Comment on Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana?
Riccosuave@lemmy.world 2 months agoI 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 2 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.
whoreticulture@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The only people using the rotton fruit method in their daily lives are in prison.
Riccosuave@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not all animals have the same type of endocannabinoid receptors as homosapiens. However, plenty of animals choose to consume Cannabis plants in nature where they are available, and have not been eradicated. I fail to see what any of this has to do with your initial point though. The process of drying Cannabis is not what “activates” THC. That process is called decarboxylation. I’m not aware of any animals that can get stoned simply by eating Cannabis before it has gone through the process of decarboxylation through heating. However, your initial statement was that Cannabis needed to go through some kind of specific process for it to produce THC in the same way that fruit must go through fermentation. This is simply not the case. The process of selective breeding is what has increased the THC content of Cannabis, but even wild Cannabis plants contain a myriad of different cannabinoid compounds.
zout@fedia.io 2 months ago
That was not the initial statement. The initial statement is that alcohol is easier to make than marijuana.
Riccosuave@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Which still makes no fucking sense considering that you do not “make” Cannabis. It is naturally occurring plant-life. There is an ADDITIONAL chemical process that is necessary to turn fruit into alcohol. While that fermentation process can occur without human intervention, it is still an additional process that is not fundamentally necessary for Cannabis to become intoxicating…