Quote Originally Posted by IanCurtisWishlist
you need to inhale the smoke deep into your lungs. some people who are novice tokers don't know that it's unacceptable to just simply hold the smoke in your mouth and then blow it out. you need to inhale it deeply and then exhale.

the THC will build up in your blood and eventually cross the blood/brain barrier, bind at the THC receptor site, and cause a chain reaction in the brain which results in the high.

There are several psychoactive compounds in the cannabis plant. Cannabinoid is responsible for the "downer" effect of weed (more commonly associated with indica strains, as there is a higher ratio of CANNABINOID to THC). Cannabinoid is a muscle relaxant which is why it mellows you out, but doesn't get you "high" , per se. this is why when you smoke "red bud" , you might get a headache or just get sleepy. It's interesting, and worth to mention, that when you expose weed (thc) to light, it degrades to cannabinoid. Red Bud, or mexican brick weed, is oftentimes dried in the sun. Hence, most of the THC degrades to cannabinoid which is why red bud is total absolute shit most of the time!

lastly, if you want to be really high off of pot, bake it into peanut butter and spread it on a cracker (called a firecracker). Generally , eating pot makes it stronger because the THC-9 is metabolized in the liver after being absorbed in the GI tract. The liver has an enzyme which converts the THC-9 (regular THC that gets u high when u smoke) to a different form of THC, making it much more stronger.

If you have some grain alcohol (everclear, 180 proof of anything), you can soke your chronic in the alcohol and make a tincture of cannabis. drop it on your tongue to your liking and kiss your current state of mind goodbye as you drift away on a cloud of happyness and a drugged-out stupor

enjoy!
And by "Cannibinoid" you are referring to Cannabinidiol. Cannabinol and Delta-9 TetraHydraCannabinol being the others. Cannibinoid is a term that refers to all chemicals that share certain structural properties that enable them to fit in the CB (or cannibinoid) receptors in the brain. Not all cannibinoids are psychoactive, though, and there are several cannibinoids that the brain produces on its own.