// Definition
The health risk posed by inhaling pesticide residues through smoking or vaporizing cannabis, which is fundamentally different from dietary exposure. Agrochemicals registered for food crops assume washing and oral ingestion, not combustion and lung absorption.
// From the Episode
Extensive discussion led by Mark Scialdone about how azole fungicides and other pesticides have low mammalian toxicity when ingested orally, but none are registered for use on products that will be heated and inhaled. Cannabis resin acts as a 'sponge' absorbing anything it contacts. Pesticides applied to foods assume the product will be washed first, which cannabis never is. Concentrated extracts further amplify pesticide levels.
// Source
Ep. 066 Hash Church LXVI 66 →