Yeh I really wanna wait hours to get high and potentially take too much. If I smoke it I can have the exact number of drags it takes to get a certain level of high and then stop.
Like sure I know inhaling smoke into your lungs is inherently bad, but as somehow who only very occasionally ingests marijuana, I don’t see the trade off being worth it.
Oh yeah please let me fill my delicate lung air sacs with HOT POISON FIRE AIR and you don't get why someone might not like that?
It's cold outside and I don't want to stink up the house
Also sometimes I want to be really high for hours
I still live with my parents who are very anti-weed, so I can easily hide edibles and not have to worry about the smell. 🚭
My parents are the opposite being old hippies and I'm actually really happy I've finally convinced them to switch over to edibles for their health
I don't get why anyone would ever smoke when edibles exist :edgeworth-shrug: different priorities
smoking is fun and works instantly
i like edibles but its more of a once in a while treat. its a lot of effort to infuse oil then cook with that oil. whenever i get edibles from a plug most of the time they taste bad so i only trust myself to make them
plus :im-vegan: now so i wouldnt be able to buy most edibles anyways
I dunno about where you're at but where I'm at at least 50% of the edibles on the shelf are vegan+gluten free
i was talking abt buying from plugs. but i moved a year ago and live reasonably close to a dispensary now so im gonna have to check out their edibles now! thanks!
If I was your plug I'd offer infused paenut butter, completely vegan and it just tastes like regular peanut butter
why would I want to breathe in smoke when I could avoid it and still get just as high?
Death to America
I second both of these, if I was still vaping I would have gone through more than double the amount of weed in the last month than I have infusing oil and making my own edibles
Once your tolerance gets up there, it starts becoming really rough on your lungs over just a single session to get blasted to space
I gave myself a bronchial infection in my mid 20s because I would have to take 4-5 bong rips to get a buzz. Feel like I fried some receptors because even when I've quit for 6+ months my tolerance returns with a vengeance within a couple weeks.
When made correctly edibles will contain more drug compounds from the plant then you could get from smoking. This is, in my experience of making many edibles over the years, a major factor in the seemingly random effects. A given batch of weed will hit different when smoked vs eaten due to the different active cannabinoids in the edibles.
This really becomes an issue when weed has no real strict identity for it's cannabinoid contents. Indica and sativa is mostly based on vibes. The actual level of drug other than THC present in a given batch is basically unknowable and it's probable that some of that even varies within a given strain from plant to plant.
So even before you factor in the human elements like diet and metabolism, the edibles themselves are kind of a game of roulette on how it will hit you.
It's also incredibly easy to make them too strong. It took me over a year and tens of infusions before I had my edibles at a reasonable strength, and even then sometimes a different batch of weed would totally throw my recipes off. The time I made a batch with shake from several different strains was a real rollercoaster of being stoned.
when you make edibles ur causing a lot of the THC to convert to CBN, as opposed to smoking where only a little CBN is formed. CBN causes sleepiness and is relaxing, closer in effects to CBD than THC. i like THC tho so when i make edibles i go low and slow on the decarb step. and the high heat from smoking causes cannabinoids to break down more than when cooking (butane lighters burn at 2000 C). also when you eat THC ur liver converts it to 11-hydroxy-THC, which is about 5x more bioactive than THC, which is why you can eat 100 mg and have a nice high for several hours while if you smoke 100 mg THC (a bit less than half a gram of bud) ur mildly high for an hour or two (depending on ur tolerance obv).
Some people, even those that otherwise like edibles or at least are pro-legalization, simply don't like the smell everywhere and some have smoke allergies.
When living with other people or at least nearby them, it can also be a matter of courtesy to not automatically waft that smoke to everyone else if they don't want it.
yeah at one point in college my roommates weed smoke was so thick it made me choke
For me the sensation of smoke in my lungs is so irritating that I'd rather not use weed at all than smoke it.
It's not like I'll never smoke again but I've decided to save my smoking/vaping for special occasions or, more importantly, when I'm making an effort to impress other stoners with my lung capacity
Like that time I bought some weed from a friend of a friend and he and the dudes he was hanging out with insisted I smoke with them for a bit so I cleared the whole bowl and all the smoke in the bong in one massive rip, they were all like "whoa" and I was all like "hell yes whoa"
That shit isn't nearly as fun without an audience to impress
