The Science of Weed (with

The 5th anniversary of Sci Guys means it’s high time we spoke about marijuana. Literally… It’s high time.
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[@SciGuys]

Have you ever used weed?

[@musicbyjaeden]

Everyday!

[@rev_lunar]

yes

[@JazzB8089]

Yeah, a couple of times

[@user-qv8em1wp8e]

a couple of times, prone to be anxious on it though

[@j.genovese1769]

Who are you the cops? U legally gotta tell me if u are man

[@ashley.6.6.6]

I made rice Krispies with a gram of thc in honey oil and estimated the amount to eat. But I didn't do the math right until I was super high and suddenly remembered that milli is 1000 not 100 😬

[@BoliVic96]

lmao I feel for you, in spanish is a lot easier as "mil" means "a thousand" so it's harder to, but I know people who have made the same mistake and woke up still high the next day, how was it?

[@Noarobyn93]

Also, in Germany, we call it broccoli. For reasons. And it's recently become decriminalized

[@BoliVic96]

here is my fun story about weed, I live in Uruguay where it's been legal for so long it's really common to smoke in any outdoor place, and once I was standing next to a shop while my friends were buying stuff and a police officer was just by me, and as they smelled the joint they jokingly said to please blow the smoke their way as their shift was being boring as fuck, we chatted for a bit until my friend came back and it's to this day the only good interaction I had with a cop lol

[@radirpok99]

7:08 "This year, more people will use cocaine than they will read a book to their children"

[@aylen7062]

After 3 weeks with no new episodes I was worried something bad happened. Happy to see this *high* quality episode now. (I was gonna write this comment last night and forgot lol)

[@mhastrup4764]

I think its cause luke had a baby, not sure tho

[@aylen7062]

@@mhastrup4764 Makes sense.

[@RaunienTheFirst]

My auntie has multiple sclerosis and she's been given medical cannabis for it for years. It provides fast, short term relief from the spasms. Obviously the pharmaceuticals provide long term treatment, but it's good for flare-ups.

[@SignalDitch]

It's absolutely wild that this conversation has barely changed in at least the last 20 years

[@user-dw6vd1sg5z]

It’s weird I forget how illegal it is in most of the world. I live in Brooklyn NY and you can get weed at any smoke shop and most delis. You could smoke right by a cop

[@saggguy7]

I live in NY state as well. I can literally order weed delivery from my phone lol, so weird that even a few years ago here that wasn’t the case

[@queenvagabond8787]

They don't even need to legalise it, like, just decriminalise its use and growing small amounts (like in Spain.) Its easy to grow and, contrary to popular belief, you can grow it outside in the UK if you get the right strains, my friends have been doing it for years..

[@alex.bane.1600]

Yay new sci guys Im so excited!!!!

[@leannecuster1490]

Brownies now Noah this is where grinding comes in the more the better

[@visibletrauma69]

5th anniversary of sci guys with the 5th sci guy

[@AdahliaBiPunk]

Did I smoke too much, or is this episode more quiet than usual?

[@persistenturge]

did ya try turning your volume up? 😭

[@AdahliaBiPunk]

@@persistenturge Yes 🤣🤣 Every other site/video has normal sound, but for this one I gotta nearly max my speakers out for their audio to be understandable. The video is quiet, but then their ads for sciguys and stuff are SO fucking loud. They jumped scared me so bad lol.

[@vanipina7832]

I had the same problem

[@BaddeGrasse]

Trying it right now, in fact. Succeeding too

[@musicbyjaeden]

Where my 420 babies at????

[@caidenwilson6403]

I literally searched to see if y'all had an episode on this the other day. Thanks for an excuse to get high

[@bellahoyle6565]

I did the same thing as Noah with the rainbow belt expect it was a super long nerds rope. I did not expect that one bite would end in me rolling around on the floor under the bed thinking I was falling off a cliff for like 5 hours before I fell asleep 🥲😂

[@Namekoforest]

As for medical cannabis, most accessible is via private clinics, not the NHS. I am one of these patients. It's prescribed to be vaped, not smoked.

[@arwenjoy8962]

25:31 I love the old Bedazzled movie so much and did not expect to find a reference to it here of all places! Makes me laugh every Ad bell cuz I forget it is there 😂

[@damnronin]

I was in Georgia (not state) recently, they could use, but not sell/buy. Only at home. You can grow it for yourself in small quantities.

[@BiblicallyAccurateHoodie]

YIPPPEE

[@szymonp1701]

So true

[@leannecuster1490]

Ok just subscribed on spotify or well Im following now ues very cool

[@5210smile]

Paper!!!!

[@chachathepigeon]

38:47 Why is Noah so cute when he looks into the camera and says "Hey Alexa!"❤?

[@leannecuster1490]

If you dont plant one and keep seeds cause sensimilla however seedless buds is spelled get you higher so some have to be left to seed to carry on next years crop .Have I growen pot taking the 5 th on that one

[@RaunienTheFirst]

Were you high when you wrote this? Lol

[@saskiahorton]

Coco-cobanannoid receptors

[@leannecuster1490]

Have i smoked pot hum which kind??

[@leannecuster1490]

Bongs

[@saggguy7]

now an episode about psychedelics while tripping

[@SciGuys]

Check the episode before this one 😉

[@leannecuster1490]

You cut it up with sissors Somepeople tear it with fingers and ruin it cause oil get all over fingers and it wont have the thc amount if u use sissors it keeps oil of your fingers

[@leannecuster1490]

They make rope for hundreds of years with hemp

[@asympti2185]

The U.S. Constitution is written on hemp paper. Ben Franklin had a hemp paper mill; Thomas Jefferson patented a hemp threshing machine. I bought a set of hemp sheets recently. They're super comfortable and I think they're going to last forever.

[@chilli_mango]

is anyone else not seeing this episode on Spotify?? I’m in Canada if that’s relevant

[@Kteddyj]

Hemp was illegal in Texas until recently

[@thefrickin5509]

Once a month my friends would get together and have B movie day. We would smoke and have a competition of who brought the worst film. It was great fun giggling at the dumbest films.

[@damnronin]

конопля - konoplya - stress on the last ya (like "you" in young and yankees)

[@saggguy7]

In the US, when you buy those 100mg single-serving edibles, they are actually not intended to be split up lol. They are intended to be taken as a single dose by a person who probably has a bit of a problem. Typically the edibles are divided into the dose that they’re intended to be consumed in.

[@triedxtrue]

i wouldn’t place judgement so quickly on people’s tolerances. i’m disabled and fat and need quite a large dose to stop my body from being in excruciating pain preventing me from being mobile.

[@saggguy7]

@@triedxtrue see but not only does that comment not contain a moral judgment of any kind, it also *does* contain a qualifier that acknowledges exceptions to the statement 😂 sorry i forgot to think about you personally

[@RaunienTheFirst]

So when's the Lucy episode?

[@leannecuster1490]

I guess everyone is different we play music we skate we surf we off trail bikes its fun its challenging i guess it dosent bother u if u live that lifestyle.MGK smokes and partys his bros I nean only one example.

[@leannecuster1490]

Andandomite sounds dynamite lalalala or not

[@leannecuster1490]

The early humans made meade they probably learned what hangover is that did not stopthem we finally got good malt beer and single malt whiskey we are so smart

[@leannecuster1490]

On probation u are flunking your piss test for next 30 days after a pot high.I never did that i know cause my buddies did so thank god i learned in case i get probation or have to do piss test for a job

[@oddduckdeena]

How much did y’all sample before doing this episode? Lol. I’m infotained. Educamused.

[@leannecuster1490]

Drink beer takes care of pot side effects

[@leannecuster1490]

Eat it and smoke it at same time that way u will be totally

[@leannecuster1490]

To late way to late for a bunch of people to try it legal they been using it anyway.The bong is best

[@leannecuster1490]

Na we skateboard and surf while drinking beer and smoking weed so how could it affect balance we are still aluve

[@leannecuster1490]

Uh well clean needles fentynol sucks and kills they have those methadone clinics dont know luckly I tried once didnt like it so hey Ive tried lots curious not an addictive personality I luck out

[@millennium581]

The Volume is sooooo low I can't hear anything I can't watch this one :(

[@leannecuster1490]

See im from america we like pot

[@zelrex4657]

Weed isnt for me. I wish i liked more. It just makes sound echo for weeks and the short term affects just make me feel sleepy

[@leannecuster1490]

Damn u cant do that surfing or skateboarding maybe we are use yo it from being into this behavior from gradeschool in usa remember we have cool parents dome of us who skate and well at 2 we are drinking dregs of thier beer taking pot roaches and gathering them until we can put in bong or pipe and yeah we can get those items trade a skateboard tell your parents it broke get a new one I know it fibbing but it hurts no one they can afford it

[@leannecuster1490]

U do not waste good sativa or indigo as clothes its wasteful also illeagle and it would get smoked

[@zemorph42]

The fibers for textiles and rope come from the stems, not the flower. The plants can be used in multiple ways, even the same plant.

[@leannecuster1490]

@@zemorph42 ok good to know yes hemp is cbd products from flowers thanks

[@zemorph42]

@@leannecuster1490 Back in the old days, like old west days, a common treatment for cabin fever(when the isolation gets to you and you feel like you're going crazy, I think) was to burn hemp rope and inhale the smoke. Hemp is a variety of cannabis with very low THC content, and was used for rope, sails, food and lamp oil, to name a few, for centuries, and the versatility of cannabis was part of the reason why weed was banned to begin with, because of the invention of a device that made processing the plant a lot easier, making it a potential threat to existing industries the products of which could have been replaced by comparable to better versions made from hemp. Harry Anslinger(?) was one of the driving forces of the coalition seeking to neutralize the hemp industry before it could really get started.

[@leeisgay450]

nope

[@bcharles-ms9hv]

Why is it not legal. And mostly tastes like crap now

[@leannecuster1490]

Not to be a downer but some countrys kill or prisonerize people for years and years for smoking weed omg

[@zemorph42]

Including some States of the USA.

[@kingchamuco1]

According to the gays in 🇺🇸 thanks to them cannabis is where it is today because of all their “hard” work. Well thanks for nothing. By the way they always want more credit than due for the little they do. Don’t believe me? Name your favorite gay cultivator or breeder, and what work have they done for the cannabis community? I’ll wait….

[@leannecuster1490]

Anyone who lets alchohal drugs incuding mushrooms pot gummies guns any of it you are guilty of a crime .So lock up your adult stuff please. Now that said some teens going to get thier own but thats not from thier home. Parents care takers u responsible at your home!!

[@brandontruby6366]

The amount of misinformation 😢

[@SciGuys]

Could you be more specific?