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Most cannabis home-grown by ?fair-trade? users [UK]
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Most cannabis home-grown by ?fair-trade? users
October 9, 2005 - sundayherald.com

HOME-GROWN cannabis now accounts for more than half the UK supply of the drug as ethically-minded users, concerned with supporting organised crime, shun dealers in favour of growing their own.
Figures from the Independent Drugs Monitoring Unit show more than 66% of all cannabis consumed in the UK is now home-grown, while imports from Morocco, India and the Netherlands have plummeted. In Scotland, 8% of the population are believed to regularly smoke cannabis.

Experts believe that users wanting to dissociate themselves from criminal gangs are driving the home-growing trend, while sales of new technology such as ?cold-light? lamps, which can avoid police detection, are making some users more confident in growing cannabis plants at home.

Cannabis users concerned the dealer-bought cannabis resin has been polluted with with plastic, coffee, wax or other drugs, are also looking to home-growing to produce strong, untainted organic strains.

The home-growing boom is increasingly commercial, with up to 20,000 people expected to visit HempExpo at Wembley Exhibition Centre in London next month where seeds and growing kits will be on sale.

Hemp Expo organiser Phil Kilvington said the motivation for home-growers is often a personal ?fair-trade? ethos. ?Home-growing is a multi- billion pound industry in the UK ? 10 years ago 90% of cannabis smoked in this country was coming from overseas, now it is more like 30%.

?There is a 100% link between imported cannabis and criminal networks, many of whom are involved in other types of crime such as prostitution, trafficking, or class A drugs. Home-growers do not want to be associated with that.?

Kilvington, editor of Weed World magazine, said police using thermal cameras on helicopters to detect heat lamps in growers lofts or garden sheds are being thwarted by new techniques ? ?they are probably finding less than 10% of home-grown cannabis,? he said.

Cannabis seeds can be legally bought in the UK, but cultivating them can lead to 14 years in prison. Since cannabis was downgraded to a class C drug in 2003, there have been calls for it to be reclassified again as more recent research points to links between the drug and mental illness.

As cannabis cultivated at home is purer and more potent than street hashish these concerns have become more pressing. Professor Neil McKeganey, director of the Centre for Drug Misuse Research at the University of Glasgow, said he was not surprised at the trend. ?It is almost the equivalent of home-brewing beer ? home-growers are almost invisible. If you can grow cannabis at home, why go out and engage with a dealer or supplier??

McKeganey called for a ?debate? on the changing culture of cannabis as the drug being grown privately rather than imported. He believes the health risks of high-strength cannabis are a serious concern. ?There is a possibility that consumption of often very high-strength cannabis will increase considerably [because of home-growing]. At the moment, a quarter of teenagers consume cannabis ? would that go up if growing at home is seen as normal and increases further?

?The high strength strains being cultivated can give the same hallucinogenic effects as LSD, and may result in an increase in mental illness and diseases such as throat cancer.?

Chief superintendent Stephen Ward of the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency rejected the suggestion that growing innovations have outrun detection. He said: ?What we do is intelligence led ? we are aware of the technique changes that growers are using.?

Don Barnard of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance said it was time for ?a grown-up response ... perhaps someone from the government should pop down to the HempExpo and have a look at what kind of tax revenue they could be making from it.?

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Re: Most cannabis home-grown by ?fair-trade? users [UK] [Re: veggie]
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?The high strength strains being cultivated can give the same hallucinogenic effects as LSD"


Well hot damn! I would love to grow some of that shit! :rolleyes:

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Re: Most cannabis home-grown by ?fair-trade? users [UK] [Re: DNKYD]
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DNKYD said:
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?The high strength strains being cultivated can give the same hallucinogenic effects as LSD"


Well hot damn! I would love to grow some of that shit! :rolleyes:


Good god. If you come across some seeds let me know.


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Re: Most cannabis home-grown by ?fair-trade? users [UK] [Re: z@z.com]
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What are the cold-light lamps that they talk about? Does anyone have a link for that stuff?


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After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action.  If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it.  - Ernest Hemingway

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Re: Most cannabis home-grown by ‘fair-trade’ users [UK] [Re: Madtowntripper]
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Something they made up most likely. I've never seen or heard of a light that has enough output for growing weed successfully but puts out hardly any heat. Maybe they heard a reference to air cooled lighting and turned it into "cold light".

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