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> you get addicted to feeling good when doing nothing at all That I will say again and again is a placebo effect, perhaps mediated through some active ingredie
by posterboy 8y ago
> you get addicted to feeling good when doing nothing at all
That I will say again and again is a placebo effect, perhaps mediated through some active ingredients, the taste, or just lack of oxygen, but this euphoric image that it has, that's mediated through social engineering.
- throwanem 8y agoWhat you say may be true of CBD, I don’t know, but your quote is from the grandparent comment’s description of cannabis, i.e. marijuana. It is an accurate description of that drug’s effect.
- moate 8y agoNah, you don't smoke CBD so OP is clearly talking about pot. "Pot is all placebo effect" is a novel, wacky theory I've never heard from the legalization opposition before, so that's sorta fun.
- 50656E6973 8y agoCBD can be and is commonly smoked, it can be in flower form or concentrate
- moate 8y agoBrah, IDK what your street corner pharmacist told you, but if you're smoking "CBD flowers", you're smoking weed.
- jsjohnst 8y agoNot necessarily. You can buy concentrates to vape that are very CBD rich and contain almost no THC (<0.1%).
- moate 8y agoAs JUUL has been advertising, vaping is not smoking. That's a whole different thing. You could also aerosolize CBD oil particles with a mister and breath them in. That's not smoking "CBD flower". CBD flower is just jank weed that has a higher CBD and lower THC levels. If that's what you want to burn, fine, but that doesn't make it not weed.
- 50656E6973 8y agoBruh, it's almost as if hemp and "weed" are both cannabis plants ;)
- dang 8y agoPlease don't do this here.
- jsjohnst 8y agoNo, CBD is most commonly used in oils, tinctures, and salves.
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- 50656E6973 8y agoWhere do you think CBD oil comes from? (Hint: it's the flower of the hemp plant)
- jsjohnst 8y agoGP was talking about how it’s commonly consumed, not how it’s made. I was clarifying on the actual way it’s commonly used.
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- 50656E6973 8y agoIt's also commonly consumed by smoking the flower.
- posterboy 8y agoeveryone smoking bud is smoking cbd. are you dense?
- jsjohnst 8y agoKindly freshen up on the rules of this site: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- smileysteve 8y agoTHC (and smoking marijuana) show no scientific evidence of chemical dependence (aka, physical addiction.) That's to say, THC is less physiologically addictive than nicotine, alcohol, caffeine -- even cheese.
- jsjohnst 8y agoTo add one more to your list, “sugar”.
- posterboy 8y agoIt's trivially not an accurate description, if you read the comment again that I quoted from. If we resort to simplification, I would say stoners feel good because they do nothing. But some feel paranoid, because they maybe want to do something and they can't manage. I mean, the inability to do anything demanding, that's actually an accurate description of the effect. Whether people feel good about it or not is a coin toss.
- kristofferR 8y agoThat's just totally ridiculous. Cannabis clearly effect the cannabinoid reseptors.
- _Schizotypy 8y agoI think the argument is about what exactly those receptors do and which compounds have which affinities for which separate cb receptor complexes
- jsjohnst 8y agoMore specifically (but hopefully not too specific and turn away lay folks), THC affects the CB1 receptors and CBD affects the CB2 receptors. CB1 is mostly in the brain / nervous system and thus when modulated gives you a euphoric effect (the being “high” sensation). CB2 however is more related to the immune system and your gut. It thus when modulated has pain killing and other therapeutic effects. For those with auto-immune diseases, modulating the CB2 receptors with unadulterated CBD/CBN/CBG are very beneficial and doesn’t give you the “high” sensation commonly associated with MMJ. Same goes for those who have chronic muscle and joint pain. And unlike opioids, isn’t habit forming and mostly is side effect free.
- posterboy 8y ago> hopefully not too specific > CB1 is mostly in the brain / nervous system I was worried for a sec, but nope, quite the opposite. Could you be a little more specific? > ... are very beneficial and doesn’t give ... Look, everytime I post this it gets a handful of down votes and nefarious comments like yours from people who would have recommended cigarettes for a cold and all kind of ailments. Heard the term "snakeoil"? It burns because it affects the heat receptors. Doesn't mean it's actually warm.
- dang 8y agoPlease don't call names in arguments, regardless of how wrong another comment is. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Your comment would be fine without the first sentence.