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SEND_BUTTPLUG_PICS@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I wonder why eating drugs never became as popular as drinking alcohol. Obviously you can put THC in food but imagine if instead of going to the bar for a beer you went to the restaurant to eat some THC infused food or food infused with some other drug that can be taken orally. Eating food has the same level of social acceptability as drinking a liquid and is similarly as natural evolutionarily but it isn’t a thing people really do.

Maybe it’s because the effects of alcohol have a quick onset which edible THC lacks? What about infusing food with some other oral drug with a quicker onset? I can’t come up with any off the top of my head though.

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JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I remember seeing an old Vice story about making dehydrated vodka and putting it on food.

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Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Imagine if instead of going to the bar for a beer you went to the restaurant to eat some THC infused food

Brother I’ve been imagining this since legalization here. More than a few restaurateurs were as well, only to be dissappointed by the current legislation.

My kingdom for a legal, indoor cannabis consumption space that doesn’t have to get around things by being a funded experiment or ‘grey area, members only “private club”’. And tinctures, infused drinks and edibles are the clear best choices of RoA in those spaces given anti-smoking laws.

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ToastedRavioli@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Most substances that have any kind of enjoyable aspect tend to be very bitter and have an alkaline taste. Think of like coffee, we cut it with stuff or sweeten it with sugar. Pure alcohol would taste terrible, thats why we have beer, wine, and spirits. Its all alcohol but no where near entirely alcohol.

Also, not all substances are able to be used by your body in same way or with nearly the same level of efficacy. Some things have high bioavailability when snorted, like cocaine, but many things have no bioavailability when snorted (even if they do when consumed orally). Likewise you cant smoke everything, as not everything can be absorbed into your lungs (or done so without [more immediate] lethal consequences)

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