If a planting pot catches fire, people nearby, intoxicated


Yes, in theory. A person may feel the effects of substance that generates the "cheap", delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), just inhaling the substance, provided it is in a minimally effective dose, which will depend on each individual and the concentration of THC in the plant. But in practice, one near a crop not feel the effects of the smoke, because the concentration of THC would already be low until the smoke to reach neighbors.
"In order smoked a small amount of smoke inhaled can produce effects, whereas in the form of inhalation exposure (indoors) the amount of smoke required to produce significant effects should be much higher," explains Lucas Maia, Maconhabrás researcher, group scientific studies on marijuana, the Brazilian Center for Information on Psychotropic Drugs (Cebrid), the Federal University of Sao Paulo.
It is the flower of the Cannabis spp that THC is in higher concentration. So let us imagine that planting is in flowering stage, at which there is a higher amount of THC. In the plant, the substance is in the form of oil, which would turn gas on contact with the high temperatures. But the rise with the smoke and away from heat, THC precipitate and return to the solid state, in the form of oil, explains Maia. "The smoke would reach a nearby population would be deprived of a high concentration of THC, so that hardly smoke inhalation this could have psychoactive effects," he explains.
In addition, the smoke would be too crowded and the vapors of waste cellulose and leaf blight and stalk. "So close to the place of burning, will probably be very difficult to inhale this smoke without coughing and get it sufficient concentration to intoxicate" explains Renato Malcher Lopes, a professor and researcher in Neurobiology and Behavior Laboratory at the University of Brasilia (UNB) . Whereas the person to move away enough to avoid the annoying content of the smoke, will also move away from the vapors of the active ingredients. To give to feel the effects of the active ingredients, but one would have to breathe enough of that gas solution and be willing to smoke during the process. "And yet, as the dosage will be obtained gradually over supposedly a significantly longer time period than normal, perhaps the cannabinoids accumulation in the blood does not get to be enough for both"