Police seize high-potency marijuana, arrest 2 men

[humphrey b flaubert]

$812000 / 16lbs

 

$50000 per lb / 16oz per lb

 

Wow at $3125 per oz it would want to be some fucking outstanding shit. No wonder people are willing to deal if they can get that much

 

$3200 for an oz of 'shrooms sounds a little pricey too, no??

Fuck knows who the cops are buying their gear from if they pay that much for it

I think for a while in England the official definition of a dangerous overdose of pot was 'a hay bale dropped on your hear from the 20th floor of a building'

[mull]

With such a hard hitting opening statement like "A potent type of marijuana known as AK47 - so strong that some users are treated in emergency rooms for overdoses - has hit the Philadelphia area."

 

It's extremely important that we, users of cannabis, know of the treatment options available for our potential cannabis overdoses... let's see now, what treatment options are there...??

 

 

with some searching through the many links, which implicitly state that cannabis is not possible to overdose on...

 

"Overdose Treatment

Activated charcoal may prevent further absorption from

the gut if ingestion is within a couple of hours but clinical

data is lacking on efficacy. There is no specific antidote for

marijuana overdose or ingestion. Furthermore, it is not

possible to enhance elimination of THC from the blood or

tissues. For patients who present with severe anxiety or

panic reaction, a benzodiazepine may be considered. An

environment to reduce self-harm is needed for patients

who are ataxic or hallucinating."

Joe Perno, MD

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

 

Interesting to note also that Joe is from Philadelphia!

[iamnotacop]

For patients who present with severe anxiety or

panic reaction, a benzodiazepine may be considered.

 

 

Here you go son, it looks like you are having a reaction to the natural plant you consumed, so lets try this dangerous and addictive drug to get you off that relatively safe and unaddictive drug.

[grok]

Here you go son, it looks like you are having a reaction to the natural plant you consumed, so lets try this dangerous and addictive drug to get you off that relatively safe and unaddictive drug.

 

hahaha

[Indycar]

It'd be interesting to see the records at accident & emergency departments throughout the Australian Public hospitals. I wouldn't mind betting that you'd be looking for quite some time before you found someone admitted for cannabis overdose.

 

I wish the media would spare us the bullshit, 'n stick to old school reporting, instead of this biased shit that gets dished up 'n slapped in our faces, all too often...

 

The word/title Journo translates into the meaning 'germ' for me. It's about all their reporting/opinions amount to nowadays...

 

[Pam]

Excellent point Indy.

Luke, my point is, that if Cannabis is a drug, well then so is Chamomile, Valerian, and the Hops in your beer!

I can take those three herbs and make you a tea that will put you fast to sleep. So, because these herbs also have an effect on the human brain, does this make them "drugs" as well?

I'm not sure I'm using the proper terminology here, but in my mind if I can grow it dry it and consume it without having to refine or process it, then it is an herbal remedy and not a drug.

Coca leaf is harmless, cocaine however causes the brain chemicals to go haywire.

As long as we allow them to classify a harmless herb as a dangerous drug we have no hope of exposing the lie that has been perpetrated upon the people of the civilized world for the last 70 years!

 

As I read back I see that my comments were lacking that distinction, I was angered by the flippant use of the term drug.

I always am. I believe in my heart that if people would simply stop for a moment and question what they read, and are repeatedly told, that they would not be able to deny that they have been lied to, and brainwashed.

 

Cannabis is an herb. Possibly the most useful and versatile herb growing upon the planet. If used to it's full potential it would easily put several large business interests into a panic, such as cotton, lumber, fuel, cattle feed, stronger plastics, and more than a few pharmaceutical companies.

We are warring with big business more than anyone else. And our only weapon is logic. If we can help people to understand that this is an herb, and not a "drug", as they would have us believe, then all the propaganda will be exposed for what it is.

[iamnotacop]

If we can help people to understand that this is an herb, and not a "drug", as they would have us believe, then all the propaganda will be exposed for what it is.

 

I can see what you are saying Granny, and completely agree. But, we live in a country where one of our main research <read:propaganda>, groups, don't even class alcohol as a drug. NDARC - National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.

 

I believe it is an uphill battle and probably an unwinnable one. We can't even agree together on what reforms need to take place, or on how to go about achieving anything, to achieve something similar to what we want.

 

Our truth and logic means nothing compared to their finances. All we have is this electronic form of media. The real media, which the majority of sheep consume, is already owned by our opposition parties.

 

70 years the propaganda war has been fought, and we lost. Without some big money and a big name person like Michael Moore?, making documentaries on our behalf, then we will still be fighting/losing it in another 70 years.

 

 

Just my cynical point of view.

[freddie]

<read:propaganda>, groups, don't even class alcohol as a drug. NDARC - National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.

NDARC do classify alcohol as a drug. I don't always agree with what they do or say, but they do research alcohol as if it is a drug.

[DownUnderDoper]

Excellent point Indy.

Luke, my point is, that if Cannabis is a drug, well then so is Chamomile, Valerian, and the Hops in your beer!

I can take those three herbs and make you a tea that will put you fast to sleep. So, because these herbs also have an effect on the human brain, does this make them "drugs" as well?

I'm not sure I'm using the proper terminology here, but in my mind if I can grow it dry it and consume it without having to refine or process it, then it is an herbal remedy and not a drug.

 

They are indeed all drugs, or to be more precise contain drugs, bisabolol and matricin in the chamomile, valepotriates in the Valerian root.

 

In the same way the Herb poppy carries the drug opium, and the herb tobacco carries the drug nicotine, the herb cannabis carries the drug THC, (and CBD, CBN etc) .. a great many of the drugs on the market today are derived from herbaceous plants.

 

Cannabis may be a herb, but there can be no doubt whatsoever that it carries drugs in it.

 

NDARC do classify alcohol as a drug. I don't always agree with what they do or say, but they do research alcohol as if it is a drug.

 

They are also quite adamant that not only is alcohol a drug it is second only to tobacco in terms of the damage caused to society.

[Luke Skywalker]

Down under Doper has put what I was trying to say quite well.

 

The sooner we admit that what we're doing is drug use (and in some instances abuse) the sooner we'll get taken seriously. Pretending or playing semantics with cannabis isn't going to help our cause.

 

My apologies for the thread hijack.