@mamabear143 and @windsorchris Since you both asked for similar information, here are notes from my experience with medical cannabis which I have been using for about five years for SFN. Production and manufacturing of cannabis have developed considerably in that time. Legality enforces regulation which is also helpful. So, I no longer have to worry about strains and strengths. I just have to make sure that the makers have met every requirement to ensure consistency from bottle to bottle and have complied with testing mandates. Even so....I still discover some inconsistencies.....sometimes when a new size of the product is introduced or you try a substitute.

You do not have to be overwhelmed with too many product choices. You only need tinctures and topicals. Some folks do like capsules. I want to measure my own doses.

At this point, I use basic CBD/THC dosages, e.g. 2:1 CBD/THC for sleep and 1:1 CBD/THC for the get-up and go energy. Some companies will produce both a 3:1 CBD/THC and a 1:3 CBD/THC. One might be for acute pain and the other for chronic pain.

In the morning, I will take a look at my day and loosely determine what I will need and when. Then, I can still make alterations as the day plays out. Sleep is the most important.....and you do need to calculate not only the dosage but also how you take it. If you hold the tincture under your tongue so that it goes through the membrane and up to your brain, your response time can be within 15 or 20 minutes. If you swallow a capsule or a dropper, then the liquid will have to go through your digestive system which means that the response time can take up to an hour.

I hope this information is helpful. Please remember that you are your own prescriber and performance evaluator. And then there is always the message to remember, "you can always have more but you can never have less".

May you be free of suffering and the causes of suffering.