re: Stoned California Seniors Headed to ER's By the Thousands: UCSD Study

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Excuse my ignorance, because my knowledge of weed is zero. I am 54 and have never smoked it, eaten anything laced with or anything. I am not anti weed I was just never really interested in it. Why is weed so much stronger now? Growing methods? New Hybrid varieties?

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I don’t know if actual buds are stronger. The medical strains they sell tend to be quite mild.

Where people might be running into issues it with vape pens and edibles that have a higher concentration in a smaller amount. And if you rip a vape like a joint it’s insta high.

Edibles take longer and so someone might be like I can take another I’m not even high, then boom.

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“I do see a lot of older adults who are overly confident, saying they know how to handle it

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I didn’t really smoke pot until about 2011 and it’s significantly stronger now. Can’t imagine the difference between 2022 weed and 1967 weed.

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This is false. Medical was legal in California in 1996. I was getting dank as buds in hs in the early 2000s.

Some of the medical strains they sell has low thc.

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Why is weed so much stronger now

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They went from growing low grade THC cannabis in the ditches in California and Mexico more akin to hemp than what we know today as “weed” to full breeding farms with hydroponic nutrition and generational gene selection resulting in high concentrations of THC and terps.

Due to this great breeding and selection you can get very specific about what type of high you want. I got for 12-16% THC indica dominant hybrids with Mycenae as the dominant terp.

But for boomers who don’t know any better Louis CK said it best:

You used to be able to just smoke a joint for a while. Now you take one hit and you go insane.

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Can’t imagine the difference between 2022 weed and 1967 weed.

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It's the difference between beer and moonshine. THC levels from weed in the 60's and 70's (and likely the 80's) were around 1%. Back then they likely crushed everything up into their bags (leaves and stems) further diluting the THC level of a given joint.

Today, THC levels can get up to 50% (and that's not including oils, which can be up in the 90% range).

This jump in THC is a problem as continued use of high potency weed like this causes manic behavior (proven through countless studies and meta studies) yet the philosophy many have is still as if it were the weed from Woodstock.

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I did 125 mgs last night

I don’t believe you

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I've gone through a .5g vape cart in 8 hours, easily. Some just have high tolerances, I've always had a very high tolerance for weed.

35 mgs at 5:00.
25 mgs. At 6:00
15 mgs at 6:45
12 mgs at 7:30
12 mgs at 815
At night I wrote it down. I am experimenting with tolerance.

I had the other 25 mgs in the am

Could it be Sr’s are going to the doctors more because they are old?

Yup, those are not high numbers for many. I know some folks who eat 250 at a time. Tolerance builds fast with edibles.

For crying out loud I watch Joey Diaz’s large butt eat 500 like it’s nothing.

The worst side effect for me when I overdo edibles is chest pain and the chain of thoughts that keep coming telling me this is the big one. I just pace the floor and do some deep breathing until it passes. But there are some moments of terror you occasionally have to talk yourself through.