I know some people can't smoke, but for folks who just like to eat their THC sometimes, I'm curious why, I've never quite gotten the point. If you want to be high a long time, does this work better than redosing? Do you find a qualitative difference you like?

@ #1 YMMV, but yeah, there's a definite qualitative difference. Just the trajectory of edibles makes for a different experience, as opposed to with smoking, the get-high-pretty-much-instantaneously, and then you're not very high an hour later.

But that aside, they're qualitatively different, although I'd also argue that it's a difference that would likely be lost on an occasional stoner. For folk who are daily users, edibles also offer the chance to get proper-fucking-high, which can be challenging to achieve if your tolerance is way up.