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Cannabis Information | What Is A Whitey | Effects Of Weed | The Mix
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Cannabis Information | What Is A Whitey | Effects Of Weed | The Mix
The Mix discusses everything you need to know about Cannabis. We examine the effects of weed & getting high, what weed feels like and ask what is a whitey?
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No you haven't. Nobody laces weed with heroin. Just like nobody laces ecsatasy pills with heroin. It makes no sense.
It's quite possible that weed may be adultarated with a substance to make it heavier and therefore more profitable - this is most often done with water. I have seen credible evidence of weed being contaminated with sand, but nobody is going to put heroin or crack in it, and I've seen no evidence of it actually happening.
Most home grown weed is no different than that grown in the lab - in fact it is likely to be less potent.
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Medicinal vs recreational marijuana:
Potential long-term side-effects (e.g. anxiety):
There's no real difference between weed grown in a lab and weed gown in a bedroom or weed grown in the garden.
While a more controlled environment might produce more potent weed it's not necessarily the case. And there are thousands of different strains with differenet levels of THC and cannaboids, but to suggest there is a distinct difference between 'medical weed' and blackmarket weed is simply not correct.
All weed purhcased in the UK is illegal and sold via the blackmarket. Whilst some growers/sellers may attempt to increase the yield weight with water there's little evidence of a problem with them adding anything else.
And it's an absolute myth to suggest that dealers lace weed with other more expensive drugs. The suggestion above that weed is laced with heroin is quite absurd. Apart from the fact there is absolutely no evidence of this ever happening, why would a dealer lace a cheaper drugs with a more expensive one, when it would be more profitable selling them seperately.
These are myths that have been ciculating for years. Doesn't happen.
I guess just a general disclaimer that the information we publish is always either informed by The Mix's own research or produced in collaboration with a qualified or experienced third party. So we'll bring this feedback and our existing article to our collaborators to make sure it's accurate.
We consulted with some experts from a leading substance support service to make sure this information is accurate, and they gave us some additional context on the issue of drugs being cut with other drugs. We've added a new bit to the article which talks about that:
I appreciate the reply Mike but I don’t think that offers any clarification.
It’s important not to treat all drugs as one.
Drugs such as cocaine and ecstasy are often cut with other adulterants to make them go further, sometimes these adulterants are simply food ingredients, and other times they’re cut with other cheaper more available medication such as ephedrine or caffeine or other cheaper more available Illicit drugs.
The freebase for of cocaine (crack) is far purer and rarely cut with anything.
But although these types of drugs ARE commonly cut, myths around them still exist.
A popular myth years ago was that ‘speckled’ ecstasy pills contained heroin to get people ‘hooked’. This has always been and still is complete rubbish. First because the amount of heroin you can fit in a pill simply doesn’t do anything if taken orally. Secondly, the price of heroin is about 50% more by weight than that of ecstasy. It makes no financial sense to cut ecstasy pills with heroin.
Similar myths exist regarding the lacing of weed, but some of these are even more ridiculous for the same reasons.
Weed isn’t laced with lsd or cocaine. Smoking either of these drugs does nothing. Lsd breaks down incredibly easily in air. And cocaine is only smokeable if it’s freebased.
Weed isn’t laced with heroin either. Given the disparity in price it makes no sense to do so, dealers would lose money and consumers would get a crap experience, likely making them itchy and giving them a undesired effect. This idea that you smoke a bit of heroin and you’re instantly an addict wanting to score more is boogeyman nonsense.
Weed is not commonly cut with anything. There’s is no evidence that it is. And it is inaccurate to suggest otherwise.
I guess the sticking point here is that The Mix is working with official bodies to produce and verify our content. When we get feedback from community members and readers, our process is to take that into consideration and attempt to verify anything factual with the help of experts. We took your initial feedback to our editorial team who then went through this process.
Do you have any reputable sources for the claims made in your post? If we have something sourced, that could give us grounds to make the changes you're suggesting.
In fact when The Talk To Frank website was first launched almost 20 years ago it was full of inaccuracies, and many of the regulars from the drug forum here, did a lot to change that website, even going as far to write to their MP. There might even be some old posts about it in the drug forum.
It's very hard for me to prove that something didn't happen (to prove a negative), I feel the burden of evidence is on the one making the claim, but because this myth is repeated so easilly and so often, nobody appears to be asking for the evidence, and they take it for granted that it's true.
If weed is commonly (or even rarely) laced with Heroin, Cocaine or LSD, it should be relatively easy to provide evidence for it happening, and yet I've never seen a confimred report for it.
But then there's the logical arguments as to why it doesn't happen.
1. You can't smoke cocaine or LSD. It doesn't do anything. It would be a complete waste of money, time and effort to lace weed with either drug
2. You can smoke heroin, but why would a dealer hid a more expensive drug in with a less expenive drugs, effecitively throwing their money away. It doesn't make any sense.
Unscrupulous dealers will sometimes add things like water or sand to weed to increase the weight, but adding other drugs without telling the customer and charging extra just flat out doesn't happen.
The article doesn't currently specify cocaine, LSD or heroin in the section about weed being contaminated. But if I understand your point correctly, you're saying there's no evidence to suggest it's a pervasive problem at all with weed - is that right?
I will make sure I take this to our editorial team again, but we may need to take a look at the way we source our information on substances and who we consult with, which would take more time.
As an aside, this is very cool.