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You're repeating a persistent myth.

Eating raw cannabis will absolutely get you high, and heating it doesn't noticeably affect the potency.

"Decarboxylation" or the removal of a carboxyl group, where it's usually released as CO2, is a common reaction in chemistry, and it doesn't tend to require a lot of activation energy. Every amino acid is decarboxylated after you consume it. Carbonic acid in soda decarboxylates itself at standard atmospheric temperature.

And in the case of your stomach, the HCl will decarboxylate the weed you eat just fine.




LOL, this is easily demonstrated as nonsense. People generally have a poor understanding of what is required to effectively decarboxylize, but it absolutely is required to fully activate the THC content, even if eating raw weed may give you a bit of a buzz from already decarb'd THC in the raw flower.


> Eating raw cannabis will absolutely get you high, and heating it doesn't noticeably affect the potency.

Instead of spreading stuff like this, just go and try it. It's really kind of exasperating to read outright fabrications, but when they are this easy to disprove I can't even see a charitable interpretation of why you would do so.


You need significantly more to obtain the same effects.


Do you have a source for this? Every resource I look at online says that decarboxylation is required for making edibles and this matches my personal experience.


This is not true.




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