THC And Chemotherapy

Going through chemotherapy is not a fun experience, to say the least. Pain and nausea are the most common side effects, with nausea being the one that can cause other negative health conditions. The loss of appetite that comes with nausea can slow down the effects of chemotherapy, making the process more drawn out than it needs to be. I say “needs to be” because it has been found that cannabis consumption during chemotherapy can help mitigate nausea.

With this in mind, cannabis being used for direct medical purposes, dosage is important. When you ingest THC for this purpose, whether it be in pill form, smoking, or however else, stay mindful of how much you are putting into your system. Start with a low quantity first and see how that helps. Keep a record of how much you are using it and what effects it has to mitigate the nausea, as well as how your mind and body react to the “high” you receive from that particular dosage.

Some doctors in some areas of the country will prescribe THC to patients for this purpose, but the initial dosage amount will be an educated guess. It pretty much has to be. What helps determine this is the patient’s medical history, the size and weight of the patient and whether or not he or she has a tolerance already built up for THC in their system based on previous uses. A good doctor may get the dosage correct right at the outset, but other times the amount may have to be adjusted.

This is why it is important to keep a record of everything you go through regarding how THC is affecting you. If you do not notice a decrease in nausea or an increase in hunger with your current dosage, it may need to be increased. This is just a part of the process that everyone goes through, so it is perfectly normal. What else is normal is the predisposed and negative perceptions that some people have of THC. The older generations have been convinced that marijuana is bad for a person, so they will be more reluctant to use THC as a medical “supplement” than younger people.

Patients in the first age group will need to be educated through medical facts that THC can be helpful in certain medical treatments under certain conditions. It is certainly not a cure-all, but it does have a proven track record of being medically beneficial in the right settings like post-chemotherapy. The key to helping make this work is education. In my writings you see me push this agenda, education, many times. In this case especially, because it is your health at stake, educating yourself in something that can benefit you……..can only benefit you.

You certainly don’t need a medical degree to understand how THC works in relation to your personal chemotherapy treatments, or to keep tabs on how THC affects you in general. Just pay attention to your body, how something like this affects your system, and stay in communication with your doctor. He or she is the one with the degree.

Wind and Solar Power Technologies Are Coming Up Fast

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If the energy we use and how it impacts the planet we are energizing concerns you, then you are not alone. Whether or not you believe in global warming, the fact remains we have been using up finite resources to create electricity. Wind and solar are both infinite sources of energy. The wind will always blow and the sun will always shine. Both cases will see more in some regions of the country than others. The professionals in both fields know where to go to find the most of both, and they are working hard to make them viable sources of electricity for the entire country.

The challenge as of late is not how to harness these sources, but the amount that can be harnessed versus the amount we need. Knowing this will allow electric companies nationwide to know how much of this energy they can implement into their grid. They do not want to shut down all of their steam turbines in favor of wind and solar power unless those latter sources can produce as much electricity as the steam turbines. If any single region can only get 50% of their energy needs through wind and solar, and the electric companies in that region find it cost-productive to switch over, then they will do so in modest amounts.

The technology used here has been fine-tuned to where generating power is not the issue. It is generating enough in a cost-effective way that makes it appealing to both the electric companies and consumers. Part of the cost-effective research going on right now is determining if integrating solar and wind technologies together is more cost-efficient than both sources working independently from each other. As it stands currently, it is not. At least not in most regions of the country. Technology might advance to where it will be this way nationwide, but that time has not arrived yet.

With the growing need and interest in solar and wind power, technology will soon follow closely enough to meet 100% of this country’s electrical needs. That’s the thing about technology and the great minds driving it: it can meet the demand of consumers who call for change. Deriving 100% of our electrical needs through solar and wind power is not an unreasonable request, nor is it an unrealistic expectation. The technicians behind all of this know both and are working hard behind the scenes to make this possible.

It is only a matter of time. As this grows, so does the re-education, or cross-training, of technicians in the old field of generating electricity into the new way. A loss of jobs being no inhibitor of growth in this regard allows progress to move full steam ahead. Or full “wind” ahead, as it were. To use another play on words, the future looks bright for the solar and wind industries and, as a result, the fulfillment of our electrical needs in a much more eco-friendly manner than we are used to seeing that will someday come to fruition.

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The Psychology Of Success

What does starting a new job and starting a new business have in common? The word new. Starting a new phase in life can be stressful because of the fear of failure. Any new venture will effect people to varying degrees, but something important needs to be kept in mind: Business is being conducted so emotions should be kept on the back burner, and fear is an emotion.

An effective way of losing this fear of failure is to replace the word fail with something less permanent and personal, yet just as concise to the point. “I might fail”, for example, can be replaced with “I might learn a lesson from this.” This is what Shirley Curry must have told herself when she started streaming her gaming activities. When a person like Shirley succeeds, they have taken past mistakes/learning experiences, applied them to their current business needs, and succeeded in their new endeavors. No one succeeds without having come up short sometime in the past. Mistakes are there to learn from, not cry over. When the latter is done, that is a good way to not succeed.

This state of mind is not only less harsh, it is more business-oriented with a focus on the positive; whether the goal of getting a new job or starting the business was realized or not. Something positive will come out of the situation regardless. A new chapter in your business life is being started, or a new lesson was learned that can be applied to the next time a business-related change is attempted. Either way, failure never entered the room because you kept that door shut. You never gave it a chance to be an option. Julia Hartz of Eventbrite and Sara Blakely of Spanx, businesses they each started on their own before the age of 30, will tell you the same thing.

They never gave that emotion a chance to exist, therefore, it doesn’t. It really is that easy. It is also one of the most important things you can do for your psyche and keeping your business acumen sharp. Once you start keeping negative connotations and emotions out of your head while you are “On the clock” you will find out just how beneficial it is for success. Always replace a negative word with a positive term without losing sight of the importance of the action or goal.

We all know that we attract what we are and what we deserve. This law of nature also applies to the board room, or the storefront you just opened for business. Your state of mind dictates your actions and thoughts, and that bleeds into your reactions concerning 3 key areas of the consumer base that directly affects a business:

• Reading past and current business trends
  
• The needs of potential customers
  
• Whether consumers are playing fast and loose with their expendable incomes.
  

All of these factors play into whether a new business succeeds or not, and it is very hard to keep a line on all that when you let your emotions into the room. This is not to say you should be robotic about things, obviously, but when you keep a positive, practical, and learn-from-your-mistakes mindset about the change you are putting into your business life, positive things will happen.

The Future Of Remote Work?

Donald has to submit work daily from his home to the company he works for remotely. He submits market trends, projections and op-ed style pieces concerning the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He is working towards advancing his job to where all he will have to do is submit op-ed pieces. His computer system set-up is modern and his company makes sure it stays that way.

Well, Don has gotten so good at his job, that he can finish a week’s worth of work in two days. The other three days are set up to where specific projects are submitted back to the company at specific times by scheduling the submissions in advance.

Don, the IT team at the company and his project manager have been brainstorming ideas, and they think they have something figured out. Don can take those three days he has off, while the work he has already finished is automatically delivered, and stockpile more finished product. This product, while sitting on his computer waiting to be delivered, is quietly being updated as needed via an AI program to where even if that product was finished one year ago, it is still relevant, with verbiage updated as needed and good to be published.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2019/08/23/ai-making-waves-in-news-and-journalism/?sh=146a80d97748

The purpose of this is that when Don passes away (He’s not getting any younger, you know), he will still be “working” and the compensation he would have received for that work , minus anything AI contributed, will go to a beneficiary that he chose prior to his passing.

We have technology that would make this idea work. Now, all we need is for companies to determine whether or not it would benefit their bottom line.

Vaping And Addiction

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Vaping has been getting a lot of press lately due to the rising number of illnesses and deaths related to this activity. Much of the talk now is centered on whether or not we should treat this in the same way we treat drug addictions. This is a very broad question due to the fact that we have three items being discussed at the same time: Nicotine, THC and the vape device itself.

Discussing the addiction aspect of this topic puts the cart before the horse in quite a few ways. First, we must dispel the notion that nicotine, in and of itself, is inherently harmful. It is not. Nicotine is found within the Nightshade family of plants which include, but are not limited to, tomatoes, potatoes, coca and tobacco plants. For perspective, the average tomato contains 7.1 ng (nanograms) of nicotine. This equates to .0071 grams. Nicotine lozenges contain either 2 or 4 milligrams of nicotine and the average cigarette contains 12. The higher the concentration coupled with the instrument of ingestion, how the nicotine goes into the body, needs to be kept in mind when talking about vaping and addictions.

https://testcountry.com/blogs/nicotine/6-common-food-with-nicotine-content

Another fact to point out is that many of the deaths and illnesses contributing to vaping are a result of items bought on the “black market” Basically just random websites on the internet or a friend of a friend. For clarification, there have been instances fairly recently of people getting arrested for making vaping products themselves:

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/mcso-2-arrested-in-illegal-vape-cartridges-bust-lab-found-in-north-phoenix

https://www.gilbertsunnews.com/news/gilbert-man-arrested-with-black-market-vape-gear/article_7bc8ef16-e175-11e9-b9da-93f2cc38e6c6.html

These along with another such instance in Minnesota underscore the real problem here. Legitimate sellers who go through the proper and regulated protocols, manufacturers and wholesalers are not selling the items that are making people sick. It is the Walter White’s of this industry who are to blame.

The THC aspect of all of this is where it gets really sticky. If for no other reason but for the fact that federal laws and individual state laws are still not on the same page. The main reason for this is that THC is still classified as a schedule 1 drug. Right up there with heroin. If THC were taken off the schedule, the federal government could legalize it paving the way for more streamlined laws. If that is not going to happen, keeping THC technically as bad as heroin, we would next have to ask ourselves if there is a THC equivalent to methadone. The legal substance given to heroin addicts so they can kick that habit. Since there is no such product out there we are relegated to decreasing the THC level in the liquids that are ingested through vaping products, which leaves us back to square one: Should we treat vaping as a drug addiction?

Going through the facts as we just have would lead a rational person to say no. We should treat this problem as the facts present it. Namely, that black market nicotine and THC concentrates that are put into the liquid, and the ;liquid itself, should be cracked down on hard by law enforcement. Studying in detail exactly what makes up a vaping device should be focused on as well. Strip it down clean as you would if you’re cleaning your gun, put every single part on the table and study it all with a fine toothed comb. Chances are very good we will find items within the device that are not beneficial at all to our health, and that make the liquid and the smoke harmful to the user simply by passing through the device.