RE: Marijuana becoming legal little by little: the bitter victory
April 26, 2018 at 4:52 am
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2018 at 4:58 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(April 25, 2018 at 9:28 pm)dyresand Wrote: even if it's marijuana you are just better off eating it than ruining your lungs and vaping is no better either.
Switching from smoking to vaping does reduce your carcinogens
This is for vaping as an alternative to smoking tobacco. Dry vaping cannabis is much better than the vapes you see because it's just the herb and warm air, none of the added flavourings or glycerine etc.
There are over 100 carcinogens in cigarette smoke (114 from memory but I might be wrong), whereas only 1 from dry vaping cannabis, which is Benzin which is released by vaping above 185c (I always stick to 180-182c). Unfortunately it needs to be heated at 180c for a fair while to get the effect and you can't do that by heating water, not even in a pressure cooker.
I looked into edibles for a long time but realised that for me at least it would probably do more harm than good. This is because the way to make edibles is to cook the herb in an oil, like butter, for several hours. I follow the OMS diet to overcome my MS and this means staying away from all heated oils. The smoking gun cause of MS as far as I am concerned is cooked, processed oils that you find in almost all prepared food, and home cooked food. There is evidence to suggest that MS is a fat lipid disorder. All the other potential causes, such as low vitamin D, genetics, underlying food allergy, glandular fever/mono/epstein barr virus are all exacerbating factors that need to be in place for the disease to occur rather than the cause by itself.
Saying that I do sprinkle my vaped bud over my oven baked salmon but the dosage is much harder to control, takes a long time to kick in and lasts an incredibly long time. Not that I am convinced that I should be eating baked salmon so I may end up steaming it instead. But if the only option for me was to cook butter for a couple of hours, I just wouldn't do it. It's not just MS though. There is no healthy way to cook with oil. There are just unhealthy ways ranging to extremely unhealthy ways.
It's worth pointing out that vaping is considered far more dangerous in the US where opinion is that it's better to give up smoking, whereas in the UK the NHS recognise that it's far better than smoking and encourages people to vape instead of smoke.
