I've been a cannabis connoisseur for almost 25 years and I have a few thoughts to ad.

It's really strange that cannabis is being allowed to catch on in the mainstream. The controlling elite kept it illegal for a long time for three reasons. They could make money because of the black market and private prisons. They could make money using trees for paper instead. And the most important one, and why psychedelics are still illegal, cannabis has the tendency to "wake people up".

After many years of seeing it wake people up then watching them do nothing about their newly found ideas, I think the elite have determined that the people are sufficiently brainwashed as to not be a threat. Most will see that money is printed out of thin air and will go to work the next day anyway. We don't need much paper anymore because everything's digital. They can't build the private prisons fast enough.

I really think that the laws on weed are being relaxed because there is a more nefarious plan. I think that plan is to profit from the addicts, keep as many as possible distracted and mellow for the coming cull, and they'll start introducing gmo weed into the market that will further compromise our freedom and effectiveness against tyranny.

So, even though I believe all of this, am I quitting? Hell No! It's the only reason I'm still around, watching my species further enslave and eventually destroy itself! Without it, my false meritocracy damaged neck swells up and tries to kill my brain by starving it for oxygen. To avoid the corporate/government/elite trap, I'm going weed freegan and only smoking what I or my friends grow. This eliminates the money aspect of it, has reduced my dependency on it, I have less chance of going to jail, and I have a bigger chance of avoiding GMO herbs.

Vaping is just marketing, wastes weed, and doesn't give you the entire cannabinoid profile like eating it or smoking it does. There's a neat thing called the entourage effect. It's what happens when the terpenes and cannabinoids combine to strengthen each others' effects. Tinctures, oils, and wax usually bypass this effect and concentrate the cannabinoids alone. This could be compared to taking a shot of heroin vs drinking a cup of opium tea. With the heroin, certain compounds have been processed out so it's very easy to overdose. With opium tea, there are compounds that make you sleepy and nauseous so if you sip it slowly, you'll fall asleep or vomit before you can kill yourself.

Different cannabinoid compounds are created as cannabis is decarboxylated at different temperatures. Smoking the cannabis gives the smoker a wide variety of these compounds, which studies show are more effective when combined rather than isolated. Vaping cannabis releases a very specific profile depending on the temperature.

Then there's marketing/consumerism/garbage creation. I wonder how many vapes there are in dumpsters/landfills/oceans. It's sad when smoking it out of a rolling paper, apple, or even glass pipe creates no waste and doesn't require human and environmentally exploitative factories to produce.

The most healthy way to ingest cannabis is by juicing it raw. Check out https://cannabisinternational.org or https://rawhemp.tk

We've evolved alongside the plant for millions of years, so long that all mammals have endocannabinoid systems that only respond to cannabis. For those millions of years, we've been smoking and eating it. Since vaping and the other methods of ingestion have only been around for less than half a century, we have no idea what the long term implications of using it this way are.

There was something else I wanted to mention, but I forgot....