Some people are only interested in cannabis for medical reasons and do not want to “get high.” That’s why CBD is a such an important breakthrough.
But for those of us that use cannabis for things like relaxation, boosting creativity or just “getting out of own heads” for a little while (this is known in legal parlance as ‘recreational use’) it’s very interesting to look at new research on the potency of different kinds of cannabis and how THC levels impact things like motor function and reaction time.
According to a new study from the University of Colorado, it turns out that even cannabis that contains incredibly high levels of THC does not impact things like motor function among regular cannabis users.
The study looked at people who use cannabis “recreationally” for the lack of a better term. Researchers wanted to look at how high-potency cannabis impacted things like balance and reaction time so they drove vans to people houses and did their research. That’s because the cannabis they usually use in labs is grown by the feds and, quite frankly, just sucks.
What they found is that unlike alcohol, where the more you drink the drunker you get, people that smoke or otherwise ingest cannabis with super-high levels of THC function no differently than when smoking cannabis with lower levels of psychoactive properties.
In other words, once you’re high- you’re high. This is different than booze where you can actually drink yourself to death visa vi alcohol poisoning. The study did not get into “how high people felt,” which is largely a subjective thing and almost impossible to measure.
This makes some of us remember when the drug warriors (largely business interests, politicians, law enforcement and right-wing entertainment personalities) decided they would scare the living crap out of the taxpayers in Colorado by letting people smoke cannabis and then giving them driving tests.
The idea seemed brilliant. Let these potheads “smoke their dope” and then record them crashing into all the traffic cones on the course set up in a police station parking lot. “See what happens when you drive stoned?” That was the plan anyway.
But here’s what happened – and anyone that’s familiar with cannabis as part of one’s daily routine could have told you this.
The people that smoked some high-end cannabis drove better and more safely than the people that didn’t smoke anything.
The pharma, alcohol, tobacco and other lobbies have been spending a lot of money paying off politicians who they hope will turn back the clock and re-criminalize cannabis that taxpayers already decided should not be law enforcement issue to begin with.
One of their most promising scams are the road-side blood tests and “weed-breathalizers” gear whose results will mean a fine if there are high levels of THC in the blood.
But based on the new research, that idea already looks like more of the anti-science, drug-warrior malarkey that we’ve already wasted trillions of dollars on, not to mention the toll on human beings.
Maybe people will listen to the scientists about science as opposed to those parties who have so much riding on these bogus drug tests to keep the money coming in and the demand down.