Smoking or growing cannabis in Thailand is still very much illegal

[2530Ubon]

3 minutes ago, thepdru said:

you can also use it in some electronic devices without tobacco...

 

One day it'll be like fish sauce/prik nam blah - available in every restaurant/street stall -- splash it all over your favorite dish for an exciting kick.

Edited December 18, 2020 by 2530Ubon

[Don Chance]

8 hours ago, Ron jeremy said:

Sorry to break the news to you gramps, but no one gets addicted to weed. 
is booze better in your opinion?

Guy wakes up and smokes a joint, then at lunch he smokes another one, then later another and another... he does this every day. But no he is not addicted.  It is called DENIAL. If you smoke every day you are addicted.

 

Marijuana is in fact very addictive for about 30% of people who try it. The side effects of confusion, paranoia, anxiety, memory loss, etc will just become worse and worse. But you will deny it and and say at least i am not addicted to alcohol, as if that justifies it.

[2530Ubon]

43 minutes ago, Don Chance said:

Guy wakes up and smokes a joint, then at lunch he smokes another one, then later another and another... he does this every day. But no he is not addicted.  It is called DENIAL. If you smoke every day you are addicted.

 

Marijuana is in fact very addictive for about 30% of people who try it. The side effects of confusion, paranoia, anxiety, memory loss, etc will just become worse and worse. But you will deny it and and say at least i am not addicted to alcohol, as if that justifies it.

 

https://www.cdc.gov/marijuana/faqs/marijuana-addiction.html

Marijuana and Public Health

Yes, about 1 in 10 marijuana users will become addicted.

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/cannabis-the-facts/

Research shows that 10% of regular cannabis users become dependent on it. Your risk of getting addicted is higher if you start using it in your teens or use it every day.

 

Both the British public health service, and the American CDC agree that it's 10 percent... get your facts right.

 

The figures are comparable to alcohol addiction. Both websites agree that it's around 8% who become addicted to alcohol.

 

Both addictions have consequences, and we could argue which one is worse, but it's a stupid conversation.

 

The figures are also comparable to food addiction.

 

https://www.psychguides.com/eating-disorder/

Food addiction occurs in almost 7% in women and 3% in men. Food addiction occurs in 2% of under/normal weight people and 8% of overweight/obese people.

 

We don't stop people drinking, and we don't stop people eating. The numbers are comparable.

Edited December 18, 2020 by 2530Ubon

[2530Ubon]

1 hour ago, Don Chance said:

Guy wakes up and smokes a joint, then at lunch he smokes another one, then later another and another... he does this every day. But no he is not addicted.  It is called DENIAL. If you smoke every day you are addicted.

 

Marijuana is in fact very addictive for about 30% of people who try it. The side effects of confusion, paranoia, anxiety, memory loss, etc will just become worse and worse. But you will deny it and and say at least i am not addicted to alcohol, as if that justifies it.

 

I forgot to mention - the term addiction is a little harsh. The data actually suggests that after two weeks, your fine again;

 

Marijuana use disorders are often associated with dependence—in which a person feels withdrawal symptoms when not taking the drug. People who use marijuana frequently often report irritability, mood and sleep difficulties, decreased appetite, cravings, restlessness, and/or various forms of physical discomfort that peak within the first week after quitting and last up to 2 weeks.^20,21 Marijuana dependence occurs when the brain adapts to large amounts of the drug by reducing production of and sensitivity to its own endocannabinoid neurotransmitters.^22,23

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/marijuana/marijuana-addictive

 

It's not the same as alcoholism/heroin use where the craving and 'just one drop/use' can put you over the edge again into oblivion. It's a dependency feeling.

 

It's also important to note that studies have consistently shown that these harmful effects you were talking about apply only to adolescent brains -a childs. Use as an adult has shown no long term negative impacts. Hence why places that have legalised have done so only for their adult population. The same way that only adults can drink alcohol.

 

Imaging studies of marijuana’s impact on brain structure in humans have shown conflicting results. Some studies suggest regular marijuana use in adolescence is associated with altered connectivity and reduced volume of specific brain regions involved in a broad range of executive functions such as memory, learning, and impulse control compared to people who do not use.^38,39 Other studies have not found significant structural differences between the brains of people who do and do not use the drug.⁴⁰

Several studies, including two large longitudinal studies, suggest that marijuana use can cause functional impairment in cognitive abilities but that the degree and/or duration of the impairment depends on the age when a person began using and how much and how long he or she used.⁴¹

 

 

[thaichina]

1 hour ago, Don Chance said:

Guy wakes up and smokes a joint, then at lunch he smokes another one, then later another and another... he does this every day. But no he is not addicted.  It is called DENIAL. If you smoke every day you are addicted.

 

Marijuana is in fact very addictive for about 30% of people who try it. The side effects of confusion, paranoia, anxiety, memory loss, etc will just become worse and worse. But you will deny it and and say at least i am not addicted to alcohol, as if that justifies it.

Guy wakes up and drinks a beer, then at lunch he drinks another one, then later another and another... he does this every day. But no he is not addicted.  It is called DENIAL. If you drink every day you are addicted.

 

Alcohol is in fact very addictive for about 30% of people who try it. The side effects of confusion, paranoia, anxiety, memory loss, etc will just become worse and worse. But you will deny it and and say at least i am not addicted to marijuana, as if that justifies it.

[mr mr]

10 hours ago, ChaiyaTH said:

Actually it is the best and most healthy way to consume as it are unmodified and original outdoor strains. To find strains with a higher CBD amount than average is very very difficult. The Dutch did so recently in Congo, Africa, but the guy who found it died of malaria a year later. They made a youtube series of it called 'Strain Hunters'.

Anyway, to get a real and proper to use medicine from it, it needs to be isolated in the first place. In those terms it gets a better medicine than it originally was (just as with most medicine in the world it will end up with a tablet that won't even make you high).

 

Even for strains with lower CBD amounts it can still work just as good, you would only need more to get the same result, which is fine as long it can be isolated. But yeah, I do not expect much progress in Thailand on this end.

 

i think you are a little confused. i was speaking to the quality of what is called medicine here not the delivery method. 

 

unmodified and outdoor strains are a thing of the past. finding high cbd strains is not difficult at all anymore. seems you may need to do some catching up on what is happening in the industry. 

 

wait until you find out about cbg and thc-v. 

[brianthainess]

12 hours ago, Don Chance said:

The side effects of confusion, paranoia, anxiety, memory loss, etc

Stop talking about me, I'm confused and tense now, and I can't remember what I wanted to say.????

[mtls2005]

18 hours ago, brianthainess said:

Some put the oil on a cigarettes, apparently not so strong as orally, my friend puts his prescribed oil, on a sugar cube to cut down the bitterness and make it easier for him to take.

So yes you can smoke it.

 

 

Yes, with a strong enough heat source one can smoke anything.

 

GPO oils are dosed sublingually.

 

Suspect you're confused with other extraction processes which yield smokeable product.

 

Maybe your friend is getting his oil from some other source? Not sure what the carrier is for GPO oils. Thought that it was olive oil, but maybe not.

 

There are gazillions of knock-offs here, some from "clinics". They may have 'specialized' products, but am pretty sure most oils here are also sublingual.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[mtls2005]

16 hours ago, thepdru said:

you can also use it in some electronic devices without tobacco...

 

 

GPO Oil? No.

 

 

[thailandbeachisland]

On 12/19/2020 at 8:11 AM, mtls2005 said:

 

GPO Oil? No.

 

 

another champion...

 

 

[Ireland32]

On 12/16/2020 at 7:19 PM, DeaconJohn said:

Agree with you 100%.

When I first came here in the late 1970s ganja was almost as easy to buy as beer.

It was everywhere. You could find it in the cities, in the countryside, in the mountains and on the islands.

Starting in the 1980s the War on Drugs brought in a nasty police state atmosphere along with a lot of badass dope like speed, coke, and designer drugs.  Not to mention mass-incarceration.

Any step towards ending the drug warrior mentality vis a vis cannabis is to be welcomed.

 

 

Nancy Reagan and her DARE program, when I first started coming here posters all

over ridiculous