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Is kinetic energy responsible for active cannabis?

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When heat is applied to the cannabis plant it combusts and the molecules are released into the surrounding air and when it is inhaled it gets you high. But when the molecules lose their kinetic energy by transferring it to the surrounding air molecules it no longer gets one high. Therefore I say that it is the kinetic energy which is responsible for activating cannabis.
 
Solving this.

Ok when you "heat" cannabis your actually putting the active compounds into solution in a fat. This is why you put it in butter. This is solely because the body has trouble breaking down cellulose. This is why you dont get much from corn since we cant break down cellulose (hence the second coming of said corn)

This is my belief it seems accurate. I extrapolated the idea of cellulose from my understanding of plant material and the bodys enzymes, does anyone know if this is true?
 
yeah dude, totaly right on. i mean THC at 0 degrees kelvin probably has completly different properties than THC at 375.15 degrees kelvin! like one is a solid and the other is a gas man. maybe the moecules need a certain amount of latent heat to be active... not

honnesty the only thing i can see this possibly having an effect on is the speed at which the THC is released into the body. for example a solid block of frozen THC requires it be converted into a liquid before the body can process it and or store it in fat cells. oh and it might make it deadly depending on how much heat energy it had to suck out of the body to reach equilibrium might be enough to cause frost bite.
 
Okay. Listen up cause here comes some actual science and not just speculative stuff.

The cannabis plant produces THC by route of another compound, tetrahydrocannabolic acid (called "THC acid" by some) that is inactive and is basically a compound of THC and carbon dioxide. Drying your bud out ("curing it") releases the carbon dioxide from this and converts it into THC, but very slowly (hence why poorly cured bud can become bomb when you pop it in your oven). Heat, either from burning the herb or from cooking in butter, will release the carbon dioxide much faster. It happens optimally at about 105 degrees C, or 225 degrees F for about half an hour.

In the case of making butter, the heat is required to speed absorbtion of the THC into the oil as well as to ensure decarboxylation for maximum potency.
 
i dont even understand where the OP got the idea of kinetic energy air-transferral from, but all im gonna say on this is-

i agree, OP needs a book for xmas:
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He does have a unique point though... since THC must be in a liquid form to be processed by the body, frozen THC might not be active if it wasnt able to gain the energy to processed by the body through it's journey through out it.
it's some thing i have to admit i would have never pondered with out the help of the OP.
 
frim my experience with ganja all I can say that the OP is on an acid trip, mushroom trip or has the Down Syndome..no hardd feelings there man....the only energy you can find in weed is potential energy, that after applying flame burns and get you high
 
I still fully believe that if anything it has to do with our bodies inability to break down plant cell walls. You can get high from eating a plant and not heating it. I've never actually looked into it but I never considered heat to activate thc thats just silly. Even if you were talking about removing carboxylic acid from the THC-COOH which is the inactive metabolite that they test for, I doubt thats the science behind it. Because then your telling me if i extracted my urine in some distillation set up id be able to just heat the THC-COOH without using LAH to reduce that carboxylic acid back to an alcohol.

It probably has more to do with fat soluble substances having a lot better time going through the lungs then getting broken down and absorbed by the body. Water solubles on the other hand...
 
hahah^^ bravo
Sega420 said:
a whole lot of stupidity up in here.
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+7 lol its unreal

You've worded your question a little weird but is what you want to know how burning pot gets you high? It certainly has nothing to do with alot of these crazy theories in here, its actually incredibly simple.

Your pot is already active, Pot contains cannabinoids, which are active, when your smoking pot,the heat from the flame releases the various cannabinoids into the smoke which you inhale, very very simple,yet sadly the only legit answer so far,
what is CD coming to.
 
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delta_9 said:
This is just rediculous. The pharmacology of cannabinoids is well known.

Edit - OP, I've looked at some of your other topics in CD and I think some time spent with an 'intro to chemistry' book would be good for you.
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Yes.

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OP, do not open another one of these. You have been warned good sir. You can use the search engine for this kind of thing, it's already well documented.
 
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