alt Hacker News> It’s not smoking 10 strains in a row
I never said it was. I was saying you could run 10 different studies on 10 different strains with 10 different "entourage effect" profiles and even if all of them were negative, they would be dismissed as not having precisely the right entourage effect.
If there are anti-depressant compounds in cannabis plants then they can be extracted and isolated, too.
> So the correct way to do this would be a full spectrum isolate, which again you coincidently forgot to mention I’m sure.
Of course, the correct formulation is something other than what was tested, right? And if they tested a full spectrum isolate with negative results, we should assume that it just wasn't the right blend of terpenes and therefore that study should be dismissed too? Repeat ad nauseum?
Why would you not have to try each and every combination of features known to create a different effect on the outcome?
There are what, 500 different psycho-active chemicals in cannabis? And how many different kinds of neuro-chemicals can our brains create in synapses? And how do we even begin to organize the ways that that information is transmitted to the structure (topology) of the neural systems? And their firing action logic? And the behavior of the whole organism in question?
Seems like like multiple, multi-linear variable spaces composed within each other. None of which are understandable independently of the other. None of which are perfectly mapped or traverscible landscapes. Why wouldn’t you have to try each and every possible configuration of the system in order to understand how it works?
We are not even working with a strong philosophical foundation or definition of consciousness. We must explore every possibility, leave no stone unturned.