Every moment you are NOT smoking a spliff, the smoke goes into the air. So smoking it gets you less of the chemicals contained within it. Also, smoking causes more health problems (eating it can also give you some health problems).
Also, eating it or taking it as a spray takes much longer for the body to process.
Smoking the stuff is quick though. Gets you a hit very quickly, within a few seconds. Eating it takes like 20 minutes plus to kick in, depending on how fast your stomach can get food processed into the blood stream (part of overall metabolic rate).
As most people are lazy and want a quick hit, they go for the smoke. Indeed, I reckon (in the UK) most people get hooked on tobacco not from cigarettes, but from joints made with both weed and tobacco.
Giving up weed is easy. Giving up tobacco is VERY difficult.
But, the smart money is on not smoking. I know it’s not easy and I find this tough. Well, if it was easy, everybody would give up smoking.
Stress relief comes in many forms, and while weed is seen as an easy, non-addictive and healthier high than say, shooting up with heroin, the truth isn’t nearly so clear cut.
I’ve tried both eating and smoking weed (I tried smoking heroin but did not like the hit) and I reckon that, long term, taking a bit of spray made from cannabis is doing me less harm (and maybe more good) than smoking.
