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It starts to get really complicated once you involve edibles, though - you can't just straight up eat plant matter and have it take effect as if you'd eaten a b
by NTripleOne 10y ago
It starts to get really complicated once you involve edibles, though - you can't just straight up eat plant matter and have it take effect as if you'd eaten a brownie, even though the dosage would technically be much, much higher if you straight up ate a bud.
I'm no scientist nor a baker so I don't know the details behind it, but as far as I know the THC needs something to bind to before it's digestible, usually a fat - probably why cannabutter is the most common way of getting it into edibles.
And that doesn't even account for the CBD which I have zero idea about with regards to edibles.
- GordonS 10y agoIt's also that THC isn't very psychoactive until it's been decarboxylated. The process of heating it within a particular temperature does this (e.g smoking, vaping, baking)
- pmoriarty 10y agoTHC is far from the only compound in cannabis. There are hundreds of them, with virtually all of them having had far less study done on them than THC has. If a human were to die of cannabis inhalation or ingestion, it's not clear which of the hundreds of compounds in cannabis would be the one most responsible for the fatality. It's quite possible that it wouldn't be THC.