Can you get a contact high, and can smelling weed get you high? This covers the 2015 Johns Hopkins study where six non-smokers sat for an hour in a sealed room with six people smoking, what showed up in their blood and urine, what changed when the room had home-like ventilation, and what the smell of cannabis is made of.
The full answer
Can you get a contact high?
Can you get a contact high? Only from heavy smoke in a closed room, and even then it's small and short. I'm Justin Hartfield, and I've been selling cannabis for twenty-five years. In 2015 at Johns Hopkins, six non-smokers sat for an hour in a small sealed room with six people smoking strong joints. All six ended up with THC in their blood, felt a mild to moderate, sleepy high for up to an hour and a half, and did a little worse on a memory task. One urine sample tested positive at the federal cut-off of fifty, and four of the six at twenty. With ventilation like a normal home's, six other non-smokers reported no drug effect, and no urine tested positive.
Can you get high from smelling weed?
Can you get high from smelling weed? What you smell are terpenes and other light molecules coming off the plant, and the skunky note is sulfur compounds a lot like garlic's. None of them is THC.
The whole film is on my site, linked below. Next: What are terpenes, and is the entourage effect real?
What the studies show
Every claim in this answer, the study behind it, who was studied, and who paid for the research. “None listed” means the paper names no funder.
