Spyke
lemmy.ca

Another example of how America’s war on drugs was won by drugs.

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lemmy.world

Meanwhile, in weed land, our heroes embark on a quest for the great 1/8 in many countries.

It’s hard to walk up to a counter and ask for 3 point 5 of weed.

Edit: just an observation, I’m on team metric. Call weed whatever you want as long as around here we keep calling it legal.

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In slang sure, but every dispensary website I've seen lists them as 3.5g, 7g etc

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lemmy.world

Don’t care about the weed. The projectile bullet is probably 115 or 124 “grains” of lead in a copper jacket.

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Pretty sure bullets are copper jacketed weed nuggets. Grain is a measurement of how seedy the weed is, and hence how much damage it does. 115 grain means it's a weed nugget with the weight of 115 seeds being fired.

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Once you learn that 1/8 == 3.5g it's a slippery slope to:

  • 1 oz == 28.3 grams
  • 1 kg == 2.2 pounds

Slangin sacks without the metric system? Not even once.

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Americans should use the Metric system the way Canadians do:

Temperature: Celsius. Unless it's for cooking, or you're talking about the temperature of a pool.

Length: Metric. Unless it's talking about a person's height. Or, you're talking about lumber.

Mass / Weight: Pounds. Unless you're talking small weights, then you use grams. If you're shopping, it's 50/50. If it's really big weights it's "tons" which might be metric or might not.

Volume: Metric. Except if you're cooking. But, then when you're cooking you have to figure out what a fl. oz. is because Canadian cans are in mL but the recipe is flozzameters.

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