This results in smoke with high concentrations of toxins. Blunts are a lot bigger than joints, and they hold way more pot. Smoking an entire blunt is like smoking roughly six joints. Budder — another name for dabs or marijuana concentrate — delivers a lot more THC than other weed products, often as much as 80 percent more.
The risk of misuse and addiction is also higher when using high-THC products, especially for young people. Plus, unless you have high-tech lab equipment and are trained in extraction, your dabs may be far from pure. Research shows that dabs can contain contaminants and residual solvents that can to neurotoxicity and cardiotoxicity.
The bad news? The good news? There are plenty of other ways to consume it. As cannabis becomes more popular, so do products that allow you to indulge without the smoke.
Adrienne Santos-Longhurst is a freelance writer and author who has written extensively on all things health and lifestyle for more than a decade.
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Too much means that it might do more harm than good. The amount of active ingredient in a pill and the metabolic path that the ingredient takes after it enters your body—these are things that drugmakers will have painstakingly mapped out before the product comes on the market, with a tractor-trailer full of supporting documentation.
And the few studies we do have were done mostly in the nineteen-eighties and nineties, when cannabis was not nearly as potent as it is now. Because of recent developments in plant breeding and growing techniques, the typical concentration of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, has gone from the low single digits to more than twenty per cent—from a swig of near-beer to a tequila shot.
Or simply getting more stoned, more quickly? Is high-potency cannabis more of a problem for younger users or for older ones? For some drugs, the dose-response curve is linear: twice the dose creates twice the effect.
Which is true for cannabis? It also matters, of course, how cannabis is consumed. It can be smoked, vaped, eaten, or applied to the skin. How are absorption patterns affected? He warned that the fastest-growing segment of the legal market in Washington State was extracts for inhalation, and that the mean THC concentration for those products was more than sixty-five per cent.
Nor did we know how higher-potency products would affect THC consumption. When it comes to cannabis, the best-case scenario is that we will muddle through, learning more about its true effects as we go along and adapting as needed—the way, say, the once extraordinarily lethal innovation of the automobile has been gradually tamed in the course of its history. Berenson begins his book with an account of a conversation he had with his wife, a psychiatrist who specializes in treating mentally ill criminals.
Berenson used to be an investigative reporter for the Times , where he covered, among other things, health care and the pharmaceutical industry. Then he left the paper to write a popular series of thrillers. The result is disturbing. Many people with serious psychiatric illness smoke lots of pot. The marijuana lobby typically responds to this fact by saying that pot-smoking is a response to mental illness, not the cause of it—that people with psychiatric issues use marijuana to self-medicate.
That is only partly true. In some cases, heavy cannabis use does seem to cause mental illness. Berenson thinks that we are far too sanguine about this link. He wonders how large the risk is, and what might be behind it. Messamore reports that, following the recent rise in marijuana use in the U. These are otherwise stable middle-class professionals. Their delusions and paranoia hardly responded to antipsychotics. Is this the reason, Berenson wonders, for the rising incidence of schizophrenia in the developed world, where cannabis use has also increased?
In the northern parts of Finland, incidence of the disease has nearly doubled since In Denmark, cases have risen twenty-five per cent since In the United States, hospital emergency rooms have seen a fifty-per-cent increase in schizophrenia admissions since If you include cases where schizophrenia was a secondary diagnosis, annual admissions in the past decade have increased from 1.
The delusions and paranoia that often accompany psychoses can sometimes trigger violent behavior. Once again, there is no definitive answer, so Berenson has collected bits and pieces of evidence. For example, in a paper in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence , researchers looked at the results of a survey of more than twelve thousand American high-school students. The authors assumed that alcohol use among students would be a predictor of violent behavior, and that marijuana use would predict the opposite.
As Marijuana becomes more readily available, the opportunity for abuse will grow as well. If you or a loved one is struggling with a dependence, contact a treatment provider for rehab-related today. Michael Muldoon earned a B. He enjoys spending his free time at the climbing gym with friends.
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