I was thinking about drugs and how marijuana was different because 99% of the time you smoke it. Other drugs like ecstasy and xanax are just pills you pop then it kicks in. Well, what if marijuana was a pill that you just popped and instead of smoking two bowls you popped two pills, and you would just pop a pill everytime you wanted to get high. Do you think bud would be as popular that way? I really don't think I would like it because I like going through the act of smoking and packing the bowl and all that. I think it adds a lot to the experience. What are your thoughts?
it is possible to take marijuana orally in a wide variety of forms, and gelcaps would work just fine under proper circumstances. it would be no different at all than pot brownies or cookies. in fact, some people do use cannabis this way. there are a number of reasons why its not as popular. it takes far longer to kick in, and it will be over an hour before the full effects are realized, definitely. smoking cannabis provides closer to an immediate onset than virtually all other drugs, and full effects are realized within 5 minutes in most cases. the same dose as you would smoke in a single session will get you high longer when consumed orally, but as the effect is spread out over so much time you will require a higher dosage to make up for the lack of intensity - the initial dosage therefore will be higher than that of the initial dosage of smoked marijuana. the effects of orally consumed cannabis are qualitatively very different from the effects of smoked cannabis, and very often provides an effect significantly more narcotic in nature than smoked cannabis. an instance of over-dosing easily leads to passing out. there is a much larger focus on the body buzz and physical effects, and a bit less of a cerebral high. you're definitely less likely to have any energy or motivation to go out and do stuff when eating pot compared to smoking it. its easy to mess it up and not effectively determine the appropriate dose and manner of preparation. this results in a complete waste of weed if you botch your project. its a lot harder to mess up smoking a bowl, and even if you did you would lose far less money in doing so.
I love smoking. I like passing a blunt or taking a bong rip. There are health conciouse people that might rather that then put smoke in their lungs. I wonder why I've nevr heard of a THC pill.
a THC pill....well, in the US anyway, you'd be looking at marinol, a synthetic cannabinoid pill legally produced and manufactured as a medicine. a few years ago they dropped it from schedule II to schedule III or maybe even IV (i forget which it was) unless they switched it back, its not that strictly regulated, really. just hard to get a scrip for, and just because a drug is legal does not mean a pharmacy WILL carry it. ketamine is legal to prescribe for humans, and my dad was once prescribed a topical medication that contained ketamine among its active ingredients. though it wasn't pure ketamine and couldnt be very effectively used for recreational purposes, there was no pharmacy in town that would fill the prescription because they just didnt want to have ketamine on hand. but marinol IS legal, and not extremely strictly controlled unless it's status has changed after i read about it being moved down to a less restrictive schedule. and raw, dry bud CAN be ground up and put in gelatin capsules, but it already takes much longer for cannabis to effect you when eating it compared to smoking, and it takes roughly 20 minutes for gelatin capsules to dissolve in the gastric juices, which means it's almost like adding another half an hour to the wait before you get the effect.... and i didnt mean to insult the intelligence of the OP in my first post. i'm sure you know of cannabis being used orally, but a lot of people are under the impression that uncooked cannabis somehow fails to be psychoactive. this isn't the case, and pills would work quite well, but they would just lack convenience in many situations
I enjoy the smoked high ( the buzzes from the herb itself) far more than an ingested one. I also love the act of smoking. I'd love to finally find some middies again just so I could smoke more for less $, lol.