> About the only downside to weed is you gotta smoke it unless you process it first and making edibles or an infusion with a sous vide is not very difficult at all.

Yep -- I don't even consider this an issue since it's very easy to get edibles as a consumer. For example, you can get marijuana-infused candies and tongue drops from pretty much any big dispensary for a pretty reasonable (sometimes better) THC+CDB/cost ratio.

Smoking and vaping marijuana (flower, dabs, oil, etc.) is known to be pretty bad for you, but edibles bypass that negative altogether.

Sousweed eds are also more potent than store bought ones [1], and deliver more effect that smoking the source. Given I live in a legal state and enjoy cooking, especially experimental cooking, I'm considering very small-scale distributing in 2020.

[1]: IMO, I use top-shelf for my eds; generic ones are probably a lot of shwag, and the "mg THC" ratings are incredibly inconsistent.

Largely matches my experience. I make infusions and usually have to cut it quite a bit before sharing, otherwise people get entirely too baked too quickly.

I enjoy crafting more than consuming so I tend to have way more than I can consume and give most of it away.

i had shoulder surgery in April of this year. I react poorly to opiates - primarily digestive problems ("heroin makes you constipated", as Trainspotting said) but also it just makes me feel awful. Shoulder surgery is pretty painful to recover from; without weed I'd have been in a much worse place. But also, I leave near a decriminalized state, so obtaining edibles is easy.

Vaporization (heating the flowers to ~200C) is also effective and less harmful than burning.

I do prefer vaping to burning, but still enters your lungs to questionable effect and also makes me cough, though not as much. I'd far rather just have a shot of infused tequila.