'Best. Weed. EVAR.' says Ole Miss
The University of Mississippi is still measuring the THC content of marijuana and marijuana products seized by law enforcement. THC content is still rising. The ONDCP is still trying to claim this stuff is crazy dangerous, way worse than anything you might have smoked back when you did such things. Other people are still pointing out that this just means smokers take fewer tokes and do less damage to their lungs. I'm still not sure any of this counts as news, but I'm still posting it anyway.
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[link] So in actuality they fear on giant brained mutant reefer addicts will soon take over America. Too, too late you fools.
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"And in fact, what’s most amazing is that this scare isn’t new. In the US, in the mid 1980s, during Reagan’s “war on drugs”, it was claimed that cannabis was 14 times stronger than in 1970, which rather sets you thinking. If it was 14 times stronger in 1986 than in 1970, and it’s 25 times stronger today than the beginning of the 1990s, does that mean it is now, in fact, 350 times stronger than 1970?
That’s not even a crystal in a plant pot. That’s impossible. That would require more THC to be present in the plant than the total volume of space taken up by the plant itself. That would require matter to be condensed. If I was a physics-minded branding manager, I would suggest Quark Gluon Plasma as the most appropriate street name for this substance: and I look forward to reading about the scare in the Independent tomorrow." (Badscience blog, "Reefer Badness")
Anyway, I just laughed my ass off over "Quark Gluon Plasma". Lately I've even seen an article about the British reclassification of cannabis in a Polish weekly and the fragment about "skunk" was quite strange... firstly, the journalist had no idea that this form of cannabis has long had its Polish name (just a slight deformation of the original name: "skun" - this name has been around for at least 10 years), and secondly, all the worst scare stories were quoted. And I finally noticed something interesting: in periods of most hysterical media panics around a certain drug - practically every such drug is claimed to induce murderous tendencies. Pure "moral panics".
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