Two Most Common Ways Of Ingesting Marijuana

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There are more than just a couple ways to ingest Marijuana such as smoking, eating, ointment, patches, pills and snorting. The two most common ways to ingest weed are eating or smoking it. Edibles are often in the form of desserts such as candy bars, hard candy, and even drink mixers. Edibles however, take longer to react than smoking because they must be digested which could take up to two hours depending on what you have consumed throughout the day. The most popular way of ingesting Marijuana is smoking it. Smoking weed is faster acting than an edible by roughly half the time. Smoking it allows for the THC to enter into the blood stream faster, thus giving the induvial a quicker “high”. Some common ways to smoke weed are rolled up tobacco

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