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No, I don't. There's some talk about neem oil(azadirachtin) being the cause of cannabis hyperemesis syndrome. People have been consuming large quantities of ca

No, I don't. There's some talk about neem oil(azadirachtin) being the cause of cannabis hyperemesis syndrome. People have been consuming large quantities of cannabis oil that were saturated in pesticides for over a decade without this kind of crisis. I run a cannabis copacking company and one of my clients was the first to go pesticide free back in 2016. It was near impossible to source material for them. Prior to 2018 about 95% of material was sprayed with pesticides. Because black market distillate is typically made from mixed batches of oil there was higher contamination rates than that. I think it's questionable to consume cannabis in general and especially concentrates. The safest method is likely oral consumption. I have seen contaminants in concentrates, such as fire retardant, that pass all screening tests. Neem oil, for example, is an approved pesticide for CA but is really nasty stuff to be smoking.

cbanek 7y ago
> People have been consuming large quantities of cannabis oil that were saturated in pesticides for over a decade without this kind of crisis. This. People have been vaping THC e-cig cartridges for years. Same for using other concentrated products like wax. Yet it seems only very recently that this has become some kind of 'epidemic'. I'm not saying that it's safe, but it seems very sudden that all these cases show up. Or maybe they were happening before, but because it seemed so hard to diagnose, people weren't connecting the cases?
freeflight 7y ago
> There's some talk about neem oil(azadirachtin) being the cause of cannabis hyperemesis syndrome. My worst episodes of CHS I've had from smoking synthetic cannabinoids, I'm not aware of neem oil having any relevance in the production of those. Imho a large factor could simply be an overabundance of product leading to people overconsuming because "Cannabis has no negative effects", so nobody cares about basics like tolerance breaks anymore [0], instead people just keep upping their THC doses to get past their tolerance threshold. [0] https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/THC#Dependence_and_abuse_potential https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/THC#Dependence_and_abuse_pot...

cbanek 7y ago

> People have been consuming large quantities of cannabis oil that were saturated in pesticides for over a decade without this kind of crisis. This. People have been vaping THC e-cig cartridges for years. Same for using other concentrated products like wax. Yet it seems only very recently that this has become some kind of 'epidemic'. I'm not saying that it's safe, but it seems very sudden that all these cases show up. Or maybe they were happening before, but because it seemed so hard to diagnose, people weren't connecting the cases?

freeflight 7y ago

> There's some talk about neem oil(azadirachtin) being the cause of cannabis hyperemesis syndrome. My worst episodes of CHS I've had from smoking synthetic cannabinoids, I'm not aware of neem oil having any relevance in the production of those. Imho a large factor could simply be an overabundance of product leading to people overconsuming because "Cannabis has no negative effects", so nobody cares about basics like tolerance breaks anymore [0], instead people just keep upping their THC doses to get past their tolerance threshold. [0] https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/THC#Dependence_and_abuse_potential https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/THC#Dependence_and_abuse_pot...