Microdosing marijuana is the deliberate consumption of a small amount of marijuana (1-5 mg THC) with mild effects, and having no intoxicated experience. The idea is to activate the endocannabinoid system, just enough to get effects but clear headed. Microdosing is more widely used and talked about, as more individuals find that the benefits of being at the threshold doses of cannabis, does not intensify the effects associated with consuming full doses.
Normalizing Consumption versus Getting High
Microdosing cannabis represents a social shift away from the intoxication lifestyle. Microdosers report more feelings of creativity, more focused and less discomfort or anxiety, without the side-effects of the intoxication of full doses. Microdosers like this practice for therapeutic effects and manageability and the experience of having safe, therapeutic means of managing their daily lives and responsibilities.
Medical Applications Are Changing
There is evolving research demonstrating microdosing may be a helpful therapeutic intervention in chronic pain, and mood disorders. Microdosing is done in a controlled manner using logic to establish dosing, with clinical effect, without the intoxication exposure of cannabis. Microdoses of patients feel they can continue to work, manage pain effectively and are less reliant on prescription medications.
Measured Consumption Methods
Practically speaking, microdosing requires some helpful options for measured shot sizes of cannabis:
- Droppers for measured amount of tinctures.
- Low Dosed Edibles(2.5mg, 5mg)
- Microdosable vaporizers.
- Raw cannabis weighed for measurement before consumption.
The Work Consumer
Corporations and designers from Silicon Valley are using microdosed edibles for its cognitive effects. Microdose users have noted improved pattern recognition, lateral thinking abilities and problem-solving abilities. Many people find that cannabis consumed in perpetual doses can relieve creative blocks of behave professionally and with clarity.
Finding your own threshold
Determining your own little threshold dose can be variable based on metabolism, body habitus, and an individuals sensitivity to THC from individual endocannabinoid receptors. Experts generally say start with your lowest dose and then listen to your body if there is a slight bump in upward adjustment of the highest dose until doses are reached, and benefits are achieved (not intoxicated). This way you have increased awareness of reaching your own threshold aside from being uncomfortable if doses are too high.
The Future of Consumption
Microdosing has created a new language of consumption, and the debate in society given the recent changes of legalization of cannabis consumption worldwide represents many aspects of a new normal, or consumer world that potentially represent health or wellness and adult recreational consumption. Could we suggest that microdosing cannabis is relatively, simple in thought and in line with the recent trends that emphasize less consumption, benefitting less consumption, and value full consciousness and savoring the experience of cannabis consumption for wellness applications? And perhaps the new and developing research, supporting a microdosing drug movement benefits of the cannabis landscape or represents a rethinking of cannabis, they way we think about cannabis the new norm.