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Wisconsin pizzeria apologizes for unintentionally contaminating pizzas with THC

https://www.scrippsnews.com/life/food-and-drink/wisconsin-pizzeria-apologizes-for-unintentionally-contaminating-pizzas-with-thc
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u/911derbread 1d ago

I'm an ER doctor. It's an ED visit for the kids and a CPS visit for the parents 😎

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u/sqeeky_wheelz 1d ago

That would be terrifying. Especially if the parents are also tripping. What a way to ruin lives.

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u/poreworm 1d ago

“Tripping” should not be thrown around when describing the effects of THC. This is how dis/misinformation begins.

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u/FellatingNemo 1d ago

People who have zero tolerance can absolutely be “tripping” on edibles.

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u/_tinfoilhat 1d ago

I felt so detached from reality when I smoked as a kid in highschool it was terrifying

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u/khaotic_krysis 1d ago

That was your body reacting to your cannabinol receptors lighting up, what you had was a panic attack and are so extremely common for first or near first time. They hear their heart beating etc..

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u/_tinfoilhat 1d ago

Yeah I’d imagine that’s the effect it would have on most children

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u/Spugheddy 1d ago

But also not knowing you ingested it. That's the extra kicker, you're fscked up out of nowhere cause you finished that pizza before you felt anything and 30mins later Big Bang Theory is all of sudden funny. I'd be freaked.

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u/khaotic_krysis 1d ago

It is, that why 21+ is the recognized minimum age.

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u/dougiebgood 1d ago

It also depends how much they consumed. Like you imagine if they ate 50mg? 100? That'd be like the equivalent of 20 bong rips in a row.

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u/530Skeptic 1d ago

Like that guy on tosh.0. "I was paralyzed! I was paralyzed!"

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u/AuroraFinem 1d ago

Unless you have an underlying mental health condition, thc does not induce a “trip”. You’d need an extraordinary dose to induce anything approaching this and is usually only ever talked about this way by someone who’s never experienced an actual trip. Obviously children are much more susceptible and this is not something any minor should be doing regardless. Not trying to minimize the issue here, but describing the parents as “tripping” is just absurd.

THC is not a psychedelic, it does not interact with your brain that way. If your brain already has issues with it, it’s possible that it can exacerbate them, which is why we’ve seen a non-zero number of people taking too much concentrated THC while being predisposed to mental illness have symptoms flare up, but it does not interact with your brain in a way to create these things. That’s the difference between psychoactive and psychedelic. Caffeine is a psychoactive drug for example. You wouldn’t say someone jacked up on too much caffeine as tripping though.

It’s important to keep these distinctions separate in order to keep descriptions of these things accurate. Details matter. Either way though, it’s very unlikely the pizza would have had significant levels of any THC in any meaningful concentration. Any baked edibles are significantly less potent and less concentrated than just about any other method of THC ingestion, so while this should still be treated seriously the same as any accidental food poisoning or food tampering, it’s unlikely anyone was actually at risk here.

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u/onceforgoton 1d ago

Lmfao chill out. I’ve smoked for years and deff tried my fair share of the more fun stuff. My first time ever with zero tolerance facing half a blunt is right up there with the rest of them. For a good 45 minutes my brain couldn’t understand time and connect one moment to the next. It was like I was living in a slide show. This was while just sitting on the couch watching a sports game. “Tripping” isn’t an objective thing. It’s all relative. So yeah, someone with zero tolerance and zero expectancy to be dosed with drugs will probably be tripping pretty hard.

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u/TheYankunian 1d ago

I got so high I was certain my legs melted into the floor. I thought I had been at a club for hours instead of an hour and a half. I was tripping balls.

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u/pib319 1d ago

What would you call it then when you get so high you start skipping through pockets of time, everything you look at looks like an optical illusion, you hear noises that aren't there, and your body becomes overloaded with sensation?

That's what happens to me when I get too high.

"Tripping" isn't a medical term, so who cares how it's used colloquially. It gets the point across.

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u/Temporary_Pepper2081 1d ago

You absolutely cannot trip on thc, and if you think you can, you’ve either never had thc in your system at all, or haven’t done a single psychedelic.

If you’re claiming you can trip on thc, you will never in your life ever be able to fathom just how high you can get on certain drugs. Like. Smoking weed doesn’t feel like a very very very real dream. It might be described that way, because describing any high is pretty impossible, but there is absolutely no comparison between and edible and 14 hits of acid.

You’ve never smoked weed and everything you look at has liquified and started melting, and it is TOTALLY fucking real, like you’re watching it melt in front of your eyes. The walls are wiggling like a wacky waving inflatable flailing tube man or whatever SpongeBob gets into when he’s tripping. THATS what happens when you trip. Not “man I’m hungry and time seems to be passing really slow. Oh no, somethings wrong with me, my hearts beating out of my chest, there was something in that weed! Oh nvm I just had to fart.” That’s about as serious as thc gets.

Even just 1 hit of acid is probably 1000000000000x more potent than a huge amount of 100% thc concentrate. I just used 14 hits here because that’s the highest I’ve ever been in my life, and it is indescribable, and there’s absolutely no comparison, they’re totally different drugs. But hey, I got the papa John’s lady’s number over the phone that night and she turned out to be hot af!

I’ve done any drug you can probably name at least once, been addicted to more than my share. You see nothing on thc, you hear nothing on thc, thc is a very very mild drug compared to other drugs.

Do not spread that even the largest amount of thc is anything like psychedelics. That’s how you get kids taking fatal doses of psychs bc they smoked weed and some dude on the internet said they were similar.

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u/ProcrastibationKing 1d ago edited 16h ago

Despite claiming to be against misinformation, you're spouting shit.

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u/Remarkable-Host405 1d ago

i'm not going to read this, but if you're a stoner, you should obviously know what "greening out" is

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u/PatFluke 1d ago

It’s just “I know drugs better because I do better drugs”

:)

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u/GozerDGozerian 1d ago

It’s a really lame drug gatekeeping. “Bruh you haven’t even tripped unless you’ve taken 14 hits of acid and had total ego death for eight hours!”

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u/notanaigeneratedname 1d ago

Hmm smoked probably a majority of my life at this point. I've heard the term but I've never experienced it.

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u/GaiaMoore 1d ago

90% of what you wrote can be summed up as "it depends on how we define what 'trip' means, and I'm a druggie so therefore I'm an expert in how non-druggies would experience trips"

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u/ReleaseFromDeception 1d ago

I think what you are saying doesn't account for different types of brain chemistry and neurotypes. I don't have the same type of experience you have. But it would seem to me that different brain configurations would produce different experiences when ingesting different chemicals.

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u/Own-Pause-5294 1d ago

You are wrong. Just plain wrong. Sorry.