Pot for seasickness

[pugwash]

Pot's supposed to be good for seasickness (according to Chris Robb's daughter in his post a while back) but who'd risk having their boat impounded? I've heard the same from friends in NZ.

Now that we're living in more so-called enlightened times, who's going to try it and give the rest of us an unbiased report?

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[jhr]

I don't know if it helps seasickness although there is a lengthy history of effective use in controlling nausea for people undergoing radio- or chemotherapy.

Even if it doesn't help, it no doubt allows you to appreciate fully the natural beauty and elegance of the seasickness experience and its place in the universe, though I shudder to think how it must feel to undergo, simultaneously, attacks of Mal de Mer and Munchies. /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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[LadyInBed]

A truly technicolored yawn.

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[longjohnsilver]

Cor I thort you were talking about a big communal sea sick pot, bit like a nautical spitoon!

Glad I was wrong. /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[billmacfarlane]

Might be good for mal de mar but it wouldn't half play Hell with my navigation.

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[Fin]

I just use a bucket

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[ParaHandy]

Re: the weed

sadly a cure not available north of the border, i hear. the unenlightened plods over there still take a dim view ....

some scientist might invent a strain hardy enough to grow on my hull? would make cleaning it a pleasure ...

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[RupertW]

Used to work for me when I was in my teens and twenties on my dad's boat. I'd get the munchies even when seasick, and be relaxed when things got difficult. I'd never sail cross-channel without some weed in my rucksack, for emergencies.

Looking back, I think it was the ability (and need) to eat that cured the seasickness. Funnily enough, though, I've rarely been seasick since the time I bought my first boat off my father and started skippering, even though it's been 20 years since I had a spliff while sailing. Nor do I have the twitchy young reflexes that needed calming down.

Perhaps I should go for cocaine now to speed me up???



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[TheBoatman]

1/2 a bottle of a good single malt will have the same effect, without the same penalties?

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[Talbot]

Tobacco is well known to make sea sickness worse, therefore the percentage of weed would have to be rigourly tested to prove the correct ratio - any volunteers /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

Alcohol is supposed to be even worse!

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[robp]

But just think how cool those charts would look man!

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[mickshep]

Excellent dude, Take one admiralty size chart, 4lb of best weed 'n' build the worlds biggest spliff. reversing the long keeler out of the berth might be a little harder but hey, even the collisions would seem funny. Naah! think I'll give it a miss. On the other hand, get the Gov' to recognise it as an official cure and therefore legal (on boats) and we could import it by the bale. Then get new, bigger boat (with hold) at end of year. Mike.


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[Chris_Robb]

Shssssssss

I'm going to have to change my login!
Tested again this summer - again a really good success on first sail of the season. Never tried it personnaly though. I thought of making some ginger nut biscuits with it in to feed to SWMBO as she really suffers (and won't smoke it - although she did in here youth)


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[pugwash]

Cookies for a trip

Hashish and ginger cookies -- now there's a notion to conjure with!

I never tried pot in any shape or form myself, perhaps too stick-necked after trying (with mixed success) to persuade four kids to leave it alone.

But I'd be interested to know from your observation whether the stuff also induces a 'don't care' attitude. Can your "stoned" crew member still be trusted to take the helm and do important stuff, or is she un-sick but out of it?

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[Chris_Robb]

Re: Cookies for a trip

She takes a very weak dose - and it doesn't appear that she is affected in anyway. Certainly last time, she helped reef - which is out on deck by the mast the old fashioned way. I still think that there is a huge amount of phsicology involved in seasickness. - When I sail on other peoples boats - I am nearly always seasick on the first night. On my own boat - never.

I tried it once a couple of years back - spent the strangest of nights having a total out of body experiance - and looking down at myself. - It was horrible - I have absolutely no wish to try it ever again. I'll stick to the alcohol - which is proven to ruin just about every organ in your body!



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[pugwash]

Eat or smoke?

This started off as a bit of a joke on my part after I read a lot of old posts on seasickness and came across yours. Now I am genuinely interested.

I usually smoke my pipe when I'm sailing by myself, the only place where my family lets me get away with it, so I wonder what effect a bit of weed mixed with the tobacco might have? I wouldn't try it without some trusted friend looking over my shouler, though.

If it turned out that you could stave off seasickness by baking a few ginger cookies with things added, at home before the voyage, what a great advance that would turn out to be. And there'd be no awkward questions from Customs unless you made the mistake of offering them around. It's tempting to try it out, at least. Anybody got any hash biscuit recipies?

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[pugwash]

Eat or smoke?

This started off as a bit of a joke on my part after I read a lot of old posts on seasickness and came across yours. Now I am genuinely interested.

I usually smoke my pipe when I'm sailing by myself, the only place where my family lets me get away with it, so I wonder what effect a bit of weed mixed with the tobacco might have? I wouldn't try it without some trusted friend looking over my shouler, though.

If it turned out that you could stave off seasickness by baking a few ginger cookies with things added, at home before the voyage, what a great advance that would turn out to be. And there'd be no awkward questions from Customs unless you made the mistake of offering them around. It's tempting to try it out, at least. Anybody got any hash biscuit recipies?

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[Chris_Robb]

Re: Eat or smoke?

Apparently - if pot is ingested rather than smoked you need only about 1/4 of the amount for the same effect. Its not knowing the quantities that has stopped me experimenting. As you said - put that in your pipe and smoke it.



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[duncan]

Re: Eat or smoke?

spot on - ginger cookies plus have all bases covered!

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[pugwash]

Grass cookies the answer ?

Emboldened by these posts, I just e-mailed my son Jack, now 27, to ask his advice on whether to cure my seasickness by cooking the stuff or smoking it. For the benefit of this forum, here is what he replied --

Well it just so happens that as a teen I conducted exhaustive research into said subject.

Some of my mates still smoke a little from time to time so I can get you some without a problem. Also, since you're enjoying it on international waters, you can't get in trouble!

The trick to using weed or hash on food is to fry it very gently in butter. The THC gets soaked up by the butter, which changes colour. Then pick out the buds and stalks and pour the butter into a tub to cool. All you have to do is use that prepared butter when you cook. You can even spread it on toast if you want.

HOWEVER, and this is VERY important, for "more effective" also read "stronger" - especially if its good gear. You'll find that because you've eaten it and not smoked it, it takes longer to work its way into your bloodstream, and because the cookies are quite nice, you'll probably have eaten more than one in the time it takes to work. So what might actually happen is you'll have too much, then end up feeling far too stoned to sail. Also when you eat it, nothing happens for ages, then it wallops you all of a sudden in one go. When you smoke it, you can control it a little more - take a puff every so often and put the joint (or your pipe?) down again.

When I was on the train from San Fran to New Orleans, I sat next to a baker on his way to Florida who had about 6 dozen massive cookies made with grass. We got on very well and he gave most of them to me. I didn't have any money for food, and it was a three day journey, so found that I'd get hungry, have a cookie, get stoned, which would then give me the munchies (pot makes you crave snacks and sugar), then I'd have to have another cookie. I got caught in a sort of vicious circle and arrived in Alabama looking rather green about the gills!

What that baker said he usually does is work on a ratio of about 0.1g of gear per cookie. That way you can have a couple without being knocked out. If I was you though, I'd try them out at home first on a lazy sunday afternoon in spring, or at least make sure you're moored before your inaugural experiment... (or you may find yourself a bit clumsy with the old navigation).

Having said that, it's great fun when you're in the mood and don't have anything important to do. A giggly captain pugwash? What will the guys on scuttlebut think?

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