Comment by joquarky
13 hours ago
But CBD does not need heat to convert.
I have a hypothesis that taking cannabis (and especially CBD) out of our food chain may be contributing to the increase¹ in prevalence of chronic pain.
¹ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12588185/?utm_sourc...
When was cannabis ever in the human food chain?
While not being cannabis, breast milk contains endocannabinoids.
THC comes in a plant in the THCa form. CBD comes in CBDa form.
Both are not bioactive by default in their natural form.
All I'll say is go spend a day picking hops without gloves.
There are a large number of cannabinoids at play, some clearly (as in observably and demonstrably) are bioactive in their natural, unheated form.
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None of which is said to endorse the other theory. Just to point out that claiming heat is required is incorrect.
The farm bill makes 'hemp' anything with below 0.3% THC legal. For this reason, we have a LOT of testing on the THC content of cannabis, since it is required to sell and manufacture. As it turns out, naturally cannabis quite commonly has >0.3% THC even before heating or activation of THCa.
Any human-like animal with our receptors eating a large amount would get high as fuck, cooked or not. A ruminant eating pounds of the stuff raw, would not be that different from a human consuming an ounce of baked pot.