It can be inhaled through a vaporizer, or by using simpler methods, such as “dabbing,” which involves heating the pot extract on a knife or nail.Įven some pot supporters have become concerned about the impact of cannabis-oil extraction.
Commonly known as “ BHO” (butane hash oil), “dab,” or “shatter,” cannabis oil is a sticky, wax-like substance that has a THC potency of between 70 and 80 percent. More recently, competitive market forces have unleashed the technological innovation of cannabis-oil extraction. It is no longer uncommon to find strains with a potency of more than 30 percent. New harvesting methods targeted the middle of the plant, where THC content is higher. In the 1990s, production started switching to indoor grow ops that used sophisticated hydroponic technology to cultivate strains that maximized THC potency. Marijuana was then generally grown in arable fields, and the top, leafy portion of the plant was harvested for distribution. Throughout the 1980s, most of the pot you could buy on the street had a THC content of around 3 percent. THC is the main psychoactive agent in marijuana, and it’s what produces the drug’s euphoric effects, gives users the feeling of being high. The tetrahydrocannabinol ( THC) potency of many strains of pot has exploded in that time. Most have little understanding that the pot consumed today is completely different from the weed smoked twenty or even ten years ago. Many are shocked when I tell them that pot is the substance I deal most with in my practice-more so than heroin, cocaine, or even alcohol. When I mention the words “marijuana” and “addiction” together, I’m often met with a disbelieving eye roll. Our message to people such as Peter is clear: There’s no problem with pot. But in the case of marijuana addiction, this compassionate attitude gets discarded because of a blind belief in the benign nature of marijuana. Increasingly, we see addiction as a medical condition that needs to be treated, rather than a symptom of criminality or moral failure. Thankfully, society’s attitudes have begun to change. One of the most important ways I can help clients move on from their substance abuse is severing the link between shame and addiction. I now work as a Toronto-based psychotherapist who specializes in concurrent disorders-mental health conditions that are intermeshed with addiction. Those reeling from their pot addictions often see this collective state of denial as a damning judgment of them. And so those of us who raise concerns about its risks are often stigmatized as alarmists. Unfortunately, the idea that marijuana is a harmless substance has been accepted as fact by much of our society. Yet when I mention the words “marijuana” and “addiction” together, I’m often met with a disbelieving eye roll. Pot psychosis is only one of the many detrimental life-limiting effects that can result from pot addiction. As Canada moves toward legalizing marijuana, my fear is that such cases as Peter’s are being ignored in the conversation about pot legislation. Peter was my introduction to marijuana-induced psychosis-a schizophrenia-like condition that afflicts a small but growing minority of the adolescents and young adults who become dependent on pot.
#Wake and bake how to#
Can you teach me how to do it? Can I get chicks to fuck me if I read their minds? Can I control them?”
His response: “No, no-I am being serious. I laughed when he said this, assuming it was a joke. Having recently returned from a Florida vacation where his parents had detoxed him while watching his every move, Peter was totally sober when he asked me to stop violating his mind with my psychic brain probes. He developed conspiracy theories about CSIS, the CIA, and the Illuminati.
#Wake and bake tv#
His mother noticed that he would watch TV when it wasn’t even on.
When they finally cut him off from the parent bank, Peter began stealing directly from their wallets. After a few months of experimenting with marijuana, Peter began lying and manipulating his parents to get money to support his habit. He was like so many of the clients I worked with as an addictions counsellor: good kid, okay grades, loved playing with his younger siblings.
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