Bethenny Frankel to Launch "Skinnygirl Marijuana," a Strain of Pot That Won't Cause the Munchies!

[KamaAina]

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/usweekly/article/Bethenny-Frankel-Planning-to-Launch-Skinnygirl-6017864.php

A stoner’s dream come true! Bethenny Frankel’s Skinnygirl empire will soon be capable of supplying customers with the chillest night ever. The Real Housewives of New York City star plans to launch her own line of “Skinnygirl marijuana" in Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington, where recreational cannabis is legal, sources reveal exclusively in the new issue of Us Weekly.

“It will be a specially engineered strain of pot designed to not give you the munchies,” an insider close to the Skinnygirl cocktails creator, 44, tells Us. “She read about how profitable the cannabis industry is and wants to get in on that.”

“OMG it's the craziest thing to see marijuana legal in Aspen. People walking into pot stores like it's the @Gap #prohibitiondone,” the former talk show host and entrepreneur tweeted on Dec. 20.

And, according to sources, Frankel is in need of a chill-out sesh when it comes to dealing with her divorce from estranged husband Jason Hoppy. “Jason turned down a $3 million settlement offer because he wanted more,” an insider tells Us. “Their divorce has gotten nasty.”

Guys, she's single!

[olddots]

1. a good reason to not get high

Is this Bethany Frankel being .

[Jamaal510]

2. I can't hate

on her for trying to get extra bread (no pun intended), but when you think about it, when was the last time you've seen an obese stoner?

[Tobin S.]

3. I've known fat guys who smoke weed.

It's when you throw in things like cocaine and heroin that people stop worrying about food.

[lame54]

4. I'm dumping my Oreo stock

[jmowreader]

5. Is this marijuana going to be THC-free?

Pot is a somewhat unique psychoactive drug in that your body metabolizes it twice.*

In the marijuana plant you find not THC but "THC-carboxylic acid" - THC-COOH. This isn't psychoactive. You can prove this yourself, if you have some weed on hand: put some marijuana in a bowl, pour salad dressing on it and chow down.

When you sufficiently heat marijuana (most people either cook it or set it on fire and inhale the smoke) the cannabinoid in the leaf decarboxylates and leaves you with THC. The psychoactivity of this compound is the reason you use pot.

Once the THC enters your body, its first metabolic phase is to become 11-OH-THC starting mere minutes after you ingest THC. THIS is the shit that gives you the munchies, which is why there's a little bit of a delay between you taking a hit and you eating everything in the fridge. I seem also to recall this is what causes pot's anti-nausea properties. It does NOT, however, make you high - which is why I'd like them to investigate the possibility of producing pure 11-OH-THC for chemo patients who don't like to, or shouldn't, get stoned, especially juveniles: it would do everything we want pot to do in a chemo patient but without getting you high in the process.

From there, 11-OH-THC metabolizes back into THC-COOH...whose only purpose in life is to make you flunk piss tests.

The only way she could possibly create a no-munchie pot is if it's not really pot. IIRC JWH-018 (the active ingredient in Spice) doesn't cause the munchies; the problem with Spice is, I'd rather see you smoking meth than that shit.

* Right now you may be thinking, "what about opiates?" Opiates are prodrugs - when you take any opiate, your body converts it to morphine and the morphine gets you high. Once you strip the carboxyl radical off your THC - requiring a higher temperature than your body can produce, which is why you could eat a pound of weed and only get full - that shit's ready to get you fucked up.

And is it just me, or does Bethenny Frankel look like she's about 58 years old?