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How Weed Became the New OxyContin [1] 01/16/2022 |
“I started seeing people with the worst psychosis symptoms that I have ever seen,” she told me. “And the worst delusions I have ever seen.” These cases were even more acute than what she’d seen from psychotic patients on meth. Some of the delusions were accompanied by “severe violence.” But these patients were coming up positive only for cannabis. They’re made by putting pulverized marijuana into a tube and running butane, propane, ethanol, or carbon dioxide through it, which separates the THC from the rest of the plant. The end product is a wax that can be 70% to 80% THC. That wax can then be put in a vacuum oven and further concentrated into oils that are as much as 95% or even 99% THC. Known as “dabs,” this is what people put in their vape pens, and in states like California and Colorado it’s totally legal and easily available to children. “There are no caps on potency,” said Stack. Stack [2], opioids [3], 2023 Presentation Dr Berry [4] |
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[1] http://rethinkpot.org/how-weed-became-new-oxycontin
[2] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/stack
[3] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/opioids
[4] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/2023-presentation-dr-berry