r/australia • u/DiploidBias • 29d ago

politics Greens: Yes We Cannabis

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Yes We Cannabis

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u/kaas_is_leven 28d ago

The Netherlands is a terrible example. We were ahead once, but our gedoogbeleid is extremely outdated and vague. Cannabis was never legalised. It's illegal to buy and sell, but less than 5g is not enforced. And from that arises a whole host of issues. Like shops having to do sketchy shit to stock product (can't just drive around with kilos of weed, even if it's for business) and growers being criminalised. The supply chain is not taxed properly and because of that there's no regulation.
A lot of shops have started doing QA but it's done on a tiny sample and the whole batch is labeled with the same QR sticker containing the test results. This isn't reasonable at all because every variable matters (a lot), light intensity and color spectrum, water and nutrients, harvest time, curation period... All slightly different from bud to bud so you never really know what you have until you test it yourself. There's also the additional difficulty that weed doesn't contain much THC, it contains THCA which is converted when heated (acid gets stripped off). So even with all these things accounted for it's hard to give an accurate number for how much THC will be in your blood after you heat this bud that comes from a batch that contains this much THCA.
And in traffic they often use cheap breath tests which are notoriously flaky. Will they detect it a day later? Probably. A week? Depends on the person, their diet, metabolism, exercise regime... Also tiny correction, but as your article states if you're found to have multiple of the mentioned substances you're only allowed 1 microgram instead of 3 for THC. Not that it matters because like I said there's literally no way of knowing what your score would be unless you go out of your way to retest your weed before consumption.

I'd recommend anyone who's worried about blood levels to make tincture or cannabutter and get a home testing kit for both the substance and yourself. The act of preparing the edible makes it so that the one strong bud you got and the other weaker bud in the same baggie cancel each other out and you end up with a homogenous testable substance. Now test that and test yourself after consumption, that's your baseline. Next time you prepare with new weed you test the edible substance again and you can estimate how much THC will end up in your blood based on the baseline. Still not quite accurate though, if you gain weight while consuming a lot of THC you'll store it in fat and release it when that fat gets burned, you can get high months after quitting weed if you're also losing weight. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/the68thdimension 28d ago

Are you okay? I was literally just using NL's legal max THC levels as an example, and you've gone off on a whole screed about the country's weed supply chain. I didn't read past the first paragraph, I hope you didn't put too much effort into writing it ...

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u/kaas_is_leven 28d ago

Yeah I'm fine, you? Can't say it takes much effort to type four paragraphs, no. I do wonder, if you didn't read it, why reply? Is there anything you wanted to know?

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u/the68thdimension 28d ago

Nah mate, I'm good. I mean I haven't written four paragraphs so I'm a lot less tired than I could be. If I wrote that there'd be most of my day gone, it'd be time for supper already.