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23 Jun 2025, 7:50 am

What do you think?

CBC story: "Impact of high-potency cannabis rippling through courts, health-care system":
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoo ... -1.7564340

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"Then there are Marvin's cherry-flavoured edibles. Fox says his co-worker calls this the 'talking to God' section of the store. For just under $100, Marvin's edibles pack 8,000 mg of THC into four candies. That's 2,000 mg of THC in each gummy — 200 times stronger than the federal standard.

Fox has worked at the trailer for just over two years. An experienced cannabis consumer, he said he's tried the higher end products.

"The most I've taken was 1,500 milligrams. I was high for three days," he said."
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"The Saskatchewan Health Authority reports that the number of visits to hospital emergency departments across the province by people with cannabis-related psychosis has been increasing year to year, from 116 people in 2022 to 152 in 2023 to 165 in 2024."


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23 Jun 2025, 1:07 pm

I'll need to look for these brands. :lol:


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26 Jun 2025, 4:17 am

Tell me again why this is better for you than alcohol?


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26 Jun 2025, 12:12 pm

I don't even touch the non-potent stuff, does that make me a wise Canadian?



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26 Jun 2025, 12:16 pm

MaxE wrote:
Tell me again why this is better for you than alcohol?


Let me know when pot withdrawal causes seizures or death.


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26 Jun 2025, 4:57 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
MaxE wrote:
Tell me again why this is better for you than alcohol?


Let me know when pot withdrawal causes seizures or death.

People who experience such things are genuinely thought to be abusing alcohol. Consumption of super potent edibles is apparently not considered abuse or dispensaries wouldn't be allowed to offer them for sale.


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26 Jun 2025, 9:30 pm

MaxE wrote:
Tell me again why this is better for you than alcohol?


Well, what is the mortality rate between the two? Alcohol consumption results in significantly more deaths annually compared to marijuana use. While alcohol-related deaths are in the tens of thousands each year, marijuana-related deaths are virtually non-existent.


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Yesterday, 12:05 pm

MaxE wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
MaxE wrote:
Tell me again why this is better for you than alcohol?


Let me know when pot withdrawal causes seizures or death.

People who experience such things are genuinely thought to be abusing alcohol. Consumption of super potent edibles is apparently not considered abuse or dispensaries wouldn't be allowed to offer them for sale.


I'm not sure what your point is. You can also buy super potent alcohol in quantities enough to kill you. Let me know when someone dies of an overdose of the dread drug marihuana.


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Yesterday, 3:08 pm

canada's pot laws sound far more liberal than washington's pot laws. :o



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Today, 5:30 am

I'll just say that alcohol never sent me to the ER like the people in the article who bought those products. A glass of Stolichnaya won't send a healthy person to the ER if they just drink it. OTOH a person could die from drinking too much water (as many of us are aware). The problem here is that these things are being sold legally and eating just one ("normal use") could send a healthy person to the ER. Dangerous? You decide!


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