I thought I would list a lot of the old MYTHS going around, in no order.
Maybe I will add a little order and make a few catagories:
GROWING
DRYING
PROCESSING
STORING
USING
CANNABINOIDS
CHEMISTRY
GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA
#1 THCV gets you really high and makes THC much better.
FACT: THCV does not get you high, and is a THC antagonist.
#2 THC is formed by the plant from CBD
FACT: THC and all of the cannabinoids are made by the plant from CBG, each Cannabinoid by a different sythase.
#3 Eating Cannabis is the same as smoking.
FACT: Smoking Cannabis delivers THC to the blood and brain, eating Cannabis delivers mostly 11 Hydroxy-THC to the blood and brain, which is slightly more potent and is slightly different in effects.
#4 Eating Cannabis requires no cooking.
FACT:If you want to get the most out of the effects you will need to decarboxylate the THCA to THC to make it active.
#5 The highest you can get is by smoking pure THC.
FACT: THC is the Cannabinoid that gets you high, but you can get much higher as well as highs of the type you prefer with the right Terpenoids in the plant.
#6 Pipe scrapings are smokable.
FACT: Sure you could smoke them but they will not get you high, they may get you a bit loaded as all of the THC will have been broken down into CBN.
Like 5-10 year old buds or resin keep at room temp. (some folks claim they can get high from fresh pipe scrapings, I have my doubts, I know you can get loaded)
#7 Grafting a Cannabis root with a Hops plant yields a legal hops plant that is stony as hell.
FACT: THC is not produced in the roots and the Hops will have no THC.
#8 Dry Cannabis upside down to get the THC into the buds. Boil the roots for potentcy.
FACT: THC is not produced in the roots it is produced in trichomes on the flowers and leaves.
#9 Cannabis is adulterated with LSD, crack, speed, heroin, formaldahyde, coloring agents, glass beads, by greedy folks to sell more Cannabis and make more money.
FACT: First of all most of these drugs cost more then the Cannabis, a few can't even be smoked, but if you want to be safe, grow your own or know the grower. Even then you can hope he did not shake any resin off the dry manicured buds, people are people.
#10 Marijuana is addictive.
FACT: Most pleasurable activities are to some degree. Is the risk so bad that Cannabis need to prohibited? While alcohol and tobacco are to be allowed? As the addiction rate for alcohol is higher then for Cannabis and Cannabis is also much much lower then for tobacco, the reason becomes apparent the real reason for Cannabis prohibition is not a need to save the public from addictive substances.
This explains your sugar addiction:
In a study, rats overwhelmingly prefer sweetened water to cocaine, even those already hooked on the drug.
Researchers have learned that rats overwhelmingly prefer water sweetened with saccharin to cocaine, a finding that demonstrates the addictive potential of sweets.
Offering larger doses of cocaine did not alter the rats' preference for saccharin, according to the report.
Scientists said the study, presented this week in San Diego at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, might help explain the rise in human obesity, which has been driven in part by an overconsumption of sugary foods.
In the experiment, 43 rats were placed in cages with two levers, one of which delivered an intravenous dose of cocaine and the other a sip of highly sweetened water. At the end of the 15-day trial, 40 of the rats consistently chose saccharin instead of cocaine.
When sugar water was substituted for the saccharin solution, the results were the same, researchers said.
Further testing the rat sweet tooth, scientists subjected 24 cocaine-addicted rats to a similar trial. At the end of 10 days, the majority of them preferred saccharin.
"Intense sweetness is more rewarding to the rats than cocaine," said coauthor Magalie Lenoir of the University of Bordeaux in France.
Lenoir said mammalian taste receptors evolved in an environment that lacked sugar and so were not adapted to the high concentrations of sweets found in the modern diet. Excess sugar could increase levels of the brain chemical dopamine, she said, leading to a craving for sweets.
Cocaine also increases dopamine, she said, but through a different brain mechanism.
#11 Marijuana is a gateway drug.
FACT: Over 70-90 million Americans have tried Marijuana with only 10 million users, while the USA addiction rates for heroin are 1/2 million users and 4 million have tried it. For or amphetamine 10 million have tried and 1.5 million are users, while cocaine is less then 2 million users and 22 million have tried it.
I guess my question is where are all the 70-90 million addicts? And why isn't beer or cigarettes considered gateway drugs, while Cannabis is??
No Cannabis is not a gateway drug.
#12 Marijuana will drive you crazy, schizophrenic, or psychotic.
FACT: Then why have the rates for mental illness in Canada, USA, Australia, Netherlands, Spain, not changed in the last 40 years as the rates of Cannabis consumption rose in the respective countries? And why are the rates of countries like Singapore, Sweden, Saudia Arabia, countries that do not have a lot of Cannabis smokers, have the same %'s of mental illness as countries that have a high % of youth smoking Cannabis?
Anymore rumors, post them and I will add them, if I am sure of the answer, to my ongoing list...
-SamS
Maybe I will add a little order and make a few catagories:
GROWING
DRYING
PROCESSING
STORING
USING
CANNABINOIDS
CHEMISTRY
GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA
#1 THCV gets you really high and makes THC much better.
FACT: THCV does not get you high, and is a THC antagonist.
#2 THC is formed by the plant from CBD
FACT: THC and all of the cannabinoids are made by the plant from CBG, each Cannabinoid by a different sythase.
#3 Eating Cannabis is the same as smoking.
FACT: Smoking Cannabis delivers THC to the blood and brain, eating Cannabis delivers mostly 11 Hydroxy-THC to the blood and brain, which is slightly more potent and is slightly different in effects.
#4 Eating Cannabis requires no cooking.
FACT:If you want to get the most out of the effects you will need to decarboxylate the THCA to THC to make it active.
#5 The highest you can get is by smoking pure THC.
FACT: THC is the Cannabinoid that gets you high, but you can get much higher as well as highs of the type you prefer with the right Terpenoids in the plant.
#6 Pipe scrapings are smokable.
FACT: Sure you could smoke them but they will not get you high, they may get you a bit loaded as all of the THC will have been broken down into CBN.
Like 5-10 year old buds or resin keep at room temp. (some folks claim they can get high from fresh pipe scrapings, I have my doubts, I know you can get loaded)
#7 Grafting a Cannabis root with a Hops plant yields a legal hops plant that is stony as hell.
FACT: THC is not produced in the roots and the Hops will have no THC.
#8 Dry Cannabis upside down to get the THC into the buds. Boil the roots for potentcy.
FACT: THC is not produced in the roots it is produced in trichomes on the flowers and leaves.
#9 Cannabis is adulterated with LSD, crack, speed, heroin, formaldahyde, coloring agents, glass beads, by greedy folks to sell more Cannabis and make more money.
FACT: First of all most of these drugs cost more then the Cannabis, a few can't even be smoked, but if you want to be safe, grow your own or know the grower. Even then you can hope he did not shake any resin off the dry manicured buds, people are people.
#10 Marijuana is addictive.
FACT: Most pleasurable activities are to some degree. Is the risk so bad that Cannabis need to prohibited? While alcohol and tobacco are to be allowed? As the addiction rate for alcohol is higher then for Cannabis and Cannabis is also much much lower then for tobacco, the reason becomes apparent the real reason for Cannabis prohibition is not a need to save the public from addictive substances.
This explains your sugar addiction:
In a study, rats overwhelmingly prefer sweetened water to cocaine, even those already hooked on the drug.
Researchers have learned that rats overwhelmingly prefer water sweetened with saccharin to cocaine, a finding that demonstrates the addictive potential of sweets.
Offering larger doses of cocaine did not alter the rats' preference for saccharin, according to the report.
Scientists said the study, presented this week in San Diego at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, might help explain the rise in human obesity, which has been driven in part by an overconsumption of sugary foods.
In the experiment, 43 rats were placed in cages with two levers, one of which delivered an intravenous dose of cocaine and the other a sip of highly sweetened water. At the end of the 15-day trial, 40 of the rats consistently chose saccharin instead of cocaine.
When sugar water was substituted for the saccharin solution, the results were the same, researchers said.
Further testing the rat sweet tooth, scientists subjected 24 cocaine-addicted rats to a similar trial. At the end of 10 days, the majority of them preferred saccharin.
"Intense sweetness is more rewarding to the rats than cocaine," said coauthor Magalie Lenoir of the University of Bordeaux in France.
Lenoir said mammalian taste receptors evolved in an environment that lacked sugar and so were not adapted to the high concentrations of sweets found in the modern diet. Excess sugar could increase levels of the brain chemical dopamine, she said, leading to a craving for sweets.
Cocaine also increases dopamine, she said, but through a different brain mechanism.
#11 Marijuana is a gateway drug.
FACT: Over 70-90 million Americans have tried Marijuana with only 10 million users, while the USA addiction rates for heroin are 1/2 million users and 4 million have tried it. For or amphetamine 10 million have tried and 1.5 million are users, while cocaine is less then 2 million users and 22 million have tried it.
I guess my question is where are all the 70-90 million addicts? And why isn't beer or cigarettes considered gateway drugs, while Cannabis is??
No Cannabis is not a gateway drug.
#12 Marijuana will drive you crazy, schizophrenic, or psychotic.
FACT: Then why have the rates for mental illness in Canada, USA, Australia, Netherlands, Spain, not changed in the last 40 years as the rates of Cannabis consumption rose in the respective countries? And why are the rates of countries like Singapore, Sweden, Saudia Arabia, countries that do not have a lot of Cannabis smokers, have the same %'s of mental illness as countries that have a high % of youth smoking Cannabis?
Anymore rumors, post them and I will add them, if I am sure of the answer, to my ongoing list...
-SamS
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