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jmowreader

(50,451 posts)
64. You do
Sun May 11, 2014, 06:30 AM
May 2014

Leaf cannabis as removed from the plant contains THC-carboxylic acid, which isn't psychoactive. To make it entertaining you have to heat the weed in a process called decarboxylation. This strips off the carboxyl group and makes the pot worth using.

The nice thing is, you can decarboxylate weed in a clothes dryer. In case you're wondering why the cops loved to raid laundromats back in the Hippie Age...now you know.

I personally think it was brussel sprouts... Egnever May 2014 #1
Some entertain the idea it may have been Lima beans.... Brother Buzz May 2014 #9
I bow to your wisdom Brother Buzz Egnever May 2014 #19
technically, it's "brussels sprouts". but perhaps in biblical times there was only one brussel. unblock May 2014 #10
Maybe it was a road apple. geomon666 May 2014 #2
Poppies. TreasonousBastard May 2014 #3
they would have had to known how make a butter reduction to render the THC from the buds, dionysus May 2014 #4
You can eat the buds. MohRokTah May 2014 #5
really? i munched a few buds once and didnt notice anything. i thought you needed heat to render the dionysus May 2014 #8
Nope. THC does not require the heat. MohRokTah May 2014 #11
i ate about a 2 bowls worth of dank, i didn't notice much, but the rice crispy treats i tried. OMFG! dionysus May 2014 #13
The active chemicals in both the dank you ate and the rice crispy treats was identical. MohRokTah May 2014 #15
I'm not persuaded jberryhill May 2014 #30
The bioavailability is much higher when properly prepared in a fatty oil. Taitertots May 2014 #34
The ecig folks have been busy too jberryhill May 2014 #42
I have done the work MohRokTah May 2014 #43
Nope, the chemical enters your bloodstream identically both ways. MohRokTah May 2014 #35
Oh, you're killing me jberryhill May 2014 #44
interesting, thank you. dionysus May 2014 #47
You do jmowreader May 2014 #64
Pot salad will do almost nothing Taitertots May 2014 #16
Then you've never eaten it. MohRokTah May 2014 #17
Hmm but juicing changes that? Egnever May 2014 #21
Nope, same chemical composition. MohRokTah May 2014 #23
I tried many things in the foolhardy days of my youth. Taitertots May 2014 #22
You are incorrect. MohRokTah May 2014 #24
Try it for yourself. Smoke a gram, eat a gram, make a gram into fat based cookies Taitertots May 2014 #29
I've done all three, many many times MohRokTah May 2014 #31
You are missing the point jberryhill May 2014 #37
No, precisely ZERO extraction from vegetative material has been done for you. MohRokTah May 2014 #40
It's not about heat jberryhill May 2014 #32
Liposolubility is not a factor in digestive ingestion. eom MohRokTah May 2014 #36
Transport. Fluid transport. jberryhill May 2014 #38
Again, liposolubility is not a factor in digestive ingestion. eom MohRokTah May 2014 #41
Michael Backes of Abatin Wellness Center says... RainDog May 2014 #54
It's not about heat jberryhill May 2014 #32
This IS the FSM we are talking about here right? VanillaRhapsody May 2014 #6
There is no god, Go Vols May 2014 #7
Then there was the legend of Johnny Ganjaseed... TexasTowelie May 2014 #12
so god rips out adam's rib to make eve. adam needed some medicine asap nt msongs May 2014 #14
Peyote, dude. McCamy Taylor May 2014 #18
It was the magic mushroom, of course. Comrade Grumpy May 2014 #20
In 1000 years they will find remains of the apple snow white bit into. n/t 951-Riverside May 2014 #25
This message was self-deleted by its author lunasun May 2014 #26
Figs? trusty elf May 2014 #27
"Madam, I'm Adam" KansDem May 2014 #51
The first or the second. Depends on who hit on whom first. GreatCaesarsGhost May 2014 #59
mmm-hmmm trusty elf May 2014 #60
I didn't know pot grew on trees. ohheckyeah May 2014 #28
Yes, but... jberryhill May 2014 #39
This message was self-deleted by its author Warren DeMontague May 2014 #45
The "Forbidden Fruit" was from the "Tree of Knowledge". Adam and Eve were kept in the "Garden Ghost in the Machine May 2014 #46
I've always read the Serpent as a hero in the story Scootaloo May 2014 #48
"I've always really, really sucked at being a Christian. I tried, i tried really, really hard. it Ghost in the Machine May 2014 #53
Christianity, aka Paul, turned ancient religion/wisdom on its head, demonizing women and the WinkyDink May 2014 #56
It was a feature well before Paul Scootaloo May 2014 #61
Haha! True enough! I conflated modernity with monotheism! WinkyDink May 2014 #63
That's one of the first things that turned me off xtianity too RainDog May 2014 #58
Seeing that the story of Adam and Eve is nothing more than a fairy tale the forbidden fruit can be Exposethefrauds May 2014 #49
One linguist said cannabis is kaneh bosm in the OT RainDog May 2014 #50
+1 eShirl May 2014 #65
So I've been smoking "Trees Of Knowledge"? Motown_Johnny May 2014 #52
He seems not even to know that it was knowledge that was promised. WinkyDink May 2014 #55
According to the story Adam and Eve did not have kids till they were kicked out Exposethefrauds May 2014 #57
How do you identify a fruit mentioned in a fable? MineralMan May 2014 #62
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