Holy fear-mongering, Batman!
If scientists at the University of Mississippi are right, marijuana smokers are in for a surprise.
A study of thousands of samples at the University found that the drug has seriously increased in potency. The key ingredient in marijuana which gives you the “high” is called THC and scientists have found that it has increased from about 4 percent potency back in the 1980s to 10.1 percent these days, and they say it will likely keep rising before it levels off at about 15 or 16 percent. Some samples have even shown THC levels of 30 percent.
via Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive – Dude… « – Blogs from CNN.com.
So what? It’s evolved from stoners sleeping to stoners giggling? It’s not like roving gangs of hippies are rioting in downtown Manhattan because the THC level went up by 20%. When scientists talk about pot getting stronger, it’s not like talking about stronger cocaine or stronger heroine. THC still doesn’t kill people.
But at least it makes for a sensational headline that will scare everybody for no reason. Is this because the Swine flu thing is over?
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The gov is just upset that everyone is getting high off less money and will be harder to keep down.
If only that was true. However, I foresee stoners missing meet-up times for protests.
In response to another comment. See in context »So the government legalised and taxes tobacco products which as actually addictive unlike pot, and alcoholic beverages that plenty of idiots get loaded on and do stupid shit like drink driving.
Dude just wants to smoke pot and go nuts on Guitar Hero and maybe drive really slowly(yes DUI, not recommended), but THEY still want to throw him into prison.
Ah yes, but poor brown people grow weed and coco plants. Should those drugs be legalized, Central American and South American economies would thrive. Can’t have that, can we?
In response to another comment. See in context »Would have been so much easier to get pot legalised if only in ‘that storybook’, if Jesus had converted some salad into marijuana in addition to that water-to-wine shindig.
Too bad Jesus was a wino. Taking into account the region, he may have dallied in opium.
In response to another comment. See in context »You know, I think stoners have known this for years. In fact, in the 80s people were noticing it was stronger than it had been in the 70s, weren’t they? And to what do they owe this increase in potency? The “war on drugs” no? Which pushed growing indoors and onto smaller and more remote pieces of land, where growers could focus genetics more easily and make up for lost quantity by growing “chronic.”
You’re right. Old hippies always joke that the stuff “we darn kids are smokin’” is way stronger than the stuff from the 70s. And what can I say of the rest of your question? You’re right again! Looks like the War on Drugs is just getting people way more stoned.
In response to another comment. See in context »Old hippies used to smoke a whole joint. If you did that today your head would float away.
Right, but you can only get stoned to a point, and then you fall asleep or watch Family Guy, or something. An overdose isn’t part of the equation.
In response to another comment. See in context »This conversation reminds me of Nicky Taylor, who smoked a bunch of pot for a month for a BBC documentary. She hadn’t smoked much before this and decided that to really figure out what marijuana does to people, she would start herself on a reasonable regiment of smoking some of the highest grade skunk she could get her hands on everyday. As one might expect, the results were disastrous and included depression, paranoia and the munchies. The media, always eager, for reasons I am unaware of, to slander marijuana whenever they get the chance, took this as a queue to publish crazy shit like the following: “Yet there is now considerable medical evidence that cannabis causes psychosis. It has also been linked to schizophrenia, and is believed to be behind a string of violent murders.” The rest is here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-545408/Superskunk-What-happened-woman-smoked-dope-daily-month-BBC-documentary.html
This sounds like a much more serious version of Doug Benson’s Super High Me, a less scientific, but much more hilarious version of the 30-day marijuana binge experiment. Benson did consult a doctor, who tested his memory and reflex skills before and after smoking pot for 30 days straight and found his reflexes weren’t harmed by consuming that much marijuana, and his memory actually improved a little bit (but the reason for that may be because Benson was already familiar with the memory test by then).
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