"Brick weed" was a term from when Mexican dirt weed was prominent in North America, in the 70's. Back before the hydroponics were a thing. They would compress this shitty weed into bricks to ship them. With the stems, seeds a plenty, and anything else they could put in the bricks to weigh them down for profit.
When this video was made, marijuana was illegal almost everywhere in the US and Hank had to be careful about the content. Only 8 years 8.5 years later, it's legal in numerous states, even recreationally, and he could probably light up on camera if he wanted. Now let's do the same thing with psilocybin, mescaline and lysergic acid.
2023 North America Cannabis is now legal in Canada, Mexico, Recreationally Legal in 23 States, and Medically Legal in 38 States. Let's keep up the momentum!
Careful about his content? You think it was illegal to talk about Marijuana? Or even frown upon? The TV show 'Weeds' had been a huge hit on TV for 8 years at this point.
its always good to learn new things too bad i will forget this by the time i finish writing this comment .... time to activate my cannabinoid receptors one more time
It seems to me that the entire time you were thinking "Wow, I'm learning scientific things. I'm gonna be so smart!" and you actually weren't focused at all on the video and didn't learn shit. Isn't that right?
***** I'm not saying that just because he is high. Look at the comment. He seems to be more amazed by the fact that he is watching an educational video than by the things he supposedly learned by it. I can bet that the entire time he was thinking "So THIS is what is happening to me right now" and when the video ended, he forgot WTF he just watched.
I'm a frequent (legal) pot smoker and I can say from experience that the positive effects outweigh any negative effects as long as you don't use too much of it. If you use just enough to have a good time with some friends, or to knock yourself out when you can't sleep, there are hardly any negative effects. (There are none with me, but it's a little different for everyone)
@@marciaosullivan3200 There's no credible evidence that smoking Cannabis has any causation effect for Cancer. Everyone alive in 2019 has a pretty good shot at getting cancer no matter what they do or don't do. Modern living causes Cancer.
@@marciaosullivan3200 You are equating it with cigarette smoke and there is some tar in Cannabis smoke but not even the biggest Hippie can smoke 20 joints or more a day by themselves, particularly with the strength of today's weed. The worst problem people face by extensive pot smoking is overeating and the associated weight gain. The risk of lung cancer from smoking Cannabis is minuscule. People who've never smoked anything get lung cancer. Your fear is uninformed and irrational.
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@Petko Ostojic The funny thing about pot is, I'm fine with our without. No withdrawl and i'm generally always a happy friendly dude. I have seen people form unhealthy obsessions with it, but thats more individual character. I have only ever smoked weed and never drink unless there's a get together. Pretty normal life. Never made it a problem so it was never a problem. But everyone's brain chem is a little different so never know how it effects the next person. Humble enough to know I'm not everyone else ha ha
Go watch some earlier videos and you'll find it a lot easier to imagine. There are a fair few videos where people comment "Is it me or is Hank high in this?" Not that it matters. Dude's free to smoke if he wants. He has Ulcerative Colitis too, so totally wouldn't blame him for using it to help with that. I did it for my Crohn's (the "sister" disease of UC) and it worked wonders. Shame my career doesn't allow for it anymore.
No! NOT "oh well" WE HAVE TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST THE CRIME OF NATURE! MARIJUANA KILLS CANCER DO RESEARCH!! IT KILLS IT WE NEED TO TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW!!! EVERYONE SHOULD START ADVERTISING THE FACTS MUCH MORE!!! ITS NOT A DRUG ITS A BENEFIT TO OUR HEALTH! OUR BODYS NEEDS THIS SUBSTANCE
ive watched like 100 of your videos at this point and to come across this one was truly incredible! i thought i was a fan before, but now youve got a fanatic. SWED!
When your high calm yourself, try not to think of something that may worry you because you could panic (it happened to me twice and it is not a fun experience) and just relax listen to some music talk with your friends play sports or whatever :)
Depending on the viscosity of the oil that's secreted by marijuana, insects (like ants for example) can actually get stuck, while THC and CBDs seem to slow down the insects reaction, making them struggle less, and they then starve while stuck to said plant
If you are someone who smokes pot and is happy doing so then that's great. If it affects other things in your life, or changes your personality, then you should not smoke.
It should change your entire life, and your personality. You go from being a semi ignorant ordinary boring person to a semi enlightened different new person. If you think you're fine the way you are, that's great but there aren't very many circumstances that mean you SHOULD NOT SMOKE. And neither of the two you listed are any of those. What if the person was an alcoholic, beat their family and used weed to calm down and quit drinking? Or there was a person that didn't like their personality, so used pot to find out what having a different one for a while feels like? There is no should or should not, there is only do or do not. And that's personal choice, whether you like a persons choice or not.
Liz Rossi Lol tell me about it, I did make a pretty generalised statement. My apologies, I should have specified "You *can* go..." It's the same as alcohol, the only thing that makes it bad is people that don't have the self discipline to keep a level head whilst drunk. Doesn't mean drinking should be illegal, just means some people are idiots haha. What about in your experience, do you believe cannabis has the power to improve as well as decline? I'm an artist and I swear, I have the best ideas whilst high. I will never stop endorsing weed, although I will caution against it. Like everything, it has it's negatives.
it changed me for the better i battled depression and anxiety a lot as a kid specially in my teens worse thing i did was to mask it i was that typical big sports guy at school who got the pretty girls i was loud and obnoxious i would find someone weaker and embarrass them in some way in front of my peers we all have a good laugh at them then that was my way hiding who i really was it got worse as i got older i was hot headed getting into fights getting kicked out of school. i started smoking weed then the first few weeks it just made me sleep a lot after a while i noticed i aint argued with anyone in a while i was more chilled and laid back i was having full convocations with people at a bus stop with people i never even met before in my life i would of never of done that before eventually i met a hole new group of friends became more kind and actually protective of people if someone was with me who didnt speak up for themselves i would jump in to protect them weed turned me into a good guy if i didnt start smoking i might even be in jail right now.
I love how, when he gets to the theories, he pretty much ends up turning it into a stand-up routine. Ahahahahaha. Genuinely funny, and thoroughly informative. This was dope.
Hank I'm a huge fan and I am going to college right now to be a astrophysicist. I've watched all of your crash course chemistry videos and love them. So please know that I'm talking from a place of respect when I ask 'Can you do a more detailed video on this matter'. Bringing more scientific evidence to the table about all the affects of cannabis, with a more non-biased view? Please include the health benefits of it. I have a lot of friends who use it for health reasons health (such as: cancer, Crohn's disease, and PTSD) and I can say for sure that it has helped them. Thank you.
If we view ourselves as being separate from nature, of course we can't come up with a good answer as to why cannabis evolved the way that it did to contain THC. But when we realize that we are just as a part of nature as the cannabis plant, we realize that all things work together for a reason.
Microfrog ***** It's all good I was just wondering, not trying to insult. I actually voted for the legalization of Marijuana in Washington but haven't done it myself.
Microfrog 1. THC offers protection against UV light( which is harmful for plants.)2. THC defends the plants from bugs and pests. Firstly, it makes the plant very sticky so that, when any bugs land on it, they get stuck and secondly, when bugs eat THC, they 'get high' and seem to forget they were even on a plant 3. THC produces a high in most mammals. There's two options here, either the animal doesn't like the intoxication, in which case it will stay away from the plant, or the animal does like the intoxication, eats the plant and poops its seeds out later, which enables the plant to reproduce. 4. THC is a pretty powerful antibiotic and anti-fungal substance, it protects the plant against certain diseases. There you go, 4 answers as to why cannabis evolved the way it did.
Thank you SciShow! I can't believe how many people are ignoring the fact that drugs are drugs, they are not with out adverse effects. Thanks for keeping it real!
Now really this is probably just me, or maybe other people with ADD but the ability to not think is so god damn amazing. Often when i'm finding myself not being able to sleep its because my mind and thoughts are racing at a rate that I cannot with any sort of mental fortitude shut them up. It often sounds like I'm in a busy subway, everything sounds muddied, but I know conciously that all I hear is white noise from my fan and such> I smoke weed and it quiets down, and I don't have to think, I can just. Exist and focus.
Whenever I smoke weed I start thinking about my my career and my future. People might be smoking it to relieve themselves of the worldly tensions, but seems it has the opposite effect on me. And I hate weed for that!
Random User I have been thinking more about my life in general while high on marijuana. I realize what is wrong, and I do come up with plans to fix it. However, when I am sober, I don't do anything to fix the problems in my life. I think I need a push to get there
Yeah I also find it helps provide the motivation to make changes, plus it generally has been helping my confidence, sociability and creativity a lot lately
Turns out I get really existential, I once tried to explain to my friends for 4 hours that they were all just figments of my imagination and the entire world was just created by my brain for me haha
yes my good friend, as a medical maijuana patient - from chronic pain, you have a valid feature to learn from this video -one that ive never heard before an thats' saying a lot because i have done lots of research. keep it up =D
I have 2 stainless hips and 2 ruptured rotator cuffs. The hips are at their age limit, one shoulder has been repaired. To quell this large and long term constant agony, I have been taking Rx heavy painkillers q=3. Sometimes I can vaporize an indica heavy blend with about 1.7% CBD. This can act as a replacement for the mid-day chemical Rx. Sleeping is easier, and lasts longer than the typical 3 to 4 hours...It allows me to sleep for longer time periods. This in turn means I can occasionally dream. That facet of my psyche was missing for years, since heart attack #5. There are a wide range of benefits that I personally experience, and can, as a bio-scientist inventor attest to. Besides, by getting instruction on dosing, I've actually lowered the amount needed to get to that effect. Here in Ca I can legally partake of these benefits, merely making my life livable. High? Ha!
Not a stereotype. It's reality. "snitch". Are you so dumb that you can mistake facts and figures with guesses by people who couldn't find their ass with both hands? I am a scientist. My machine that diagnoses TB accurately has already saved millions in India and Africa by providing an accurate diagnosis in 20 minutes. See the article called Fatal Misdiagnosis in the New Yorker 2010. I stopped that. My part of the puzzle provides fast and accurate diagnosis. Et vous?
A stereotype is not mutually exclusive with reality. You are the "weed is my medicine" stereotype. You think it solves everything with no downside (hyperbole). Et moi, j'ai créé le vaisseau spatial que nous avons utilisé aller à la lune.
snitch he never said weed solves everything he merely said it helps him with his problems with way less side effects that traditional pharmaceuticals and if you think that man made chemicals are better than a plant that's been grown and used for thousands of years well that's kinda dumb but hopefully you don't :)
You just gotta learn to like it. The first time I got really high, I was freaking out because I had no clue what the feeling was. But a couple nights ago I got stoned with my friends and we had a blast.
This video brings up a question I have not spent time thinking about in relation to THC. I have heard many debates about its use for glaucoma and cancer and its possible benefits for hospice care. But it seems like a pertinent question to answer, why does the plant make this chemical? If it's because its antibacterial and a pesticide THC could have even more benefits to medicine other than pain control and suppression of cell division. With states legalizing medical marijuana the crops are already in place to do the research for such a study. It would be miraculous if it turns out to work better for certain infections than the medications we already have. To be able to cure resistant infections would be a great leap in medicine.
there's little delta-9THC found in raw cannabis. In raw cannabis you'll find THC-a, which is a precursor for it, but it has to be heated to be converted to delta-9-THC. The process is called decarboxolation, so the notion that bugs, or animals will get high by eating raw cannabis is largely a fallacy.
I've had friends grow where I live and we also have a large deer population and from their experiences we've determined that deer really like weed. It doesn't matter where you grow it in my state, deer will come. I think I has to do with weeds natural stress and pain relief, deer can become extremely stressed thanks to the large amount of hunters and everything feels pain so it just makes sense to us. So if you grow in a state with any deer population, either grow inside or get a pretty good fence.
THC can only be released at a specific temperature, so eating it can't get you high... Therefore, bugs and other plant eating insects or animals, can't get high from the weed. My two cents... Tell me if I'm wrong xD
Most people will make THC butter over heat, and cook with it -- it is rare to see someone just put marijuana into a recipe. But my understanding was that they did this because THC likes to attach itself to lipids, not because there's a temperature minimum.
I get mental fog from my autoimmune disease, and weed really helps make my mind sharp. It keeps me focused and allows me to get through full sentences and ideas without stumbling or stuttering. Also agitates my already-inflamed lungs. I'd really like to try it again when my disease is in remission.
Hank, I smoke marijuana on a regular basis and I could tell you that it does not interfere with the proper function of the brain, I remember every single thing you said in the video. It only makes you forget negative thoughts, while keeping the ones that matter most. Although I agree that cannabinoids aren't the only substances that make use of cannabinoid receptors, I hate the flawed argument that that cannabinoid receptors in the brain aren't for weed because other receptors react to other drugs
I really want to know the truth about weed's effect on the brain. Can it damage the frontal lobe? Lead to schizophrenia? Contribute to a loss a brain cells?
It can't cause any damage. It doesn't kill brain cells, both those myths have been debunked. If one has a pre-existing schizophrenic disorder then smoking marijuana may cause the symptoms to come prematurely. Marijuana does not lead to or cause schizophrenia, but it can trigger it if you have it already.
Only trigger schizophrenia. My own uncle has a very bad case of that mental disorder due to heavy use of cannabis. :) But he was quite prone to it anyways so it came as surprise to nobody.
Torguish Yea, heavy ussage of canabis does cause your brain cells to be more lazy and you might stop being fully conscious for some time. Also, I'm not sure if it's true but, THC doesn't really leave your body like alcohol does, it says and your body will need some time to adapt itself to its new state. I'm against the overusage we have on canabis today, but after this video I think I can accept it has a medical herb.
After all of the research I have done on the plant, the only scientifically recorded effects it has on the brain (first of all varies from person to person) are: a) When in use it slows down reaction time, and causes memory loss. This happens to all people who are high (personally the memory loss doesnt happen for me but it is a recorded case that it does so I'm putting it on here), but once you sober up the symptoms generally go away, unless you are a heavy user because it can kill certain brain cells if you've smoked enough of it. b) it hasnt been recorded to cause any mental disorders, although, if you already have a mental dissorder you are more prone to mental addiction, (feeling like you need it to feel better and happier) Thats about it, though. It's definitely the more healthy drug to go for, seeing as how it doesnt have any serious long term affects on the brain. As for everything else in this world, though, moderation is key. Just don't abuse it and everything should be fine.
"Brick weed" was a term from a time when "Mexican red hair" marijuana, (we called it "dirt weed") was prominent in North America, *in the 70's.* It wasn't the worst weed, but pretty damn close.. lol. This was back before hydroponics were a thing. They would compress this fairly shitty weed into bricks to ship them. With the stems, seeds a plenty, and anything else they could put in the bricks to weigh them down for profit. I caught the tail end of this era in the early 80's when I first tried smoking weed. It's a joke compared to today's weed. And it's not so much that it's stronger today, which it is. But we could process this shitty weed down and make hash or cherry/honey oil. Which, other than the distillates they can process today, were as strong then as they are today. I also came from a town in Northern Ontario Canada in which we had an almost limitless supply of hash from overseas. I know it was the bikers that were bringing it in, but what connections they had to get the stuff was unknown to nobody's like me... lol. It's more that the quality of it is SOO much better today. I'm 57 now and have been a casual smoker for 41 yrs. and I wouldn't change a thing. It's no different than a person having a drink after work. It has never been an issue other than other people's assumptions of the drug prior to it becoming legal.... Which really wasn't a problem for me because if someone feels they have the right to judge your character, NOT based on your actions but on their own ill-informed pre-conceived notions. Then they're not worth your time.
Actually FreeCandyGuy IS joking--or just confused. This guy--Hank Green--does the science-based Crash Course videos and his brother John does the non-science-based ones. They are definitely not twins either, unless their mother had a particularly long and difficult pregnancy: they were born seven years apart. Both have Wikipedia entries if you like to look them up; John recently became a famous novelist with his book "The Fault in our Stars."
Sarcasticron And another small correction, John became a famous novelist long before TFiOS. I believe Looking for Alaska was actually his first NYT best-selling novel.
the bias is very strong in this vid, regardless of how informative it is. it ignores the therapeutic benefits, and how important that is in relation to how many daeths are caused by stress (which cannabis reduces). It also assumes that memory is negatively effected by it's consumption, and that's only because the dude seems to base the dosage on a highschool kid who just found out about it. Well I was in high school one time and I played the role of the main character in my highschool play and I remembered my lines a lot better than my sober friends...But I wasn't getting hhigh to the point that your average person does,
It'd be nice if someone who is talking about Sci fi shit knew that you can only get high by burning the plant. Eating it without cooking it does not get you high.
***** that was a myth your friend told you I used to hear it to never once got me high or in the slightest a buzz. It's not possible to get high from THC unless it's at least 2 ounces of raw weed you've ingested or cooked/heated. Also why the fk do you need $50 to buy weed? I can get a quarter(7gs) for $50 why do you just have to spend $50 lol why not just $10 if you're that desperate and actually want to get high that small and noticeable high is you thinking you're high when you're not it's your subconscious. All it does is put a stronger taste in your mouth.
Wow. Comments here are definitely NOT from nerdfighters. I do sense a common theme however. Whenever a person says anything negative about marijuana the "pot prophets" come out of the woodwork and get quite pissy. I thought you guys were mellow. And don't get to tough with my boy Hank here or I'll start talking about emphysema (and you know you don't want that). So he's not a fellow "doobie dude". He is, however, a biochemist. He also impersonates a stoned beetle exceptionally well. Lol.
Interesting. Allow me to retort to your insightful and well-reasoned reply. You affirm the rights of a group to present their argument while telling me not to present my own. I think the error there is pretty self-explanatory. Then you tell me to "grow up". Since you are unaware of my age, I can only assume that you refer to the immaturity of my comment. I realize I'm biased here, but I just don't see any immaturity in my comment (like needless vulgarity, for example). I do know that I am mature enough to allow replies to my comments so others can disagree with me. Since you do not, let me reply here that I am glad you no longer trust the "twitchy little weirdo" and hope this means you will be commenting on other channels. Godspeed.
Allow me to reply (except to ad hominem fallacies). I never made any claims about the size of my brain or its comparison to other brains (I did note my maturity level, that's different). At no time did I ask or command you to stop commenting on this channel; I simply expressed my hope that you would not. I must object to your assumption that I "found you to one up". If you will notice, you replied to my comment first. And lastly I submit to you that you are not, as you claim, "busy". You have found the time to reply to me not once but twice. If my opinion were not important to you, then you would have ignored it from the beginning. The only other thing I can assume is that you may be trolling. I cannot make an assumption on that.
JR Ewing That seemed a little spiteful. After reading David Rye's comment he said nothing that I'm aware of that should have sparked such a remark. There's a saying I would like to try and put to use... "It is people like you, who make us look bad."
can you rename this video to "How Cannabis Works: THC" i think it empowers the whole reefer madness movement by calling it "weed" or "marijuana" since those names where made up by the DEA in the 60s to demonize cannabis use.
Give it a few more years and it will be legal just like Alcohol, only healthier (for your body anyway) my brains messed up as it is so it wouldnt make a difference to my mind.
Dawson Pellow I was just refering to how it affects your short term memory, and people with schizophrenia. But im a very forgetfull person anyway lol, i couldnt even tell you how old i am...
***** That depends how you use it, if you use it in moderation and dont depend on it, it wont be as harmfull to you in the long run, compared to someone that smokes it everyday for years.
and animals will eat the fuck out of your weed plants. I've never had any animal not eat bud that I leave on the ground for them even birds will eat it
As someone who also lives in Missoula, Hank's statement about our deer is the most accurate thing I've ever heard. We have the dopiest population of ungulates on the planet.
Hank's a stoner. "Delicious brick of marijuana"
Or he is trying to appeal to youth
+ShedGaming why tf would he want to do that
+David Juarez No, he's just fascinated with the science of the brain and how it functions, like me :)
"Brick weed" was a term from when Mexican dirt weed was prominent in North America, in the 70's. Back before the hydroponics were a thing. They would compress this shitty weed into bricks to ship them. With the stems, seeds a plenty, and anything else they could put in the bricks to weigh them down for profit.
I'm really sad they didn't shorten the video by 4 seconds.
lmao
Yup
duuuuude your dumb
clever
Hank, were you stoned when you made this? I think maybe lmfao
When this video was made, marijuana was illegal almost everywhere in the US and Hank had to be careful about the content. Only 8 years 8.5 years later, it's legal in numerous states, even recreationally, and he could probably light up on camera if he wanted. Now let's do the same thing with psilocybin, mescaline and lysergic acid.
2023 North America Cannabis is now legal in Canada, Mexico, Recreationally Legal in 23 States, and Medically Legal in 38 States. Let's keep up the momentum!
He probably couldn't just light up on camera. PBS is funded by the government, and they wouldn't be too happy with him doing that.
Careful about his content? You think it was illegal to talk about Marijuana? Or even frown upon? The TV show 'Weeds' had been a huge hit on TV for 8 years at this point.
People will go crazy bro.
@@Bossvideosify2it need to be legal in uk
its always good to learn new things
too bad i will forget this by the time i finish writing this comment .... time to activate my cannabinoid receptors one more time
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what a nub
Time to take another toke...ha ha.
What ?
Came here high af to learn. Interesting shit. Im just sitting here blazed af, and learning what its doing to me.. I love stoner shit
It seems to me that the entire time you were thinking "Wow, I'm learning scientific things. I'm gonna be so smart!" and you actually weren't focused at all on the video and didn't learn shit. Isn't that right?
***** I'm not saying that just because he is high. Look at the comment. He seems to be more amazed by the fact that he is watching an educational video than by the things he supposedly learned by it. I can bet that the entire time he was thinking "So THIS is what is happening to me right now" and when the video ended, he forgot WTF he just watched.
Rutger Jansen I see he's not the only one who's high here...lol
FUCK OFF STONERS BACK ME UP NON SMOKERS!
+Minionrulez Gt I support you ..... SIKE
I'm 100% sure That Hank was high when they recorded this
Peter Boukhalil why?
+Peter Boukhalil no i don't, because all I said was that it seemed like Hank was high when they were recording
+Walt R. Buck And he smiles a lot more often.
i was just about to comment that !
+CHANDAN DONALDSON He does live in Missoula...
I'm a frequent (legal) pot smoker and I can say from experience that the positive effects outweigh any negative effects as long as you don't use too much of it. If you use just enough to have a good time with some friends, or to knock yourself out when you can't sleep, there are hardly any negative effects. (There are none with me, but it's a little different for everyone)
Eventually you'll have to buy a larger belt and hold your breath to tie your shoes.
You will get cancer
@@marciaosullivan3200 There's no credible evidence that smoking Cannabis has any causation effect for Cancer. Everyone alive in 2019 has a pretty good shot at getting cancer no matter what they do or don't do. Modern living causes Cancer.
@@x-man5056 inhaling any smoke increases cancer rates you know it's called smokers lung for a reason
@@marciaosullivan3200 You are equating it with cigarette smoke and there is some tar in Cannabis smoke but not even the biggest Hippie can smoke 20 joints or more a day by themselves, particularly with the strength of today's weed.
The worst problem people face by extensive pot smoking is overeating and the associated weight gain.
The risk of lung cancer from smoking Cannabis is minuscule. People who've never smoked anything get lung cancer. Your fear is uninformed and irrational.
I’m a stoner can confirm weed is a wonderful thing
Im a stoner too
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I’m not a stoned, but cannot deny the therapeutic possibilities if the establishment was not so closed-minded.
Why is Friday so close to Monday but Monday so far from Friday?
+hayden coker Questions, for one's baking mind.
+hayden coker
These are the questions we need to ask ourselves.
+hayden coker Dude, you just blew my mind.
because weekends are too short man
You are too right my friend
I seriously think Hank was high for this episode. I've watched enough episodes to recognize his mannerisms.
Nick Diamond I have to agree, his mannerisms were a little more derpy in this episode lmao. I'm glad he knows how to enjoy himself
This episode was hosted by Dank Green. See what I did there xd
@Petko Ostojic
The funny thing about pot is, I'm fine with our without.
No withdrawl and i'm generally always a happy friendly dude.
I have seen people form unhealthy obsessions with it, but thats more individual character.
I have only ever smoked weed and never drink unless there's a get together.
Pretty normal life. Never made it a problem so it was never a problem. But everyone's brain chem is a little different so never know how it effects the next person. Humble enough to know I'm not everyone else ha ha
100% Agree!
Im late but lmfaooo xD
I rate this video 4/20
+Jim James Looooooool
blaze it
yoyo hdyboy
It deserves I higher score 42/0
Nahh more like 7/10?
don't you just love it when you stumble across a brick of the marijuanas
I bet Hank has smoked his fair share of good good
I can't imagine hank stoned.
Go watch some earlier videos and you'll find it a lot easier to imagine. There are a fair few videos where people comment "Is it me or is Hank high in this?" Not that it matters. Dude's free to smoke if he wants. He has Ulcerative Colitis too, so totally wouldn't blame him for using it to help with that. I did it for my Crohn's (the "sister" disease of UC) and it worked wonders. Shame my career doesn't allow for it anymore.
I don't understand how weed is illegal. It can be used medically, it's way less dangerous than alcohol and many other drugs. Oh well.
No! NOT "oh well" WE HAVE TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST THE CRIME OF NATURE! MARIJUANA KILLS CANCER DO RESEARCH!! IT KILLS IT WE NEED TO TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW!!! EVERYONE SHOULD START ADVERTISING THE FACTS MUCH MORE!!! ITS NOT A DRUG ITS A BENEFIT TO OUR HEALTH! OUR BODYS NEEDS THIS SUBSTANCE
flicky flcker You do realize that drugs that help one person with cancer may not help the next even if it is the same type of cancer.
This has to be one of my all time fave SciShow clips! So many good lines Hank!
Hilarious video. Very good job!
Hello from america
ive watched like 100 of your videos at this point and to come across this one was truly incredible! i thought i was a fan before, but now youve got a fanatic. SWED!
If it gets the bugs high, won't the bug just get, like, hungrier and eat more of the plant?
That's what happens to me when I make pot brownies.
i know this is from 9 years ago but me too bro me too
bro responded 9 years later 😭
sooo.. 420 blaze it ?
+Rapid000 TF2 シ Hehhehee.... Yah.
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...Wait, what were we talking about?
+Rapid000 TF2 シ Why didn't they cut 4 seconds off this video so it would have been 4:20? That would have been perfect! Come on Scishow!
When your high calm yourself, try not to think of something that may worry you because you could panic (it happened to me twice and it is not a fun experience) and just relax listen to some music talk with your friends play sports or whatever :)
i usualy dont remember my problems and wories when i am high xDD but what u saying is totaly true :)
U guys r just lightweight pussys
Depending on the viscosity of the oil that's secreted by marijuana, insects (like ants for example) can actually get stuck, while THC and CBDs seem to slow down the insects reaction, making them struggle less, and they then starve while stuck to said plant
The start of a carnivorous plant
If you are someone who smokes pot and is happy doing so then that's great. If it affects other things in your life, or changes your personality, then you should not smoke.
Better than I could've put it myself.
Some people can't handle alcohol, others can't handle pot.
It should change your entire life, and your personality. You go from being a semi ignorant ordinary boring person to a semi enlightened different new person. If you think you're fine the way you are, that's great but there aren't very many circumstances that mean you SHOULD NOT SMOKE. And neither of the two you listed are any of those. What if the person was an alcoholic, beat their family and used weed to calm down and quit drinking? Or there was a person that didn't like their personality, so used pot to find out what having a different one for a while feels like? There is no should or should not, there is only do or do not. And that's personal choice, whether you like a persons choice or not.
Liz Rossi Lol tell me about it, I did make a pretty generalised statement. My apologies, I should have specified "You *can* go..."
It's the same as alcohol, the only thing that makes it bad is people that don't have the self discipline to keep a level head whilst drunk. Doesn't mean drinking should be illegal, just means some people are idiots haha.
What about in your experience, do you believe cannabis has the power to improve as well as decline? I'm an artist and I swear, I have the best ideas whilst high. I will never stop endorsing weed, although I will caution against it. Like everything, it has it's negatives.
@@piratewhoisquiet you’re sounding like a hippy who gets a little too philosophical when he smokes
it changed me for the better i battled depression and anxiety a lot as a kid specially in my teens worse thing i did was to mask it i was that typical big sports guy at school who got the pretty girls i was loud and obnoxious i would find someone weaker and embarrass them in some way in front of my peers we all have a good laugh at them then that was my way hiding who i really was it got worse as i got older i was hot headed getting into fights getting kicked out of school. i started smoking weed then the first few weeks it just made me sleep a lot after a while i noticed i aint argued with anyone in a while i was more chilled and laid back i was having full convocations with people at a bus stop with people i never even met before in my life i would of never of done that before eventually i met a hole new group of friends became more kind and actually protective of people if someone was with me who didnt speak up for themselves i would jump in to protect them weed turned me into a good guy if i didnt start smoking i might even be in jail right now.
I love how, when he gets to the theories, he pretty much ends up turning it into a stand-up routine. Ahahahahaha. Genuinely funny, and thoroughly informative. This was dope.
I keep coming back to this video every few weeks, when I realize that I don't remember the content.
hank smoked some before they did this vid. great job..scishow is the best, i watch it every morning with my coffee and a joint.
You should make a new updated video since it's legal in a few states now so you don't have to be so edgy on the subject
4 seconds away from the perfect time length for this video :(
+Frainkrocks 6
+Redwan Siddik nope, 4. 4:24 - 4 = 4:20
It would have been glorious
+darksensei56 the video is 4:25
What is 420?
+David Ndiulor Google. that's all I have to say to you.
wow, I didnt know... that we didnt know... why plants make THC. but what I do know,....is that im happy that they do.
It is hard to put stuff about weed in the beginning so by explaining the problem Hank has solved it.
Hank I'm a huge fan and I am going to college right now to be a astrophysicist. I've watched all of your crash course chemistry videos and love them. So please know that I'm talking from a place of respect when I ask 'Can you do a more detailed video on this matter'. Bringing more scientific evidence to the table about all the affects of cannabis, with a more non-biased view? Please include the health benefits of it. I have a lot of friends who use it for health reasons health (such as: cancer, Crohn's disease, and PTSD) and I can say for sure that it has helped them. Thank you.
If we view ourselves as being separate from nature, of course we can't come up with a good answer as to why cannabis evolved the way that it did to contain THC.
But when we realize that we are just as a part of nature as the cannabis plant, we realize that all things work together for a reason.
Dafuq dude
Were you high when writing that?
Cody Culver I haven't smoked weed in about three years. Thanks for blindly assuming things, though. :P
Microfrog ***** It's all good I was just wondering, not trying to insult. I actually voted for the legalization of Marijuana in Washington but haven't done it myself.
Microfrog 1. THC offers protection against UV light( which is harmful for plants.)2. THC defends the plants from bugs and pests. Firstly, it makes the plant very sticky so that, when any bugs land on it, they get stuck and secondly, when bugs eat THC, they 'get high' and seem to forget they were even on a plant
3. THC produces a high in most mammals. There's two options here, either the animal doesn't like the intoxication, in which case it will stay away from the plant, or the animal does like the intoxication, eats the plant and poops its seeds out later, which enables the plant to reproduce.
4. THC is a pretty powerful antibiotic and anti-fungal substance, it protects the plant against certain diseases.
There you go, 4 answers as to why cannabis evolved the way it did.
When hank smokes a nice doobie before going on set haha 😆
Thank you SciShow! I can't believe how many people are ignoring the fact that drugs are drugs, they are not with out adverse effects. Thanks for keeping it real!
Now really this is probably just me, or maybe other people with ADD but the ability to not think is so god damn amazing.
Often when i'm finding myself not being able to sleep its because my mind and thoughts are racing at a rate that I cannot with any sort of mental fortitude shut them up. It often sounds like I'm in a busy subway, everything sounds muddied, but I know conciously that all I hear is white noise from my fan and such>
I smoke weed and it quiets down, and I don't have to think, I can just. Exist and focus.
Im so high rn
Me too brother 🥴
Are u high again
@@candiezfn7016 I'm high almost every day
@@KhanKush I needa get a job P
Me too lol
Whenever I smoke weed I start thinking about my my career and my future. People might be smoking it to relieve themselves of the worldly tensions, but seems it has the opposite effect on me. And I hate weed for that!
Random User take indica. sativa can make u more worried
Random User I have been thinking more about my life in general while high on marijuana. I realize what is wrong, and I do come up with plans to fix it. However, when I am sober, I don't do anything to fix the problems in my life. I think I need a push to get there
Yeah I also find it helps provide the motivation to make changes, plus it generally has been helping my confidence, sociability and creativity a lot lately
Turns out I get really existential, I once tried to explain to my friends for 4 hours that they were all just figments of my imagination and the entire world was just created by my brain for me haha
haha thats a fun thought process I think, I get existential like that pretty much every day anyway, I just find that drugs amplify the feeling of it
yes my good friend, as a medical maijuana patient - from chronic pain, you have a valid feature to learn from this video -one that ive never heard before an thats' saying a lot because i have done lots of research. keep it up =D
Minute 3:29 make me subscribe 😂😂 great video
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It's done wonders for my diabetes. my A1C has gone from 9 to 5.8 in a year. Not too bad, even with munchies.
totally your choice
I have 2 stainless hips and 2 ruptured rotator cuffs. The hips are at their age limit, one shoulder has been repaired. To quell this large and long term constant agony, I have been taking Rx heavy painkillers q=3. Sometimes I can vaporize an indica heavy blend with about 1.7% CBD. This can act as a replacement for the mid-day chemical Rx. Sleeping is easier, and lasts longer than the typical 3 to 4 hours...It allows me to sleep for longer time periods. This in turn means I can occasionally dream. That facet of my psyche was missing for years, since heart attack #5. There are a wide range of benefits that I personally experience, and can, as a bio-scientist inventor attest to. Besides, by getting instruction on dosing, I've actually lowered the amount needed to get to that effect.
Here in Ca I can legally partake of these benefits, merely making my life livable. High? Ha!
Aaand here's the stereotype...
Not a stereotype. It's reality. "snitch". Are you so dumb that you can mistake facts and figures with guesses by people who couldn't find their ass with both hands? I am a scientist. My machine that diagnoses TB accurately has already saved millions in India and Africa by providing an accurate diagnosis in 20 minutes. See the article called Fatal Misdiagnosis in the New Yorker 2010. I stopped that. My part of the puzzle provides fast and accurate diagnosis. Et vous?
A stereotype is not mutually exclusive with reality. You are the "weed is my medicine" stereotype. You think it solves everything with no downside (hyperbole). Et moi, j'ai créé le vaisseau spatial que nous avons utilisé aller à la lune.
What substances do I use?
snitch he never said weed solves everything he merely said it helps him with his problems with way less side effects that traditional pharmaceuticals and if you think that man made chemicals are better than a plant that's been grown and used for thousands of years well that's kinda dumb but hopefully you don't :)
It's crazy. Been watching SciShow and evening and just as I was thinking "he's a weed man", this video comes up.
So stoned while watching this video
Saaame
Weed makes me anxious 8/10 times.
F*ckin hate it because of that
Just need to learn to let it take you man
Depends on what type of weed you take
bro chill, out
You just gotta learn to like it. The first time I got really high, I was freaking out because I had no clue what the feeling was. But a couple nights ago I got stoned with my friends and we had a blast.
+Dopamine997 only people who are prescribed opiates dont want opiates lol
This video brings up a question I have not spent time thinking about in relation to THC. I have heard many debates about its use for glaucoma and cancer and its possible benefits for hospice care. But it seems like a pertinent question to answer, why does the plant make this chemical? If it's because its antibacterial and a pesticide THC could have even more benefits to medicine other than pain control and suppression of cell division. With states legalizing medical marijuana the crops are already in place to do the research for such a study. It would be miraculous if it turns out to work better for certain infections than the medications we already have. To be able to cure resistant infections would be a great leap in medicine.
Check the article on pub med central this talks about the subject www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7400265/
Gonna just...*sparks blunt*...yep. Thank you SciShow for all of my high times entertainment.
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there's little delta-9THC found in raw cannabis. In raw cannabis you'll find THC-a, which is a precursor for it, but it has to be heated to be converted to delta-9-THC. The process is called decarboxolation, so the notion that bugs, or animals will get high by eating raw cannabis is largely a fallacy.
I wish this video was 4 minutes and 20 seconds long
I may have already commented this last time I watched, but couldn't (shouldn't) you have done this video 5 seconds faster? Yes.
I've had friends grow where I live and we also have a large deer population and from their experiences we've determined that deer really like weed. It doesn't matter where you grow it in my state, deer will come. I think I has to do with weeds natural stress and pain relief, deer can become extremely stressed thanks to the large amount of hunters and everything feels pain so it just makes sense to us. So if you grow in a state with any deer population, either grow inside or get a pretty good fence.
Rabbits like it too. My rabbit throws a fit if I have clippings and he doesn't get them. Lol
Ganja and music = a great time :p
You missed the chance to make this video 4 minutes and 20 seconds long.
congrats on 4.20 mill subs
THC can only be released at a specific temperature, so eating it can't get you high... Therefore, bugs and other plant eating insects or animals, can't get high from the weed. My two cents... Tell me if I'm wrong xD
Most people will make THC butter over heat, and cook with it -- it is rare to see someone just put marijuana into a recipe.
But my understanding was that they did this because THC likes to attach itself to lipids, not because there's a temperature minimum.
yes, you are wrong. eating it gets you really high, but more thc is required and it takes longer for the effects to be noticed
yaaaa, that's what I thought too...haha
my chihuahua ata a fatass nug and was stoned for 3 days.
Well animals don't have the same brain structure that we do. So I think it's entirely possible for them to eat and feel SOMETHING.
Did anyone else think Hank was high himself while making this
felt the same ^^
Was I the only one who searched this video because I'm high an want to know how THC works?
I'did point you to this specialist where I always aquire stuffs from he's liable got Shrooms, LSD, Dmt, Microdose and more ship swiftly to anywhere,
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Hank was so baked it was unreal.
I think Hank was high when he recorded this...
it doesn't work, man.
it just does.
Random stoner thought: When a fly lands on the ceiling does it do a barrel roll or a back flip?
Barrel flip.
I get mental fog from my autoimmune disease, and weed really helps make my mind sharp. It keeps me focused and allows me to get through full sentences and ideas without stumbling or stuttering.
Also agitates my already-inflamed lungs. I'd really like to try it again when my disease is in remission.
*****
I would like to try them sometime, but I still live with family. -,-
***** It was vapor, actually. I'll try a few different things when I have the time.
What autoimmune disease causes mental fog?
Opticillusion160 Lupus in particular, but I think a few others might also. I've forgotten.
Hank, I smoke marijuana on a regular basis and I could tell you that it does not interfere with the proper function of the brain, I remember every single thing you said in the video. It only makes you forget negative thoughts, while keeping the ones that matter most. Although I agree that cannabinoids aren't the only substances that make use of cannabinoid receptors, I hate the flawed argument that that cannabinoid receptors in the brain aren't for weed because other receptors react to other drugs
I really want to know the truth about weed's effect on the brain. Can it damage the frontal lobe? Lead to schizophrenia? Contribute to a loss a brain cells?
nope
It can't cause any damage. It doesn't kill brain cells, both those myths have been debunked.
If one has a pre-existing schizophrenic disorder then smoking marijuana may cause the symptoms to come prematurely.
Marijuana does not lead to or cause schizophrenia, but it can trigger it if you have it already.
Only trigger schizophrenia. My own uncle has a very bad case of that mental disorder due to heavy use of cannabis. :) But he was quite prone to it anyways so it came as surprise to nobody.
Torguish
Yea, heavy ussage of canabis does cause your brain cells to be more lazy and you might stop being fully conscious for some time. Also, I'm not sure if it's true but, THC doesn't really leave your body like alcohol does, it says and your body will need some time to adapt itself to its new state.
I'm against the overusage we have on canabis today, but after this video I think I can accept it has a medical herb.
After all of the research I have done on the plant, the only scientifically recorded effects it has on the brain (first of all varies from person to person) are:
a) When in use it slows down reaction time, and causes memory loss. This happens to all people who are high (personally the memory loss doesnt happen for me but it is a recorded case that it does so I'm putting it on here), but once you sober up the symptoms generally go away, unless you are a heavy user because it can kill certain brain cells if you've smoked enough of it.
b) it hasnt been recorded to cause any mental disorders, although, if you already have a mental dissorder you are more prone to mental addiction, (feeling like you need it to feel better and happier)
Thats about it, though. It's definitely the more healthy drug to go for, seeing as how it doesnt have any serious long term affects on the brain. As for everything else in this world, though, moderation is key.
Just don't abuse it and everything should be fine.
"Brick weed" was a term from a time when "Mexican red hair" marijuana, (we called it "dirt weed") was prominent in North America, *in the 70's.* It wasn't the worst weed, but pretty damn close.. lol. This was back before hydroponics were a thing. They would compress this fairly shitty weed into bricks to ship them. With the stems, seeds a plenty, and anything else they could put in the bricks to weigh them down for profit. I caught the tail end of this era in the early 80's when I first tried smoking weed. It's a joke compared to today's weed. And it's not so much that it's stronger today, which it is. But we could process this shitty weed down and make hash or cherry/honey oil. Which, other than the distillates they can process today, were as strong then as they are today. I also came from a town in Northern Ontario Canada in which we had an almost limitless supply of hash from overseas. I know it was the bikers that were bringing it in, but what connections they had to get the stuff was unknown to nobody's like me... lol. It's more that the quality of it is SOO much better today. I'm 57 now and have been a casual smoker for 41 yrs. and I wouldn't change a thing. It's no different than a person having a drink after work. It has never been an issue other than other people's assumptions of the drug prior to it becoming legal.... Which really wasn't a problem for me because if someone feels they have the right to judge your character, NOT based on your actions but on their own ill-informed pre-conceived notions. Then they're not worth your time.
But you could get an once for $10.
Now at a store near you :)
Yummy =)
Gjk
Bh
Farasat Ali Sounds like youre enjoying some now? Puff puff pass!
can you talk about GREENING OUT from too much weed ! ! Please
is this the guy from the crash course videos?
No. They are twins actually, no joke. Hank and John Greene
Actually FreeCandyGuy IS joking--or just confused. This guy--Hank Green--does the science-based Crash Course videos and his brother John does the non-science-based ones. They are definitely not twins either, unless their mother had a particularly long and difficult pregnancy: they were born seven years apart. Both have Wikipedia entries if you like to look them up; John recently became a famous novelist with his book "The Fault in our Stars."
Sarcasticron
Sarcasticron is right except that they were not born seven years apart: John was born in 1977, and Hank was born in 1980.
Thank you for the correction.
Sarcasticron
And another small correction, John became a famous novelist long before TFiOS. I believe Looking for Alaska was actually his first NYT best-selling novel.
Man, the world was a different place 11 years ago, but we weren’t different people. These stable links between the past and the present comfort me.
I have really deep thoughts when im high
Im so high
the bias is very strong in this vid, regardless of how informative it is. it ignores the therapeutic benefits, and how important that is in relation to how many daeths are caused by stress (which cannabis reduces). It also assumes that memory is negatively effected by it's consumption, and that's only because the dude seems to base the dosage on a highschool kid who just found out about it. Well I was in high school one time and I played the role of the main character in my highschool play and I remembered my lines a lot better than my sober friends...But I wasn't getting hhigh to the point that your average person does,
Bro I am beyond lit. lol.. when he mentioned bugs eating plants, and then getting stoned 😂 that is so awesome
Its CANNABIS not marijuana
+William Wilson 😂
That's a classic lmfao
marijuana was the name given to it during cannabis prohibition, so yeah he's right
you just made my day
cameron Gibbs actually its hemp
3:20 That exactly describes me like every saturday night
It'd be nice if someone who is talking about Sci fi shit knew that you can only get high by burning the plant. Eating it without cooking it does not get you high.
Yea pretty pathetic how many likes this shitty video has. People are dumb sheep.
There had been studies that say if you eat enough mariguana you can get High but those amounts are immense compared to just smoking it
***** that was a myth your friend told you I used to hear it to never once got me high or in the slightest a buzz. It's not possible to get high from THC unless it's at least 2 ounces of raw weed you've ingested or cooked/heated. Also why the fk do you need $50 to buy weed? I can get a quarter(7gs) for $50 why do you just have to spend $50 lol why not just $10 if you're that desperate and actually want to get high that small and noticeable high is you thinking you're high when you're not it's your subconscious. All it does is put a stronger taste in your mouth.
linky Cat have fun eating 2 ounces compared to getting stoned of a 5chunk
***** that's some expensive shit rofl I'll never pay over $10 a g because I can get fire for cheap
Two hits in on the wake and bake and this pops up. PERFECT!
Wow. Comments here are definitely NOT from nerdfighters. I do sense a common theme however. Whenever a person says anything negative about marijuana the "pot prophets" come out of the woodwork and get quite pissy. I thought you guys were mellow. And don't get to tough with my boy Hank here or I'll start talking about emphysema (and you know you don't want that). So he's not a fellow "doobie dude". He is, however, a biochemist. He also impersonates a stoned beetle exceptionally well. Lol.
Interesting. Allow me to retort to your insightful and well-reasoned reply. You affirm the rights of a group to present their argument while telling me not to present my own. I think the error there is pretty self-explanatory. Then you tell me to "grow up". Since you are unaware of my age, I can only assume that you refer to the immaturity of my comment. I realize I'm biased here, but I just don't see any immaturity in my comment (like needless vulgarity, for example). I do know that I am mature enough to allow replies to my comments so others can disagree with me. Since you do not, let me reply here that I am glad you no longer trust the "twitchy little weirdo" and hope this means you will be commenting on other channels. Godspeed.
Allow me to reply (except to ad hominem fallacies). I never made any claims about the size of my brain or its comparison to other brains (I did note my maturity level, that's different). At no time did I ask or command you to stop commenting on this channel; I simply expressed my hope that you would not. I must object to your assumption that I "found you to one up". If you will notice, you replied to my comment first. And lastly I submit to you that you are not, as you claim, "busy". You have found the time to reply to me not once but twice. If my opinion were not important to you, then you would have ignored it from the beginning. The only other thing I can assume is that you may be trolling. I cannot make an assumption on that.
JR Ewing That seemed a little spiteful. After reading David Rye's comment he said nothing that I'm aware of that should have sparked such a remark. There's a saying I would like to try and put to use... "It is people like you, who make us look bad."
can you rename this video to "How Cannabis Works: THC" i think it empowers the whole reefer madness movement by calling it "weed" or "marijuana" since those names where made up by the DEA in the 60s to demonize cannabis use.
Edit this video 4 seconds shorter so it becomes a length of 4:20
Watching before my pre work joint
Why do y'all keep saying 4 seconds ? It's 5 seconds
The Google doc links to a page that tells me to buy more Instagram followers instead of references for the video.
facebook.com/Whiskey_shop7-106691448044263/
I can't eat a baseball
I love watching Hank Green talk about weed
he looks high to me
Am I the only one translate Weed into Grass?
the video is 5 seconds too long
Saying hi from Bozeman! :) your vids helped me out a lot when I was in college.
Give it a few more years and it will be legal just like Alcohol, only healthier (for your body anyway) my brains messed up as it is so it wouldnt make a difference to my mind.
it doesnt mess your brain up anyway take that from me i was top of my math class
Dawson Pellow I was just refering to how it affects your short term memory, and people with schizophrenia.
But im a very forgetfull person anyway lol, i couldnt even tell you how old i am...
***** That depends how you use it, if you use it in moderation and dont depend on it, it wont be as harmfull to you in the long run, compared to someone that smokes it everyday for years.
***** not more than alcohol, but some things, yes
and animals will eat the fuck out of your weed plants. I've never had any animal not eat bud that I leave on the ground for them even birds will eat it
Hemp seed´s are a commen use in bird´s food.
im so high right now
Love weed. I don't get anxious with the strain I have, and instead become incredibly relaxed. It's soooo nice.
As someone who also lives in Missoula, Hank's statement about our deer is the most accurate thing I've ever heard. We have the dopiest population of ungulates on the planet.
Ah, many hrs or yrs later, a refresher... will be back soon again
Hank the deer are pretty bad in your home town as well bud. Love the videos you do man.
"Eating Cheetos outside of a 711 at 2Am" hahahahaha true story
good video man. informative and truthful
Oh early sci show. How I love thee.
Hank is completely blazed in this
Ahh… Michael Pollan is fantastic!
👍🏽👍🏽 Great reference.
Hank is the cutest nerd ever... I'd love to chill with him.