Equating lead poisoning to marijuana use. Top comment on the thread.

  • dat_math [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Okay so obviously this is wrong and belies a massive ignorance of pharmacology.

    But I think that if we really twist what they're saying, they might have a point.

    I use a lot of medical cannabis and I obsessively check certificates of analysis from testing facilities in my state and there are a few I won't trust. One such facility was just fined for intentionally inflating THC concentration test results. It's known that there is a lot of lead in some soils, and I would be very unsurprised if an unscrupulous or dishonest grower (and in my state there are many brands I avoid for this reason) discovered lead contamination and paid one of the more bribable labs to fudge the results so that lead content in the plant appeared below threshold (1ppm, which is pretty strict, but imo it should be required to be below limit of detection).

    What I'm trying to say is that I would not be surprised if a significant amount of flower on the legal markets today contained too much lead, and I would be even less surprised if the coils on many disposable cartridges were offgassing copper, lead, chrome, etc The paper is a bit old and refers to ecigarette coils, but my suspicion that local cannabis producers were just ordering the cheapest coils they could find online is what convinced me to stop using those damn cartridges, and what do you know, when I switched to only flower and dabs on quartz, the weird tight pains in my chest disappeared (and have not returned in the 3 years since).

    • sappho [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      I'm on the same page when it comes to the cartridges, I don't trust them. Three years ago my state's medical cannabis department sent an advisory about lead in cartridge coils leeching over time, and noted that several medical markets in nearby states had identified potentially dangerous carts. I try to buy cannabis and hemp grown without pesticides and I exclusively dry herb vape. I also make an effort to balance my THC consumption with CBD as the latter has been shown to be neuroprotective against some deleterious effects of the former.

      • dat_math [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I also make an effort to balance my THC consumption with CBD as the latter has been shown to be neuroprotective against some deleterious effects of the former.

        I was doing this for a little bit, but I use cannabis to treat my adhd and inability to consistently dose CBD across different strains was stochastically urning me into a zombie.

        It's SO FUCKING HARD to find good organic weed where I am. I cannot wait until I can start growing again.