Wild lettuce

In My Humble Opinion
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Wild lettuce
I was reading today that wild lettuce has natural opium like chemicals and is effectively for pain relief and is legal. How would a person know how to dose something like this? Play with it till you get it right? It seems like the active chemicals could vary greatly from plant to plant.

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Where did you read that? My guess is that you would have to either eat a lot of wild lettuce and hope for the best, or extract the “opium like chemicals” from the plant at home. I can’t see this being more effective then using OTC or prescription pain killers. I’ve read tthat medical Marijuana is sometimes used to control chronic pain for some patients.

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Wiki: Lactuca virosa.

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In old books, I’d occasionally run across a reference to “smoking lettuce.” Is this what they were referring to, or was it just another nickname for marijuana?

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Plenty of info online but I still don’t understand dosing. It may be so diluted that dosing is not much of an issue.

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I’ve heard this too. IIRC, the amount is negligible and only appears after the plant has bolted and the sap has turned milky, so in any case, it wouldn’t taste good.

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Now that is a combination of states(and districts) you don’t see in a whole lot of contexts.

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I just tried some, the sap is super bitter and takes an hour or so to dissipate the taste in your mouth. very unpleasant. I didn’t feel anything unusual but did go home and take an uncharacteristic knap for an hour or so.

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Cecil mentioned wild lettuce in this column: Is iceberg lettuce a drug?