How to Smoke Weed - And avoid ending up at the hospital, or in jail.

[kpete]

Don't scarf down pot brownies, and be careful mixing weed with alcohol.

Abide by those two simple rules, and you'll avoid becoming a freshman cliché at the hospital or the city jail, said Amanda Reiman, a lecturer at Cal who has a Ph.D in social welfare from UC Berkeley.

Recently named California policy manager of the Drug Policy Alliance, Reiman is a leading harm reductionist and former research director at the major East Bay dispensary Berkeley Patients Group who understands that plenty of people don't "just say no" to weed, and those who say yes should minimize as many risks as possible. For freshmen, the major risks start with edibles, then move to alcohol, and finally social repercussions.

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With sixteen being the average age of marijuana initiation, most freshman have already smoked pot, but "smoking pot is not the same as eating pot," she noted. The effects come on much slower, and can be stronger and last longer. "One starts to feel a little weird, and a mob mentality takes over. Suddenly they're all feeling weird and they go to the hospital where doctors tell them to go home, calm down, and drink some water."


Reiman talked to Berkeley firefighters, who apparently get more calls for pot-brownie-induced panic attacks than for fires. So, take it really slow with the weed edibles, Reiman advised. Eat a bite, wait an hour, and see how you feel.

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more:
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/how-to-smoke-weed/Content?oid=3317973

[Atman]

1. Dude, I was like totally too stoned to know WTF you posted...

Awesome fucking brownies, man!



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[CrispyQ]

2. Some of today's edibles are sooooooooo damned good!

[TeamPooka]

3. gosh, I never needed a primer, it just came naturally. :)

[lob1]

4. It's hard to light those damned brownies.

[TeamPooka]

5. It didn't used to come with instructions.

Kids today are so spoiled...

[arcane1]

6. I can't do edibles, I have to eat such a tiny amount that it does nothing

Otherwise I have to go sit in a corner somewhere

[HappyMe]

7. Good grief!

I find it funny that people need 'instructions' these days.

[CanSocDem]

8. We learned these things...

...in the 70's from a recording of The Child's Garden of Grass, I think...

There was a bit about what happens when you "eat" pot. They said you would be talking away to your friends, totally engaged, when all of a sudden your mind would go completely blank, right in the middle of a sentence usually. We immediately began looking for ways to cook pot.

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[HopeHoops]

9. I had hash brownies before a Chicago concert - yes, Chicago. Damn was that weird.

[KG]

10. never wasted good dope on brownies. a nice bong is the way to go.