizures where he would stop breathing.

"So my friend at hospice, she said to me, 'I can't tell you to try this, but there is this group of brothers who have helped treat a similar case with cannabis oil. I can't tell you to try it, but here's some phone numbers.'"

The brothers â?? Josh, Jordan, Jesse, Joel, Jon and Jared Stanley, cannabis growers and founders of Realm of Caring â?? created a strain of cannabis containing minimal THC, the psychoactive ingredient, and very high levels of cannabidiol (CBD), the ingredient considered to provide the most medicinal benefits.

At Zaki's party, Josh Stanley explains: "We were reading these studies in Israel from the '70s, '80s, and '90s â?? studies where they saw positive results on lab mice using high-CBD strains. So we decided to give it a try, originally focusing on aiding cancer patients. It was by luck that we discovered it could be so beneficial to those suffering from seizures."

The "luck" came when Paige Figi contacted the Stanley brothers. She had read about high-CBD oils used to treat epilepsy in California. Her 6-year-old daughter, Charlotte, suffers from Dravet syndrome, and she was willing to try anything. The cannabis oil so helped Charlotte, they renamed the strain in her honor: Charlotte's Web, of which Zaki takes 300 mg every day.

Realm of Caring's 501(c)3 status is pending, but the Colorado Springs foundation hopes to become a nonprofit that can make alternate treatment affordable for families in need. Meanwhile, back at the party, Jackson announces that Zaki's last clinical seizure took place Oct. 3, 2012. Her husband, Frank Jackson, presents the Stanley brothers with a wooden sign, which reads "Zaki's Garden" at the top and "Thank you for my first seizure-free year" at the bottom.

Zaki moves past his mother's arm, shuffles through the crowd, and speeds toward an inflatable ship as a few friends follow close behind.

Here is a YouTube Video about RSO helping a young man with leukemia.
CANNABIS HEALS LEUKEMIA - YouTube

[painretreat]

I do not want to hijack a thread but I thought this was the appropriate place to post this. My brother has been taking RSO for 3 weeks. We made Canna Caps from the RSO with coconut oil. He has liver cancer which has metastisized to tumors on his spine which is causing severe pain and difficulty walking. The weird thing is that for the last 6 months, there has been absolutely no cancer on his liver. Been through the radiation/Chemo/surgery multiple times and at this point, the doctors are unsure where to go from here. He is still at the smallest dose and is not building up any tolerance. Totally stoned all day every day. He is starting to get discouraged as he wants to start increasing dosages. He tried increasing last week but the effects were just too strong. Has anyone gone through a similar experience as far as building up tolerance? Thanks

Perhaps this may help a little. I have a little personal practice with rso and disease, mine! IF it were me and not your brother, I'd take a very large dose in the late evening and sleep well all night. If the effects were too much, I'd simply take prescription meds to alter the side-effects of the rso! Fighting a disease, takes all the resources available to one!

TOU here do not allow discussing other meds; you might want to 'google' phrase's or words regarding medications and high's with cannabis or, similar terms. Most likely, you'll find a site that supports the use other prescription drugs that help for a total medical arsenal and care of your brother.

Good luck on your journey and please do post results here? :rasta: pr

[Weezard]

I think the increase in tolerance requires a healthy liver.
Your brother's is the third case I have read that is unable to ramp up the dosage.
All had a compromised liver function.
The good news is, the active ingredients stay in the body at a higher level, for a longer time.
That's why he feels so stoned. Kind of a "cheap drunk" thing.
It should be as effective as a larger dosage is in a person with normal liver function.

At least that's my take on it.
I am NOT a doctor.

Aloha,
Weezard