It’s also easier to make than cannabis.
You are aware that Cannabis is a plant, and therefore naturally occurring, yes? It was literally on the planet for hundreds of millions of years before modern homosapiens.
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BombOmOm@lemmy.world 7 months agoIt’s also easier to make than cannabis. Alcohol will ferment in nature, you literally don’t have to do anything to make (crappy) alcohol. Good luck banning that, we tried once, went even worse than the war on drugs.
Riccosuave@lemmy.world 7 months ago
zout@fedia.io 7 months ago
To make marijuana, you need to dry the flowers of unpollinated female cannabis plants. It takes some effort and time to grow them like this. To make alcohol, you squash a bunch of overripe fruit, put it in a semi closed container and forget about it for a week or two. There are even video's of animals in the wild eating overripe fruit and getting wasted from it. So yeah, it is easier to make.
Riccosuave@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I have personally grown, sold, and been around commercial Cannabis cultivation my entire adult life. We are gonna have to agree to disagree on this one.
zout@fedia.io 7 months ago
Fine by me. But please show me a clip of wild animals getting high from THC found in nature to prove your point, here's the drunk animals.
Vent@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Marijuana grows in nature and you just need to dry it out and light it on fire.
Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
But you need a very specific plant, dry-it, and burn-it. Just let some fruit ripe and you’ll get alcohol. The ability to digest alcohol (rather than being poisoned) is one of the evolutionary advantage of some “great apes” including humans. It’s pretty great because it give us access to more food. Look how fruits into alcohol (wine, cider and more) is a great way to preserve them for the winter
zout@fedia.io 7 months ago
Don't bother answering here, the THC crowd is downvoting everyone who says alcohol is easier to make. It feels like reddit to be honest.
whoreticulture@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You can literally just grow a cannabis plant in your house right now. Buy a seed and let it grow. If you wanted to make alcohol it would be much more involved.
zout@fedia.io 7 months ago
And hope there's enough THC in there, because pollination basically ruins the THC content.
CuttingBoard@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Fertilization does not kill THC. Nobody wants to buy weed full of seeds. Seeds have weight. It’s similar to BBQ rubs. Take out the salt and see what they weigh. Salt is heavy and cheap.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Kinda. IIRC, if it is fertilized it doesn’t really work as a drug.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Works fine as a drug if fertilized…
To quote afroman:
Back in the day most weed came with seeds. Doesn’t really change the THC content, just means you gotta pick them out before hand, hence sinsemilla, which is preferable, because it has denser buds, and no seeds.