The US usually consistently uses imperial, which sucks but it’s consistent. England switches between the two constantly. They’re crazy people, and they use measures like “stone” for weight sometimes too. Metric is obviously the better system, but consistency is better than randomly deciding which to use when.
Under an eighth you switch to grams. But in my experience the professionalization of cannabis seems to be metricating it.
The US is slowly, item by item learning metric. We know how much a liter is from soda. We’re learning how much a gram is from drugs, and before too long something will teach us what a meter is.
Some Canadian stoners in the mid 2000s still hadn’t managed to work out fractions smaller than 1/4, apparently. “I’m picking up a half quarter,” they’d say, to announce their procurement of an eighth ounce of cannabis.
Some of those are because international standards (the military and ammo, although the US military uses yards more than kilometers, but they do use both, probably because of international influence). Some are because science is run on metric (pharmacists).
Litres though, yeah, idk. I’m assuming it’s because it’s easier to make a bottle in Litres and sell it around the world? Litres predate metric too, so it could be because of that? I never see poured liquids measured in Litres though, only bottles. Usually it’s pints or fluid ounces.
I do have to congratulate illegal drugs for teaching metric to Americans probably better than our schools though. It’s an interesting dynamic.
Could also be a hold over from WW1 or WW2 that caused the weird drunk litres thing, would not put it past some dude in logistics getting bitched at by the French and that situation spiraling into litre measurements being standardized for drinks.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The US usually consistently uses imperial, which sucks but it’s consistent. England switches between the two constantly. They’re crazy people, and they use measures like “stone” for weight sometimes too. Metric is obviously the better system, but consistency is better than randomly deciding which to use when.
TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Our smallest unit of weight is the ounce, which is 28g, and as much as Americans hate metric, we hate fractions more.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
Unless it’s drugs.
All my favorite drugs come in fractions. Specifically 1/8ths and 1/4ths.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Under an eighth you switch to grams. But in my experience the professionalization of cannabis seems to be metricating it.
The US is slowly, item by item learning metric. We know how much a liter is from soda. We’re learning how much a gram is from drugs, and before too long something will teach us what a meter is.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 month ago
3.5, 7, easy
ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Some Canadian stoners in the mid 2000s still hadn’t managed to work out fractions smaller than 1/4, apparently. “I’m picking up a half quarter,” they’d say, to announce their procurement of an eighth ounce of cannabis.
speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
11/16 of an inch
SpacePanda@mander.xyz 1 month ago
True, metric is far superior. Really weird how inconsistent they are
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Consistently. Like the 500mL bottle of water I’m currently drinking in coastal Alabama?
Like the 2 and 3L sodas sold in stores all across the USA as far back as I can remember? I’m about a month and a half away from 50 years old btw.
Or maybe like how all our drugs medicines, over the counter, and yes, even the illegal ones, are all in milligrams or grams?
Or our military using kilometers to measure distance across land, although calling it a klick because it’s faster to say than kilometer?
Or how most of our weapons are measured in millimeters?
That sort of consistency?
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Some of those are because international standards (the military and ammo, although the US military uses yards more than kilometers, but they do use both, probably because of international influence). Some are because science is run on metric (pharmacists).
Litres though, yeah, idk. I’m assuming it’s because it’s easier to make a bottle in Litres and sell it around the world? Litres predate metric too, so it could be because of that? I never see poured liquids measured in Litres though, only bottles. Usually it’s pints or fluid ounces.
I do have to congratulate illegal drugs for teaching metric to Americans probably better than our schools though. It’s an interesting dynamic.
Unstoppable_Flop@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The war on drugs is over, the drugs won
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Could also be a hold over from WW1 or WW2 that caused the weird drunk litres thing, would not put it past some dude in logistics getting bitched at by the French and that situation spiraling into litre measurements being standardized for drinks.