Posted by MisterB on August 4, 2000, at 20:38:07
In reply to Re: One other thing..., posted by cakes on August 2, 2000, at 9:28:35
A few notes ... medical marijuana users say they prefer smoking cannibas to Marinol pills because they can control the dose ... my recollection is that taking a toke or two at a time let them down-regulate the imediate dose and extend the period of the drugs effect. Other Marinol (pharmaceutical synthetic THC) users told me the federally licensed pills do not effect them as intensly as does the popular but illegal plant medication, which they prefered.
Cooking tends to delay the effect. I don't think injested cannibas gets a person any higher, but the delay between the time one eats it and the time it takes effect can cause sort of a surprise when, all of a sudden, one realizes their consciousness is altered. Smoking anything delivers the active ingredients to the blood almost immediately, reaching the brain almost as fast as an injection, and causing an intense rush. I wonder if the anxiety is as much a product of the sudden change as it is of the specific neurotropic effect.
I appreciate the idea that pot is for young people. I recently heard Grace Slick say in an interview that old people don't belong on a rock-n-roll stage. But then I've seen the Starship's fiddle player Papa John Creech in his 70s saunter on stage, thrust his pelvis, grap his crotch and send a mixed-age crowd into timeless ecstacy (not the drug) with his psychadelic, sensual electric fiddle. Mick Jagger still rocks, too. Aerosmith...
Oh, we were talking pot....
I should not say which well-known national news anchor asked my friend to hook him up with some weed when he came to town for a speaking engagement.
There are actually quite a few older people who secretly smoke. Many use it to counter what could be described as depression. My inquiries indicated that doctors prescribe pot only for glaucoma and anorexia for political reasons ... the cause for medical marijuana would not be well served if it were touted as an anti-depressant.
Old folks have more to loose, physically and socially, from smoking. People, as they get older, tend
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