About this edition

Cannabis Is Food: Why Your Body Needs It Raw, Not Heated. Jeffrey Benjamin, with Keith Floyd, Endocannabinoid Nutritional Biology Research Group.

This site is where the book is kept current. Changes to the text will be listed on this page, with the date.

Edition history, as printed in the book: published June 1 2026 on Zenodo; updated June 18 2026 for A1C Challenge; revised June 25 2026 for A1C Challenge study open; September 10 2026 for the science stack update. Ported to this site November 7 2026.

Changes since the September 10 edition: November 7 2026: the decarboxylation temperature was restated. The September edition said the reaction "begins at temperatures around 120°F (49°C)". Published measurements put efficient conversion at roughly 90 to 100°C. The 120°F (49°C) figure stays as the book's deliberately conservative handling limit for raw material, and is now described as that. Basis: Iffland et al. (2016), European Industrial Hemp Association. Changed in the Introduction, the nutrition-table caption in Chapter 4, Chapters 10 and 11, and the Glossary. Chapter 11 also gains one sentence: crushed or powdered material takes up heat faster than whole pieces, so let food cool before adding it.

Reference change, November 8 2026: the Vitamers preprint (version 2) is no longer available at its earlier Zenodo record, 10.5281/zenodo.22684106. The same text is now at 10.5281/zenodo.24061187, with the byline in the order Benjamin, Floyd. The references to it in the Introduction, in Chapters 5 and 6 and in the Science Stack now point to the new record. Version 1 is 10.20944/preprints202602.1085.v1. The September 10 edition on Zenodo still prints the earlier reference.

What the port changed: the two QR-code images and the cover drawing were left out (the links the QR codes carried are given as text), and the printed table of contents and page numbers were replaced by the contents list on the book's main page. The port itself did not edit wording.

Wording changes on the breast-milk pages, November 7 2026: the vitamin B12 entry now describes a shared dependence on an outside source (B12 is made only by microbes, and milk carries it only when the mother's intake is adequate) in place of an "identical gap" or "absence" in both. Edestin is now called a seed storage protein, not a legume protein, since hemp is not a legume.

Pages split out: the twenty-axis comparison of breast milk with hemp seed plus raw cannabis (from Chapter 2) and the opening section of Chapter 5 now have their own pages, marked "Inset" in the contents. The wording is unchanged and each chapter links to its inset where the text was. A status line on each inset page says that the author plans to revisit the two preprints behind them (7 and 8) for rigor and to examine hemp sprouts.

Cite the edition of record: Benjamin, J. (2026). Cannabis Is Food: Why Your Body Needs It Raw, Not Heated. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.22690267. The annotated companion guide, with section-by-section citation trails, is doi:10.5281/zenodo.20501206.