Just did my CL Search and found one in my own town as well, now for the talk down
Autoclave Sterilizer Pelton Crane Omniclave OCM - $250
I've always been way too paranoid to tell anyone where I lived
. Of course, if I lived
there, most of my cannabis-related paranoia would be moot, lol.
Hope you get it - those things have all kinds of uses. Many of which cannot be discussed here.
Sterilizing the cobs to protect against the completely unrealistic expectation that consuming one would kill you or give you some dread disease?
I felt the same way about histoplasmosis back when I was a teenager. And that one... the words "not very serious" spring to mind.
However, it was in my case. That was 30 years ago, and I am not nearly as healthy as I was then. I'm just sayin'.
TS, the simplest way I can think of is to convert it into a paste with some olive oil and swallow it. You won't get any effect from the oral mucosa absorbtion, but the real fireworks are in the conversion to 11-hydroxy on cosmic steroids. I'll send you some capsules and a spoon to load them with.
I'll have to get some more olive oil. Mine went old, dark, and rancid. Probably shouldn't have stored it in the cupboard over the oven. And shouldn't have bought a large bottle, either.
Heeeeey... How did you know that my cutlery consists on what I pick up by the handful when I make it to Taco Bell to buy a dollar cheesy bean & rice burrito, lol? A spork is a wonderful, useful thing. But it's not so good at scraping the last bite of mashed potatoes out of a deep container
:lol:
. I do love me some mashed potatoes - you can just put them in your mouth and swallow, no chewing required. If made stiffly enough, they don't tend to find their way into... holes.
BtW, your descriptions are as magical as ever. You should write children's books. More and more of them are having their... whatever it is this lives only in a child's heart, they're having it ripped out all too often, these days.
Question is there ANY documented evidence of ANYONE EVER getting an infection from smoking or eating cannabis with or without mold.
Because I have never seen any. Yet the paranoia persists in every forum whats the story?
Documented, how? Like this:
Once I put a small peice of lettuce in a bag of weed to keep it moist. I left it in a bit too long. I didnt realize that it was molding. It did smell weird but didnt think nothing of it. Fuck I just wanted to get stoned. It did make me feel sick after a day or two. A little like a cold. More like being alergic to something. I learned my lesson after that.
Or do you mean from medical records of people who went to their doctor or their local ER due to having aggrivated their asthma, had cold- or flu-like symptoms, or even increased their risk of eventually getting cancer years down the road (a wee bit difficult to really document that one) and, during the examination said, "By the way, I recently smoked (and/or) ate moldy bud." Because around here, cannabis is still illegal for the vast majority of the population - so most people aren't going to mention it (
especially to a doctor that they might one day hope to get a prescription for something or other from, IMHO) unless they fear that they're getting
extremely ill
and that the only way they'll get better is that if the person treating them knows that they've been consuming cannabis. And it is also important to consider the fact that - as you, yourself stated - the paranoia on this subject runs high; therefore, most people (all of the ones that I know, most of whom can only occasionally afford to buy bud in the first place and who would mourn the loss of any bud that they happened to have) are going to go out of their way to NOT consume contaminated bud. And that further shrinks the size of the population from which you'd be able to find any positives in. Maybe some stupid teenagers, lol. They smoke their
bowl resin...
If your worried about your body why inhale smoke into your lungs, we DO KNOW smoking kills you whether its cigs or canna or both dont put crap into your lungs it will kill you.
I agree wholeheartedly on the cigarette thing. They've probably already killed me (with lots of help from other things - in a "product liability lawsuit" situation, lol, my heirs - if I had any - would be tied up in court for generations while the question of which entities/chemicals were responsible for what part of it
).
BtW, smoking Kool cigarettes (non-filters when they still made them) killed my grandfather deader than last Christmas. And he only smoked two to four packs per day. Only made it to (IIRC) 93. <SCRATCHES HEAD> But it was a brain tumor that did him in; his lungs were in better shape at the end than mine were at age 20, AfaIK. Nonetheless...
But, yes, they are a clear & present danger and all that. So are a multitude of other things. Are you postulating that, because a person encounters one of them, that he/she should then
not be worried about all the rest? (Are you secretly a politician, lol?)
Hey, there's smog in California. That sh!t will kill you, man, so there's no point in worrying about the danger of trying to run across 12 lanes of busy Los Angelas freeway
.
Man. I need that rep hammer.
I really miss the "Thank You" button. I found that I used the Thanks and Like things for different reasons.
I thought I had some Malawi (Gold) seeds. Not the real deal (sourced directly from Malawi and guaranteed to be "da kind"), but the commercially available ones. Sadly, I was mistaken.
I do have one seed labeled as "African Buzz" that I
think is the Seedsman strain. Which I think I might have read once has something to do with Malawi Gold in some way or other (IDK). I'm not sure if it came from an actual pack of the seeds, was produced by a private individual by selfing/backcrossing the line, or if it was some sort of <OOPS> whereby only one parent was 100% guaranteed to be African Buzz. But if it'll sprout, I'll find out eventually.
I also have several seeds labeled "Zamaldelica." That strain has been mentioned in this thread and, IIRC, the "Landraces" one, and positively so every time. IDK if these were produced in one of the same ways that I mentioned above, or what. Might have just been pulled out of a baggie of bud. But I'm hopeful about it, too.
I did have some Durban Poison that was produced directly from commercial seeds. It was bought by someone who got really mad about what it turned out he'd bought, lol, so he gave me a chunk when I mentioned that I'd had it years ago and thought it wasn't too awfully bad. He said I'd be disappointed - and he was right. But the two I mentioned above, yeah, hopeful. If/when I produce anything from them, I'll definitely be referring back to this thread and trying to create a cob or three. I'm still not sure whether I'll end up consuming them... But I'm sure someone will
.
And I wonder if that lone "Mango Haze" seed I've got would be a worthy cob candidate?
A much respected former member on IC Madjag posted these tests he had done on some cobs he made to test for nasty things in them.
Here is the lab report.
Thank you very much. That reassures me somewhat. A lot, actually - because it clearly shows that it is possible to produce non-contaminated cobs.
If there is anyone (else) wondering if ones that DO end up contaminated are safe to consume, lol, maybe you can find a lab report of a cob sample that was full of contaminants - that ended up being eaten, with
zero ill aftereffects?
That probably came off as the words of a smart-@ss. But I
am curious about which life forms
can exist in a cob, either "live," viable spores, encapsulated organisms, et cetera. Sometimes knowing what to look out for is half the (mental) battle.
And a big, bold,
Thank You! to all of the participants in this thread for increasing my knowledge on a daily basis. I'm sure that I don't say/type that often enough.
EDIT: I did find one article that mentioned some specific "baddies" that can be found on bud. Not cob-specific, but I'll add the link to the web page in case anyone is interested. I won't leave it live in case it's not a website that is completely compatible with our forum
guidelines (IDK):
Code:
https://herb.co/marijuana/news/smoking-moldy-weed-sick
And this is not MY information; I cannot really argue its truthfulness (or lack thereof). (
OOPS, wrong link. IDK how I managed to do that, but... corrected.)