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In the past I have made a point of doing AOC in a language I didn't know or was planning to learn. Maybe rust this year...?

Yeah I didn't mention that in the interest of brevity. Decarb is definitely necessary.

Spraying is easy Yes, but getting the distillate to do it with is more complicated. You need to basically do the same process by either emulating it by infusing alcohol, or buy distillate outright which is much harder to find. My guess is a lot of these fake eibles actually exist in legal states, where distillate can be found easily. These fake products rely on the consumer being unaware of the fakeness, overstating the dosage (300mg) and under dosing the actual edibles by diluting the distillate spray to reduce costs.

1. No-one cares to enforce this. As always, it's usually a gray-area at best. It's not going to win any votes.

2. It would just lead to other work arounds.

THC infused foods are actually quite simple to make, and no spraying is needed.

THC is fat soluble so at the most basic level, infusing butter with cannabis flower will yield cannabutter which can then be used as a substitute for butter in just about any dish eg. The classic pot brownies you hear of.

The only complexity is dosing, which can be somewhat estimated if you can guess the potency of the flower. It's all a bit back of the napkin math, but you can get a decent estimate. One of my side projects (learning Vue.js) was a edible calculator for doing just this: http://www.scientificedibles.com

I suspect it will be a tough job to get rid of these. You can go on Ali express or similar and you will find thousands of sellers selling packaging for every imaginable brand.

It's a bit of a plague, since the way this works is that black market sellers will buy fake packaging and normal candies that match. They will then spray them with THC distillate, and package them in the fake branded packaging.

Each pack is typically marked with a dosage (usually 300mg or higher). Of course, the people making these have absolutely no idea how strong they are. Cursory analysis online showed that typically such a pack would have less than 30mg of THC. This then leads to second order effects such as when consumers become accustomed to "eating 300mg" and then try and eat a correctly dosed edible for the same amount. This can be very unpleasant, a typical dose for a single person is 10mg.

The 75k number has always felt to me like a complete fabrication. While I agree that wellbeing is not exactly correlated to money (eg. Health problems etc), there is almost no case that I can think of where it doesn't improve it dramatically. I think the thing that is often missed is not that having a lot of money is good of itself, rather that having money gives you freedom. You have the ability to control your time like others don't, and choose that which fulfills you. Will your life be perfect, almost certainly not, but I'd wager it has a higher probability of being better than if you were poorer. 75k is not going to buy you any meaningful freedom, even if it will keep you out of objective poverty.

I am interested in the long term effects you describe. It's quite commonly known that there are consequences such as HPPD etc, however this is usually quite immediate. Any specific examples you can provide?

I have felt the same thing for some time. With the rise of automation I expect this separation to get even worse. You, can't help but think that now might be the last chance to get on the right side, lest you get left behind in "digital serfdom".

It's a fair point, though when reading many of these kinds of posts you see that usually the person has an "in" already in that particular niche.

I'm always curious how do people come up with these ideas. I assume that to be in a position to make something like this you need to have a very good understanding of the problem space.

As tech people i often feel that while we may have an advantage in being able to execute, finding a problem can be quite tricky if all you know is IT!

I too have noticed this when I tried an edible. An almost imperceptible high that occurred for a few minutes just after ingestion. However this should be impossible as the time taken to metabolize THC is typically an hour or two.

My only guess is that some of the THC is absorbed orally, but in a small quantity. That might explain the high feeling. Can't say I would know what the mechanism for this is, just a guess.

I hope you don't get Type 1 then...

Interesting data, though I have to say consistency of MDMA/Ecstasy usage makes me pause for thought. My understanding was that while (assuming purity and correct dosage) MDMA is relatively safe, repetitive use over a long period of time can lead to issues with a person's seratonin system?

My experience is far below that of the author, however in general I figured that it was safest to stick to a general list of rules. This goes for everything including alcohol. For me at least these were:

1. Don't consume anything by yourself, especially at home.

2. If you are in a sad mood or similar, think twice before taking anything. Are you doing this to avoid a problem in your life?

3. If you are to take something, make sure you understand what it is, what the dose is, and what the side effects and risks are.

4. Avoid anything with a high possibility of addiction or damage to health.

For me this has pretty much resulted in only ever trying: Alcohol, Weed (edible form preferably) and once or twice Psychadelics. Alcohol is a strange one, since it is objectively quite dangerous but very socially acceptable. In this case keeping an eye on how frequently you drink is important.

Though I've been offered coke, or MDMA or similar, I have always refused for the above reasons. Maybe it's possible these things can be safely taken / moderated, but having seen people take these and long term go off the rails, it does not seem like a worthwhile risk.

I'd definitely appreciate seeing something like that too. After a couple of "build it first" failures I've come to see the wisdom in finding your customers and validating your idea first.

I've read several of these SaaS walkthroughs and it invariably seems to follow this pattern:

1. Author has a blog with a large following on some topic.

2. Finds niche in that topic.

3. Makes a product and pushes it via their blog.

4. "Incredibly" their product gets tons of customers.

This looks great! I made something similar for crypto back in the day, though it was much smaller.

Can I ask what tech stack you used?

While I was offered LSD before, I could never shake the feeling that somehow this was "doing drugs" and therefore wrong. Objectively I could sense that this didn't quite follow logically, but I guess it is hard to shake the conditioning? Anyone else felt this?