Healthy Cannabis Dosage? (Doctor's Advice)

  • You have probably wondered many times about the optimal amount of cannabis. In this article, Dr. Dustin Sulak will provide some advice to help answer this question.

Dr. Dustin Sulak:

"If we want to avoid unwanted side effects and get the most out of cannabis consumption, dosage is the key factor. After monitoring hundreds of patients using medical cannabis for eight years, I noticed that cannabis dosing cannot be compared to any other medication I have encountered during my practice. Understanding the main principles of correct dosing will help you get the most out of this incredibly versatile, safe, and effective herb.

Some patients effectively use only a small amount of cannabis, while others consume an incredible quantity. I have seen patients achieve therapeutic effects with just 1 mg of cannabis daily, while others used more than 2000 mg daily without adverse effects. Although this amount is unusual in treatment, researchers in tests did not kill monkeys even at doses up to 300 times higher than the maximum amount used by doctors.[i]

Multiphase Dose-Response Relationship

As this wide dosage spectrum shows, cannabis exhibits an atypical relationship between quantity and expected response. For most medications, a larger dose leads to stronger therapeutic effects and a higher probability of side effects. This process is described as a monophasic dose-response relationship. However, Cannabis does not follow this process.

Most consumers experience stronger effects by gradually increasing cannabis consumption, but this breaks at a certain point. This moment occurs differently for each person, resulting in a gradual decrease of therapeutic effects and an increase in side effects.

Consumers who continue to increase cannabis dosage may experience a renewed increase in some therapeutic effects or even discover new effects that did not occur at lower doses. Higher dosing is, of course, much more expensive and usually brings many more undesirable side effects. Most patients do better by maintaining a lower dosage.

For them, less means more! One study focused on 263 cancer patients divided into several groups. The group consuming 21 mg of THC and CBD mixture daily registered much greater pain relief than the second group, which received 52 mg daily. In the third group consuming 83mg of cannabis daily, there was no significant pain reduction, but patients experienced many more side effects. [ii]

"Cannabis has the ability to produce different effects in different people depending on the strain and amount."

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