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InvisibleveggieM

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New Survey: Cannabis Strength Hasn't Changed in Ten Years [UK]
    #7425636 - 09/18/07 08:37 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

New Survey: Cannabis Strength Hasn't Changed in Ten Years
September 17, 2007 - LondonNet

SCARE stories claiming the cannabis sold on London's streets is 20 times as strong as its equivalents ten years ago have been rubbished by an authoritative new study.

Researchers at King College London checked samples of cannabis seized by the police and discovered that the strength was the same as when similar checks were conducted a decade ago.

Lurid tales of high sales of super-strength skunk cannabis being responsible for, among other things, a sharp rise in cases of mental illness, dominated headlines a few months ago and calls were made by politicians to upgrade cannabis from a Class C to Class B drug. The latter caries more severe legal penalties for users caught by the authorities.

It is the case that high-dose skunk is much more potent than other forms of cannabis, but the Kings College researchers found only four per cent of the samples had super-skunk levels of strength and that even then, they were not as powerful as previously reported.

The new survey is likely to be used as evidence by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, which is due to report to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith on the possible regarding of cannabis next year.


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Re: New Survey: Cannabis Strength Hasn't Changed in Ten Years [UK] [Re: veggie]
    #7425845 - 09/18/07 09:20 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Cool. Nothing new to most of us, but is anyone else also bummed out? I wouldn't mind stronger Cannabis. For now, bubble hash!


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Re: New Survey: Cannabis Strength Hasn't Changed in Ten Years [UK] [Re: veggie]
    #7425951 - 09/18/07 09:43 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Interesting. I'm surprised to see this article though, considering how the British press has been demonising cannabis lately.


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Re: New Survey: Cannabis Strength Hasn't Changed in Ten Years [UK] [Re: Le_Canard]
    #7426523 - 09/19/07 12:08 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Notice how the source wasn't the daily mail, the effluent of the media world.


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Re: New Survey: Cannabis Strength Hasn't Changed in Ten Years [UK] [Re: veggie]
    #7426710 - 09/19/07 01:23 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

scare stories? lol i wish it would keep gettin stronger wtf!


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Re: New Survey: Cannabis Strength Hasn't Changed in Ten Years [UK] [Re: veggie]
    #7426955 - 09/19/07 05:26 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

veggie said:

It is the case that high-dose skunk is much more potent than other forms of cannabis, but the Kings College researchers found only four per cent of the samples had super-skunk levels of strength and that even then, they were not as powerful as previously reported.






Not sure I'm reading this correctly (since an actual study with data isn't posted) but it sounds like they took multiple samples and comapared mean levels. If only 4 percent were "super-skunk" it isn't going to throw off the mean of the two samples.


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Re: New Survey: Cannabis Strength Hasn't Changed in Ten Years [UK] [Re: badchad]
    #7428321 - 09/19/07 01:56 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

"super-skunk" doesn't exist. High-grade marijuana is already out there; serious shit will get in the 20%s of THC content. The argument is predicated on arguing that old marijuana was considerably weaker than it actually was; a mean is a proper test.


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