I have some issues with weed, but only powerful strains. Around my parts everyone and their mum smokes weed, no joke, but strict drug laws means you can only get potent shit. I think that can be really damaging, well I know it is, but again this is because of unnatural neolib fuckanomics alienating us from the natural state of things.
Really powerful weed should be treated like LSD, not something to do on any sort of regular basis. And low-protency weed, more CBD less THC, should take the place of tobacco.
My point is that low THC strains aren't really available in places with stronger drug laws, so it's not like we have the option. I'm not trying to draw actual comparisons to the effects of weed and LSD.
I think the practice would be to grow it in back gardens and allotments. There was a group, I dunno what become of them, that went around planting it in public spaces. It is a weed after all, it'll grow almost anywhere you like.
There is a culture of weed use where more smoked = better. The one-hitter dugout, spliff, and toothpick joints need to make a comeback. Sure its nice going for a massive bong rip on a friday night but doing that everyday is an awful way to live.
I know so many people who only smoke dabs out of a rig and it might be sliiiightly cleaner but jesus nothing makes you look more like an addict than a propane torch from home depot making a glass nail glow red and a whole bag of gear needed to use your drug of choice.
I think you're right that cannabis culture is due for a massive change in the way we view and think about using different distributions of cannabinoids and how mode of consumption/particular cannabis preparation alter these distributions. I also agree with you that more balance (i.e. less thc, more of every other active molecule) would produce weed that is better for 99.99% of people's use cases. Also, I think it's easier for people to moderate their thc intake when they're not heavy cannabis users.
There's a place for melting your face off and becoming one with a paranoid blur of parapolitics documentaries, but I don't think it's for every day use. I think what's probably more important than specific thc concentration in the bud is how much thc (relative to other cannabinoids and also absolutely) ends up in the blood. Using a very small amount of a very high thc strain can be moderated so that a person only gets as much thc as they'd pull out of one with a lower strength, and can also be useful in blending with other strains to alter the distribution of cannabinoids more intentionally.
All of this said, those distillate pens have to go. Most of them wick a solution of almost entirely thc (and a small amount of cbd, but almost never terpenes or other cannabinoids, and I've only seen one full spectrum extract pen, which I guess isn't really a distillate cartridge, but I digress) onto a wound metal wire (which I don't think is tested/inspected by a QA system to ensure they don't off-gas heavy metals when oils vaporize on them), whose temperature is usually allowed to increase until the user stops pulling, which can lead to the user combusting the extract on the heating surface.
I also think most of us don't think much about the method we use to consume it. I used to dab a lot, thinking that I was vaporizing and avoiding combustion, but with the temperatures I was using, I was almost certainly combusting something and after a while, my lungs hurt more from dabs than smoking. Then I switched to vaporizing flower and my lungs hurt way less, I sleep better, and my tolerance is more reasonable. At first I couldn't get as high, but a month long break took care of that. Now just 0.125 grams of a strong strain in a dynavap gets me ripped, and I think this is the one saving grace of high thc strains: you don't need to carry as much to get the same magnitude of effect (assuming that you have enough diversity in cannabinoid and terpene production that every other molecule isn't overshadowed completely by thc.
I've stopped buying based on reported strength of any cannabinoids (and I think some of these numbers were inflated anyway) and I follow my nose and my gut. I'm okay with not getting quite as high if it tastes amazing and I can know the plant was grown in living soil without any pesticides/fungicides/otherpoisons.
I have some issues with weed, but only powerful strains. Around my parts everyone and their mum smokes weed, no joke, but strict drug laws means you can only get potent shit. I think that can be really damaging, well I know it is, but again this is because of unnatural neolib fuckanomics alienating us from the natural state of things.
Really powerful weed should be treated like LSD, not something to do on any sort of regular basis. And low-protency weed, more CBD less THC, should take the place of tobacco.
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Seriously jfc.
My point is that low THC strains aren't really available in places with stronger drug laws, so it's not like we have the option. I'm not trying to draw actual comparisons to the effects of weed and LSD.
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I think the practice would be to grow it in back gardens and allotments. There was a group, I dunno what become of them, that went around planting it in public spaces. It is a weed after all, it'll grow almost anywhere you like.
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I'm starting to see 2:1 CBD strains more and more. You can also get high-CBD/~4% THC cartridges as well
There is a culture of weed use where more smoked = better. The one-hitter dugout, spliff, and toothpick joints need to make a comeback. Sure its nice going for a massive bong rip on a friday night but doing that everyday is an awful way to live.
I know so many people who only smoke dabs out of a rig and it might be sliiiightly cleaner but jesus nothing makes you look more like an addict than a propane torch from home depot making a glass nail glow red and a whole bag of gear needed to use your drug of choice.
I think you're right that cannabis culture is due for a massive change in the way we view and think about using different distributions of cannabinoids and how mode of consumption/particular cannabis preparation alter these distributions. I also agree with you that more balance (i.e. less thc, more of every other active molecule) would produce weed that is better for 99.99% of people's use cases. Also, I think it's easier for people to moderate their thc intake when they're not heavy cannabis users.
There's a place for melting your face off and becoming one with a paranoid blur of parapolitics documentaries, but I don't think it's for every day use. I think what's probably more important than specific thc concentration in the bud is how much thc (relative to other cannabinoids and also absolutely) ends up in the blood. Using a very small amount of a very high thc strain can be moderated so that a person only gets as much thc as they'd pull out of one with a lower strength, and can also be useful in blending with other strains to alter the distribution of cannabinoids more intentionally. All of this said, those distillate pens have to go. Most of them wick a solution of almost entirely thc (and a small amount of cbd, but almost never terpenes or other cannabinoids, and I've only seen one full spectrum extract pen, which I guess isn't really a distillate cartridge, but I digress) onto a wound metal wire (which I don't think is tested/inspected by a QA system to ensure they don't off-gas heavy metals when oils vaporize on them), whose temperature is usually allowed to increase until the user stops pulling, which can lead to the user combusting the extract on the heating surface.
I also think most of us don't think much about the method we use to consume it. I used to dab a lot, thinking that I was vaporizing and avoiding combustion, but with the temperatures I was using, I was almost certainly combusting something and after a while, my lungs hurt more from dabs than smoking. Then I switched to vaporizing flower and my lungs hurt way less, I sleep better, and my tolerance is more reasonable. At first I couldn't get as high, but a month long break took care of that. Now just 0.125 grams of a strong strain in a dynavap gets me ripped, and I think this is the one saving grace of high thc strains: you don't need to carry as much to get the same magnitude of effect (assuming that you have enough diversity in cannabinoid and terpene production that every other molecule isn't overshadowed completely by thc.
I've stopped buying based on reported strength of any cannabinoids (and I think some of these numbers were inflated anyway) and I follow my nose and my gut. I'm okay with not getting quite as high if it tastes amazing and I can know the plant was grown in living soil without any pesticides/fungicides/otherpoisons.
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