Candidiasis is always there, just like the 'bad' bacteria in your GI system, you only hear about these when the 'bad' get out of control and multiply to point where they become medical liabilities. Candidiasis was likely responsible for my father's death...led to more deadly complications, like septic shock, most likely precipitated multiple bouts of pneumonia (look @Bush senior, even without out of control fungus, he is getting pneumonia frequently as is common for that age/health group<<<which if we are lucky, will be us in a shorter-than-we-want-time.
PPl here will not like it, but I think GMO & synthetic cannabinoids from the future labs of scientists (maybe big bad Pharma) will have those medical qualities locked in, no worries about 'drift' then. Won't have to use enails, pipes,vapes, joints, edibles...all the common forms in use now. ...but that's a decade or more from now; maybe I'll be dead before that happens. Must be advanced DNA profiling, what is there now is deficient to be of any use. I want to use a profile to tell me that Trainwreck has similar medical qualities as say Headband, so that I can use them interchangeably when I cannot find one of another, which is quite common. Dispensaries/delivery collective models, simply are designed for the recreational (under guise of medical) users such that 'strains' come and go on a weekly basis; good luck getting anything remotely similiar when you try in another month...all gone, moved on to the 'newest' strain that vendors are promoting, all about $$$, cannabusiness.
Interesting in my absent since last post here, some changes in the So. Cal. scene(s) I've noticed.
Prices keep going up for concentrates as 1 producer after another is chasing a limited market. Now 'designer' flower packaging is hitting it's stride. Vacuum sealed fancy looking glass jars for 1/8th's at very high prices, think I saw one N flushed. Excessive marketing, you could just as easily, and for much better oxidation reduction; open a mason jar, put fancy MMJ into that, use a $10-20 wine preservation can containing inert gases, to prevent oxidation, few squirts ea time to the jar, remove product, before closing up, oxidation free! >but better than those store bought sealed containers which only keep it fresh until you *open* the jar.
There are more an more extraction artists/producers coming out on a monthly basis, it seems; and older extractors are going out of business. Competition is coming on the low & high-end of concentrates- I see more an more less expensive ice wax, for instance. 1/2g for $25-40 range, instead of the more typical $50+...all the way up to Matt_Rizz 9.5 or 10/10 that is hitting $100/0.5g
As far as lab testing, that's the price you pay. Pro & higher-end
amateur winemakers always use labs (even as you could in theory get by without, on small scale, not larger productions). Look, if these 1/8th's are selling for $50+ (I've seen $70/3.5g), What exactly will it cost if you spread the cost over grams/1/8ths, or what would it add to the cost...say a gram costs $20 x 28 = 560. A grower producing kilo, what does it cost the grower to have a harvest of several kilo tested? So what, you add $5/g or $10/g to cover the cost of labs, it is not that much to have peace of mind as to safety of meds. But then again, with all the labs coming up with 'false positives', what labs are we to believe? And SC labs recommends testing 2X for every batch, to catch these potential 'irregularities' in testing results. Which lab tests shall we rely on?
Seems it is permanently closed a few wks ago, on WM's but Holistic gardens collective in Hemet had a concentrate which was SC Lab tested, and in the WM img next to the concentrate was the full QR code for lab test, I used my smartphone QR reader and it brought up the SC Lab test results! Every dispensary & delivery service should list the QR code in the images, so it is easy for use to look up the results!
https://webcache.googleusercontent....turally-higher-3-14+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Not nearly as interesting, Fresh from the Earth in Santa Ana, now lists a few varieties per category with the SC Labs terp profile.(have to click on the link once it loads, then click to get full terp results displayed in the pop-up window).
https://weedmaps.com/dispensaries/from-the-earth#/menu/skywalker-og--26
I have some more comments I might drop in another post, getting too busy to post here on FC in the next mo, so I"m out of here shortly for another 1/2yr or so.
Many more organic cannabis products showing up @some dispensaries. While not a fan of the store, BudsNRoses has organic products, seen more lately listed @other dispensaries...just did not note them all.
Popular Nor. Ca. dispensary is now in the OC(Santa Ana) as Cookies OC
I spent almost 1/2hr talking to one of the concentrate guys @Fresh from the Earth, and while the flower prices are high, concentrates they have. Was told Cuban Growers(hanging out @Hitman glass during HTCC) prefer their ice was over their Strawberry Kush dry sieve? Huh, would have thought the other way around since CG made their name with dry sift hash. Keep in mind, that's 3rd hand info, could be wrong. Also noted that he had more difficulty getting a quartz nail to keep temps in line to get good flavorful hits when doing dry sift, than ice wax was less temperature temperamental.
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Gabapentin withdrawal
^unfortunate that Aimless Ryan got the gabapentin thread closed. Had *plenty* of comments regarding that subject...but since it involves years of suffering by my mom before she died, it's still to close time wise for me to want to test that ultra sensitive area of my psyche now...just not good---how I wish I had thought of using MMJ instead of gabapentin, I just did not do enough research into the benefits of MMJ, was all too new for e at the time, and it was extremely urgent by the time I needed to act, as other pain meds & Dr's ideas had completely failed to help. I may just need to leave FC permanently b/c of the comments I'm reading on the Med forum are just too painful for me to read, memories are just too much/too intense now. I could write a book on the subject of failed medical delivery systems...hundreds of pages, but in the end, would not change anything...so y bother going through it all, if it could not help effect changes?
Forget about MMJ, you have *many* other issues to face when we both get into older age(upper senior yrs) if we are lucky enough to make it that long; that is when probably the vast majority of the people living on this planet, will find out what they do not know(oh but they *think* they do), have not prepared for, when it is their time to wind down, and die<<<those few months, years, or longer; when the reality of how humans deal with death becomes painfully ***NOW*** when it happens to all of us...excepting those lucky enough to die quickly, in our sleep. You would be far more "scared shittless" if you knew what I know about health care delivery in the USA. I could just go on, and on about it ad nauseum. Hospitals & Hospital Admin(&Dr's on those commitee's; the friggin ethic's committees...ask me how I know) after dealing with them; you'll think Better Call Saul is an honest decent man, in comparison with the run-around you will get.
I went to see this CBD expert; http://www.greenbridgemed.com/
after fentanyl transdermal system 12 mcg/h recommended by a spine specialist (referred by our family oncologist/hemotologist after the pain specialist @Santa Monica ortho group did jack shit for us---really tantamount to medical malpractice, imo; an oncologist who treated former LA councilman Bill Rosendal's cancer<vocal cannabis advocate that MMJ did *not* save him when he thought it would, no matter how much we all wish cannabis is the miracle cure, doesn't know much about MMJ, but she wrote my father a rec for it, bc she said she knows that some of her cancer patients get good pain relief from it)
Conc guy @TheWEED in studio city told me that Cali-Sift is just a 2 man operation, and they use an old Medisun press @170ºF for their rosin's(seems most extraction companies are now making an attempt to broaden their concentrate lines to include every type/form, ice waxes are much more common now, Jungle Boys Icewax 1st pull, 70u, $120/g of their own label to add to the portfolio of various styles of rosins, after doing a quick ice wax collab with CubanTech).
they are thriving in the South Bay (typically #1 in their area on Weedmaps). 
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they're rec only, but have great buds, and the price is a fucking steal! 5 for $35 all day every day, and $200 oz.. it's the only place I've been going to for a while now.. it's kind of out of my way (not as much as a trip to LA though! been years since I've done that), but it's the only place I go to these days, since the day it opened... I only go there for flowers, they have great flowers IMO, the low price can seem deceiving.
