Eli5: Why does smoking weed result in a different type of high than edibles?
In: Chemistry
Because when you eat an edible, it passes through your digestive system. When it goes through your liver it actually changes the form of the THC creating a more intense, longer lasting high.
Inhaling an intoxicant allows it to directly be absorbed by the blood stream from inside your lungs. On the other hand the digestion process is much much slower to absorb substances so if it’s the same total dosage the effects will be much much milder or if it’s enough of the substance to experience similar intoxication the duration will be much much much longer – but in practice it is usually some combination of the above two, a very gradual intoxication that might peak higher or lower than the inhaled route and then very gradually subsides.
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