Salutations Thomas Davie,
Of course, different consumption methods are not equal.
Nor are their associated rituals and that's, well... part of my point.
The proverbial initiative "joint" doesn't promote self-awareness acquisition through dosing, on the contrary: in the begining one paradoxal situation i faced was that i couldn't extinguish because lighting up a used "joint" again involved a waste of material and rapidly tasted bad. So i transitioned to a cigar-shaped tube semi-closed at the other end to conserved a maximum, euh... Which is very different from my conception of what it is to "converve" now! In any case i didn't invent the "join" nor that venerable tokeu i kept around until i quit smoking definitively in mid-Juin 2007. Like any other young person i depended on my environment for both the substance and its associated consumption tool, and since incompetant mis-guided self-serving predatory politi¢ian$ chose to interfere with a natural learning process requiring a right to trial & error, especially for one that doesn't kill in itself (!), euh... Does it not point in the direction of one possible solution the addi¢tionni$ts-abstentionni$ts simply can,t contemplate: to deal up front with reality and:
#1) Accept that under-age legally-vulnerable "minor$" (<21 in Qc/Can!) will access it anyway.
#2) Pose as a cardinal law to leave those minor$ alone, free of *
ANY* socio-toxic dangers
("Fix-my-Kid"","Kids-for-Cash", "Narconon Trois-Rivières")
#3) Why should i need a #3? Euh...
As i argued in vain previously, the FCTC/COP6 put in perspective with the coming COP28 should be a 1st hint that's worth paying attention. Understand if you care. The fact is ~8 years passed and those genius "expert$"/"$pe¢iali$ts" who sabotaged Québec's own cannabis reform while Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto feel like dancing every 4-20, euh... I mean we're about to finally witness what politi¢$ will do with it next and i ain't the least bit optimistic, because they dirty everything cannabis like there's no tomorrow...
Anyway, i say while the "Z-elite$" waste precious time, not to mention human cost than can never be repaid, it seems we the consumers can only rely on ourselves to figure out an honourable solution based on mutual respect. So, i can't stress how worried it felt when i heard this summer about our government confiscating parental authority given some already hostile context. Scenarios like how does a teenager cope with teachers, friends and police squads after being warned that cannabis can send you to prison for 14 years? Hey?... I wonder. Now what if this minor is currently having issues typical of this transition to adulthood?? My guess is it must be as stressful/anxiogenic for an old over-billed/over-taxed invisible "$stoner"/"droÿé" to only get 1 side of "reality" everywhere to look, listen or read. It's called alienation IMO. ... Etc., etc. The short version is i'm almost relieved no to be born only a couple decades ago. So why bother anyway, i could as well satisfy with "legal" mari-caca this late in life, after all. But then how to sleep watching the train passing in slow motion, a train of meat-eaters eternally thrusty for the blood of inno¢ent$.
Euh... And there's that cardinal rule forbiding any direct intervention. That's a bummer, no exit without loosing honour!
Briefly put *
OUR* solution should be geared toward changing those minor$ environments, so at least someone will be doing something constructive as the adults would improve their own fate in the process. Then someday there won't be rolling paper inventories left on the surface of planet earth and the United Nations utopian$ shall find quiet serenity at last...
In The Name Of Children!
Maybe.
My consumption tool presently works fine shifting my habit toward aroma/taste appreciation using only ~125 mg per bowl, "costing" 25 ~ 35 mg of shredded dry flower per puff, ~ 100 Joules each time between cold states multiply opportunities to forget the next toke. Plus it will never set fire or even burn my finger skin, so...
In any case bio-availability largely depends on that same consumption method + ritual where i divided wasting noble molecule by 2 as a result of switching from combustion to vaporism, then another serious reduction compared to my HA where huge bowls were felt necessary and the problem was these expensive bowls got cooked between 2 tokes, hence eventually turning into a contest against time... E.G. it's even more of a farce when we,re told the Volcano has it's "medical" certification, because that bag is the same as my proverbial initiative "joint": it invites systemic dose exagerations leading into the tolerance barrier where to crash and realize a T-Break is mandatory to attempt escalate again, except the threshold still raises. Then bam! Instant Drama Queen, in shock like when hit by a bus... Surprize!
It's particularily draining to observe in slow motion actually. If only i could trace back my time machine, hello time machine! Where are you?! Hou! Hou! Hou!
