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Eating edibles allows your liver to get a pass at the THC before your brain, and it converts it to 11-hydroxy-THC which is more psychoactive. It is also much,

Eating edibles allows your liver to get a pass at the THC before your brain, and it converts it to 11-hydroxy-THC which is more psychoactive. It is also much, much easier to overdose with edibles and that is a very unfun experience. I am an extremely experienced smoker/eater/grower/etc and when I screwed up some edible calculations and overdosed I almost called 911. It is only my absolute faith that THC has never killed anyone(directly) that kept me from freaking out.

blueprint 5y ago
how much did you take?
- 01100011 5y ago
  Beats me. Enough to turn my backyard into a cartoon and shortly afterwards I was paralyzed in bed with a pounding heartbeat. I knew enough to keep my feet elevated to counteract some of the low blood pressure effects. In addition to what I said earlier, you also have to consider interactions. A friend gave one of the edibles I made to a friend who was taking some random Chinese herbal medicine and they did end up calling the paramedics.
  - robbedpeter 5y ago
    Keep in mind no known interactions are dangerous because of the thc chemistry. It's the secondary consequences that can get you in trouble. It can be psychologically dangerous, triggering psychosis, panic attacks, existential crises, munchies, etc. Depending on your fitness, health needs (diabetes, cardiopulmonary disease), or susceptibility to schizophrenia, thc can result in life altering or ending events. Plan ahead with appropriate sober sitters, snacks, hydration, and safe spaces if you need to retreat. Know what to do if your friend goes hamster-eyed on you. A majority of the time, for a huge majority of users, thc will be OK, but the trick to achieving that is education and basic harm reduction. If it gets legalized federally, I hope at least 20% of the taxes go toward education and harm reduction, for marijuana and other drugs. Drugs can be awesome and empowering and fun. Ignorance kills people and ruins lives.
ptudan 5y ago
I knew a guy in college who was super straight laced, but went to Amsterdam and got convinced to try weed, in the form of a giant pastry, for the first time. I have no idea how much was in it but he got so freaked out that he had serious trauma and long lasting effects from it.
- pempem 5y ago
  In fairness wouldn't this be controlled by simply providing more information about the consumable amount or creating lower dose edibles? It feels like these anecdotes, while very real, would equate to an unfathomable amount of smoking and so there needs to be more information to allow a consumer to understand the amount they should consume bc their body isn't physically restricting them
  - vmception 5y ago
    No need to even write in fairness. It's a consumer information issue, exclusively. As most US residents live in a recreational legal state, we're long passed the need for "good news only" advocacy. Taking a dose of professionally packaged edibles closer to your weight and tolerance is what is necessary. My current issue with the state-by-state regulation is that all the packaging lacks FDA level of standards. Arbitrary mixing of milligrams and ounces. Arbitrary information about types of thc and cbd, arbitrary serving sizes and serving size information that are very different from the breakable units in the package. ie. You thought that single gummy was 5 milligrams? Jokes on you because a serving size is 1/2 gummy, you just took 10 milligrams, buckle up! And most notably missing is any study that says what to expect, what tiny disclaimers exist? A bunch of people say that edibles used to be good for them but now give them anxiety, why is that? Is there a time limit for some people to take edibles? Plenty of FDA approved products have time limits like "don't take this for more than 3 years" I hear that on commercials all the time, so whats the difference? Oh an actual study occurred to begin with, to the FDA's standard of review. Great.
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vmception 5y ago
its worth noting that "overdose" in this context means you had some temporary psychosis and anxiety for a few hours, this is closer to "ate too much" or "took too big of a dose than desired" than "overdose" maaaany people would think something else like you needed a bunch of tubes put into you or had to be resuscitated
- zardo 5y ago
  The 911 call, "I think I had an allergic reaction, my breathing is so slow I'm going to pass out and suffocate!" While loudly hyperventilating into the phone.
  - vmception 5y ago
    Not OP but okay. I could see anxiety acting that way and getting people in a negative feedback loop. On the even more anecdotal side, I have heard of people having different heartbeats while super high too, even palpitations, which can be very distressing with the high not helping at all!
  - robbedpeter 5y ago
    Or the classic: https://youtu.be/hrZLc9lqQM0 https://youtu.be/hrZLc9lqQM0
mountainriver 5y ago
That’s why you should always have 1:1 CBD in them unless you really know what your doing

blueprint 5y ago

how much did you take?

01100011 5y ago
Beats me. Enough to turn my backyard into a cartoon and shortly afterwards I was paralyzed in bed with a pounding heartbeat. I knew enough to keep my feet elevated to counteract some of the low blood pressure effects. In addition to what I said earlier, you also have to consider interactions. A friend gave one of the edibles I made to a friend who was taking some random Chinese herbal medicine and they did end up calling the paramedics.
- robbedpeter 5y ago
  Keep in mind no known interactions are dangerous because of the thc chemistry. It's the secondary consequences that can get you in trouble. It can be psychologically dangerous, triggering psychosis, panic attacks, existential crises, munchies, etc. Depending on your fitness, health needs (diabetes, cardiopulmonary disease), or susceptibility to schizophrenia, thc can result in life altering or ending events. Plan ahead with appropriate sober sitters, snacks, hydration, and safe spaces if you need to retreat. Know what to do if your friend goes hamster-eyed on you. A majority of the time, for a huge majority of users, thc will be OK, but the trick to achieving that is education and basic harm reduction. If it gets legalized federally, I hope at least 20% of the taxes go toward education and harm reduction, for marijuana and other drugs. Drugs can be awesome and empowering and fun. Ignorance kills people and ruins lives.

ptudan 5y ago

I knew a guy in college who was super straight laced, but went to Amsterdam and got convinced to try weed, in the form of a giant pastry, for the first time. I have no idea how much was in it but he got so freaked out that he had serious trauma and long lasting effects from it.

pempem 5y ago
In fairness wouldn't this be controlled by simply providing more information about the consumable amount or creating lower dose edibles? It feels like these anecdotes, while very real, would equate to an unfathomable amount of smoking and so there needs to be more information to allow a consumer to understand the amount they should consume bc their body isn't physically restricting them
- vmception 5y ago
  No need to even write in fairness. It's a consumer information issue, exclusively. As most US residents live in a recreational legal state, we're long passed the need for "good news only" advocacy. Taking a dose of professionally packaged edibles closer to your weight and tolerance is what is necessary. My current issue with the state-by-state regulation is that all the packaging lacks FDA level of standards. Arbitrary mixing of milligrams and ounces. Arbitrary information about types of thc and cbd, arbitrary serving sizes and serving size information that are very different from the breakable units in the package. ie. You thought that single gummy was 5 milligrams? Jokes on you because a serving size is 1/2 gummy, you just took 10 milligrams, buckle up! And most notably missing is any study that says what to expect, what tiny disclaimers exist? A bunch of people say that edibles used to be good for them but now give them anxiety, why is that? Is there a time limit for some people to take edibles? Plenty of FDA approved products have time limits like "don't take this for more than 3 years" I hear that on commercials all the time, so whats the difference? Oh an actual study occurred to begin with, to the FDA's standard of review. Great.
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vmception 5y ago

its worth noting that "overdose" in this context means you had some temporary psychosis and anxiety for a few hours, this is closer to "ate too much" or "took too big of a dose than desired" than "overdose" maaaany people would think something else like you needed a bunch of tubes put into you or had to be resuscitated

zardo 5y ago
The 911 call, "I think I had an allergic reaction, my breathing is so slow I'm going to pass out and suffocate!" While loudly hyperventilating into the phone.
- vmception 5y ago
  Not OP but okay. I could see anxiety acting that way and getting people in a negative feedback loop. On the even more anecdotal side, I have heard of people having different heartbeats while super high too, even palpitations, which can be very distressing with the high not helping at all!
- robbedpeter 5y ago
  Or the classic: https://youtu.be/hrZLc9lqQM0 https://youtu.be/hrZLc9lqQM0

mountainriver 5y ago

That’s why you should always have 1:1 CBD in them unless you really know what your doing