Marijuana Sanitation ?!

Marijuana is touched by human hands. It is trimmed, manicured, dried, bagged, resold, bagged again, and finally packed into a bowl by a friend. In fact there are probably at least 4 strangers hands that have touched every bud in the sack you bought. Now, if you grow your own like most of us here, you had friends help you trim or perhaps only touched by you through the whole process. Either way...did you wash your hands? Did your friends wash their hands?
Or, if you are like me and regularly buy from marijuana dispensaries then it is very possible that dozens of hands have inspected and touched the marijuana you will smoke. Is sanitation important at all when it comes to our buds? While 90% of people claim they wash their hands after using the restroom, surveys have shown that with Men only 33% wash their hands after using the restroom. While, 88% of women actually wash their hands.

In the food industry, like namely fast food, there are strict regulations on hand washing that is usually enforced by inspectors.... depends on your state of course... California is pretty good with inspections. When we go to say McDs I am pretty confident that they use their hand washing station often as required. But what about our marijuana? Are we passing around illness's with buds? And since marijuana is so poorly researched, has there ever been actual studies on the amount of bacteria on an given bud? Certainly we have all seen the pictures of cell phone surfaces covered in bacteria..... interesting

theres strict regulations in other resturants too

ill give you an odd fact
did you know that hair salons and spas are visited more often by the health department than abortion clinics or other private health offices?

i used to hang my girls in the bathroom,then I thought about it.......

I've learned to use gloves, cuz I hate tryin' to get that "sticky" off my fingers .....and slowbus, it depends on how clean your bathroom is

IMHO if you are smokin or vaping, the process involves enough heat to kill any nasties that you might run into. That is as long as you don't share a doobie with a drooling HIV positive pal. After all, even hospitals burn biopsies and hazardous materials. & be kind.

So I shouldn't fart in my curing jars?

sunni said:

theres strict regulations in other resturants too

ill give you an odd fact
did you know that hair salons and spas are visited more often by the health department than abortion clinics or other private health offices?

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Why? Chemical disposal like for hair dyes and bleach or something?

JohnnyGreenfingers said:

Why? Chemical disposal like for hair dyes and bleach or something?

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no more because of the tools for nails you need a lot of disposable tools like nail files, clippers ect
for hair its more of making sure if you cut yourself with your scissors or someone else
than theres scalp disorders and making sure all tools are properly sanitized before used on someone else if theyre not disposable such as combs, scissors, hairpins

Fungus Gnat said:

So I shouldn't fart in my curing jars?

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Your pot smells funny. Now I know why. Oh, by the way, cancel my order.

little butch said:

IMHO if you are smokin or vaping, the process involves enough heat to kill any nasties that you might run into. That is as long as you don't share a doobie with a drooling HIV positive pal. After all, even hospitals burn biopsies and hazardous materials. & be kind.

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Absolutely heat kills any thing that could hurt you. But, did you heat up the bomb chronic you broke open and smelled with your nose? I do it all the time... break open that super bomb nug and take in the beauty of the dankness... but is there now other peoples bacteria and shit all over my fingers and possible up my nose?

Door knobs in public places must freak you out.

keep yer filthy dick beaters off my Ganja.

Oh, and I'm the only one handling my Ganja so I'm not overly concerned.

Edit: 420God, escalators are some of the filthiest things you can touch. soooo nasty

I'm pretty sure inhaling a combusted substance into your lungs is gonna kill you before a little germ does.

Not to be fear mongering, but the OP does have a point.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bodyhorrors/2012/09/13/marijuana-salmonella/#.UpDQu8TIWzE

From the article:
This wasn’t a food-borne but a marijuana-borne outbreak.
Laboratory tests of the marijuana in question found staggering quantities of the bacteria on the drug, in some instances as high as 107 or ten million bacteria per gram of bud. Investigators found that the green stuff had reached its way across the country from California to Massachusetts, concomitantly spreading the S. muenchen outbreak.
How did the Salmonella end up in the skunk?

kinetic said:

keep yer filthy dick beaters off my Ganja.

Oh, and I'm the only one handling my Ganja so I'm not overly concerned.

Edit: 420God, escalators are some of the filthiest things you can touch. soooo nasty

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I try not to touch the rails. I use a key or something to push elevator buttons.

Nitegazer said:

Not to be fear mongering, but the OP does have a point.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bodyhorrors/2012/09/13/marijuana-salmonella/#.UpDQu8TIWzE

From the article:
This wasn’t a food-borne but a marijuana-borne outbreak.
Laboratory tests of the marijuana in question found staggering quantities of the bacteria on the drug, in some instances as high as 107 or ten million bacteria per gram of bud. Investigators found that the green stuff had reached its way across the country from California to Massachusetts, concomitantly spreading the S. muenchen outbreak.
How did the Salmonella end up in the skunk?

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"Investigators determined that the marijuana was imported from either Jamaica or Colombia and distributors there seem to have deliberately adulterated the product with manure prior to shipment so as to increase its weight and, in turn, raise its consumer costs (2). Not only were people falling ill from their illicit drug, but they were also paying more for less"

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"Investigators determined that the marijuana was imported from either Jamaica or Colombia and distributors there seem to have deliberately adulterated the product with manure prior to shipment so as to increase its weight and, in turn, raise its consumer costs (2). Not only were people falling ill from their illicit drug, but they were also paying more for less"

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For me the article points out that vaporization/combustion does not eliminate the risks posed by bacteria. True, manure is pretty heavy duty contamination, but it is not true that bacterially contaminated bud is harmless.

...and remember that stat on bathroom hand-washing?

like the strain dogshit. I don't get it. What kind of marketing is that? "Yo man, I gots tha dogshit, hit it bro" "uhhh no thanks, I'll stick to my jedi kush"

The time inbetween puffing is worse IMO, just the atmosphere around you is full noxious chemicals spewing from every machine running, not to mention the friends you're toking with or the state in which your smoking device sits.
There is something to be said about basic hygene and I can see your point about that.
I use latex free gloves when trimming.

420God said:

Door knobs in public places must freak you out.

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LOL I'm a female raised in the 50's and 60's. I could never understand this equality shit. I did not WANT fucking equality. When I grew up any random male stranger would take a fucking bullet for me. Now, unless I take a well trained hub, I could stand at a door for hours until someone opened it for me!

As for the bacteria, meh, I'm worried about the prions, fuck bacteria, my commensals will kick their asses.