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>More than half the flower I see in NYC is in counterfeit CA/CO/OR/WA packaging, I do not trust its safety That's fine, your choice and all... But tens (hundre
by EpicEng 7y ago
>More than half the flower I see in NYC is in counterfeit CA/CO/OR/WA packaging, I do not trust its safety
That's fine, your choice and all... But tens (hundreds?) of millions of people have been smoking weed in this country for decades. How many cases of illness due to pesticides have there been? I can recall a few, but it's a tiny, tiny number.
- monocasa 7y agoI mean, the cases of illness from vaping is a tiny number too.
- EpicEng 7y agoRight, and we don't even know what the cause is yet. I have been vaping for about nine years now. If you look through my comment history you'll what side of this issue I'm on.
- mtnGoat 7y agonot saying i wouldn't partake, i would just prefer something i can verify is safe.
- EpicEng 7y agoSure, I'm not trying to beat you over the head here, just saying that the odds of buying poison weed are astronomically low.
- heavyset_go 7y agoThe problem with pesticides isn't acute poisoning, but health effects from chronic exposure. No one is going to go to end up in the ER after smoking a joint, but if one's sources are consistently tainted, there might be an increase risk for cancer or other diseases later on.
- EpicEng 7y agoSure... but practically, how often does this happen?
- heavyset_go 7y agoWe don't know. "Was your ditch weed sprayed with paraquat?" isn't a question doctors ask their patients.
- mtnGoat 7y agotrue. seed-to-sale tracking would allow us to back track tainted lots, in conjunction with asking this question though.
- cwkoss 7y agoMyclobutanil will still produce hydrogen cyanide vapor in a joint, it will just be of less dosage. Risk of 'hotspots' exists: you are right that it is much less than for concentrates, but it is non-zero.
- zaarn 7y agoIt heavily depends on the pesticide and how it's ingested. Some pesticides are fine in the human body and simply aren't metabolized well enough to cause any trouble, though others can be very aggressive on humans over long term exposure. If you heat the pesticide up or even burn it, the resulting compounds can be unpredictable and range from even more harmless or actually toxic.