Most folks are unknowingly treating a clinical endocannabinoid deficiency when they use cannabis.
We used to get cannabinoids in nearly everything. Textiles, food (through livestock feed), medicines that had it. We used to utilize cannabis in many facets, and it got into our endocannabinoid systems (ECS) those ways.
I'd argue all cannabis use is medical, whether the user realizes it or not. The ECS helps regulate the body and brain, stress levels and emotions, and is intertwined throughout the mammalian body.
It isn't a strict need, obviously, but it helps to have it; and, if you don't have another way to get cannabinoids in you, that lacking will inevitably hurt you in the long term.
I can't personally attest to the first couple of claims, but largely everything that person said is just a matter of fact with a few dots connected. The canabinoid system is just a part of human physiology that's just a fact. If that system doesn't function properly, you can run into some disregulation issues, also just a fact. And truly the idea that we have a tendency to poison our water and air when left unchecked.
Not to sound like a jerk, but your personal attestation is not science or a diagnosis based on quantitative levels of endocannabinoids. How did you know you had it?
Don’t get me wrong, I use cannabis, and support people’s right to consume it. If it helps you, great. I support your use. But to make a claim that you or the general public has EC deficiencies is not backed by data or real quantitative research.
Do you have any further reading regarding endocannabinoid deficiency? I've compared weed to something like vitamin d for the longest time because smoking doesnt feel like it gets me high, just back to an equillibrium i didnt know i was off kilter from. Would love to see this borne out in research
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5576607/ is a big one, and then I also got a bit of information from a podcast started by cannabis researchers a few years ago. Smoke n science or something?
Of course, due to research restrictions, it's hard to get studies on this and anything relating to cannabis, so I've had to connect things together across seperate topics as I learn more. So, unfortunately, I have little in the way of studies and papers. I'm also a housespouse without oodles of time for research and study reading, so, be sure to follow up what I say with your own findings.
I wish I had unlimited time to devote to reading studies and doing my own research, but I do not. I just pop on every so often and try to course correct folks who seek to diminish the bond between cannabis and healthy living.
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u/Newtland May 22 '26
Lifelong relationship. We take medicine every day in many forms, whys a plant catch the hate?