Smoke up losers

Moddy, you have to allow for inflation. Also, advances in horticulture mean that what you got for an ounce is now a kilo's worth of high.

 

How many grams are in an ounce? Up here it's between $8 and $12 a gram from a dispensary. Hang on.

*blows dust off some other part of the Internet*

Okay, so there are 28 grams in an ounce. Yeah, so, like... um, fuck.

*opens calculator app*

That's at least $224 an ounce. Canadian. So... Oh my God.

*opens currency convertor*

That's $172 American. But that would get you buzzed, like... FUCK.

*goes back to calculator*

Maybe 100 times? So $1.72 a buzz.

Now do whiskey.

Weed is the pig of drugs. It's a magical animal.

 

I was in Colorado a few weeks ago for Outdoor Retailer. I availed myself of the local dispensary. The THC-infused chocolate bar was delicious and added to my enjoyment of watching the sun set over the Rockies.

 

It is very difficult to compare the relative amounts of THC or CBD in a current product versus 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago.
It is only since the advent of legalized medicinal use that we have consistent monitoring of this.
I think common sense can tell us that the amounts of these substances per serving have changed, but the anecdotal reportage on this not very accurate.
When I was a recreational consumer, we often had access to some very strong products in the 1980s into the early 1990s, including honey oil, which is much more known now.
From a practical standpoint, I think mode of consumption can be challenges for some people.
Things such as edible and even sublingual consumption can have different timelines for effect onset and duration that people who are only accustomed to smoking may not consider.
Because of the longer timeline to onset, these people may over-consume. Then they duration of effect for these modes of consumption are much, much longer than smoking.

That is what leads to the unpleasant 'too high, too long' feeling I've heard about from adults whose previous experience was smoking weed as a teenager.

But an adult who is feeling too high, too long and panics and visits the ER is not really an overdose. It's not a genuine negative health outcome.
It is a negative outcome, no doubt. And unnecessary ER visits are a logistical, medical and financial problem in the US that do not need to be compounded by adults who exceeded the recommended serving size of a cannabis edible and ate too much because they weren't 'feeling anything' right away like they would when smoking.
But casting such episodes as overdoses is misleading, and intentionally so.

This is a large and quick change in our drug policies and in our habits for consuming intoxicants. Problems will arise.
The continued alarmist pseudo-info propagated by anti-cannabis reactionaries and the accompanying media coverage is the same reefer madness that has been foisted on the American public for five generations.

 

My anecdotal observation is that marijuana has been awful for my kids’ high school, in a way that alcohol never was either there or at my high school 30 years ago in one of the heaviest-drinking places in America.

It’s obvious to teachers when a person is drunk, and they take care of it. Nobody knows when someone is high and comes to school or practice.

In 20 years I think we’re going to be addressing as a public health matter the crisis of excess consumption among teens.

 

I guess we'll see in 20 years.
I am doubtful of that outcome.

Does not mean something might not be labeled a 'crisis' and reported as a 'crisis.'
Everything is a 'crisis.' I don't see that changing any time soon.

But whether there is a true, genuine public health crisis related to teen cannabis use, I am doubtful.
However, there is, admittedly, a long way to go and a lot of unknowns.

 

If no one can tell, I sure wasted A LOT of paranoia in first and second period back in the day.

 

It's not the weed before class that keeps high school interesting; it's the blotter acid.

 

Vaping is an unexpected hell for the house masters of private-school dorms.

 

Had a buddy in high school who I always thought was just mellow and laid back. He always had a strange look in his eyes. Found out after graduation that the dude dropped acid like a mofo. If he was a pot smoker, I might have figured it out by the awful smell.