The smell is strong enough, I can’t imagine eating it!

You make a very interesting point. A ton of $ is being spent to duplicate something…that exists already in nature. Don’t like smoking, you say? Bake a brownie. I hear that works great.

“There are a variety of drugs being tested with different chemical compositions by different pharmaceutical companies. There’s over 400 substances in marijuana and pinning down which ones work for which people is probably a long process.”

I bet it would be a lot easier to just grow a friggin plant, but that would lose companies a Texas shit load off money by not letting them ram more pharmaceuticals down your throat. (I myself do not like taking pills and can’t stand needles)

See you on the RVP

I believe you that your friend reacted negatively to Marinol. Marinol was just one example, a product of Roxane Laboratories. There are a variety of drugs being tested with different chemical compositions by different pharmaceutical companies. There’s over 400 substances in marijuana and pinning down which ones work for which people is probably a long process.

The “zombie” effect is most likely depression, which is a known side-effect in less than 1% of patients treated with Marinol. All it means is that perhaps his body chemistry is wrong for this drug (if we were all clones of each other and had the same body chemistry we wouldn’t need dozens of drugs available for the same conditions), he had a drug interaction, or perhaps he had a cancer that was one of the ones that Marinol does not work well with during treatment. Or it could be a combination of factors.

It does not, however, mean that what I said is BS.

How much do you need to smoke to get the hallucinogenic effect? Depends on your individual body chemistry. Some people have zero reaction to THC, some have a strong one, most are somwhere inbetween.

See you on the streets!

ahow,
You’ve never had smoked hamster? I might do one for Thanksgiving.

How much do you have to smoke for the hallucinations to kick in?

“Also, the active ingredients in marijuana have been synthesized into manufactured drugs. One of these is “Marinol”. The process also dramatically amplifies the active ingredients and desired effects, which takes away an argument from the Hempsters that they need to smoke it for medicinal use (“…let me get a little of that for my cataracts…”)”

I have to call BS on that one, I had a friend who was going through treatment and said Marinol had basically the opposite of the desired effect as it made you more zombie than hungry (not nauseated) and would not keep you from wasting away.

“I’d be more willing to entertain the Hemsters arguments if they would just be honest and say they want to sit around and get baked all day, and don’t really need THC for anything medical. But since they are not honest in their arguments, I tune them out.”

I just liked that one for “Hemsters”

What is an LEO?

And Fog hat is still cool.

See you at the head shop (With a Fog hat T-shirt and a vaporizer) J/K

That was very informative. Thank you.

…Take it Easy…