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Marijuana metabolites don't lurk in adipose tissue, waiting to sneak up on you and fuck up your brain or make you unexpectedly high for "months". Laboratory dr
by rosser 12y ago
Marijuana metabolites don't lurk in adipose tissue, waiting to sneak up on you and fuck up your brain or make you unexpectedly high for "months".
Laboratory drug panels — the kind used in pre-employment drug screens, or to test athletes — with sensitivities as fine as 20ng/mL can typically detect metabolites up to 30 days after cessation, in long-term, daily users with high body fat ratios. Casual, infrequent users will typically piss clean in less than a week.
Alcohol is something that you can take or not take on each day as you choose.
Tell that to a long-term alcoholic. Alcohol is one of the only known drugs for which withdrawal can be fatal.
- reality_czech 12y agoFair enough, "months" might be an exaggeration. But "weeks" is still a pretty long time to deal with the drug. It is certainly not true that "alcohol is one of the only known drugs for which withdrawal can be fatal." In reality, any other GABA receptor agonist would have the same behavior, for the same reasons. There are plenty of them known: barbituates, benzodiazepines, valerian, and a ton of other sedatives they developed in the 70s and have been gradually phasing out ever since. In fairness, it is certainly true that withdrawal from marijuana is never fatal. But you really have to be using alcohol in enormous amounts pretty much constantly to ever be at risk of delirium tremens. The eqivalent behavior for marijuana would expose you to the same level of lung cancer risk as a two-pack-a-day smoker, and for the same reasons.