Do as you wish. Nothing is known as absolute in this conversation. But be educated about what you are doing. Don't have the "won't happen to me" attitude.
You say over exaggerate.... are you a biologist? A doctor? A PhD in human anatomy and physiology? a chemist? I'm not either. But I can read, and I took chemistry. What you are putting on this plant, may not be the chemical you are inhaling (smoking). Anybody doing such should at least consider the possibility.
If that scares you, then maybe you shouldn't do it. If you don't think so, then toke away I say.
There are other methods to get pollen from a plant. Not necessarily auto-flowering plants, but no one makes you grow those alone.
I'm stating what I will be doing. The information is there for you to make your own decision. That is the whole reason for the discussion.
Be informed. Knowledge never killed anyone, unless they were lacking it.
Yes, over exaggerate. Have you seen the types of articles that I'm talking about? I can't link, but some just unanimously declare it as "unsafe" without any more mention. Not necessarily misleading, but not leaving much up to the reader either, only linking to this in a small footnote Colloidal Silver, and we've already discussed the differences in chemistry, method of exposure, and elsewise that makes linking with such evidence not really supportive of such a claim overall. It's basically an apples to oranges fallacy.
Another just uses this strong language
"Take note: NEVER consume or smoke the parts of the plant that you sprayed with the colloidal silver solution (wiki). If you’re not 100% sure about which parts were sprayed, simply discard the entire plant to be safe. The pollen, on the other hand, will be totally safe."
I've personally seen far more misleading posts on Facebook telling people it will give them cancer. But again, where do you think people got that idea.
Maybe I'm coming off as rude or something, but I frankly do not think that the "better safe than sorry" determination can be made by any lay person for any other lay person. Either disclose all the information or don't comment. You ask me if I'm a doctor... None of the people espousing the horrible dangers of CS are.
I mean, there's wider implications here than people catching a buzz. Imagine people with PTSD or anxiety letting their mental health untreated because all they have is CS contaminated bud; imagine they've been led to believe it's basically toxic, while in the meantime they're sitting there with a flashback or anxiety attack that could easily turn into something more serious. Imagine someone with cyclic vomiting syndrome that can't stop puking going into tachychardia-induced cardiac-arrest because of dehydration, because they avoided smoking CS contaminated weed that could have stopped their vomiting and allowed them to keep down vital fluids. I'm not a doctor, but I've faced all of those, and I've smoked CS contaminated weed. I'm alive (thanks to cannabis) and I'm not blue (despite colloidal silver). My "safe" is different, and I strongly believe that a lot of people in my position have probably kept themselves "unsafe" avoiding CS contaminated weed when it actually would have benefited them, and all because of very vague over-exaggerated claims about the dangers of it.
I mean I commend WillGrow510 for finding that great article, but I think it really tells us a lot about what we already knew were the dangers of silver were, and comments more on the occupational exposure levels that create those conditions. Yes I understand chemistry ( and I know how to read too ) and know that the silver may be changed to some other compound, but again I have the anecdotal evidence of having smoked it and not turned into a smurf or something else undesirable, so I think that ought to count for something. In the end though, you have to consider that the people ( including myself ) I'm advocating for may not be in the condition or the capacity to go find white papers on the dangers of silver exposure in order to assure themselves that it will be safe. So in that respect, I think that sites with guides like the ones I've mentioned, making very authoritative claims about the dangers of CS without authoritative literature to back it up, are doing ( and have done ) and extreme disservice to patients who could have otherwise sought relief with better information. I don't think it was intentional of course, but sometimes the "Better safe than sorry" game can have unintended consequences as well.
Long story short, I'm not a doctor, but as a medical patient I am 100% assured that I would have been at a greater risk for a more severe adverse health effect if I had left my conditions untreated, and I think that's something very important to point out and consider for others who are in such debilitated states that they cannot do this type of research and critical thinking for themselves. If it weren't for that I wouldn't raise such a stink about it.
