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This video did not touch on tinctures nor pills. Both forms highly able to control your dose, as you can easily measure to the mg, albeit without a rapid come on like smoking or vaping, full disclosure. Furthermore, pills can also carry a less precise come on due to other factors related to digestion. But, you can still see exactly how much you are taking.
Not to knock smoking too much, but such measurements do not seem to exist for this method. I think people generally measure in number of hits + how large of a draw they take. People often know their limit, but it's very unscientific.
Tinctures and pills also don't carry the silliness of other edibles (technically the tincture is sublingual), like gummies and cookies. People abuse regular gummy vitamins!
Inhaling smoke from burning matter is also way more harmful to the body than intake via swallowing
My problem with eating it is the lack of actual recipes or know-how, almost every tutorial says to make oil or butter but I don't really like the idea of heating them twice (one to mix with the weed, a second time to cook). Cannabic milk is a decent alternative, baking is expensive (at least where I'm from), same for candies.
Sometimes I just add it to my food before reheating in the microwave and it works, but I know it isn't ideal.
There's also vaping... But it's fucking expensive over here, also making more trash with the batteries (even if can be recharged) and the induction heated ones are extremely expensive... Like... No.
My bong might not be the healthiest option with all the smoke, but for now it's the middle ground for me until marketing allows cheaper alternatives
You need something to extract the THC from the cannabis, and that’s oil or milk (fats). So unless you put said oil in capsules, you kinda need to take it as is or add it to something else to make it palatable.
It would also be heating it 3x. Decarb, extract, bake.
I sometimes just drop some canna butter in tea.