# General effects from some old cannabis

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 30, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-effects-from-some-old-cannabis/541247 "2010-05-30T01:28:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Happy\_Poster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Happy\_Poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Poster)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-effects-from-some-old-cannabis/541247/1 "2010-05-30T01:28:29Z")

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Edit: Never mind, reality is I’m too drunk to do the real think atm, would be a waste.

So hypothetically - does cannabis degrade significantly at all, in the dried herbal form, if left for a couple of months?

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**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-effects-from-some-old-cannabis/541247/2 "2010-05-30T02:31:42Z")

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[Here.](http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.additional-resource.php?resourceID=000187)

You can access a pdf with details from there. No appreciable degradation in a freezer in over 4 yrs and down @50% in that same 4 yrs at room temperature, but by 2 years, even at room temperature, hardly any loss of potency.

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Poster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Happy\_Poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Poster)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-effects-from-some-old-cannabis/541247/3 "2010-05-30T02:33:15Z")

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I’m gonna have a good time tomorrow morning then!

Well, it’s 3:30am now… but when I get up… smoke, put pizza in oven, shower, pizza… wow, it’ll be like old times.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-effects-from-some-old-cannabis/541247/4 "2010-05-30T03:48:41Z")

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> [@](#):
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> … smoke, put pizza in oven, shower, pizza… wow, it’ll be like old times.

For some of us, it’s really old times…

…like 1972.  
ps: I checked, and the Placebo Effect hovers around 98% effective for ten months without refrigeration.