Help me convince my mom to smoke weed

Page 4 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.

BurnItDwn

Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
26,160
1,634
126
Have the doctor prescribe her marinol which is THC in pill form. She won't know what it is.

This is a good suggestion IMO. It does not have all the chemicals that pot has, its just the THC, so even less side effects than pot, and safer, and legal.
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
57,920
8,186
126
This is a good suggestion IMO. It does not have all the chemicals that pot has, its just the THC, so even less side effects than pot, and safer, and legal.

I don't really follow medical marijuana, but I don't completely trust "extracted solutions" for medical use. Nicotine replacement is largely a failure because it doesn't contain other properties of tobacco. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if marijuana was the same. On a personal note, it would piss me off paying a company money for a product that literally grows like a weed. Artificial scarcity is bullshit.
 

Ns1

No Lifer
Jun 17, 2001
55,418
1,598
126
I don't really follow medical marijuana, but I don't completely trust "extracted solutions" for medical use. Nicotine replacement is largely a failure because it doesn't contain other properties of tobacco. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if marijuana was the same. On a personal note, it would piss me off paying a company money for a product that literally grows like a weed. Artificial scarcity is bullshit.

Except weed left to it's own devices is garbage. It's only through careful growing/processing that top shelf herb is produced. That is a service worth paying for (until we can all grow in peace without fear of DEA agents raiding our homes and shooting our dogs)
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
57,920
8,186
126
Except weed left to it's own devices is garbage. It's only through careful growing/processing that top shelf herb is produced. That is a service worth paying for (until we can all grow in peace without fear of DEA agents raiding our homes and shooting our dogs)

Good enough is good enough, and everyone has the capability to cultivate good enough. Your point about the DEA is valid though.
 

Ns1

No Lifer
Jun 17, 2001
55,418
1,598
126
Good enough is only good enough until you've smoked enough to develop a tolerance to good enough, at which point good enough ain't good enough
 

BurnItDwn

Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
26,160
1,634
126
I don't really follow medical marijuana, but I don't completely trust "extracted solutions" for medical use. Nicotine replacement is largely a failure because it doesn't contain other properties of tobacco. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if marijuana was the same. On a personal note, it would piss me off paying a company money for a product that literally grows like a weed. Artificial scarcity is bullshit.

Well, I do not suggest using marinol as a healthy replacement for mj. I simply suggest that if this woman does not want MJ, but maybe she could benefit from it in some way, that this extract might be worth trying.

nicotine replacement patches has been a failure because they do not have that instant gratification, or the short term buzz one gets from a hit of tobacco. Vaporizers have become quite popular, and seems like they are succeeding where other nicotine replacements have failed for a lot of people. I have been a harsh critic of e-cigs and vaping in the past until I think Rudeboy told me to open my fucking eyes and that the e-cigs of today are not like the e-cigs of 10 years ago.
 

Ns1

No Lifer
Jun 17, 2001
55,418
1,598
126
Well, I do not suggest using marinol as a healthy replacement for mj. I simply suggest that if this woman does not want MJ, but maybe she could benefit from it in some way, that this extract might be worth trying.

marinol didn't do shit for the wifey. YMMV.