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Personal anecdote warning Marijuana is a reasonably effective pain treatment which is readily available without prescription. Even without the really scary stu

Personal anecdote warning Marijuana is a reasonably effective pain treatment which is readily available without prescription. Even without the really scary stuff surrounding Opiates, I'm far more likely to use the pain meds I can pick up at the corner dispensary. The cost of weed is far less and more important, availability and bullshit hoops I have to go through are far less. About the only downside to weed is you gotta smoke it unless you process it first and making edibles or an infusion with a sous vide is not very difficult at all. https://www.sousweed.com/blog/2015/6/13/sous-vide-cannabis-butter https://www.sousweed.com/blog/2015/6/13/sous-vide-cannabis-b... https://medium.com/sous-vide/sous-vide-thc-infused-cocktails-7689265aa7ac https://medium.com/sous-vide/sous-vide-thc-infused-cocktails...

jakear 7y ago
Sousweed eds are also more potent than store bought ones [1], and deliver more effect that smoking the source. Given I live in a legal state and enjoy cooking, especially experimental cooking, I'm considering very small-scale distributing in 2020. [1]: IMO, I use top-shelf for my eds; generic ones are probably a lot of shwag, and the "mg THC" ratings are incredibly inconsistent.
- ogre_codes 7y ago
  Largely matches my experience. I make infusions and usually have to cut it quite a bit before sharing, otherwise people get entirely too baked too quickly. I enjoy crafting more than consuming so I tend to have way more than I can consume and give most of it away.
neurobashing 7y ago
i had shoulder surgery in April of this year. I react poorly to opiates - primarily digestive problems ("heroin makes you constipated", as Trainspotting said) but also it just makes me feel awful. Shoulder surgery is pretty painful to recover from; without weed I'd have been in a much worse place. But also, I leave near a decriminalized state, so obtaining edibles is easy.
emsy 7y ago
Vaporization (heating the flowers to ~200C) is also effective and less harmful than burning.
- ogre_codes 7y ago
  I do prefer vaping to burning, but still enters your lungs to questionable effect and also makes me cough, though not as much. I'd far rather just have a shot of infused tequila.
draw_down 7y ago
No, it can also be vaporized.
anonytrary 7y ago
> About the only downside to weed is you gotta smoke it unless you process it first and making edibles or an infusion with a sous vide is not very difficult at all. Yep -- I don't even consider this an issue since it's very easy to get edibles as a consumer. For example, you can get marijuana-infused candies and tongue drops from pretty much any big dispensary for a pretty reasonable (sometimes better) THC+CDB/cost ratio. Smoking and vaping marijuana (flower, dabs, oil, etc.) is known to be pretty bad for you, but edibles bypass that negative altogether.

jakear 7y ago

Sousweed eds are also more potent than store bought ones [1], and deliver more effect that smoking the source. Given I live in a legal state and enjoy cooking, especially experimental cooking, I'm considering very small-scale distributing in 2020. [1]: IMO, I use top-shelf for my eds; generic ones are probably a lot of shwag, and the "mg THC" ratings are incredibly inconsistent.

ogre_codes 7y ago
Largely matches my experience. I make infusions and usually have to cut it quite a bit before sharing, otherwise people get entirely too baked too quickly. I enjoy crafting more than consuming so I tend to have way more than I can consume and give most of it away.

neurobashing 7y ago

i had shoulder surgery in April of this year. I react poorly to opiates - primarily digestive problems ("heroin makes you constipated", as Trainspotting said) but also it just makes me feel awful. Shoulder surgery is pretty painful to recover from; without weed I'd have been in a much worse place. But also, I leave near a decriminalized state, so obtaining edibles is easy.

emsy 7y ago

Vaporization (heating the flowers to ~200C) is also effective and less harmful than burning.

ogre_codes 7y ago
I do prefer vaping to burning, but still enters your lungs to questionable effect and also makes me cough, though not as much. I'd far rather just have a shot of infused tequila.

draw_down 7y ago

No, it can also be vaporized.

anonytrary 7y ago

> About the only downside to weed is you gotta smoke it unless you process it first and making edibles or an infusion with a sous vide is not very difficult at all. Yep -- I don't even consider this an issue since it's very easy to get edibles as a consumer. For example, you can get marijuana-infused candies and tongue drops from pretty much any big dispensary for a pretty reasonable (sometimes better) THC+CDB/cost ratio. Smoking and vaping marijuana (flower, dabs, oil, etc.) is known to be pretty bad for you, but edibles bypass that negative altogether.