VIDEO: East expert praises the health benefits of dagga
There were strains that helped people living with cancer, depression, diabetes and many other chronic illnesses.
A “cannabis practitioner” from Faerie Glen, east of Pretoria, has extolled the virtues of the recently partially decriminalised herb.
Mirishin Schutte, who is in the cannabis byproduct business, told Rekord that dagga had health benefits – if taken correctly.
“It is actually a healing herb,” she said.
“The stigma attached to the use of cannabis is based on the fact that people are misinformed.”
She said understanding the various types of the herb would help people better understand how to use it in a responsible way.
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Just like going to the medical doctor, Schutte said that patients should consult cannabis practitioners to get the correct strain suitable for their condition or needs.
Schutte, and a partner Johann Sutherland, grow cannabis to manufacture different products ranging from healing oils, tea and capsules.
She said cannabis had over 20 000 strains, all of which served a different healing function in a human’s body.
“The use of an incorrect strain can cause adverse effects.
That is why we sometimes hear of people who go crazy or wild on the streets, it is because they may have used an incorrect strain.”
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She said there were strains that helped people living with cancer, depression, diabetes and many other chronic illnesses.
The most effective way of consuming cannabis was to have it in its organic form.
Having it raw in your food or chewing two buds a day lowers your chances of any health issues, said Schutte.
“It also has no psychoactive effect, meaning it will not make you high, but you still get the health benefits.”
She advised that people avoid getting cannabis from the street as one would not know which additives were present.
“Growing your own means you are able to control what goes into your body.”
Last week the Constitutional Court ruled the use and cultivation of cannabis in private is no longer illegal.
Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo directed that parliament change current legislation within 24 months.
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