I'm vegan and gave never partook....could I get my tofu in the THC chamber to calm it down? Its for a friend.
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2025
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I know it's a meme, but thc is toxic to many animals including lobster as their liver can't process the chemical. They will get the high but because they can't absorb thc these animals will become suffocated.
Poor guy ๐
"I need $5000 to get a lobster high as fuck."
"Why?"
"Science."
"Baked lobster"
Twice baked
Bruh
Top.
You win.
"It's important to note that special care must be taken to ensure that the vapor generation and delivery system has absolutely no leaks, because otherwise... What were we talking about again? In conclusion, lobster is very tasty, especially served with butter."
Cannabis basted lobster.
Sir, could you repeat that. It is very hard to hear what your saying when the vapour delivery system is on your head.
"Ah sayd pass meh teh pizza!"
I need to read the paper that resulted from this experiment.
A restaurateur proposed that exposing lobster to cannabis smoke reduces anxiety and pain during the cooking process.
I love science
Don't get me wrong, I love science too. But also, "only minimal anti-nociceptive effect of THC exposure was confirmed."
aka
"it turns out getting lobsters high doesnt really make them that much more chill about being boiled alive..."
So like, good on them for trying but like, whats the goal here even anyway? To ease our guilt about the whole having to kill something to eat it thing? Is it really that much better if the thing was high and didnt really know it was dying? IDK this has some pretty deep ethical holes to fall into if we're not careful. We should also all definitely be high while we discuss this...
I have experimented on myself quite a bit with THC. It isn't a pain reliever in my experience. I have had a headache or body pain, used some, and then I was just like "fuck, that's all I can think about now."
It's great to distract from general malaise or boredom, but won't help if anything painful is actually happening.
Conversely, I'm a medical user exclusively for pain. I take 50mg twice a day and have very little effect on the mind but it stops my pain nearly completely.
that's awesome! I'm glad it is helping you ease your pain. It helps a lot with my anxiety and sleeping, but I'm a weirdo and I'm in my head a lot, so even if I'm super deep it doesn't shut off that part of my brain.
I do imagine if I was being boiled alive it would still hurt a lot, but I'd prefer to be on some strong edibles if that "had" to happen.
Yeah especially because countries like Switzerland and New Zealand have banned the practice.
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/switzerland-lobster-boiling-banned
Restaurants can use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrustaStun for the most humane option
Why? Aren't they basically sea bugs?
Whether or not they feel pain is a huge ongoing debate
Yes, they are, but why not minimize any possible pain? They're not going to taste any different.
The way to go is oysters. They have no pain receptors or even a cluster of nerves that could be considered a rudimentary brain. You can eat them still alive (raw on the half shell) and they're none the wiser.
Some people ask "why are you hotboxing a lobster?"
Others ask why not. Others dare to wonder, to dream.
Science isn't about why, it's about why not?
I'm wondering how I become this lobster....
Srs it's probably time to rethink one's interest in science when you get to this point.
Here comes a stingray
There goes a manta ray
In walked a jellyfish
There goes a dogfish
Chased by a catfish
In flew a sea robin
Watch out for that piranha
There goes a narwhal
Here comes a bikini whale
Rock lobster
Rock lobster
Rock lobster
Lots of bubbles
(oooh waaaahh)
Lots of trouble
(oooh waaahh)
Leon is getting high
R.I.P
Aww this is how I learn? Sad times indeed, but at least that lobster lived 3.5 years longer than if anyone other than Brady took him
It was an epic saga, Leon will be missed.
Anyone have the details behind this experiment?
We get it. You vape. Lobsters. For science.
Wait can I go in there when the lobster is done?
Dude certainly prefers the bong to the wok.