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Invisibledr_gonz

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    #8538242 - 06/18/08 07:22 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

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InvisibleveggieM

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Re: Pot more potent than ever [Re: dr_gonz]
    #8538262 - 06/18/08 07:30 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

'Potent pot' is all hype
June 17, 2008 - thedmonline.com
By Paul Armentano

Government claims of highly potent pot must be taken with a grain of salt ("Marijuana THC potency levels highest in 30 years," June 16, 2008). As is the case with any black market commodity, definitive facts are difficult if not impossible to come by.

That said, even by the University of Mississippi's own admission, the average THC in domestically grown marijuana - which comprises the bulk of the US market - is less than five percent, a figure that's remained unchanged for nearly a decade.

By contrast, the average strength of imported cannabis has grown in recent years. Nevertheless, non-domestic marijuana comprises only a small fraction of the domestic market. To imply that this rare, unusually potent cannabis is reflective of what is typically available on the US market is highly (and purposely) misleading.

Furthermore, it must be noted that THC - regardless of potency - is non-toxic and incapable of causing a fatal overdose. Currently, doctors may legally prescribe a FDA-approved pill that contains 100 percent THC, and curiously, nobody at the University of Mississippi or at the Drug Czar¹s office seems particularly concerned about it.

It should also be noted that most cannabis consumers actually prefer less potent pot, just as the majority of those who drink alcohol prefer beer or wine over hard liquor. If and when consumers encounter unusually strong varieties of marijuana, they adjust their use accordingly and smoke less.

Of course, if lawmakers and government researchers were really concerneda bout potential risks posed by potent marijuana, they would support regulating the drug, so that its potency would be known to the consumer.

So if today¹s pot is essentially the same plant it¹s always been with any marginal increase in potency akin to the difference between a cup of tea and an espresso why is the government claiming otherwise? Mainly to scare parents, particularly those millions of parents who may have, without incident, experimented with marijuana in the 1970s, when they were about the same age as their children are today. Fortunately for them, while the feds' latest "reefer rhetoric" may sound alarming, there's little substance behind the hype.

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Re: Pot more potent than ever [Re: veggie]
    #8538295 - 06/18/08 07:37 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

this country is going to hell


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Re: Pot more potent than ever [Re: veggie]
    #8538847 - 06/18/08 10:19 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

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veggie said:
If and when consumers encounter unusually strong varieties of marijuana, they adjust their use accordingly and smoke less.




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    #8538914 - 06/18/08 10:46 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

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Re: Pot more potent than ever [Re: whatsgrimace]
    #8539346 - 06/19/08 01:18 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

The real irony of this situation comes from the fact that the government, if it were truly concerned for the people wellbeing, should be advocates of hectic bud. It minimises the only accurately scientifically documented detrimental effect of cannabis*, smoke in the lungs. If people can smoke less and get way more high, more power to em, or so the governent should say if it cared for their people rather than their petrol and their pharmeceutical companies, which just so happen to be two of the biggest industries in America if not the world, both of which are partly replaceable by a fuckin plant, and not just any plant, a fuckin weed.

*Bear in mind here that correalation does not indicate causation.

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Re: Pot more potent than ever [Re: veggie]
    #8539418 - 06/19/08 01:46 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

I don't see why they even use the pot being stronger now a days things as propaganda. That is better in my opinion. More potent pot equals less smoke, so its doing less damage. Potent pot ftw


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Re: Pot more potent than ever [Re: aDoS]
    #8539532 - 06/19/08 02:46 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

you wanna know whats funny about this *besides everything*

in the video the anchor recieves the question
"whats sending these kids to the ER causing the rise in cases?"

the lady replied "they are just paranoid"

She just said that there were no medical cases related to harmful effects on the body. And five seconds before hand saying its more harmful on the body. :congrats:

i love stupid news


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OfflineSeussA
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Re: Pot more potent than ever [Re: dr_gonz]
    #8539669 - 06/19/08 04:43 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

> Pot more potent than ever

I know that when I am drinking, I can't tell the difference between the strength of beer and vodka... I'm always drinking too much vodka thinking that it is no stronger than beer.  :rolleyes:


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Re: Pot more potent than ever [Re: aDoS]
    #8539741 - 06/19/08 05:29 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

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aDoS said:
I don't see why they even use the pot being stronger now a days things as propaganda. That is better in my opinion. More potent pot equals less smoke, so its doing less damage. Potent pot ftw




And to that I say look at all the stupid cunts who buy the "light" version of cigarettes, thinking they are better.

Right, so there's less nicotine, meaning you have to smoke more crap to get the same hit?

It's common sense that more potent pot is a good thing, that's why hash exists. Something people have been eating and smoking for millenia with no ill effect. Except those that eat 18 hash cakes in one sitting cos they got the munchies and pass out for three days.


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Re: Pot more potent than ever [Re: Visionary Tools]
    #8540002 - 06/19/08 07:58 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

> Except those that eat 18 hash cakes in one sitting cos they got the munchies and pass out for three days.

The above is yet another example of how safe cannabis is... even when you "overdose" you simply pass out and have really messed up dreams.  Try that with alcohol, or nicotine, or caffeine, or any almost any other legal drug, and you will die instead.


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Re: Pot more potent than ever [Re: Seuss]
    #8540046 - 06/19/08 08:17 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

ya even raw potatoes
u will die from 3


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Re: Pot more potent than ever [Re: Coaster]
    #8541275 - 06/19/08 04:04 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

The information in that news clip is an out-right lie.

"Marijuana causes head and neck cancer"

NO, IT DOESN'T! A study came out quite recently (I'm sure someone here can post a link) that quite positively proves that there IS NO LINK between CHRONIC marjijuana use and cancer. God that pisses me off.


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