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originally posted by: dug88
THC is fat and alcohol soluble. Not water soluble. I doubt this story very much. That's why people that cook with it have to use butter or some other kind of fat or alcohol. You could dump pounds of weed into water and drink that water and nothing will happen. Thc is an oil. What happens when you put water and oil together? Do they mix? Does the oil dissolve into the water? No. Also, thc must be decarboxylated before it becomes effective through ingestion. Everything about this story sounds like nonsense.
originally posted by: TigStar82
originally posted by: dug88
THC is fat and alcohol soluble. Not water soluble. I doubt this story very much. That's why people that cook with it have to use butter or some other kind of fat or alcohol. You could dump pounds of weed into water and drink that water and nothing will happen. Thc is an oil. What happens when you put water and oil together? Do they mix? Does the oil dissolve into the water? No. Also, thc must be decarboxylated before it becomes effective through ingestion. Everything about this story sounds like nonsense.
Dumping a pound of weed into water would in fact remove the thc gland, do a search on bubble bags and hash water extraction, The thc glands are an oil like you say but they are also solid, cold water will harden them and they become easy to break off the thc stalk and all the time they are in cool water they will remain a particle rather then an oil
You are correct on most of it but do not HAVE to be decarboxylase thc to actvate it, it will have some effect un treated, especially if you've eaten before as most foods have some sort of fat and will help ingest the thc, decarbo is mainly for making alcohol tinctures, vape oils and stuff like that. But, you have to remember that its meant to be in the water, people cook with water, heat water for drinks and stuff and heating will decarboxylase the thc and if its been used for cooking will bind to most food leading to a rather chilled out family dinner time
But the water advisory was immediately canceled on Saturday after multiple tests found no trace of the chemical.
Authorities now believe the initial tests were false.
The more concerning issue is the fact that this entire scare is based on the use of field testing kits which are notoriously faulty and unreliable.
In January The Free Thought Project reported on a demonstration carried out by the Marijuana Policy Project, which showed how easy it is for field testing kits used by police to generate false positives. Tylenol PM was tested for coc aine, and results showed coc aine. Hershey’s chocolate showed a false positive for cannabis, and they even got a false positive for cannabis when absolutely nothing was put into the field test kit.
“The director of a lab recognized by the International Association of Chiefs of Police for forensic science excellence has called field drug testing kits “totally useless” due to the possibility of false positives. In laboratory experiments, at least two brands of field testing kits have been shown to produce false positives in tests of Mucinex, chocolate, aspirin, chocolate, and oregano.”
It is estimated that tens of thousands of innocent people are in prison due to faulty field drug test kits.