GrowWeedEasy.com teaches you how easy it is to grow weed. Come learn how! Growing weed can be easy, though most “how to grow marijuana” tutorials make things seem like you need a degree in horticulture. The whole process is actually straightforward and surprisingly simple when you know what you need to do!

Grow Weed Easy.com will show you how easy it is to grow your own marijuana at home, with as little time and effort as possible. If you want to start growing cannabis indoors for the first time, or if you’re already a pro grower and want to improve your current cannabis growing skill, this website is for you!

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You may be asking yourself these common growing questions:

“How do I grow marijuana indoors?”

Read this guide on how to grow marijuana indoors.

Or check out this article to learn what materials you need to get started growing your own marijuana!

Luckily, it’s really easy to get a cannabis seed to sprout!

“How much money will it cost to get started?”

If you’re considering growing weed, it costs as little as $300 to get started growing or a bit more for a semi-automatic, high-yielding bubbleponics grow system.

See examples of yields to expect, electricity use & startup costs for different setups

Read this article to see even more growing styles with different price ranges.

“Where can I get marijuana seeds?”

Check out our How to Buy Marijuana Seeds Online Guide (with delivery to every state of the USA) to safely get your hands on good genetics. Starting with good seeds lets you choose the looks, smell, and effects of your buds!

Learn about the best marijuana beginner strains and how to research and find the right strain.

Cannabis buds are generally green, but can also be pink or purple with certain strains.

“How much will electricity cost each month?”

If you’re just growing a few marijuana plants for personal use, it will cost you $20-$100+/month for electricity, depending on what grow lights (electricity) and nutrients you use. On average, I’d say a hobby-size grower might pay about $50/month to grow, but it depends greatly on your setup and local electricity costs!

How much will electricity cost each month?

“How can I increase my marijuana yields?”

We have quite a few techniques to choose from or combine! See some of our most popular pages:

• Super Cropping – A simple technique to bigger yields
• Simplest Guide to Growing Short & Bushy Marijuana Plants
• LST (Low Stress Training) – Training your plants can easily double your harvest!
• Or check out our page on the controversial defoliation technique

Even More Ways to Increase Cannabis Yields

1. Increase Light Intensity (plus choose right light for desired yields & possibly add CO2)
2. Manipulate How Plants Grow (a free way to yield more bud indoors)
3. Provide Right Nutrients (low Nitrogen in the flowering stage, and remember sometimes less is more!)
4. Control Growing Environment (let the growing environment work for you)
5. Harvest Plants Properly (most importantly, don’t harvest early!)
6. Lastly, it’s important to remember that the strain has a major effect on yields!

Two small cannabis plants can yield several ounces of premium weed!

“How can I grow weed privately?”

Read guide on growing weed indoors without anyone knowing.

But remember the most important factors to stealth growing: “No tell, no smell, no sell.”

Never tell anyone, not even your best friend, that you’re growing. Be on top of preventing smells, and never ever sell cannabis. Breaking one of those 3 principles is how 99% of growers get found out!

“What if my plants get sick?”

The most common issue a grower runs into is a pH imbalance. Barring that, your marijuana plants likely either have a nutrient deficiency, heat or light stress, or are being attacked by some sort of marijuana mold, pest or bug.

Whether you call it weed, cannabis, sinsemilla, skunk, pot, marijuana, or something else, the plant known as Cannabis Sativa is a hardy weed in the wild and can actually be easy to grow indoors at home when you know what to do.

Growing Medical Marijuana

“Medical marijuana” has become a household name. The body of evidence for medical marijuana in the treatment of cancer and other illnesses is growing every day.

And for those who need medical marijuana, growing weed indoors is the perfect way to ensure a safe, regular supply of buds, for cheap. In fact, when you grow weed indoors for personal use, you often end up with way too much.

If you catch the growing bug like I did, and if you start enjoying the process of tending your cannabis garden just for the sake of gardening, you’re going to have to find a way to press, cook, freeze, and concentrate all your extra buds. 🙂

As you probably know, both medical marijuana and recreational cannabis have been decriminalized or legalized in many places around the world and weed is becoming legal in more places every day!

Yet there still aren’t many simple indoor “how to grow weed” guides for beginners (even for those who legally grow, such as medical marijuana users and those who live in places where marijuana is legalized for personal use).

If so, I know how you feel. It can be hard to weed out all the bad information on the internet and find well-researched, free tips or instructions on how to grow your own cannabis.

That’s why Grow Weed Easy.com aims to be a simple online resource that explains from start to finish what you need to do when growing cannabis so you can learn how to grow cannabis with great yields and potent buds, even if you only have a small grow space like a closet or even a computer case! We’ve grown cannabis out of closets and have gotten ounces of buds and you can too.

Grow Weed Easy.com covers many popular cannabis cultivation topics, including:

• A comparison between different cannabis grow lights including experience-based information about LED grow lights
• A page that teaches you the basics of how to grow weed
• Detailed how-to weed growing tutorials
• How to start growing weed tomorrow  (simplest cannabis growing guide!)
• Grow 4-7 oz with a 250W HPS <– Most Recommended Way to Start Growing!
• Our famous grow guide that teaches you how to grow weed using bubbleponics (hydro).

Start Growing Weed Today!

Grow Weed Easy is run by a panel of experienced cannabis growers, including the founders Nebula Haze and Sirius Fourside, who originally teamed together to bring you GrowWeedEasy.com.

Due to the demand for more marijuana growing information, we’ve also started an inbox magazine all about how to grow weed, with additional tutorials, tips, and tactics sent to you each week. Simply sign up to start getting free expert growing articles delivered to you!

All the information available at GrowWeedEasy.com is completely free and we regularly update the site and make new additions.

Looking for a growing book?

If you are interested in doing a bit of reading or would like to know more about the science behind marijuana hydroponics or horticulture, I strongly recommend viewing our page of Marijuana Grow Book Reviews.

Read reviews of marijuana grow books

We would love to hear about your experiences with growing cannabis. Whether you are a pro grower already or are just starting your first plant, we have learned so much from our readers both beginners and masters!

If you have any suggestions, comments, concerns, or just want to ask some questions about your marijuana grow, please contact us!

Happy Growing!

Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside

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The holidays can be a stressful time of year, and some of that stress can come from trying to pick out the best gifts for friends and family. If you know a cannabis grower or enthusiast, you might want to get them a themed gift for the holidays, but what to get? I’ve given many presents over the years, and just in case it might help somebody else I made a list of some fun and interesting gift ideas for those who love growing cannabis!

Make sure to get a present for yourself, too! (At least that’s what I do to help get through the month of December every year!)

10 Unique Marijuana Grower Gift Ideas

1.) Magical Butter Machine

I love edibles and I know a lot of other cannabis growers do, too! In my opinion the worst thing about edibles is they can be a pain to make!

One of the easiest ways to make edibles to your preference is to use “cannabutter” in your favorite recipes. Cannabutter is butter that has been infused with cannabis and can be used just like regular butter to make almost anything into a cannabis edible that’s as potent as you desire.

You can make cannabutter at home with basic cooking tools, but it does require you stand by and watch. However, even though making cannabutter the old fashioned way is actually pretty darn easy, some enterprising soul found a way to get a machine to do all the work!

The Magical Butter Machine is sort of like a rice cooker for cannabutter. You add cannabis plus butter, and about 2 hours later you pour the infused butter through a strainer and leave it in the fridge overnight to harden. That’s it! Now you can use your “magic” butter to turn anything into a marijuana edible!

The Magical Butter Machine makes cannabis-infused butter which can be used with any regular recipe to make edibles!

2.) Hidden Safe

This classic gift is fun but can also be surprisingly useful! There are times many of us want a discreet place to keep our cannabis (or other valuables). These safes look like something ordinary on the outside, but inside there’s a hidden compartment to stash your stuff.

I like the hidden safes that look like cleaning supplies:

Why get a safe that looks like cleaner and not soda? Some people might want your unopened soda, but literally no one will touch the Ajax under the sink! The least likely thing someone will do is come and clean out your bathroom 🙂 These stash boxes also have real powder inside so they feel normal when you pick them up and shake them and they come with smell-proof bags to complete the effect.

3.) Smoke Buddy

When it comes to being polite and discreet, it’s important not to expose other people to the scent of cannabis! However, when you’re breathing out cannabis smoke, its unique smell can fill up the whole area and sometimes spill out into areas you don’t want. In fact, those who smoke regularly are far more attuned to the smell and can sense a small amount of weed smoke even in an open ventilated area.

You may have heard of people breathing smoke out into a cardboard toilet paper roll filled with dryer sheets to reduce the smell of smoking. Although homemade devices like that can effective in a pinch, unsurprisingly, a lot of smell still gets through.

If you’ve ever wanted a professional version of the same idea, you’re in luck! There used to be more options like Sploofys, but Smoke Buddy seems to have won against all the competing personal air filters and now seems to be the main choice. Although the model featured below is black, they come in tons of different colors!

You breath in one side, and filtered air comes out the other!

4.) Vaporizer

I personally believe every cannabis lover should have a vaporizer! Using one is better for your lungs than smoking and can be a great choice if your lungs/throat could use a break! In fact, many people use vaporizers exclusively!

It’s also nice just to try something different every once in a while because the effects from vaporizing (or “vaping” as it’s commonly called) are slightly different than smoking. In fact, even changing the temperature setting on your vaporizer can slightly change the effects you experience (different cannabinoids vaporize at different temperatures)!

Unlike joints, pipes or bongs, vaporizers don’t actually combust the plant material (catch it on fire). Instead they heat your cannabis to the point where the THC and other cannabinoids vaporize into the air. This lets you breathe it all in without having to breathe in any smoke.

Portable vs Tabletop Vaporizers

There are two main types of vaporizers, portable ones and tabletop ones. Portable vaporizers fit in your hand and are for vaping on the go. Tabletop vaporizers are more powerful and consistent than the portable ones, and usually need to be plugged in. With these you either breathe in the vapor from a tube (like the caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland), or you can fill up a bag with vapor and breathe it in at your convenience. The bags are especially helpful for people who are sick and might have trouble sucking air in (the bags can be lightly squeezed to expel THC vapor).

I own multiple models of both types of vaporizers, and I’m glad I got them! These are the two vaporizers I use and recommend (though there are tons of options out there):

Tabletop Vaporizer

Arizer Extreme Q – This is a great tabletop vaporizer and I recommend it to everyone. It’s sort of a knockoff of the much more expensive Volcano vaporizer. The Volcano is a high-quality vaporizer, but with a $400 price tag it might be too big of an investment for someone’s first vaporizer! The Arizer has nearly all the same features (including being able to fill bags with vapor) but costs half the price.

5.) Growing Book

A book can make the perfect gift for a grower (or wannabe grower) who’s an avid reader! But which book to get? I have two favorite books for growers, one for someone who is new to growing and one for an advanced grower who wants to learn more about plants.

For the Beginner…

I recommend getting the Marijuana Grower’s Handbook by Ed Rosenthal. It is one of my favorite growing cannabis books and contains everything a grower needs to get started growing. It also has bonus insights and tips that may be interesting to more experienced growers.

I like Ed Rosenthal’s clean and thoughtful approach to growing, and although we don’t agree on everything (I don’t think you can find any two growers who agree on everything) I think this book is a great spring board for new growers who prefer their info in print. 🙂 I actually still look at this book every now and then for ideas!

For the Expert Grower…

For those who already know how to grow, there’s a book that isn’t directly related to growing cannabis, but it has information that will take any grower’s skill to the next level. What a Plant Knows teaches you exactly what a plant “sees” and how it reacts to it environment. The information in this book answers so many questions I didn’t even know I had.

It even has a whole section about photoperiod plants (like cannabis), and details what we’ve learned from the studies scientists have done on photoperiodism. Again, this book isn’t actually about cannabis, but it will give you insight about plants that will help you become a better grower (and have a better understanding of why your plants react the way they do!). Even better, this book is written in really clear and easy-to-understand language that is a delight to read! I couldn’t put it down 🙂

6.) Garden Gnome

I think this is a silly gift, but it’s kind of fun to have an extra friend while tending the plants (and not my cat who will try to eat their beautiful leaves!). Garden gnomes are relatively unusual and I think a lot of people smile when they see one!

For indoor growers you generally want to stick to something small, though outdoor growers may appreciate something a little bigger. If your recipient has a special interest, it’s also fun to get something related. For example, if you know someone who loves penguins or cartoons or Star Wars, get them a garden friend that will match their tastes!

7.) A Magnifier

If a grower wants to take their bud quality to the next level, one of the most important things is knowing exactly when to harvest! This has a huge effect on both effects and overall potency. A big part of choosing the best time to harvest is being able to look at the glittery trichomes under a magnifier.

But what’s the best way to see these beauties up close? Make them bigger!

The easiest way to see the trichomes clearly is to use a handheld magnifier or jeweler’s loupe (which are designed to look at diamonds and jewelry up close). The following magnifier is actually surprisingly effective; don’t let the cheap price fool you! Of all the jeweler’s loupes I’ve tried over the years, for some reason this has been the best one so far!

A jeweler’s loupe lets you see trichomes up close!

If you have a technically inclined friend, gifting them a digital magnifier not only lets them get up close and personal with their trichomes…they can also take pictures and video!

A digital USB magnifier can be hooked up to a laptop or smart phone to see the trichomes insanely close, as well as take pictures and video!

Here’s an example of a video from the zOrb

8.) Grow Room Glasses

Protecting your eyes are important. That’s why it’s a good idea to get grow room glasses to protect your beautiful peepers from bright cannabis grow lights.

Get cheap “Grow Room Glasses” to protect your eyes under grow lights

Want professional grow room glasses?

If you know someone who’s growing cannabis under HPS or “blurple” LED grow lights, you may know that their plants appear unnaturally colored under the grow light. This can make it hard not only to take pictures, but also to spot problems with the plants.

Method 7 glasses have been made to help growers see their plants in the correct light, so you can see your plants in all their natural glory!

HPS Grow Lights – This is what my garden looks like through Method 7’s HPS Glasses

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“Blurple” Color LED Grow Lights – This is what a cannabis garden looks like through Method 7’s Blurple LED Glasses

9.) Stocking Stuffers

For something inexpensive but still useful and thoughtful!

Fiskars Scissors – These are indispensable for trimming and are a great gift if you know the recipient doesn’t yet have a pair! They have a spring which saves a lot of work while trimming, and their sharp pointy edges let you manicure your buds perfectly.

These save your hands while trimming!

Green Horticultural Plant Light Headlamp – This headlamp gives off light in a specific shade of green that doesn’t disturb your plants while they’re sleeping. You can use one of these even during your cannabis plant’s flowering period to check in on them at night without interrupting their photoperiod. (Of course always be careful you’re not letting any other light spill into the grow space!)

Check on your plants at night without waking them up!

Boveda Humidipaks 62% – These handy packs are designed specifically for cannabis can be put in mason jars during the curing process to help maintain the correct humidity exactly at 62%. They also help provide a perfect environment when storing your buds so they never get mold or dry out!

Boveda Humidipaks Keep Buds Fresh

Unobtrusive Smell-Proof Bag – If you want to transport something discreetly like a small amount of bud or a portable vaporizer, these smell-proof bank teller style bags are effective at blocking odors but don’t look particularly notable.

Smell-Proof Bags Can Be Handy on the Go

Rope Ratchets – If you know someone who is hanging up their lights with rope or chain (or anything besides a rope ratchet really), they might appreciate this gift! These technological marvels (at least they are to me) make it incredibly easy to adjust your grow lights up and down. This is useful not just for taking pictures, but to be able to react to your plant’s health more easily by adjusting your lights to their preference. When I first started growing I used regular old rope to hang my lights, and adjusting the lights up and down was a nightmare. For me, rope ratchets were an amazing solution to a problem I didn’t know I had 🙂

Bonus: Last Minute Gift Idea If You’re Desperate

If it’s already Christmas and you have no time left, you might consider getting them an Amazon gift card. Amazon has tons of growing equipment as well as vaporizers and more 🙂 This is my emergency backup gift idea for people who are hard to shop for! Better than an iTunes gift card!

Want more? Check out our article on 12 Cool Growing Tools You Might Not Know About

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7 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I First Started Growing Weed

Simplest Cannabis Growing Guide Ever!

How to Increase Your Yields with Any Strain

Check These 7 Things & Cure 99% of Marijuana Growing Problems

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Although this website is about growing cannabis, I’ve put together a few resources for medical marijuana patients, I hope it helps someone out there!

Please let me know if there’s something you’d like to see added!

Resources for medical marijuana patients

Medical Marijuana Laws

• What are the medical marijuana laws in your US state?
• How to Help Change Laws in Your State
• Medical Marijuana Laws by Country

Medical Conditions

• Epilepsy or Seizures
• Anxiety

Cannabinoids

• Breakdown of Cannabinoids: THC vs CBD vs CBN
• Learn more about CBD at ProjectCBD.org

Growing Tactics

• Best Medical Strains & What to Look For!
• How to Increase THC While Growing
• How to Increase CBD While Growing

Vaporizing

• Learn More About Vaporizing

Edible Recipes & Hash

Edibles

• Decarboxylation: How to Decarb Your Weed (crucial step for just about every edible recipe)
• Best Weed Butter Recipe
  • How to Make Great Brownies with Weed Butter
• Canna Caps
• How to Make Cannabis Gummies (Weed Gummy Bears)
• How to Make Cannabis Tinctures
• How to Make Hash Oil (aka Cannabis Extract Oil or RSO)
• Rick Simpson Oil (RSO) – Alternate

Extracts (No Solvents Used in Any Recipe)

• Solventless Extraction Showdown – Bubble Hash vs. Dry-Ice Hash!
• Dry Ice Hash (Made with Dry Ice)
• How to Make Bubble Hash (Made with Ice Water)
• How To Make Your Own Homemade Rosin (dabs)
• Best Weed Butter Recipe
• Canna Caps
• Rick Simpson Oil (RSO)
• How to make dry ice hash

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When it comes to patients using medical marijuana for symptom relief, it's important to make sure you're ingesting cannabis in the most healthy way possible. 

The most common way to get the effects of cannabis buds is to smoke it, but it's actually a lot healthier and effective for a medical marijuana patient to "vape" (vaporize) their buds.
 

Why Vape Medical Marijuana?

• Healthier & less likely to irritate lungs – smoking is bad for you
• More discreet smell – although vaping still definitely has a smell, it won't smell nearly as strongly of marijuana, and the smell is less likely to stick to you.
• Harder to "overdose" since vaping provides slower and more gradual effects than smoking. It will take longer to vaporize a similar amount of cannabis compared to smoking, but this also allows a patient to dose themselves better.
• Bud lasts a lot longer/goes a lot further since vaping is much more efficient than smoking. Normally a lot of the "potency" is lost during the smoking process, while very little is wasted when vaping. In other words, you need less bud to achieve the same effects!
   

Which Vaporizer?

These are some of the most popular vaporizers. This is no where close to a comprehensive list. There are literally hundreds of different vaporizers available today! 

Popular Table-Top Vaporizers

• The Volcano – famous type of vaporizer that comes with all the bells and whistles, but is incredibly expensive!!!
• Arizer – many of the same features at a much lower price

Popular Portable Vaporizers

• Pax
• Arizer Solo
• Magic Flight Launch Box (pictured) – has a learning curve and can be tough for first-timers to use, but probably the cheapest portable vape!
   

Big List of Common Vaporizers with Comparisions
(from the vaping experts at r/vaporents)
 

Tips for Vaping Cannabis

Vaping your cannabis at different temperatures can have different effects, because different cannabinoids are "released" at different temperatures.

• Low Temps for Head Effect – For more of a cerebral, in-your-head effect, keep the temperature relatively low. This gives you the highest percentage of THC since there's less of many of the other cannabinoids.
• High Temps For Stronger Body Effect – For more of a strong body effect, turn the temperature up higher. This burns many more cannabinoids, and alters/enhances the effects of THC.
• Vaped buds should be brown, not black – It's normal to see a little vapor when you breath out but if your vaped buds are turning black it means you are smoking them! After vaping, buds should appear to be a medium or dark brown.
• Save vaped buds for edibles! Vaped buds can be used to make butter, canna caps or other edibles. For most edible recipes, you have to cook the weed first to "activate" it for edibles, but vaping accomplishes the same thing so you actually get to skip that step and use your buds directly. By keeping your vaped buds (sometimes referred to online as Already Vaped Buds or AVB) and using them to make edibles, you get to use the same cannabis twice!
   

Conclusion: Time to Research!

I hope this short article helps you get started on your search for information. This website is mostly meant for growing cannabis and I know this article isn't comprehensive, but a lot of you have written in with questions about vaping and I wanted to share what I know. I hope this helps you start your journey towards finding the right vaporizer! 

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How Do THC, CBN, and CBD Relate to Marijuana Potency?

What Makes Some Strains "Medical"?

How Long Does It Take to Grow Weed?

Where Can I Get Good Genetics?

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Table of Contents

What Makes a Strain “Medical” (or Not)?

• Will You Get Messed Up?

What Diseases Can Medical Marijuana Cure?

Which Strains Work for Which Symptoms?

What’s the Difference Between “Hemp” and Weed?

Grow Tactics

What Makes a Strain “Medical”?

What’s the difference between “medical” and non-medical marijuana?

Short Answer: There is no objective difference between adult-use and medical marijuana.

Wait, what?

When it comes to cannabis, there are thousands of varieties with a wide spectrum of possible effects. While some of these effects are more “medical” than others, a strain that offers relief to one patient could make symptoms worse for another patient (and vice versa). Therefore, what you should focus on is finding a strain that offers relief for the specific symptoms you’re suffering from. It also usually takes some trial and error to figure out what works best for you and your body.

Is this “medical” marijuana? The answer may surprise you. It depends on your symptoms and how your body reacts!

There are so many cannabis strains that it’s impossible to neatly categorize them all. People often discuss the differences between “indica” and “sativa” strains when it comes to medical marijuana, but nearly every strain of cannabis is a hybrid.

To add another layer of complexity, we’re still learning how different compounds in cannabis affect humans. Recently, researchers in Italy discovered THCP, a powerful new cannabinoid that we didn’t know existed. There’s evidence that other cannabis derivatives such as terpenes and cannabis flavonoids may be responsible for some of the medical effects of cannabis, but we don’t fully understand how everything works together. Until there’s more objective research, a lot of medical marijuana patients must experiment to figure out which strains work best. Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to predict.

What should you do?

Instead of focusing on whether a strain is indica or sativa, or some other aspect like how it looks/smells, it’s often more useful to choose genetics based on the known effects and reviews from other patients.

Does medical marijuana get you “messed up?”

While many strains of cannabis have strong mental effects, some varieties are completely non-psychoactive. Non-psychoactive varieties of cannabis won’t affect your thinking much (if at all). Non-psychoactive varieties of cannabis are usually high in CBD with almost no THC. These low-THC strains are popular for the relief of anxiety, insomnia, and seizures.

Some cannabis strains affect your thinking, while others do not

However, many patients do use high-THC varieties of cannabis for the relief of certain symptoms such as pain and nausea. High-THC strains will get you “high” alongside any symptom relief.

What are the medical marijuana laws in your US state?

What Diseases Can Medical Marijuana Cure?

It is really really important to get out there that cannabis has not been proven to “cure” anything. Despite how much I love this plant and personally benefit from its properties, there is no credible scientific evidence that cannabis is some sort of cure-all.

That’s not to say that medical marijuana/cannabis is without relieving properties. In fact, cannabis is so reliable at giving relief to those in need that it’s been available for medical use in California for almost 20 years. As of 2020, there are several countries as well as over 30 states in the USA with some form of legislation to allow cannabis for those in need.

However, there are unfortunately many people willing to offer false hope to very sick people by saying that cannabis can cure their cancer, MS, PTSD, or epilepsy. When someone says that cannabis can “cure” something, their comments should be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism unless you’re given solid evidence that legitimizes their claim. Again, as of yet, there is no proof that marijuana “cures” anything in that it’s never been proven to completely eliminate a disease or condition.

The evidence that medical marijuana “cures” any condition is not conclusive

I’m not saying that medical marijuana doesn’t cure anything, just that we don’t currently have concrete evidence that it does. And when it comes to evaluating your possible medical options, I believe you must look at the evidence, and not go by word of mouth from people who are not medical practitioners.

Unfortunately, despite what you may have heard, there is no credible evidence that marijuana “cures” anything (though research is ongoing). What marijuana has actually been shown to do is offer relief from specific symptoms.

There is a lot of substantive evidence that some people are experiencing relief from cannabis for various symptoms, and that’s the focus of this article.

Which Strains Work for Which Symptoms?

I can give you some general guidelines (find them below) to help you get started, but there are no absolutes when it comes to the effects of different strains. Not only do strains have different effects if they’re grown under different conditions, the same buds also affect people differently.

A strain that aggravates anxiety for one person could reduce pain or nausea for a different patient. Buds that prevent one person from having seizures could actually trigger seizures for someone else.

This huge spectrum of effects is part of why we need to legally reschedule cannabis as a whole plant, so we can start to tease apart the specific components of cannabis that cause each specific effect. Like how we do with any other medicine.

Currently, patients in the medical marijuana scene must use iffy information combined with personal trial and error. There is no current database or other good way for medical marijuana providers and patients to share their experiences with each other. Because cannabis is illegal on a federal level in the US, there is very little reputable research that can be conducted on a large scale without the worry of legal trouble.

Example of medical marijuana from a California dispensary. You often don’t get much information about what you’re buying!

This is part of why it can be so much better to grow your own medical marijuana at home. You get to choose exactly what you want!

However, because of all the misinformation out there, when it comes to finding relief with medical marijuana it’s important to be realistic and manage expectations. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Now let’s share what we do know about medical marijuana, including what makes it effective for some patients and not-so-effective for others.

What We Know About Cannabinoids

There are different components found in cannabis which cause different effects. Although some substances such as terpenes (aromatics/smells) have been shown to alter the mental and physical effects of buds, it is the cannabinoids found in cannabis flowers that are the subject of the most research and interest. Cannabinoids work on natural receptors in our brain, causing the majority of effects attributed to cannabis.

Here’s a very short list of common cannabis cannabinoids (say that three times fast!) that have medical interest for researchers and patients. There are dozens more, but these are the ones we know the most about.

THC vs CBD vs CBN

• THC – responsible for many of the mental, anti-nausea, and possibly pain-relieving effects
• CBD – great promise for the relief of anxiety, seizures, insomnia, and many other conditions
• CBN – CBN levels rise as buds are allowed to go longer before harvest. It has a relaxing or body effect and is less psychoactive than THC.
• Other Cannabinoids – There are dozens, even hundreds of cannabinoids that can be found in various strains of cannabis or hemp. Most of these are not well studied or may not even be officially identified yet!
• Learn more about THC vs CBD vs CBN

Popular Conditions That May Get Relief From Medical Marijuana

• Pain, Spasms, Nausea & Lack of Appetite – Often treated with high-THC strains. Results vary widely from patient to patient so it’s best to gauge results on a strain-by-strain basis.
• Symptoms from Cancer Treatment – Many cancer patients have reported that cannabis gives them relief from the symptoms of chemotherapy. However, there is no concrete evidence that cannabis can cure cancer in humans. Please talk to your oncologist if you plan on using cannabis in conjunction with cancer treatment! Oncologists are some of the most sympathetic doctors when it comes to cannabis use.
• Seizures / Epilepsy / Dravet Syndrome – I’m most familiar with these conditions because I have epilepsy as well as a niece with Dravet Syndrome. It’s insane how much incorrect information I see thrown around about medical marijuana when it comes to seizures. The truth is, some epilepsy patients report a reduction of symptoms when using high-CBD strains. Most of these patients are using medical marijuana in addition to their other prescriptions, not as a replacement. However, higher levels of THC can actually trigger seizures for some patients, and most strains available today are high-THC and low-CBD. That means that most types of cannabis have the potential to make seizure symptoms worse! Therefore it’s incredibly important for people suffering from seizures to know what they’re getting, and also to work closely with a neurologist when making any changes to their medication. I personally use both high-CBD and high-THC strains, but I continue to take my prescription as well. Learn more about seizures and the effects of medical cannabis.
• Anxiety or Insomnia – Anxiety and sleeplessness are often addressed with high-CBD and medium-to-low-THC. For some people, high levels of THC can make anxiety worse, especially if trying cannabis in a new or unusual situation or when ingesting more than they’re used to. However, some patients get the most relief from high-THC strains. Note: Buds that are harvested too early or not dried and cured properly are more likely to cause anxiety, sleeplessness, and headaches for some people. Learn more about finding relief from anxiety with medical marijuana.

Mullaways Medical Cannabis’ medical crop, used for cannabinoid research in Australia

Vaping & Edibles for Medical Marijuana

When it comes to medical marijuana, smoking isn’t the best option as it can irritate lungs and there’s a lot of evidence smoking isn’t good for you!

However, vaping (vaporizing your weed instead of burning it) or eating edibles (cannabis in edible form) are considered the “gold standard” way to take advantage of medical marijuana.

Learn more about vaporizing cannabis

My Favorite Edible Resources

• Decarboxylation: How to Decarb Your Weed (crucial step for just about every edible recipe)
• Best Weed Butter Recipe
• Canna Caps for Easy Dosing
• How to Make Hash Oil / Rick Simpson Oil (RSO) 
• How to Make Cannabis Tinctures

What’s the Difference Between “Hemp” and Weed?

Many people think of “hemp” as being a specific strain. Sort of like how there is “Sour Diesel” and “White Widow”. Others think hemp is closely related to cannabis but is a fundamentally different species of plant. Like peaches and plums.

Neither of those is true.

Hemp and cannabis are the same species of plant. So what exactly is hemp? Any strain of cannabis/marijuana that contains less than 0.3% THC (in the USA) is legally considered to be hemp. It’s not a strain, it’s a categorization. It’s like how there are many varieties of red roses. “Red” is a categorization, not the name of a specific variety of roses. Some countries have different upper legal limits for hemp such 0.2% and 0.5% THC, but the idea is the same.

Learn more about hemp laws in the USA on the FDA government website.

Is this hemp? It depends on whether a lab measures over or under 0.3% THC.

Let’s say I purchase “hemp” seeds and grow them out. Any plants that tests below 0.3% THC by dry weight is legally considered hemp. However, if one plant gets tested and is measured at 0.31% THC (on any part of the plant), that means it’s not legally hemp anymore. Even though it came from hemp seeds, and even though all the other plants from the same parents were legally hemp, this plant would be considered a narcotic because the THC percentage is over the legal limit.

Hemp is a category of cannabis, not a specific strain!

A major advantage of growing hemp over other types of cannabis is that it’s legal on the federal level in most parts of the world. While there is a lot of legal gray area surrounding high-THC cannabis, hemp farmers are rarely prosecuted in most places.

Because of the strict THC limitations, a huge part of the hemp industry is checking that plants stay under 0.3% THC (or whatever the local legal limit). Many hemp growers regularly test plants throughout the growing process so they can quickly toss any plants that test over the limit.

If you ever would like to grow hemp because it’s federally legal, it’s recommended you buy hemp seeds from a specialist to help ensure your plants don’t go over the THC limit. There are many strains of hemp that are rich in terpenes and cannabinoids, making them a great choice for people who want the greatest medical effects without any THC. If you do buy hemp seeds for personal use, make sure to get hemp seeds that were bred to have big fragrant high-CBD flowers, as opposed to strains of industrial hemp that are made to grow thick woody stalks and tend to grow small flowers that are not as medically useful.

It’s best to buy hemp seeds from a specialist

There are strains of cannabis that are extremely low in THC but don’t come with a THC guarantee. When a plant contains less than 1% THC, it may not legally be considered hemp but you likely won’t feel the effects of THC.

These strains are not legally hemp, but are extremely low in THC and won’t get you “high”:

• Doctor Seedsman CBD 30:1 Feminised Seeds (<1% THC, 20% CBD)
• Dinamed CBD Plus Feminised Seeds (<1% THC, 15-20% CBD)
• Pink Kush 30:1 Auto-Flowering Seeds (0.5% THC, 17% CBD) – Learn more about autoflowering strains

Is Growing High-CBD Cannabis Different from Growing High-THC Strains?

How Long After I Switch to Medical Marijuana Can I Stop Taking My Prescription?

There are likely some people who may be able to stop taking their prescriptions and manage their symptoms purely with medical marijuana. These patients are featured in stories and articles about medical marijuana so it might give the impression that they are the majority.

But the truth is, in all my years speaking with various medical marijuana patients, I haven’t spoken to a single patient who was able to completely replace all of their prescription medications with medical marijuana. Several have been able to lower their dependency or dosage, but the patients I’ve talked to almost always use marijuana in addition to the prescription medication that they’ve been prescribed by their doctor.

Most Patients Use Cannabis in Addition to Their Prescription Medications, Not as a Replacement

This doesn’t mean that cannabis won’t be effective at improving the quality of life for someone suffering from any one of a number of conditions. However, anyone trying cannabis for medicinal reasons should be aware that if you’re already taking medicine for a condition, cannabis will likely help you the most in conjunction with prescribed medication as opposed to replacing it.

Just as an example, you’ve probably seen some of the popular news stories about medical marijuana helping children with serious seizure conditions like Dravet Syndrome. While high-CBD cannabis is making massive improvements in their quality of life, many of these children are still taking prescription medications in addition to taking cannabis. The cannabis is simply used in addition to other medications to further reduce seizures and relieve symptoms that the medication wasn’t as effective at treating.

In some cases, patients are able to reduce the overall amount of medications they need to take, especially for medicines that are primarily used to reduce symptoms such as pain killers or opioids. As more research is done into cannabis, and new strains are developed, the options for relief will certainly increase. However, those thinking about trying cannabis for medicinal reasons should talk to their doctor, and go in with the expectation that cannabis will likely be an addition to your regimen, not a replacement.

Grow Tactics for Medical Marijuana

Strain is the most important aspect of growing cannabis plants when it comes to producing the effects you want! But there are a few tips and tricks.

How to Increase THC When Growing Weed

• Start with a high-THC strain <– Most important!
• Keep plants healthy
• Don’t harvest early
• Dry and cure your buds after harvest to maximize potency
• Maintain a good growing environment
• There’s more… Read the Full Growing Tutorial on How to Increase THC

How to Increase CBD When Growing Weed

• High-CBD Strain – Like THC, the most important aspect of producing high levels of CBD is to grow a high-CBD strain. Although clones are best because you know exactly what you’re getting, there are now high-CBD seeds available online for those who don’t have access to medical marijuana clones.
• Autoflowering Strains – Auto-flowering strains can be a good choice because they are more closely related to wild hemp and often have higher levels of CBD than other types of cannabis. Although there are auto-flowering cannabis strains bred specifically for CBD, nearly all auto-flowers have at least 1-2% CBD (compared to less than 1% in most high-THC strains). This mitigates the effects of THC and makes you less likely to have racing thoughts or anxiety.
• Don’t harvest early or late – Harvesting at right time maximizes cannabinoid and CBD levels
• There’s more… Read the Full Growing Tutorial on How to Increase CBD

Growing Medical Marijuana for a Friend or Family Member

A lot of people write to us because they want to try growing a high-CBD or other medical marijuana strain for a sick friend or relative. It’s a very human, and very admirable trait to want to help people if we can, especially the people we love! Every time I hear from a concerned family member trying to do all they can, I think of how fortunate someone is to have a person in their life who cares so much.

I also feel a pang of sadness at how much of a task there is ahead is for someone thinking to jump into indoor growing without knowing what it entails. After deciding to try medical marijuana, often someone’s initial plan is to start a whole grow operation, get a high-CBD strain, grow it, prepare it and then hope it actually does something. As commendable as this quest is, there are many possible points of failure. Anyone who tries to do this could be setting themselves up for a lot of possible heartache!

I believe it’s very important to try to confirm that cannabis will even do something for you or your friend or family member before you set off on a 4-month journey to grow it yourself. Try to get your hands on some high-CBD weed and test out the effects before investing in a grow set up.

Unless you just love growing plants for the sake of it. I understand that. Cannabis really is one of the most fun and exciting plants to grow 🙂

Recommended Strains Based on Feedback from Patients

Anxiety or Insomnia – High CBD, Varied THC

• Dinamed CBD Auto – A high-CBD (14%), low-THC(0.3-0.8%) autoflowering strain that was specifically developed to be relaxing. No psychoactive effects.
• Euphoria CBD – This strain has about a 1:1 ratio of THC:CBD. That means the buds will get you “high” but not in an overwhelming way. It’s a soothing choice for someone with anxiety who wants some of the medicinal effects of THC (psychoactive effects, pain or nausea relief, etc.) while still reducing nerves.
• Afghan Kush – This particular version of the popular strain is high-THC and feels very potent, but the mental effects tend to be calming and peaceful.

Seizures / Epilepsy / Dravet Syndrome – High CBD, Low THC

• Medikit CBD – CBD at 20% or more, and THC under 1%. Developed specifically to be a therapeutic strain (hence the name). A mix between the legendary (clone-only) seizure-fighting Harlequin strain and a selection of high-CBD strains that originated in Central and South America.
• Charlotte’s Angel CBD Auto – A high-THC (16%), low-CBD (0.7%) autoflowering version of the Charlotte’s Angel CBD strain (the autoflowering version seems better for seizures)
• Purplediol CBD Auto – Another great medicinal autoflowering strain. CBD is around 17% and THC is around 0.5%. High yielding and quick to harvest. Gives a “chill” feeling but no psychoactive effects.

Pain – Significant THC, Varied CBD

• Skunk Haze CBD – This prize-winning strain has a 1:1 ratio of THC:CBD. You will experience gentle mental effects that are not overpowering.
• LA Confidential – This version of LA Confidential has won numerous awards. The effects are potent, psychedelic, and pain-fighting, but won’t weigh you down like many high-THC strains. Somehow energizing and relaxing at the same time.
• Black Sugar – This very high-THC strain can help reduce pain and has powerful mental effects as well. Easy to grow!
• Florida Lemons – Another mighty high-THC strain. Beautiful bud structure and a delightful lemon scent.

Contact us if you have grown a strain that helps with your particular symptom. We’d like to expand this list over time!

Help get medical marijuana legalized in your US state!

Neither the creators of this site nor the author of this article are doctors or any type of medical professionals. Please don’t take anything said on this page or anywhere on GrowWeedEasy.com as medical advice. We are trying to share general information to help people, but please speak with a doctor about any specific questions, especially if you’re thinking about trying medical marijuana yourself!​

Further resources for medical marijuana patients

Medical Marijuana Laws
What are the medical marijuana laws in your US state?
How to Help Change Laws in Your State
Medical Marijuana Laws by Country

Medical Conditions
Epilepsy or Seizures
Anxiety

Cannabinoids
Breakdown of Cannabinoids: THC vs CBD vs CBN
Learn more about CBD at ProjectCBD.org

Growing Tactics
How to Increase THC While Growing
How to Increase CBD While Growing

Edibles & Vaporizing
Learn More About Vaporizing
Edible Recipes: Best Weed Butter Recipe, Canna Caps, Rick Simpson Oil (RSO), Cannabis Tinctures

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• 7 Unfortunate Plant Training Mistakes

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• Can You Use Miracle-Gro?

Nutrients

• Which Nutrients Are Best For Growing Cannabis?
• Soil Nutrients
• Coco Coir Nutrients
• Hydroponic Nutrients

Grow Lights

• 5 Best LED Grow Lights 2023 (Yields, Speed, & Bud Quality)
• Compare Types of Grow Lights
  • Fluorescents (T5s)
  • CFLs (Spiral Bulbs)
  • LED Grow Lights
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  • CMH / LEC Grow Lights (New)
  • Plasma / Magnetic Induction Grow Lights (Not Recommended)
• How Does Light Spectrum Affect Marijuana Plants?
• How Far Away Do I Keep My Grow Lights?
• You Can Actually Give Plants Too Much Light?!
• Grow Light Upgrade Guide: Yields & Potency Explained
• Cannabis Grow Lights: What’s the Best Size?

Best LED Grow Light Articles

• 5 Best LED Grow Lights 2023 (Yields, Speed, & Bud Quality)
• LED Grow Lights: Too Much or Not Enough Light?
• LED Grow Journal: Mars Hydro TSL-2000W vs Spider Farmer SF-2000
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• Create the Perfect Growing Environment
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• How to Control Odors
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Plant Care Tutorials

• Cloning
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• Intro to Plant Training for Bigger Yields Indoors
• How Often to Water Plants
  • The Easiest Way to Water Plants & Remove Runoff
• How (and When) to Transplant Cannabis
• Male vs Female Plants
• When to Harvest?
• Drying & Curing

How to Improve…

• Yields
• Bud Quality
  • 7 Environment Effects on Bud Quality
  • The Secret to Excellent Bud Quality
• THC Levels
• CBD Levels
• Smell/Taste
• Density
• Bud Color (How to Grow Pink or Purple Buds)
• Glitter (Make Buds Sparkle with More Trichomes)
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Buying Seeds

• Where to Get Seeds
• How to Find the Right Strain
• What are “Feminized” Seeds?
• Which Breeders to Trust?
• Photoperiod vs Auto-Flowering Cannabis Strains
• Bag Seed vs Hype Seed: Is it worth it to buy cannabis seeds?

Recommended Strains

• Best Autoflowering Cannabis Strains for Yields & Potency
• List of Sugar-Dusted Strains (Heavy Trichome Genetics)
• 10 Cold-Resistant Cannabis Strains
• 14 Heat-Resistant Cannabis Strains
• Which cannabis strains stay short? (Best strains for small spaces)

Auto-Flowering Strains

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• Nebula’s Auto-Flowering Grow Journal (Topping vs Natural)

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• Best Weed Butter Recipe
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• Solventless Extraction Showdown – Bubble Hash vs. Dry-Ice Hash!
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• How To Make Your Own Homemade Rosin (dabs)

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• 5 Time-Savers for Busy Growers
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Buy it directly from the manufacturer (world-class customer service): http://www.magic-flight.com/

The Magic Flight Launch Box heats up extremely quickly (less than 10 seconds) and works great. The kit includes:

• Small tin carrying case
• 2 rechargeable batteries
• Battery charger
• Small,clear plastic case to carry two batteries
• Battery caps
• Cleaning brush
• Small plastic container to hold extra ground up materials
• Optional draw stem
• A black velvet storage bag.
• 2 rubber bands you can use to hold the magic flight launch box shut if it’s loaded and in your pocket, which I thought was a nice touch.

Before I got one, I’d already owned some discrete one-hitters, yet nothing that could be used for vaporizing. The Magic Flight Launch Box is a discrete, stealthy vaporizer, which is healthier to use than smoking.

You don’t get as hard a hit as you would, from say, a bong, but this device actually works pretty great for something so small. I would say that this little piece works better than the VaporTower, which I also own.

When I first got my package I was surprised at how small the package was and even more surprised at how small the actual Magic Flight Launch Box was when I took it out of the package. It fits in the palm of my hand.

If you do end up buying this item, make sure that you take slow breaths until you get the hang of using it.

(scroll down to watch video on how to best use the MFLB!)

If you hear air whistling through the box, you’re pulling too hard and not really getting the full effect. If you do it nice and slow you will get extremely warm, potent air when you breath in and that’s when the box seems to work best.

You will get a slight taste in your mouth but the scent of the air that you breath out is very faint. If you breathed the air out of a window or if you were using this vaporizer outside, there would be no way that someone will be able to smell anything on you afterwards.

My only quibble is the fact that a single battery only lasts for 4-8 hits or about the equivalent of one full bowl. This means that since only two batteries came with the box, I can’t really share it with more than one person without having to wait for the batteries to charge.

With the charger that came with the kit, it takes two hours for the batteries to fully charge and I almost always want to be able to go through more than two bowls every two hours.

I definitely recommend ordering a couple extra sets of batteries from the Magic Flight Launch Box company. You’ll use them 🙂

Overall, I’ve very impressed with how well it works and how discrete it actually is. If you’re not sure whether you should get it or not, and you’re looking for something effective, attractive, and discrete, than the Magic Flight Launch Box definitely wins.

This Video Shares the Key Tactics To Perfect Vaporization with the Magic Flight Launch Box

Vaping is a little different from smoking, and this video shows you exactly how to get the dankest hits from your own MLFB. You can see the presenter is getting more and more stoned as the video progresses 🙂

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Learn more about Arizer vaporizers directly from the manufacturer here: http://arizer.com/store/

The Arizer Extreme Q Vaporizer has been tested by our seasoned cannabis enthusiasts and we believe that this digital, remote-controlled vapor tower is just as good as the much more expensive Volcano vaporizer system. The Arizer Extreme Q can be used interchangeably as a bag-inhale system or as a direct-inhale system by switching the connector piece. Get the lung-saving goodness of a real vaporizer without digging into your life savings!

As a cannabis lover, I have dreamed of getting a Volcano vaporizer but could never get myself to put down that much money at once for a device that was just going to be used to consume cannabis. I actually heard about the Arizer Extreme Q from a friend who works in a dispensary. While still pretty pricey, this Arizer is much, much cheaper than the Volcano so at first I was afraid that there would be some sort of catch. 

Despite my initial hesitation, I finally ended up purchasing one after I saw a demonstration of one at a friend's house. I have been worrying about putting too much smoke in my lungs and I figured that $190 was nothing compared to my health. 

I wanted to share my full review of this cheaper Volcano alternative. When I got my Arizer Extreme Q Vaporizer, it was sturdily packaged with clear instructions on how to operate it properly to get the best results. It was easy to switch back and forth between the bag and tube connector, allowing the vaporizer to either fill a bag with vaporized THC or the vapor can be breathed directly into the lungs through a tube.

If you do go with the Arizer, make sure you get bags so you can use it as a bagged vaporizer. This allows you to fill a whole bag with vapor, and pass it around, which makes it ultra-convenient.

The best part of vaporizing is the fact that it's almost impossible to burn your throat. Because there's no combustion, there's no smoke, which is much healthier for your lungs. With vaporizing, there's pretty much no known negatives to using medical marijuana.

While the vaporizer doesn't hit me quite as hard as a bong, I was surprised at both how well the vapor worked and how little cannabis was needed to get me where I wanted to go. When using my Arizer, I use less buds to get the same amount of effect as a bong, though it does take longer since the vaporizer must be warmed up and the bags filled with vapor.

Whenever I breathe in the THC vapor, it seems just like I'm breathing air with a slight after-taste of cannabis.

The first time I used the vaporizer, I remember inhaling  a few times and thinking, "This isn't working… is it working? I don't think it's working…" then all of a sudden–BAM!– it hit me like a bag a bricks!

Overall, I have been really pleased with my purchase and would do it again in a heart-beat. The Arizer Extreme Q Vaporizer will impress your friends, is gentle enough to be used by cannabis newbies or medical marijuana patients, and will get you medicated.

Get an Arizer vaporizer directly from the manufacturer here: http://arizer.com/store/

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