Finally, around 2023, the legal cannabis frontier pushed even further. Enterprising vendors realized that Congress had banned cannabis “flower” containing more than 0.3 percent of delta-9 THC — but that even intoxicating cannabis doesn’t contain delta-9 dHC.
Instead, it contains delta-9 THCa — or tetrahydrocannabinolic acid, a chemical that is non-intoxicating unless exposed to heat, at which point it is converted to intoxicating THC. (That’s why simply eating marijuana doesn’t get the consumer high.)
Therefore, based on a strict reading of the 2018 Farm Bill, Congress hadn’t just legalized the growth of hemp fibers — it had legalized smokable, intoxicating cannabis, which was legal up until the point that the purchaser lit it on fire.
As one online vendor notes, “THCa is completely legal across the U.S. It contains less than 0.3 percent Delta-9 THC, which according to the DEA, makes it federally legal.”
Lmao
Cannabis is not toxic
THC is not toxic
Funny how they repeated this twice, they're trying to stick the idea that weed is toxic but it's just not, the lethal dose you'd have to take is physically impossible to achieve. There's not enough research to really tell what the effects are but I personally believe all the negative press is more of the same- trying to prop up the tobacco and paper industries because of so many uses that cannabis has, both as a medicinal plant and a source of materials (hemp). It's no different from why it was criminalized in the first place, so the beat goes on.
I don't think anyone uses the word "intoxication" to mean something is toxic. It means you get high off it.
Well then I guess it's just the autism 😆 🤷🏿♂️
... "Intoxicating" doesn't mean something is toxic.
What else could it mean, then if the colloquial definition is different
It means it gets you high. Or drunk. Usually intoxicated is used when someone has used alcohol.
Should only be used for alcohol and maybe stop confusing people idk
Now that you know, you are no longer confused. English is far beyond salvaging as a technically consistent language
No language that is actually used is consistent.
I mean "narcotic" implies a drug causes narcosis, sleepiness, etc., but cocaine is "a narcotic"
English is a stupid ass language
The word doesn't just mean "toxic", it's also commonly used as "Very exciting and stimulating, especially as if by alcohol or some stimulant. ".
The word doesn't mean "toxic" at all. Its essentially a synonym for "inebriating"
I hate to break it to you, but it can mean that. It just usually doesn't. See definition 3
It can mean that in a book from 400 years ago.
English is dumb
I am willing to try!
Felt that lol
Closest I came was taking enough edibles to put myself into a medically induced coma for like 15 hours and waking up still high
Lol holy shit that sounds wild
Me and my friends telling each other about our cousin who went septic after overdosing on 7 injected marijuanas for the 10 billionth time
just to help me understand, alcohol then is considered toxic cuz it's like literally poison right?
in small doses alcohol still kills cells and whatnot, whereas the distinction you're making is saying marijuana or thc in any form (that anyone is realistically gonna find it in) is not 'intoxicating' and rather when people use the word intoxicating they may be referring to how one is not 'sober' after consuming thc but it's a misnomer to and erroneous to think thc is actually 'intoxicating'
did i kinda get that right?
Yes, actually! Lol