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It's really hard to dose "1 hit". It's not like a shot of liquor. And inexperienced users are not experts at hitting pipes or vapes or joints, so that "1 hit" b

It's really hard to dose "1 hit". It's not like a shot of liquor. And inexperienced users are not experts at hitting pipes or vapes or joints, so that "1 hit" becomes even trickier. And if you fuck up, whoops, now you're uncomfortably high for several hours! Better to have a much wider variety of potencies available, like we have with alcohol. Especially for the casual users who have been ignored by the market because traditional dealers get most of their money from heavy users, and heavy users want the chronic.

TillE 4y ago
You can literally just measure the amount of flower you're consuming before you start, either with a precise scale or by pinching out a tiny amount. Use a good vaporizer or a cheap glass pipe.
- standardUser 4y ago
  Sure, that is something you can say to an experienced marijuana user, but the casual dude who hasn't smoked weed since college and just wants to smoke a joint... that dude just wants to smoke a joint! There is no need for scales or precision to be involved. All that is needed is some low-to-moderate-potency weed, hopefully with some CBD content. "Use a good vaporizer or a cheap glass pipe." You do realize that a lot of people don't really know how to use those devices, right? Why anyone would argue against more variety of weed with better labelling is way beyond my comprehension.
  - johnisgood 4y ago
    So... let them do it. Once. Let us hope they will learn after their uncomfortable high. That might actually deter them from weed. It did work for me. Is it not how both kids and adults learn? If they cannot learn from other people's experiences that is. It does not take a rocket scientists to use those devices, but if the average people is really that dumb, then we should seriously take control of their lives if we want them to be contributing to society (because that's what seems to matter the most, right?). Plus I doubt that many, THAT dumb people who have not touched weed would start doing it out of nowhere.
    - standardUser 4y ago
      Me: We should be able to choose the types and potencies of the substances we put in our bodies. You: HELL NO WTF, really? Not that it matters, recreational stores solve this problem entirely.
      - johnisgood 4y ago
        What? You actually replied to a guy who said that people can already choose the potency. I am in agreement with that. If they voluntarily pick the higher potency for their first time, let them experience how shitty it can be.
WorldMaker 4y ago
To that second point, edibles are as easy to very specifically dose as your cooking process and ability to follow a recipe allow. Legalization makes it much easier for industrial kitchens with strict quality control to be involved. In the analogy to alcohol there's a huge quality control issue in moonshine, and huge benefits to the law abiding industrial distillers. I've sometimes wondered if legalizing and/or regulating edibles and smoked products separately should be done with THC. No one expects alcohol and tobacco to follow the same rules. It could prevent some issues for casual users. To be fair, in regions that have legalized it the dispensaries seem to have voluntarily organized around the idea naturally anyway: dispensaries I've been to generally are good at explaining the relative safety of edibles to potential casual users and edibles seem to make up a larger portion of their business in general.

TillE 4y ago

You can literally just measure the amount of flower you're consuming before you start, either with a precise scale or by pinching out a tiny amount. Use a good vaporizer or a cheap glass pipe.

standardUser 4y ago
Sure, that is something you can say to an experienced marijuana user, but the casual dude who hasn't smoked weed since college and just wants to smoke a joint... that dude just wants to smoke a joint! There is no need for scales or precision to be involved. All that is needed is some low-to-moderate-potency weed, hopefully with some CBD content. "Use a good vaporizer or a cheap glass pipe." You do realize that a lot of people don't really know how to use those devices, right? Why anyone would argue against more variety of weed with better labelling is way beyond my comprehension.
- johnisgood 4y ago
  So... let them do it. Once. Let us hope they will learn after their uncomfortable high. That might actually deter them from weed. It did work for me. Is it not how both kids and adults learn? If they cannot learn from other people's experiences that is. It does not take a rocket scientists to use those devices, but if the average people is really that dumb, then we should seriously take control of their lives if we want them to be contributing to society (because that's what seems to matter the most, right?). Plus I doubt that many, THAT dumb people who have not touched weed would start doing it out of nowhere.
  - standardUser 4y ago
    Me: We should be able to choose the types and potencies of the substances we put in our bodies. You: HELL NO WTF, really? Not that it matters, recreational stores solve this problem entirely.
    - johnisgood 4y ago
      What? You actually replied to a guy who said that people can already choose the potency. I am in agreement with that. If they voluntarily pick the higher potency for their first time, let them experience how shitty it can be.

WorldMaker 4y ago

To that second point, edibles are as easy to very specifically dose as your cooking process and ability to follow a recipe allow. Legalization makes it much easier for industrial kitchens with strict quality control to be involved. In the analogy to alcohol there's a huge quality control issue in moonshine, and huge benefits to the law abiding industrial distillers. I've sometimes wondered if legalizing and/or regulating edibles and smoked products separately should be done with THC. No one expects alcohol and tobacco to follow the same rules. It could prevent some issues for casual users. To be fair, in regions that have legalized it the dispensaries seem to have voluntarily organized around the idea naturally anyway: dispensaries I've been to generally are good at explaining the relative safety of edibles to potential casual users and edibles seem to make up a larger portion of their business in general.