Is this the devil's lettuce everybody is on about?
But this video is right: weed isn't perfectly safe. Try and buy from a safe, legal source, don't give it to <20yos, and use it in moderate or low doses, then you should be fine.
This video did not touch on tinctures nor pills. Both forms highly able to control your dose, as you can easily measure to the mg, albeit without a rapid come on like smoking or vaping, full disclosure. Furthermore, pills can also carry a less precise come on due to other factors related to digestion. But, you can still see exactly how much you are taking.
Not to knock smoking too much, but such measurements do not seem to exist for this method. I think people generally measure in number of hits + how large of a draw they take. People often know their limit, but it's very unscientific.
Tinctures and pills also don't carry the silliness of other edibles (technically the tincture is sublingual), like gummies and cookies. People abuse regular gummy vitamins!
Inhaling smoke from burning matter is also way more harmful to the body than intake via swallowing
The worst thing about weed smoking culture (at least here in Germany) is that people tend to only make tips and not use filters, even when they mix with tobacco, which also a lot of people do. I don’t want unfiltered smoke in my lungs and I definitely don’t want unfiltered smoke with tar and nicotine.
It's the reason why I only eat my weed. The harm from smoking, simply burning stuff into my lungs would cancel out any good effects of the weed. But maybe its because I have asthma and allergies, maybe for those that are healthier its slightly less bad.
My problem with eating it is the lack of actual recipes or know-how, almost every tutorial says to make oil or butter but I don't really like the idea of heating them twice (one to mix with the weed, a second time to cook). Cannabic milk is a decent alternative, baking is expensive (at least where I'm from), same for candies.
Sometimes I just add it to my food before reheating in the microwave and it works, but I know it isn't ideal.
There's also vaping... But it's fucking expensive over here, also making more trash with the batteries (even if can be recharged) and the induction heated ones are extremely expensive... Like... No.
My bong might not be the healthiest option with all the smoke, but for now it's the middle ground for me until marketing allows cheaper alternatives
I agree that oil capsules are the way to go for dosing precision and general healthiness. I like oil caps the most out of all edibles simply because you can lock in a approximate amount needed to get you medicated. Not requiring further cooking or excess calories is a bonus.
To answer your question abiut dosing vapor, I can give some insight as a vaping nerd.
Just to be clear I mean dry herb vaping where the raw cannabis flower is baked at a temperature hot enough to vaporize the plant oil with all the good cannabinoids but not hot enough to burn or combust the flower. This method is much cleaner than combustion smoking while avoiding the possible synthetic additives in cartridge vapes.
When it comes to vaping theres two paths users tend to head down. One common path is thst you just quit combustion smoking and want to emulate the experience of smoking as closely as possible. Big milky vapor clouds filling your regular sized bongs and exiting your lungs in a huge rip. This path leads towards the natural conclusion of expensive ball vapes and burning through zips a week.
More experienced vapor heads realize another path. You don't actually need all that much vapor to get baked, especially with good flower. So you go for maximizing your herb efficency by trying to get every bit of vapor out of a very small amount of herb These are the crowds that actually take dosing seriously even using measuring spoons and stuff. This path is most commonly followed by half bowl dynavap users, but there are many microdosing options.
Here are three different bowl sized.
I can't tell you exact numbers but spitballing the biggest bowl probably holds .15-.20g, the middle one holds .10g and the teeny tiny one .05gs. How these get used depends on flower quality. If I'm vaporizing top tier ganja Its easy to get medicated and I want to stretch it out with the small or middle bowl sizes. If I'm vaporizing lots of cheap mid or shake I'm going for the big bowl.
I hope they follow this up with a “we need to talk about prohibition” video because that is where the most harm resides. All drugs have downsides, but treating them as a justice issue rather than a health issue harms everyone.
I'm a long time user 43 years for past 10+ a daily user mostly vaping dabs but also tinctures and I may rarely smoke some infused flower. In the past 4-5 years I have been experiencing cannabis induced hyperemesis Basically when I get enough on board and get some munchies late at night then go to bed my stomach will shut down and anything in there starts fermenting, this is followed by bloating, nausea, then cyclic vomiting for hours on end until everything comes back up. Haven't seen anyone else here mentioning it.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21665-cannabis-hyperemesis-syndrome
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