significant differences of injecting rather than smoking marijuana.

[Nochowderforyou]

Injecting marijuana is something I wouldn't do. For one, how fun is it to feel a prick in your arm and carefully slide a needle into one of your main veins? Doesn't sound like much fun to me. Anything that would be injected would have to be synthezized THC, not actual THC cabbanoids from a plant...I think anyways.

And yes, there is a new medical spray out there called "Sativex" Here is their site:

www.sativex.com

Although, from reading about synthetic THC, it is found not to be as effective as actually smoking the real deal.

[chris420]

There is marinol which has been on the market for a while and was used for medicinal purposes ( I'm not sure if marinol is still on the market ) to treat hospital patients that qualified for this treatment. Marinol is a synthetic composition of the THC molecule and is considered legal only because it is made in a tax paying laboratory. The ironies of life...

[beachguy in thongs]

In short, the smoking of crude marijuana is more efficient in delivering THC and, in some cases, it may be more effective.

http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabi...is_myth3.shtml

[Ganj]

thanks for the input. lol...dr. neemoyhowser...your nuts, beachguy. thanks for the laughs.

[blastfast]

Smoking joints is amazingly good for tasting the weed/hash but unfortunately, is possibly the least efficient way of consuming it. Whilst you are passing/holding/between tokes, smoke is pouring out of your joint and essentially bud is going to waste. I know this sounds nitpicky, ingesting or smoking with a bong/vapouriser is sooo much more efficient, just less social and less cliched.

[fikusroot]

Yes, instead of breathing in smoke through your lungs lets push needles in our arms and inject it directly into the blood stream. That sounds so much safer.

[blastfast]

From a "not getting cancer" p.o.v. it probably is....

[Oneironaut]

What about eating it? I suspect that if there are any advantages to injecting it over smoking it, they would be pretty much the same advantages offered by just eating it.

[beachguy in thongs]

Smoking joints is amazingly good for tasting the weed/hash but unfortunately, is possibly the least efficient way of consuming it. Whilst you are passing/holding/between tokes, smoke is pouring out of your joint and essentially bud is going to waste. I know this sounds nitpicky, ingesting or smoking with a bong/vapouriser is sooo much more efficient, just less social and less cliched.

You are so horribly wrong with this statement that I'm not gonna even bother to prove it.

Okay, here ya go.

THC and other cannabinoids dissolve readily in fat but not in water. This limits the possible formulations of cannabis and cannabinoid preparations, and slows down their absorption from the gut. On the other hand, when cannabis is smoked (in a "joint" or "reefer", or in a pipe), THC is absorbed very quickly into the bloodstream, through the large surface area of the pharynx and the lungs. After smoking, the psychoactive effects of THC are perceptible within seconds, and peak effects are achieved within minutes. When cannabis or cannabinoids are taken by mouth, peak effects may not occur for several hours, but they last longer. After smoking or oral ingestion, the drug persists in the brain longer than in the blood; so the psychological effects persist for some time after the level of THC in the blood has begun to decline.

3.4 Smoking delivers 30 per cent or more of the total THC in a cannabis cigarette to the blood stream. The proportion of THC absorbed after taking cannabis by mouth is 2-3 times less, because after absorption in the gut the drug is largely degraded by metabolism in the liver before it reaches the general circulation. Preliminary reports indicate that absorption into the circulation can be increased if THC is administered by rectal suppository, as this route delivers the drug directly into the circulation, avoiding the liver.

[mrdevious]

What about eating it? I suspect that if there are any advantages to injecting it over smoking it, they would be pretty much the same advantages offered by just eating it.

yeah, but you have to cook it in with food to eat it (eating it strait won't work for the most part), eating can have a delayed and unpredictable reaction (like getting high in 20 minutes or the next morning), and you have to use up a LOT more to get the same effect.