Okay this might sound ridiculous but hear me out. I'm not saying it is, nor suggesting it is. I always hear people talk about the half life of it though in regards to drug tests and how long it stays in your body(Same goes for *unmentionables*). I've only ever heard half-lives be in reference to radioactive decay in high-school chemistry. So, is it radioactive and just not harmful? Or does half-life just represent the rate of decay of a substance, such as how fast our bodies break it down? I guess if it was radioactive the decay would occur even if it weren't ingested, so our weed would get less and less potent as it aged, right? Any answers/help understanding this would be very appreciated! Sorry if this is in the wrong section by the way, I just kinda figured this is science related.
well technically everything is slightly radioactive but no cannabis is not any more radioactive then any thing else
Thanks haha! I try! I was pretty certain no one would call it safe if it was [dangerously] radioactive, but my curiosity just made me ask.
Half life can refer to a lot of things. Half life is simply the time a specific thing takes to decay in half. In the case of drugs, the ammount of time it takes for half the drug to be gone -Yuri
I feel like using the term "half-life" for the exiting of drug metabolites from the body is not quite right. The metabolite isn't decaying inside your body, it's just being excreted after a certain period of time. I would measure the tendency of the body to retain a certain substance by the time until the substance is below detection level (mostly excreted).