valincal
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Jun 24, 2025 19:41:46 GMT
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Post by valincal on Jun 24, 2025 19:41:46 GMT
kokomo37 As someone else said, if you pop into a dispensary they will be able to help. In Alberta (maybe all of Canada?) the THC edibles you buy at the shops are limited to a small dosage per package so I always order mine online. We sometimes buy from a First Nations dispensary when we are in BC. BC does not allow online purchases. No matter what, start with a very small dose (2mg or so) and work your way up. Tolerances vary like crazy!
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Post by Delta Dawn on Jun 24, 2025 19:51:21 GMT
kokomo37 As someone else said, if you pop into a dispensary they will be able to help. In Alberta (maybe all of Canada?) the THC edibles you buy at the shops are limited to a small dosage per package so I always order mine online. We sometimes buy from a First Nations dispensary when we are in BC. BC does not allow online purchases. No matter what, start with a very small dose (2mg or so) and work your way up. Tolerances vary like crazy! I had to order from ON to get the strength I wanted. It’s nothing to brag about either. I loved pot and still support all enthusiasts. I miss the laughter I used to get from 60 mg brownies. |
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valincal
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Southern Alberta
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Post by valincal on Jun 24, 2025 20:15:03 GMT
kokomo37 As someone else said, if you pop into a dispensary they will be able to help. In Alberta (maybe all of Canada?) the THC edibles you buy at the shops are limited to a small dosage per package so I always order mine online. We sometimes buy from a First Nations dispensary when we are in BC. BC does not allow online purchases. No matter what, start with a very small dose (2mg or so) and work your way up. Tolerances vary like crazy! I had to order from ON to get the strength I wanted. It’s nothing to brag about either. I loved pot and still support all enthusiasts. I miss the laughter I used to get from 60 mg brownies. 😄 The company I order from will not deliver to BC. 🤷♀️ |
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Post by Delta Dawn on Jun 24, 2025 20:34:22 GMT
I had to order from ON to get the strength I wanted. It’s nothing to brag about either. I loved pot and still support all enthusiasts. I miss the laughter I used to get from 60 mg brownies. 😄 The company I order from will not deliver to BC. 🤷♀️ Thag is just weird. I think my supplier was maybe flying under the radar. I was getting physio for my shoulder and it was hot outside. There is a pot store beside the doctor’s building (same complex) and I bought 20 mg. They actually take Visa and it calmed the -#%^ down. I was impressed with the quality I got. It may have been a gov of BC shop. I will check the brand and see. ALSO my dad was driving me! |
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Post by Zee on Jun 24, 2025 21:05:41 GMT
Whatever you do, make sure the package of whatever is left over is adequately labeled. A friend of ours went into work (self employed, with employees) on a day the place was normally closed to catch up on some stuff and found an unlabeled ziplock baggie of “gummy bears” on the desk. Ate a few, and then ate them all not realizing what they were. 😬😳 Ended up at the ER because he accidentally overdosed and had to get his stomach pumped! Not fun. Serves him right for eating someone else's gummy bears 🤣🤣🤣 Like who just leaves their expensive edibles out on a desk at work? Also, never heard of someone needing to get their stomach pumped for THC. I think he's fibbing. |
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Post by MichyM on Jun 24, 2025 22:15:37 GMT
Thank you both Merge and littlemama for the information, much appreciated. The hemp beverages mentioned are not available in WA state (though there are THC beverages available in our pot shops) which is why its all news to me. The fact that some in the industry have figured out a way to circumvent the THC levels in hemp annoys me simply because those states who sell THC legally (and those who purchase THC products) jump through a whole bunch of of oversight and regulatory hoops. I will say that the cannabis industry in the US is a hot mess for many reasons. For me, the most bothersome is the federal prohibition and banking restrictions - most companies operate on a cash-only basis, increasing security risks and unnecessarily complicating financial operations. It was so lovely to walk into a pot shop in Canada and pick up what I needed and be able to use my CC for purchase. The federal government has helped make pot shops in the US sitting ducks for theft and other criminal activities. It is a mess for sure, but the other side of federal regulation is that you will have a few companies with a lot of cash take over the industry and force out all of the smaller companies. Excess licenses, taxation and license fees are already driving a lot of small operators out of the space That's a totally valid point. In Washington, companies can only have up to five retail cannabis shops, and retailers aren’t allowed to be producers too, probably to avoid exactly that kind of situation. Honestly, it feels like there’s no good solution right now. Maybe the answer is to keep things under state control but update the federal laws (I know, good luck with that) so shops can go fully cashless. It seems like every week there’s another story about a big pot shop break-in and half the time, it’s a shop that’s already been hit four or five times. |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 24, 2025 23:23:38 GMT
Whatever you do, make sure the package of whatever is left over is adequately labeled. A friend of ours went into work (self employed, with employees) on a day the place was normally closed to catch up on some stuff and found an unlabeled ziplock baggie of “gummy bears” on the desk. Ate a few, and then ate them all not realizing what they were. 😬😳 Ended up at the ER because he accidentally overdosed and had to get his stomach pumped! Not fun. Serves him right for eating someone else's gummy bears 🤣🤣🤣 Like who just leaves their expensive edibles out on a desk at work? Also, never heard of someone needing to get their stomach pumped for THC. I think he's fibbing. Well, it IS an accounting firm, so I would imagine they all make bank. And they were left on HIS desk, in an unmarked bag so 🤷🏻♀️? Whoever it was didn’t expect anyone to be there that day so maybe they thought they would get back to them before he would normally be in the office. IDK. What’s expensive to one person may not be expensive to someone else. I don’t know what was in them, if it was CBD, THC or what, just that eating the whole bag made him very sick, so he called his wife and she brought him in. It was his second trip to the ER in like two months, having previously gone in because he accidentally took too much pain medication after having some surgery and she brought him in that time too. His wife was razzing him good and giving him a hard time saying everyone was going to think he was an addict! Which was really pretty funny because this guy is so strait laced he doesn’t even drink. I doubt very much he would have eaten them if he knew what they actually were. |
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Post by don on Jun 24, 2025 23:43:59 GMT
Billy Strings & Willie Nelson
Well, I used to like to ramble with my good-time friends and neighbors
Now I find I'd rather lie awake in bed
And I don't get to acting mean when I keep my buzzes clean
And keep the hard stuff and the whiskey from my head
Well, I guess that's just the trouble when you're always seeing double
And the lines are getting twice as hard to see
I've had years I don't recall, but I'm told I had a ball
At least someone did who looked a lot like me
So I'm California sober as they say
And lately I can't find no other way
I can't stay out and party like I did back in the day
So I'm California sober as they say
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Jun 25, 2025 2:49:40 GMT
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Post by birukitty on Jun 25, 2025 2:49:40 GMT
I’m so sorry it’s taken me so long to get back to this thread. The Pea who mentioned it won’t do any good for me to post photos of my flower products here is correct and this is for many reasons.
1. I am in Maryland and what is sold here will differ from what is available in your state.
2. I shop once a month and when I do they don’t always have the same strains available. They move stock in and out constantly so I rely on the wonderful budtenders at my local dispensary to help me make the best selections for my budget each month.
3. My needs and tastes won’t be the same as yours. I have a very high tolerance. I’ve always had a high tolerance to pain meds that started when I was a child and the army dentist used Novocaine before filling my cavity and didn’t believe me when I told him I could still feel the drill. My current dentist believes me and gives me a double dose of novocaine. So I look for a high THC of at least 25 or high total terpenes. I much prefer sativas over indicas. The terepene humalene is supposed to decrease appetite but in me it gives me the munchies so I make sure it’s low.
4. Learning about terpenes is very helpful and a great site for all info is leafy.com. Good budtenders are also helpful when it comes to this and what each strain is likely to feel like, but we all react differently to cannabis so it’s very much a try it and see.
5. As far as pain relief I personally believe you will get much better results from true cannabis vs a hemp product. I personally feel better ingesting a product that’s been tested and grown without pesticides, but that’s me.
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Jun 25, 2025 13:31:22 GMT
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Post by littlemama on Jun 25, 2025 13:31:22 GMT
Whatever you do, make sure the package of whatever is left over is adequately labeled. A friend of ours went into work (self employed, with employees) on a day the place was normally closed to catch up on some stuff and found an unlabeled ziplock baggie of “gummy bears” on the desk. Ate a few, and then ate them all not realizing what they were. 😬😳 Ended up at the ER because he accidentally overdosed and had to get his stomach pumped! Not fun. Serves him right for eating someone else's gummy bears 🤣🤣🤣 Like who just leaves their expensive edibles out on a desk at work? Also, never heard of someone needing to get their stomach pumped for THC. I think he's fibbing. Edibles arent expensive at all! The "expensive" ones we buy are maybe $20 for 200 mg pkg But you are correct about the stomach pumping- not a thing because you cant OD on cannabis |
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Jun 25, 2025 13:34:46 GMT
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Post by littlemama on Jun 25, 2025 13:34:46 GMT
It is a mess for sure, but the other side of federal regulation is that you will have a few companies with a lot of cash take over the industry and force out all of the smaller companies. Excess licenses, taxation and license fees are already driving a lot of small operators out of the space That's a totally valid point. In Washington, companies can only have up to five retail cannabis shops, and retailers aren’t allowed to be producers too, probably to avoid exactly that kind of situation. Honestly, it feels like there’s no good solution right now. Maybe the answer is to keep things under state control but update the federal laws (I know, good luck with that) so shops can go fully cashless. It seems like every week there’s another story about a big pot shop break-in and half the time, it’s a shop that’s already been hit four or five times. My state allows vertically integrated companies, which truly is not the issue and there is a restriction on the number of licenses one company can have, but they just open a bunch of LLC's and get around it that way- that is the issue along witu the fact that our state did not cap licenses overall, so there is an oversaturation of grows which is hurting the entire industry . |
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Post by Merge on Jun 25, 2025 15:54:34 GMT
I’m so sorry it’s taken me so long to get back to this thread. The Pea who mentioned it won’t do any good for me to post photos of my flower products here is correct and this is for many reasons. 1. I am in Maryland and what is sold here will differ from what is available in your state. 2. I shop once a month and when I do they don’t always have the same strains available. They move stock in and out constantly so I rely on the wonderful budtenders at my local dispensary to help me make the best selections for my budget each month. 3. My needs and tastes won’t be the same as yours. I have a very high tolerance. I’ve always had a high tolerance to pain meds that started when I was a child and the army dentist used Novocaine before filling my cavity and didn’t believe me when I told him I could still feel the drill. My current dentist believes me and gives me a double dose of novocaine. So I look for a high THC of at least 25 or high total terpenes. I much prefer sativas over indicas. The terepene humalene is supposed to decrease appetite but in me it gives me the munchies so I make sure it’s low. 4. Learning about terpenes is very helpful and a great site for all info is leafy.com. Good budtenders are also helpful when it comes to this and what each strain is likely to feel like, but we all react differently to cannabis so it’s very much a try it and see. 5. As far as pain relief I personally believe you will get much better results from true cannabis vs a hemp product. I personally feel better ingesting a product that’s been tested and grown without pesticides, but that’s me. Thanks. I think we established up above that I was operating under the belief that the mass market, hemp-derived items I buy here are available generally in states where THC is legal. It seems that even some weed-legal states, like yours, don't necessarily allow hemp products, so my mistake on that.
Just as a point of interest, I have no experience with "true" cannabis products as they're not legal where I live. We can only get hemp-derived THC legally here. The people who use it here for pain relief seem to like it. The products I buy are third-party lab tested so you know exactly how much THC you're getting, and you can easily get products derived from organic hemp, so no pesticides. It was interesting to me to learn that the same plant is "hemp" if it has .29% THC, and "marijuana" if it has .3% THC. Same plant! Just a difference in how much work is involved in extracting and condensing the THC.
It kind of seems like two separate industries have grown and people used to one aren't familiar with the other. I suppose states that legalized weed earlier on, and had a large industry grow up around that, were probably subject to lobbying from cannabis farmers and sellers not to allow the hemp-derived products. I know here in Texas, the push to outlaw THC entirely was funded in part by the alcohol sales lobby, and in part by medical marijuana investors whose business is being chipped away by OTC shops. Our LG bought their propaganda (or was paid to buy it) and is now convinced that all hemp products are incredibly dangerous and must be banned forthwith.
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Post by librarylady on Jun 25, 2025 16:29:31 GMT
I am greatly amused by the fight going on between Dan Patrick and Greg Abbott. Under most conditions, they are such big buddies and after the same goals and boot licking, so it amuses me that this the fight between the two of them.
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Post by Merge on Jun 25, 2025 17:59:56 GMT
I am greatly amused by the fight going on between Dan Patrick and Greg Abbott. Under most conditions, they are such big buddies and after the same goals and boot licking, so it amuses me that this the fight between the two of them. My guess is that they've each been paid off by a different side. Patrick clearly got the medical marijuana and booze lobby; I'm assuming the hemp industry has now funneled some money to Abbott. That's how politics work in Texas! |
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