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Marijuana potency increases in 2007
    #8514000 - 06/12/08 03:15 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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WASHINGTON - Marijuana potency increased last year to the highest level in more than 30 years, posing greater health risks to people who may view the drug as harmless, according to a report released Thursday by the White House.

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The latest analysis from the University of Mississippi's Potency Monitoring Project tracked the average amount of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, in samples seized by law enforcement agencies from 1975 through 2007. It found that the average amount of THC reached 9.6 percent in 2007, compared with 8.75 percent the previous year.

The 9.6 percent level represents more than a doubling of marijuana potency since 1983, when it averaged just under 4 percent.

"Today's report makes it more important than ever that we get past outdated, anachronistic views of marijuana," said John Walters, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. He cited baby boomer parents who might have misguided notions that the drug contains the weaker potency levels of the 1970s.

"Marijuana potency has grown steeply over the past decade, with serious implications in particular for young people," Walters said. He cited the risk of psychological, cognitive and respiratory problems, and the potential for users to become dependent on drugs such as cocaine and heroin.

While the drug's potency may be rising, marijuana users generally adjust to the level of potency and smoke it accordingly, said Dr. Mitch Earleywine, who teaches psychology at the State University of New York in Albany and serves as an adviser for marijuana advocacy groups. "Stronger cannabis leads to less inhaled smoke," he said.

The White House office attributed the increases in marijuana potency to sophisticated growing techniques that drug traffickers are using at sites in the United States and Canada.

A report from the office last month found that a teenager who has been depressed in the past year was more than twice as likely to have used marijuana than teenagers who have not reported being depressed — 25 percent compared with 12 percent. The study said marijuana use increased the risk of developing mental disorders by 40 percent.

"The increases in marijuana potency are of concern since they increase the likelihood of acute toxicity, including mental impairment," said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which funded the University of Mississippi study.

"Particularly worrisome is the possibility that the more potent THC might be more effective at triggering the changes in the brain that can lead to addiction," Volkow said.

But there's no data showing that a higher potency in marijuana leads to more addiction, Earleywine said, and marijuana's withdrawal symptoms are mild at best. "Mild irritability, craving for marijuana and decreased appetite — I mean those are laughable when you talk about withdrawal from a drug. Caffeine is worse."

The project analyzed data on 62,797 cannabis samples, 1,302 hashish samples, and 468 hash oil samples obtained primarily from seizures by law enforcement agencies in 48 states since 1975.

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Re: Marijuana potency increases in 2007 [Re: A3eyedfish]
    #8514018 - 06/12/08 03:38 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

> Marijuana potency increased last year to the highest level in more than 30 years, posing greater health risks to people who may view the drug as harmless, according to a report released Thursday by the White House.

Ooops... higher potency means people smoke less to get the same buzz which means health risks are lower not greater for people that consume cannabis.  I'm pretty certain that car exhaust poses a health risk, but the government doesn't seem overly concerned about the length of time I spend sitting in rush hour traffic sucking down toxic exhaust fumes, thus I cannot imagine that the government is really concerned with the health of (illicit) drug users.


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Re: Marijuana potency increases in 2007 [Re: A3eyedfish]
    #8514109 - 06/12/08 05:04 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080612/ap_on_he_me/marijuana_potency

WASHINGTON - Marijuana potency increased last year to the highest level in more than 30 years, posing greater health risks to people who may view the drug as harmless, according to a report released Thursday by the White House. 




SOMEWHERE NOT FUCKED UP - Cannabis potency increased last year to the highest level in 30 years, posing less health risk to people as less plant material would have to be smoked. Someone puffing on a spliff in the street, a spokesman for the plant said: "This stuff is reaaaallly good gear"


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Re: Marijuana potency increases in 2007 [Re: A3eyedfish]
    #8514300 - 06/12/08 07:13 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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"Marijuana potency has grown steeply over the past decade, with serious implications in particular for young people," Walters said. He cited the risk of psychological, cognitive and respiratory problems, and the potential for users to become dependent on drugs such as cocaine and heroin.


thats interesting, i didnt know that smoking weed would make you dependant on cocaine or heroin.
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"The increases in marijuana potency are of concern since they increase the likelihood of acute toxicity, including mental impairment," said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which funded the University of Mississippi study.

"Particularly worrisome is the possibility that the more potent THC might be more effective at triggering the changes in the brain that can lead to addiction," Volkow said.



just the words 'the more potent thc' prooves this woman doesnt know what shes talking about. but the 'danger of acute toxicity' needs to be addressed. how exactly can a nontoxic substance that cannot produce a chemical overdose cause acute toxicity? dont you need a toxin for that?


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Re: Marijuana potency increases in 2007 [Re: clover606]
    #8514429 - 06/12/08 08:24 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Good that womam should be taken behind a shed and shot like Lassie, she is bull shitting more than a bull shits.


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Re: Marijuana potency increases in 2007 [Re: A3eyedfish]
    #8514747 - 06/12/08 10:26 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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"Marijuana potency has grown steeply over the past decade, with serious implications in particular for young people," Walters said. He cited the risk of psychological, cognitive and respiratory problems, and the potential for users to become dependent on drugs such as cocaine and heroin.






Yes!  The better the cannabis the more dependent I'll become on drugs that I don't even use.


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Re: Marijuana potency increases in 2007 [Re: Shamanintraining]
    #8515056 - 06/12/08 12:03 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

this just in! cannabis is now still cannabis!

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Re: Marijuana potency increases in 2007 [Re: moon_glue]
    #8515259 - 06/12/08 01:01 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

oh my, looks like im a heroin addict now! score!


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Re: Marijuana potency increases in 2007 [Re: hockeyplyr1057]
    #8515420 - 06/12/08 01:43 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

My god, that heroin addict thing is beyond the fucking pale.  There is no way anybody is stupid enough, not even Johnny Pee, to think that arbitrary increases in potency will turn you into a junkie for ANOTHER drug.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't hashish been around since pretty much the dawn of time?  And, if made correctly, isn't hashish usually more potent than bud?

I would think that that would put this pathetic ass argument to rest.

Edited by sinenomine (06/12/08 01:46 PM)

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Re: Marijuana potency increases in 2007 [Re: sinenomine]
    #8515862 - 06/12/08 03:05 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Isn't the gateway argument usually that kids will move on to stronger substances and a better buzz?
Well then wouldn't higher potency bud cause the reverse to happen?


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Re: Marijuana potency increases in 2007 [Re: Irieforester]
    #8517545 - 06/12/08 10:13 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

What's your guys problem? Don't you know it's all for the safety of the kids?


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Re: Marijuana potency increases in 2007 [Re: Seuss]
    #8517833 - 06/12/08 11:38 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

"Stronger cannabis leads to less inhaled smoke,

hahahahahahahhahah they effing wish

huge bongs rips of some cali fire is whats up man


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Re: Marijuana potency increases in 2007 [Re: MantrippinonX]
    #8518031 - 06/13/08 12:47 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Yes please! ill have some 9.6%+ :yesnod: :bongroll:

>I'm pretty certain that car exhaust poses a health risk, but the government doesn't seem overly concerned about the length of time I spend sitting in rush hour traffic sucking down toxic exhaust fumes, thus I cannot imagine that the government is really concerned with the health of (illicit) drug users.


Damn straight seuss, bloody Government run world! when will they start making the right dicisions...  :shake:

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Re: Marijuana potency increases in 2007 [Re: A3eyedfish]
    #8518183 - 06/13/08 01:53 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

attention john walters you dirty filthy revenue raising mother fucker of a little man

i was getting thai sticks that were well above the 'average' thc level of 4% of 1975 infact if you had one deep hit of a good bowl or cone you were guaranteed  not be able to walk for 2 hrs fucker

hear that?
grown men fucking crawling and giggling like little fucking babies because the weed was imported from thailand even back then you fucking bastard

overtake and kill the world we planned on doing in that drug enduced coma we craved for we were so fear us and the weed motherfucker

fucking cunts are trying to say there was no decent weed back then


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Re: Marijuana potency increases in 2007 [Re: alphabeatu]
    #8518233 - 06/13/08 02:05 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

:lol::congrats: i just pissed myself...

Well said!

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Re: Marijuana potency increases in 2007 [Re: QuantumReality]
    #8518270 - 06/13/08 02:19 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

You want 9.6% THC marijuana? You should come to Seattle. We get abundance of 20% or higher....that is, until the pigs interfere too much. Then we have to wait a few days...ahhahaha.

This weed I just smoked earlier today...got me sooo high, I actually tripped out....like, I felt more high than the first time I GOT high. I was high for 4 hours. it peaked after 30 minutes....and I've smoked for about two years now, so you'd think that wouldn't happen to me.

...But it did.


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Re: Marijuana potency increases in 2007 [Re: tyler_0_durden]
    #8518941 - 06/13/08 09:27 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I grow my kush up here, 27% now and only getting higher. My dad was getting Colombian gold back in the sixties which was at least 18%, that was the original sensimilla.


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