Cannabis Smoke Condensate II: Influence of Tobacco on Tetrahydrocannabinol Levels
Medicinal cannabis has attracted a lot of attention in recent times. Various forms of administration are used, of which smoking is very common but the least desirable. Smoking cannabis generates a large amount of unwanted side products, of which carcinogenic compounds are the most dangerous.
A common practice among recreational drug users, and to a lesser degree patients who uses cannabis as medicine, is to mix the cannabis material with commercially available tobacco in order to increase the burning efficiency of the cigarette and to reduce the overall costs of the cigarette.
In this study cannabis material has been mixed with tobacco in order to determine whether tobacco has an influence on the amount of and ratio between tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), cannabigerol (CBG), and cannabinol (CBN) administered while smoking. A small-scale smoking machine has been used and cannabis mixed with various ratios of tobacco was smoked. The trapped smoke was quantitatively analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and the amount of THC, CBG, and CBN was determined for each cigarette.
We have found that tobacco increases the amount of THC inhaled per gram of cannabis from 32.70 ± 2.29 mg/g for a 100% cannabis cigarette to 58.90 ± 2.30 mg/g for a 25% cannabis cigarette. This indicates that tobacco increases the vaporization efficiency of THC by as much as 45% under the conditions tested.
Shorter: Blunts pack a bigger buzz. However, if you’re looking to increase the vaporization efficiency of THC, just spend the extra dough on buying a vaporizer and lose all of the carcinogens from any kind of smoke. I hear that tobacco stuff is addictive and dangerous.
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Though this article seems superficial yet valid though what the real kicker is that the article states that that yes, which i do not doubt, since tobacco helps break mult. cannabinoids into a gaseous state faster and more efficient. It still does not mean that the smoker will absorb these extra particles in their lungs just because they are there. So like most immature projects publishing article because they can’t hold their load for a long enough time as to get credible backings (most physical experiments or case studies have and still are being tested for credibility for over 200 years).I am so glad that the intellectual level of the US is still falling and once again tobacco, alcohol and pharmaceuticals reign supreme over your mild and simple thoughts with public and private media manipulation.
Unfortunately the summary is misleading. Based on what that article says Blunts do not necessarily increase the efficiency by 45%. The 45% was for the conditions tested which was a 75% tobacco 25% cannabis cigarette. Blunts tend to have a much higher percentage of cannabis, probably above 80% meaning that this article is not very conclusive for anything other than 3:1 tobacco to cannabis ratio spliffs.
Classic tobacco cigarettes are so pass?, hooray for the revolutionary electronic cigarette and e-cigar! ^^
Not always – some blunts are just the tobacco-leaf wrapper around nothing but cannabis, others people like to mix tobacco in with the cannabis.
ummm…blunts…ARE TOBACCO
I smoke cigs, I know it’s horrible for you
, but I plan on quitting pretty soon.
Blunts are the way to go when you don’t have or can’t afford a vaporizer, and you want to get super baked. But they can be fairly wasteful for one person, which is why I rarely enjoyed them w/o my usual smoking buddies around.
When I was a cash-strapped daily toker attending college in Hawaii, I’d mix a little of my roommate’s American Spirit tobacco w/ my bud when I wanted to conserve. It’s a different type of high; the tobacco makes light-headed, while the bud later knocks you on your ass.
I don’t smoke cigarettes, but I will roll blunts. No tobacco in them, but there is a little tobacco residue on the paper And smoking blunts gets me really
I have never liked to waste good weed by putting tobacco in my joints. Even when I smoked cigs I would never do that…Yuch