Can you get high off of second hand marijuana (weed) smoke?
Yes you can.It will not be nearly as high as actually smoking but definitely if there is smoke that is being smoked and you are near, even a little bit can give you some mild effect.I was eating at a restaurant in Bakersfield, CA when someone outside started smoking and definitely noticed a high of sorts creep in. Very little.But basically when someone exhales smoke there is still THC in that smoke, so that could get you buzzed. If someone just lets the smoke evaporate and spread, plenty of weed smoke in there to inhale.The fact is if you live with anyone smoking in their room while they are there and you are there, you are probably getting a little bit high.The “no” answers are incorrect, as I’ve gotten secondhand high numerous times. Like I said, it’s a small amount, but it’s not at 0%.In fact, I’ve been in public places and people nearby smoked. Yes, I got a little bit. Now, I’ve smoked hundreds of times, and I know what being high feels like very very well. I know every corner of it and how it works. So, no I can’t say 5 seconds of secondhand inhalation will get you really high, but from my experience, there will be THC entering you, and thus having a slight effect. I’d say for 5 seconds of secondhand smoke, you may get 1/300th high of smoking a full joint…so not a whole lot.But if you spend say 10 minutes around secondhand smoke, with lots of burning smoke not just exhalation, you will likely get buzzed, but it will be in a mild way and not like the same experience as smoking, but in a half assed sort of way.Even a quick whiff of secondhand smoke to me when someone in public smokes and I walk by and forcibly get some of the air, I do feel a little bit of THC enter my head.
What is it about the marijuana industry that makes it a booming business?
I work with a number of cannabis-industry clients in Maine, which recently legalized recreational usage and retail sale. The thing that a lot of people don’t realize about the marijuana “industry” is that it is not one industry, it is many. So, so many service industries are involved in various ways with cannabis. A short sampling of people I’ve met in Maine:a professional installer of building insulation who sees increasing work from growing operations (they tend to be very energy-inefficient, so they’re all hiring people to install insulation)gardening supply firms/nurseries (obviously)hardware companies that make various growing technology, from lights to humidifiers to XYZinnovative payments companies that find ways to transfer money from consumers to retailers without implicating the federal banking systemcatering companies (it turns out that a lot of people like to tell their wedding guests that they’ll be serving cannabis-infused vodka at their weddings, which means caterers are getting cannabis licenses to go along with their liquor licenses)insurance companies that insure cannabis firmscompanies that make ediblescompanies that make topicals (salves, balms, creams etc.)angel investors who want to add cannabis firms to diversify their portfolioslawyers who help the businessescredit unions who finance them (tends to be credit unions rather than banks)misc. consultantsmarketing firmslocal restaurants, hotels and other businesses that stand to benefit from cannabis tourism (people who travel to Maine from Quebec, Mass., New Hampshire, NYC to spend a weekend hanging out and sampling local cannabis; they spend dollars locally just like other tourists)local growers who sell wholesale to retailersand, of course, the retailers themselvesmany, many more