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implicitli


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Pot 2.0
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Quake3
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The feds have started issuing dire warnings about the potency of today's marijuana, calling it "Pot 2.0." Will it backfire and tempt more to toke?
Heard the latest from the Feds regarding their multi-billion dollar war on weed? According to warnings posted on the DEA's new website JustThinkTwice.com, today's cannabis is nearly twice as strong as the pot available in the 1970s and 80s. Sounds like its time for the Drug Enforcement Administration to don some new duds. How about t-shirts saying: "I've arrested millions, and all I got was stronger pot?"
Naturally, law enforcement and federal bureaucrats have little sense of humor when it comes to these matters. "We're no longer talking about the drug of the 1960s and 1970s," Drug Czar John Walters told Reuters News Wire. (The Czar failed to explain why if previous decades' pot was innocuous police still arrested you for it.) "This is Pot 2.0."
Speaking recently to the Associated Press, DEA chief Mark R. Trouville, who heads the agency's Miami office, took an even more dire tone. "This ain't your grandfather's or your father's marijuana," he said. "This will hurt you. This will addict you. This will kill you."
For our friends at the DEA, here's a news flash. Unlike booze, sleeping pills, or even aspirin, pot poses no risk of fatal overdose, regardless of its THC content. (In fact, my physician can prescribe me a pill called Marinol that's 100 percent THC and nobody at the Drug Czar's office seems to mind.) Moreover, cannabis consumers readily distinguish between low potency and high potency marijuana and moderate their use accordingly -- taking smaller and fewer puffs of the "good stuff" than they do the "shwag."
Besides, isn't variety the spice of life? Last time I visited my local, state-sanctioned liquor store I had my choice of a head-spinning variety of alcoholic beverages, all of various strengths and sizes. I passed on the Bacardi 151, picked up a pint of vodka (80 proof) and then went next door to the supermarket to buy a six-pack of beer (7 percent alcohol by volume). Other customers made similar purchases. Nobody from the White House seemed terribly concerned.
But what the suggestion that today's pot is so addictive that just one puff is a one-way ticket to drug rehab? In this case, the devil is in the details.
According to the latest data from federal Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS), more individuals are, in fact, enrolled in drug treatment for pot than ever before. However, this increase is a direct result of the fact that more Americans are being arrested for pot than ever before. (For example, a new study published in the online journal BMC Public Health reports among the 27,000+ adults entered into Texas drug treatment clinics between 2000 and 2005, a whopping 70 percent of them were diverted to treatment as a condition of sentencing, parole, or probation.) Faced with the choice of jail or attending drug treatment, most offenders -- not surprisingly -- choose treatment, whether they need it (most don't) or not.
So let's review, shall we? Our federal government wants Americans to get off the pot. So they spend billions of dollars outlawing the plant and driving its producers underground where breeders clandestinely develop stronger and more sophisticated herbal strains than ever existed prior to prohibition. The Feds then go out and inadvertently give America's pot farmers billions of dollars in free advertising by telling the world that their weed is more potent than anything Allen Ginsberg, Tommy Chong or Jerry Garcia ever smoked in their heyday. In response, tens of millions of Americans head immediately to their nearest street-corner in search of a dealer (or college student) willing to sell them a dimebag of the new, super-potent pot they've been hearing about on TV.
Perhaps it's time for the DEA to heed their own advice and "just think twice."
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fungus_among_us
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Re: Pot 2.0 [Re: Quake3]
#7555637 - 10/24/07 04:04 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Not sure as to the quality of pot in the 70's but I have been pleasantly surprised by the quality of pot I have seen over the last couple years. My hypothesis is that it has much to do with the recent fluctuations in the U.S. / Canadian exchange rate. Canadian dollar becomes stronger = less Canadian exports. This drives up the prices in the states and encourages more domestic cultivation. Domestic pot production is typically of higher quality that the shit we get from Canada. Not to say that Canada doesn't have good pot, they just don't send the good stuff across the border.
I wish I could get funding in order to either confirm or reject my hypothesis, but am not sure who would be interested enough in the results to fork over the money.
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elcharrosays
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i remember reading on this subject and the exact same quotes maybe at least half a year ago. interesting though. theyll never see it rationally or logically.
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elcharrosays
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i believe the increase in potency has come from the increasing research and use of sensemilia, hydroponics, and genetic breeding that was only just beginning to learned back then.
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ThirdEyeOpening
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"I've arrested millions, and all I got was stronger pot?"
I have to put this on a tee shirt soon.
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FurrowedBrow
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elcharrosays said: i believe the increase in potency has come from the increasing research and use of sensemilia, hydroponics, and genetic breeding that was only just beginning to learned back then.
Yeah, i'd agree with that. I don't see any correlation between the exchange rate and potency. I think you might be smoking some good shit though. lol. But i really think elcharrosays is right on this one.
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highdroponics
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LOL @ pot 2.0, the feds haven't even learned 1.0 properly.
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Edited by highdroponics (10/24/07 08:34 PM)
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usg543
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i can't wait for 3.0
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Re: Pot 2.0 [Re: usg543]
#7556990 - 10/24/07 09:03 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Sorry double post
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pabloescabar
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Pot 2.0What! I'm still on 1.2! Take the halo approach everyone thought halo 1 was cool and then halo 2 came out and so many people heard about they sold a shit load of games. Really, even the Pot 2.0 makes it sound more fun it makes it sound like it makes you trip and want to go to a rave!
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"This ain't your grandfather's or your father's marijuana," he said. "This will hurt you. This will addict you. This will kill you ."
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Re: Pot 2.0 [Re: 2end4]
#7557467 - 10/24/07 11:04 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I agree 3.0 should be really awsome.
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LoWgRoW
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Re: Pot 2.0 [Re: LoWgRoW]
#7557478 - 10/24/07 11:10 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I love how the cops now provide the marketing for weed. Now people are going to ask for version numbers instead of names. Ie northern lights is now version 1.9 Now all the growers and dealers are going have retool for the new standards.
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Re: Pot 2.0 [Re: LoWgRoW]
#7557506 - 10/24/07 11:19 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Anyone got the 3.2 beta? I've heard the 1.9 patch is pretty good,.
I also read that there is no proof of this and that the potency has baaaarely increased. whats up with that? what sucks is that articles are either for or against so its hard to get the actual facts.
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highdroponics
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if i had the funding id get to the bottom of it, whether it makes them look bad or us, i seek the truth no matter how much it hurts.
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Montanahunter420
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fungus_among_us said: Not sure as to the quality of pot in the 70's but I have been pleasantly surprised by the quality of pot I have seen over the last couple years. My hypothesis is that it has much to do with the recent fluctuations in the U.S. / Canadian exchange rate. Canadian dollar becomes stronger = less Canadian exports. This drives up the prices in the states and encourages more domestic cultivation. Domestic pot production is typically of higher quality that the shit we get from Canada. Not to say that Canada doesn't have good pot, they just don't send the good stuff across the border.
I wish I could get funding in order to either confirm or reject my hypothesis, but am not sure who would be interested enough in the results to fork over the money.
Hmm I a had a candian friend bringing shit across the border and it was absolutly fantistic. Cheap too only $200 dollars an oz and it looked like the front cover of high times magizine. I mean the greenest shit I have ever smoked. He called it the pang. An oz filled up a sandwhich bad. I had smoked dro before but this shit was just amazing in both taste, the amount you got for the weight, and potency. The candians got it going on is all I have to say. I guess the shit came out of torronto and was brought into michigan. After September 11th he won't bring anything across anymore. I have stopped smoking for years now but if some of that shit was around I would smoke again!
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LoWgRoW
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its all about money!!! If the cops make it sound really bad, the more money they get to fight the evil weed.
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peaceandlove
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Re: Pot 2.0 [Re: LoWgRoW]
#7558329 - 10/25/07 08:31 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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"I've arrested millions, and all I got was stronger pot?" agreed, that'd be a kickass shirt.
"This ain't your grandfather's or your father's marijuana," he said. "This will hurt you. This will addict you. This will kill you."
Since when did pot kill? Haven't they tried this line before? and what exactly does he mean when he is implying the people's father and grandfather smoke pot?
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Edited by peaceandlove (10/25/07 08:33 AM)
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