Canada is "legalizing" cannabis extracts (like budder, oil, distillate, or this shatter) in 2020. What will a legal dab look like?
My wife @MediKatie has a prescription for cannabis (from her cancer specialist) which says she can use as much as she needs to, in whatever form she needs it. It's not covered, but the prescription protects her from some (I say 'some' because she has been arrested & jailed for cannabis!) interference from law enforcement and/or righteous family members stuck in 1960s Reefer Madness.
There's 1/4 gram of shatter (strain: Girl Scout Cookies crossed with Tangerine). MediKatie takes that amount to relieve her neurological symptoms and chronic pain (courtesy of conventional cancer treatments as a child) every few hours of the day. Here's a video of her doing a gram of that size.
So that's 250mg (milligrams) of pure cannabinoids. About 85% of it is THC in an active form, ready for vaporization and inhalation. One of the planet's most perfect medicines.
Problem is?
The problem is that's 100 times what will be considered a legal dose in Canada! (Now listen, I understand the concept of "start low and go slow" with extracts and edibles, and nobody wants anyone to overdose and throw up or have a panic attack. But limiting everyone, even patients who need the medicine to stay alive, to a certain government-decided arbitrary number? That's dangerous to say the least.)
I set out figuring how I could divide this little chunk of goodness up into 100 relatively equal parts, to show myself (and you!) what a "legal" dose would look like.
I was happy with the results upon snapping it up into 10 parts. Great consistency. Man, I love the free market! Picked this stuff up today for a tiny fraction of what a legal store will be selling it for. And I can actually know the grower/extractor.
But each of those is still 10 doses! I chose the most average-sized piece, and rolled it out into a thin 'snake', then snapped that up into 10 parts. After rolling them into little balls, here's what they look like:
I chose the most average-sized piece, and set it next to a 5-cent coin for comparison:
THAT is what 2.5mg of cannabis extract (the legal maximum) looks like!
And that's going to cost HOW many dollars? Oh, and many licensed producers (fuck all those insider profiteer monopolists!) are talking about 2mg and even 1mg products. Ugh.
I put it onto a dab tool for a final photograph:
I showed it to MediKatie, who squinted and responded "looks like your dab tool is dirty". (Clearly, not impressed.) It is 1/100th of a proper dose for her. She would need to open and consume 100 packages of extract, at who-knows-how-much cost, multiple times a day!? The resulting mound of plastic and cardboard containers would itself become a problem. It's just not possible.
And it's not meant to be. The black market is meant to thrive under "legalization" so that enforcement (and crackdowns on our rights) can continue. The government insiders get to sell, everybody else goes to prison for 14+ years. It's all about control. Legalization is a lie.
I've shown for 2 years on this Steem page that I can grow and extract cannabis safely and effectively. I should be allowed to do this under a legal system, but I'm not, and I risk prison even for some of the posts I put out. Legalization has made it impossible for my wife to get the lifesaving medicine she needs - which she has a prescription for, even - and made us criminals for doing everything it takes to keep her healthy.
We'll never support the legal regime in Canada, which directly funds enforcement against the free market, including peaceful patients, activists, and gardeners.
Now we're off to try out the other strain we picked up today, Mendo Breath. Smells incredible and looks fantastic. Absolutely tiers above anything the legalized market will ever achieve, even at astronomical prices.
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I have some mendo breathe bud right now. Its very nice. Likely came from somewhere out your way
Sounds tasty :D
Hey you're getting SBI votes. I'm not really sure how that works. I've had a bunch for ages but don't see votes. I bought you one yesterday to try and figure it out haha.
Yeah I signed up for sbi a long time ago too. Not much but i think other people got some for me too. I dont post much anymore so they hit my comments when they can.
Also that letter was mailed today. ;)
Duuuuude, thanks. I am excite.
You'll see a post about it on my page soon then : D
That's shameful. Imagine... at the Vancouver 420 Farmers Market we gave away and sold dabs about 25mg each, like in that pic. Many first-time dabbers experienced it there on the side of Robson Street, with us! And those dabs were TEN TIMES the legalized limit about to be imposed! We had zero people pass out, zero people vomit, zero people have a panic attack. What we did see, after 1000s of dabs, was a few people who got withdrawn and anxious, a few people who got nauseous, and a few people who got tired. So many incredible experiences, from patients, to activists, to elderly, to tourists, to homeless people, to sports coaches, to airline flight attendants, to college students, and everything else you could imagine. Good clean organic cannabis extracts done right are some of the safest therapeutic substances known to mankind.
Resteemed!
Is that a dab or just a dirty tool? lol It looks ridiculous when you compare it to the nickel for scale - that picture is going to be cited a lot I imagine. Even a newb doesn't take dabs that small. That's the size of dab when you're out and you find one last crumb not even worth heating the rig for and say "oh well at least it's something".
Oh my, a dab that size wouldn't get one of the hairs of one of our Girls baked! Especially @MediKatie lol ;)
BEAUTIFUl wax! looks like Topaz or actual crystals! i guess it is organic crystals!
yeah looks really pretty..
but not when in 0.0025g portions .. wtf @ those micro dabs!