Faster ingestion?

[Dave]

Lungs are the fastest route to the brain, bar none, but if you're not going the vape route then under-the-tongue is the way to go. I've found that tinctures really irritate the tissue under the tongue (I make mine with everclear though), but I'd bet that you could just get her to hold a chip under her tongue for as long as she can.

When I make my next batch of tincture, I'm going to try my hand at making breath strips. I think that I'll need a concentrated solution for that, but if it works then that would probably work well sublingually. If/when it works out, I'll post a recipe in the edibles thread.

 

[The Network]

Lungs are the fastest route to the brain, bar none, but if you're not going the vape route then under-the-tongue is the way to go. I've found that tinctures really irritate the tissue under the tongue (I make mine with everclear though), but I'd bet that you could just get her to hold a chip under her tongue for as long as she can.

When I make my next batch of tincture, I'm going to try my hand at making breath strips. I think that I'll need a concentrated solution for that, but if it works then that would probably work well sublingually. If/when it works out, I'll post a recipe in the edibles thread.

Lol I'm pretty sure you could IV some solution of THC and it'd be far faster than inhalation.

 

[MarkoPolo]

id say just get a nice block of hash and make a cake or something?

but eat it before the headaches start. or maybe make bread with it and have it for breakfast lol

 

[Tillianne]

If you're looking for an excellent vaporizer get a magic flight launch box, it's portable and runs on both rechargeable batteries and there's a wall adapter as well and it costs less than the iolite does.

I also have a Magic Flight Launch Box, and I can't live without it. I actually have 2, and plan to buy another one soon. It's the most efficient vaporizer I have ever used, and I tend to vap it towards the hotter end of the spectrum, and I can easily do that with the Launch Box. Vaping at the higher temps helps my pain and inflammation as well.

Making tinctures works, a friend of mine who has a med card in CA uses them.

I also make my own tincture, and I enjoy making it. It is also really good for body pain.

 

[Newbierock]

Lol I'm pretty sure you could IV some solution of THC and it'd be far faster than inhalation.

Find a single person on this entire forum, nay the entire smoking world whos capable of making a safely injectable form of THC

 

[The Network]

Find a single person on this entire forum, nay the entire smoking world whos capable of making a safely injectable form of THC

OK, let me go ask my regular doctor quick, I'm sure he knows a solvent that can dissolve THC and won't kill you. I know you could do it if you sterilized a small amount of very pure vegetable oil, and there would be very minor yet present damage to tissues.

 

[Artificial Emotion]

Find a single person on this entire forum, nay the entire smoking world whos capable of making a safely injectable form of THC

I bet you could find someone on ADD, but not here, as you say. I don't think it was necessary to start talking about IV cannabis because unfortunately there might be someone stupid enough to try it, especially if they're not aware of their stupidity. Hell I wouldn't consider myself to be that idiotic but I've even done some crazy, risky things myself like IM oral 10mg/1ml concentrated oral methadone solution when I was younger and a member of Bluelight, even though everyone said it was risky. I cringe at the thought now, but anyway, I digress.

I think the sublingual route sounds like the best option to take as far as the individual we're trying to help is concerned. It's not as fast as vaporizing but it's better than oral for this purpose potentially. Sativex, like Dave's tincture, is made with ethanol iirc. I'm not sure if it being in an alcohol solution allows it to be absorbed by the blood vessels under the tongue more quickly - perhaps someone more knowledgeable than I can chime in. All I know is that if you can tolerate it, it has been proven to be very effective if the right strain is chosen (GW pharma invested a lot of money into developing that strain, so the choice of your genetics is important).

If their strain hasn't been diverted onto the black market already (even if it has been genetically fingerprinted to prevent theft), I'm sure you could find similar genetics or go back a stage and use the strains they initially used. There are a lot of good medical strains out there, you just have to look. I hope (in a country where it would be tolerated) to help develop new strains for different conditions, even if I don't have all the financial backing of a corporate pharma like GW pharma. Hell people with only their clandestine grow rooms or secret plots of land have contributed more to the medical scene than they have or ever will, so it's within the realms of possibility for that to happen.

 

[8L4YN3]

Lol I'm pretty sure you could IV some solution of THC and it'd be far faster than inhalation.

Nope, when you inject into a vein the solution goes up to the heart, to the lungs, then back through the heart, then to the brain and rest of the body. When you inhale something, the blood just has to go to the heart once then to the brain.

Inhalation is technically faster at delivering a chemical to the brain than IV.

Also i find it halarious people seem to think THC is impossible to inject or something lol, like you can only inject water soluble drugs or something i dont know what goes through peoples mind..