Cannabis

The foundation of everything Aajonus said about marijuana as a smoked substance is the tar comparison to tobacco. He stated repeatedly, across multiple seminars and written responses, that marijuana contains approximately 16 to 20 times more tar than regular cigarettes. The practical implication he drew from this is that smoking one joint is equivalent to smoking an entire pack of cigarettes in terms of tar exposure. He made this point directly: "Marijuana has at least sixteen times the tar of a regular cigarette. So smoking one joint is like smoking a whole pack of cigarettes, tar-wise."

The reason this matters in his framework is that the tars produced by smoking are not simply excess plant material. They are the natural fats of the plant that have been cooked at extreme temperatures, which Aajonus identified as ranging from 500 to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit in written responses and from 1,250 to 1,400 degrees in seminar discussions, with references also to 1,200 to 1,600 degrees when discussing the general range. These temperatures transform the plant's natural fats into what he called trans-fatty acids. At those temperatures, the fat molecules bond together into a compound that behaves like plastic or, more specifically, like amber, which he described as the resin from a tree that hardens into a jewel stone. This is precisely how he characterized what marijuana tars do inside the body: they harden like amber, remain rounded rather than sharp-edged (unlike some crystalline stones that form in the body), but are capable of blocking whatever area they accumulate in.

He explained the chemistry of this transformation in terms of what happens to trans-fatty acids generally in his framework. They do not dissolve easily. They cannot lubricate. They cannot be burned for fuel. The body cannot readily process them through normal metabolic channels. Instead, they clog whatever tissue they settle in, and the body must divert other nutrients, particularly fats that are not already trans-fatty acids, to attempt to create a solvent capable of breaking them down. This is an expensive and slow process that depletes the body's nutrient reserves.

Aajonus made specific observations about where marijuana tars tend to deposit in the body, and he distinguished the deposition pattern of marijuana tars from that of tobacco tars. He described one young man in detail during a workshop: "Mainly the regular tobacco tars stayed in the right side of the chest and some in the left side of the chest. But all the marijuana tars are in the brain and in the left clavicle area. Lots of lymphatic congestion because of it."

In another case he described a person whose "scarring here, somebody has been, has done some smoking" corresponded with tars that had hardened "like amber" throughout the system, blocking tissue function. The brain appears repeatedly in his observations as a particular site for marijuana tar accumulation, distinct from tobacco tars which he more consistently associated with chest, throat, and lymphatic tissue in the neck and upper body.

He described the broader process: the tars harden and remain rounded but can still block entire areas of the body, causing widespread tissue dysfunction. They can cause structures to become "like leather," meaning hardened and dried out. He noted signs of this in the thyroid, the esophagus, the mucous membranes of the sinuses and throat, and in the lymphatic system, depending on the individual.

He also mentioned the role of bile in mediating how severely these tars affect a given person: "When you concentrate the tars in like that, guess what goes into it? To harness and dissolve it, bile." He noted that individuals who produce excessive bile may not experience as much tar congestion or as much hardening, meaning the body's bile-making capacity acts as a partial protective factor. He identified five people, two of whom had been on his diet for sixteen years and continued to smoke, who showed no tars accumulating in their bodies at all, attributing this to their bodies' ability to convert the vaporized oil into a cholesterol-usable form of fat. He acknowledged not knowing how many smokers have this capacity, but indicated it is rare.

He also made a notable observation about generational transmission: "I've seen grandchildren with tars and the parents never smoked but the grandparents smoked." The parents were exposed secondhand to grandparents who smoked, absorbed tars into their own bodies, and passed those toxins on to their children. He called this "a very complex handed down toxicity" and specified it is not genetic inheritance but rather the physical passing on of accumulated poisons through the body.

A separate and serious concern Aajonus raised about marijuana was chemical contamination, specifically the use of the herbicide thimerosal, which contains mercury, sprayed on marijuana plants by the U.S. government in Mexico. He described a case involving a fifteen-year-old boy who stole approximately two kilos of mercury-sprayed marijuana and smoked it over roughly three years. The result was what Aajonus identified as rheumatoid arthritis caused by mercury poisoning from the thimerosal. The boy's joints became severely damaged and enlarged, and Aajonus described working to help him eliminate the mercury. Eventually the young man recovered enough to work, type, walk, and live normally, though his joints remained somewhat larger than normal.

He described another individual who came to him after smoking marijuana for only a year and a half to two-year period and who showed signs of heavy metal poisoning, which Aajonus attributed to the same government spraying program in Mexico. He emphasized that the quantity consumed does not always predict the severity of contamination: "Sometimes it doesn't take a lot." This particular concern applied specifically to marijuana that was obtained through channels where government herbicide spraying was known to have occurred, and Aajonus distinguished it from marijuana that predated that spraying program.

He described the mercury from thimerosal as particularly damaging to the nervous system, fragmenting neuron cells, and noted that this kind of heavy metal contamination is what explains certain otherwise puzzling cases of extreme neurological and systemic damage from what might seem like relatively limited drug exposure.

For people who had smoked marijuana over a long period, typically those with roughly thirty years of use, Aajonus developed a specific protocol involving making a tea from raw marijuana rather than continuing to smoke it or simply quitting and relying on raw fats alone to clear the tars. His reasoning was that the natural fats present in the raw marijuana, when prepared correctly without applying destructive heat, act as a solvent of similar molecular character to the tars already deposited in the body. Because "like attracts like" in his framework, these natural fats from the raw plant can penetrate and begin to dissolve the hardened trans-fatty acid deposits left by decades of smoking.

He contrasted this with the alternative of simply quitting and relying on dietary raw fats. He said raw fats on the diet will eventually help dissolve the tars, but the process is extremely slow because the tars burned at temperatures of 1,200 to 1,600 degrees are so hardened that they require a very specific solvent. Eating the raw marijuana provides a more efficient and targeted solvent because the tars and the raw plant fats are of "its own likeness." As he put it, "if they eat the marijuana it will do it better. It will assure that it will happen."

He also noted that this tea preparation avoids the downsides of smoking: there are no monoxides produced, and people who consume it this way typically do not experience the same intensity of "the munchies" as with smoking.

The preparation of this tea was described in specific procedural detail.

Aajonus described making the tea using a six to eight ounce canning jar. The jar is filled halfway with raw marijuana. The jar is then blended on low speed for two minutes, then medium speed for two minutes, then high speed for two minutes. After this first cycle, the jar is removed from the blender, the marijuana is pounded down, the jar is unscrewed and jiggled to clear all plant material from the blades, and then the blending is repeated for another full cycle of two minutes on low, two minutes on medium, and two minutes on high. The purpose of this process is to pulverize the marijuana into a powder.

Once the powder is produced, distilled water is added to bring the contents to approximately a half inch from the top of the jar, leaving about two ounces of headspace. A tablespoon of raw, unsalted vinegar is added. Aajonus specified that the vinegar helps break down the THC and other compounds so that when the preparation enters the body, the body can utilize them properly. The blending and the vinegar together work to release the THC and the natural fats in a form the body can absorb and direct toward dissolving the hardened tars already in the tissue.

He noted that the tea does produce a psychoactive effect: "Yeah, it does. But there is no down to it, because there are no monoxides." The absence of carbon monoxide is significant in his framework because monoxides are a major source of additional damage from smoked substances.

Regarding dosage and duration, he indicated that if a person needs to withdraw from smoking marijuana, they should consume the tea once a day. He noted that a substantial quantity of marijuana prepared this way, if it is of good quality, could be stretched into a supply lasting approximately two months if taken by the teaspoon daily.

Beyond the tea preparation, Aajonus described eating fresh green marijuana directly, describing the same basic principle of using the plant's raw natural fats as a solvent for the deposited tars. The preparation he described for direct consumption involved taking fresh green marijuana, mashing it up, adding a small amount of water, allowing it to ferment, and then eating it. He was specific about timing: "I would do the diet for about a year and a half before you think of doing that."

He distinguished this emphatically from cooking the marijuana, such as making brownies or any other heated preparation. Cooking the marijuana, he explained, converts its natural fats back into trans-fatty acids through the same process that occurs when it is smoked, meaning the tars go "into trans-fatty acids" again and the therapeutic purpose is completely defeated.

In a workshop he also described a protocol for a person who had done significant smoking of both tobacco and marijuana, combining fermented raw tobacco and raw marijuana into a mixed preparation. He recommended taking about three or four leaves of marijuana and a section of tobacco leaf roughly two inches by two inches in a circular slice, mashing that together in some water with a little honey to make it palatable. He recommended doing this no more than once a week, not doing both marijuana and tobacco preparations in the same week, and waiting about three years on the diet before beginning this protocol.

In one workshop exchange he described what a complete supporting protocol might look like for a heavy smoker undertaking this kind of detox, mentioning two lubrication formulas per day alongside two meat meals, with a pound and a quarter of meat recommended per day, although the full details of that broader protocol were partly cut off in the source.

Aajonus placed marijuana in a relative hierarchy when discussing drug toxicity. He said explicitly that marijuana is "not super toxic" compared to pharmaceutical drugs or street drugs like crystal methamphetamine, crack cocaine, or substances made from cleaning compounds and ammonia. He described cocaine as "destructive to every tissue in the body" and characterized crystal meth as made from multiple types of detergents, kerosene, and ammonia, ranking it among the worst substances he encountered clinically. By comparison, the primary damage from marijuana he identified was the tar problem rather than alkaloid toxicity, and he acknowledged that at least in some individuals with strong bile production, even the tar problem can be mitigated.

He also contrasted marijuana with alcohol in terms of social harm, noting in one context that alcohol causes far more death and destruction, particularly through vehicle accidents, than marijuana, and expressing that alcohol deserves more scrutiny than it receives compared to marijuana. This was not a defense of marijuana so much as a comparative observation about how official concern is allocated.

He made a distinction between the psychoactive compound THC and the tars: the tars are the primary physical danger in his framework, not the THC itself. This is why the tea and eating preparations, which preserve the THC while eliminating the combustion and tar formation, are the approaches he recommended for those who still wanted the plant's effects.

Regarding tobacco specifically, he noted that tobacco has roughly sixteen times fewer tars than marijuana, so the tar burden per unit of smoking is dramatically lower with tobacco. However, he noted that tobacco has approximately 300 added chemicals in commercial cigarettes that create additional toxic burden and increase addiction. He suggested that people who wanted to smoke tobacco would be better off growing their own or obtaining untreated green tobacco from a grower, removing the chemical additives from the equation.

In written correspondence from 2012 and 2013, Aajonus was asked specifically about raw cannabis juice, referencing the work of Dr. William Courtney and clinical reports of raw cannabis juice helping people with difficult conditions, including lung and adrenal problems. His response was brief but affirmative in a qualified way: "I have utilized the juice with many conditions." He suggested using just a little at a time, consistent with his general caution about concentrated plant juices.

In a 2013 response he referenced his own product list, which included a green tobacco preparation recipe, and pointed the questioner toward that as a related reference, suggesting he considered raw cannabis juice in a similar category to other raw herb preparations used therapeutically rather than recreationally. He did not expand at length on specific protocols for raw cannabis juice in the surviving sources, but his position was that the absence of combustion removes the primary danger he identified with marijuana, namely the tar formation.

Aajonus described his own use of marijuana in the context of his broader history of drug and stimulant use during a period of severe illness. He mentioned smoked marijuana every day for two and a half years during a period when he was living in extreme pain and using it to manage that pain. He stated that he "loved smoking" and would still be smoking today "if they were good for me." He described a point at which the marijuana itself began making him feel worse, which he said forced him to stop. He also described being taken to UCLA where he went through what he called "marijuana therapy" as part of experimental treatments in the 1960s, alongside LSD therapy and other approaches.

He also chewed marijuana very slowly during a period of excruciating back pain as an alternative to pharmaceutical medication, describing this as a way to handle pain without going on conventional drugs, and noting that at that time he felt particularly good about the hallucinatory aspects of that experience. This was a distinct use from smoking and from the therapeutic raw preparations he later developed.