Rastafari
Give thankhs for this herb, the cannabis plant, the ganja herb.
This subject has me thinking today...
I would think that edibles or tinctures would be safer, less harmful to the body, because we bypass that smoking mechanism which can damage the lungs.
However...
In California it's very easy to get cannabis consumables/ebibles...
So easy that one can accidentally consume them...
True enough they have super clear warnings on them and even sometimes child proof caps... and if anyone reads the label they won't make the mistake..
Yet it happened recently to someone who doesn't even use cannabis at all... 100mg of thc in one serving. And he was on a really bad "trip" for lack of a better word, like mind racing heart racing couldn't sleep (it was sativa), for over 24 hours.. called 911 because he had his heart rate on his watch telling him it was in the cardio range while he was laying down trying to sleep...
It got me thinking... because smoking one bowl of a pipe on average has only 18mg of thc consumed... and also it is in my knowledge impossible to accidentally smoke a bowl or chalice or joint or whatever... so one can never accidentally overdose on smoking...
And even though the effects were not harmful it was more of a temporary state of extreme stress, this event did seem like an overdose for someone whose body has absolutely no tolerance to thc...
I also was thinking how when we smoke the flower we are inhaling more than just the thc compound... and the combination of compounds is what can balance out that mind racing effect from the high thc... isn't it more beneficial to get all of those compounds rather than the isolated thc in drinks like that one or in tinctures? I know when I make tea or cannaoil I am not losing those compounds but in laboratory produced oils and tinctures I think they do isolate them, right?
Also, the edibles, the gummies, the drinks, the tinctures - they all have other ingredients. Maybe it's a stevia, sugar, food colorings, gelatin or wax, maybe it's preservatives. Things that I am not trying to consume, bottom line.
Another thought I had is the word going around that apparently cannabis smokers are less likely to get "covid"... well I am not really sure if that is true, I am not even sure about any of the truth of the whole plandemic at all, but if it is a real thing and I working in a public job with no mask no vaxx and never being ill, maybe it is. The point being, what if lining our lungs in cannabis can actually be beneficial more so than destructive in a sense of smoking? Same way that smoking marshmallow herb can relieve the lungs from asthma...
So I am wondering which is truly safer and of more benefit, to smoke cannabis or to use it from a bottle or a gummie or whatever else... Even if I make my own oil (which I do - just coconut oil and flower) am I losing possible protective benefits that smoking provides?
Give thankhs again JAHfully RASpectfully honoring the herb.
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