How is it the same principle? When you make weed butter you cook the weed in the butter to extract the THC into the fat. Here there is no cooking, hes just putting the hash into a piece of melon...
If you could explain how it works thatd be great
lulz, the same principle is that they're eating weed.
the differing principle is the form of weed that they're eating.
thc is digestable but not easily absorbed by the body without being attached to fats or alcohol. thats my understanding anyway.
it's not easily absorbed from the form that it naturally comes in (buds).
you ingest pure crystalline THC and i guarantee you'll be high off your ass. people bond the chemical with fats and alcohols instead of extracting it from the plant because it's easier to cook with bud than it is to isolate, extract, and purify that main psychoactive ingredient from your nugs.
edit: think of it like a whole coconut being swallowed and digested. all the good stuff is hidden behind the outer shell, right? depending on a whole bunch of variables, your stomach acid may or may not break through the coconut's tough exterior shell. if it does, your body'll gain access to the treasure inside and start to digest the milk. if you don't manage to break through the shell, though, the milk is left untouched and does nothing but stay inside of the coconut as the fruit passes through the bowels.
with weed, most of the THC is
in the plant matter and not outside of it, so in order to get access to the THC your body has to break down the plant matter first (which takes hella time because fiber is a bitch on the digestive tract), release the THC and other cannabinoids, break them down and then transport the chemicals to the rest of your body... and keep in mind that digestion does have a time-clock on it, and it's pretty common for a person to pass incompletely digested food through their bowels (shit-corn ring any bells?).
TL;DR: so, long story short, people eat nugs right out of the bag and don't get high for reasons listed above, but instead of using common sense most people figure "well... since i didn't get high the THC must not be active or something." lol, fuck that, man, the chemical's always active, it's just not always easily accessible to your digestive tract.
