significant differences of injecting rather than smoking marijuana.

[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.

beachguy in thongs Reviewed by beachguy in thongs on 12-16-2005. significant differences of injecting rather than smoking marijuana. does anyone know of any? the only one i can think of is that it may prove healthier to your lungs, and of course an injection would prove more useful and efficient than smoking, but if that's the case then we should all just smoke more. right? i love marijuana! Rating: 5