As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick
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#2I know a cannabis entrepreneur who makes high-quality gummies standardized to 150 mg THC which is, I think, too much. As a cannabis experienced user I find these make me feel hosed for six hours or so. It may or may not be a good time, but I'm certainly not going to do more than lay on my ass.
If I take half of one of those (75 mg) it is a strong intoxication, pretty consistently a good time, and I can go for a walk, do the dishes and otherwise be able to do most things.
The local health department had complained about very strong products being for sale and I've talked with this guy a few times about it. He'd say that people can always cut them in half but I'd say that a lot of people don't know what they are doing, will take the whole thing, and probably have a bad time when they could have had a good time and become repeat customers.
Despite the unit economics being worse he's recently come out with a 75 mg product.
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#3Those high concentration THC extracts cause huge serotonin spikes.
I'm on medicinal 19% THC flowers (190mg daily) and I'm doing my best to make it "extended release"[1] by baking edibles[2] instead of taking huge bong hits.
Daily irritation of the reward system is a no-no.
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#4I know a cannabis entrepreneur who makes high-quality gummies standardized to 150 mg THC which is, I think, too much. As a cannabis experienced user I find these make me feel hosed for six hours or so. It may or may not be a good time, but I'm certainly not going to do more than lay on my ass. If I take half of one of those (75 mg) it is a strong intoxication, pretty consistently a good time, and I can go for a walk,…
Meanwhile in Canada the stores only sell 10mg and I need to eat a dozen to feel a buzz.
Just give consumers choice
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#5I know a cannabis entrepreneur who makes high-quality gummies standardized to 150 mg THC which is, I think, too much. As a cannabis experienced user I find these make me feel hosed for six hours or so. It may or may not be a good time, but I'm certainly not going to do more than lay on my ass. If I take half of one of those (75 mg) it is a strong intoxication, pretty consistently a good time, and I can go for a walk,…
I have a friend who stopped eating gummies for the same reason. They found the chocolate bars easier to break into the smaller pieces since they are grooved that way.
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#6Despite this, high-concentration cannabis is a huge public health risk. The deleterious effects from smoking comes from inhaling the smoldering organic compounds in dried plant material. That health impact scales with the volume of smoke inhaled.
If you increase the concentration of THC, users can achieve equivalent levels of intoxication with substantially less smoke inhalation. 30 years ago, THC concentrations were 5% or less. Today, legal cannabis tends to average around 25%. That's an 80% reduction in smoke-related damage.
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#7I know a cannabis entrepreneur who makes high-quality gummies standardized to 150 mg THC which is, I think, too much. As a cannabis experienced user I find these make me feel hosed for six hours or so. It may or may not be a good time, but I'm certainly not going to do more than lay on my ass. If I take half of one of those (75 mg) it is a strong intoxication, pretty consistently a good time, and I can go for a walk,…
Sweet Christ. 150mg? Goddamn, I hope my tolerance never gets that bad. That'd be so expensive. 1/10 that at once is enough to get me fucked up enough that, if I had taken more, I'd just be asleep.
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#8When I lived in NYC almost every single one of my friends regularly smoked pot and it seemed pretty harmless to me except I’d occasionally have a friend who never really addressed their anxiety because pot was their go-to so that anxiety just got worse and worse. Years later, I joined Al-Anon because my partner was struggling with alcoholism and I was really surprised to see so many people there because a partner or child was addicted to pot and the very real emotional pain and problems they were facing from this. Their loved ones were basically checked out of their life and relationships.
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#9I agree. We observe this in the Netherlands for quite a while already. The solution? Mix it with CBD flower. Unfortunatenly most coffee shops don't agree and still sell only high THC flowers with 0% cbd...
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#10I know a cannabis entrepreneur who makes high-quality gummies standardized to 150 mg THC which is, I think, too much. As a cannabis experienced user I find these make me feel hosed for six hours or so. It may or may not be a good time, but I'm certainly not going to do more than lay on my ass. If I take half of one of those (75 mg) it is a strong intoxication, pretty consistently a good time, and I can go for a walk,…
> He'd say that people can always cut them in half
People who want a stronger buzz could always just take two..