Marijuana potency surpasses 10%...

[SoliSticS]

Author: Jeanne Meserve and Mike M. Ahlers

Date: May 14, 2009

Source: CNN

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/14/m...ency/index.html

[Radic]

what a lota crap

missinformation

fear mongering

tipical of CNN

 

what about

alcopulko gold

pannamar red

columbian blond

from the 70tyz

pon the same latt is durban poison and mullumbinby madness

crucial geens

and that is what most breeders breed from

parent stock like dat

what do you try to grow

high THC

same

naturally

hybredz and polliployds

have always been around

 

i think it more fare to say that the supply of high qual cannabis has increased

but they wouldnt like dat

cause dat would mean all tge money they spent pon the drug war was wasted

and they are still loosing

[CannabisMan]

spot on radic couldnt of said it better myself.

[Frazz]

THIS IS NOT NEWS .. NOR IS IT THE TRUTH ... just another volley of PROPAGANDA in the ongoing War on Drugs ...

 

who wrote this shit anyway john hoWard .. the master of the big lie tactic ... in which a lie, no matter how outrageous, is repeated often enough in the hope that it will eventually be accepted as truth ..

 

truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State

 

there are many more threads over the years on same subject ...

 

[iamnotacop]

Radic, you forgot to mention Hashish....

 

Typical bloody fear mongering

[luciddreaming]

WTF, Radic pretty much said it.

Also I heard in the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam this year there was 60% or higher anyway.

Notice there is a link to "Gigner may help chemo patients with nausea" or something to the right. Wouldn't wanna be trying to take Cannabis' spot as a wonder drug there or anything. I think it's pretty well established that ginger is not for extreme nausea like you get from chemo.

 

Ok I just wrote that before reading, I see now they mean the average potency of the weed that is seized.

 

EDIT:

Some nice commentary from NORML hehe

http://stash.norml.org/marijuana-potency-s...ercent-us-says/

Edited May 17, 2009 by luciddreaming

[luciddreaming]

Oh yeah check this video!

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/14/m...cy/#cnnSTCVideo

 

Their "High-grade pot" looks like fuckin hay!

[cheeba]

I have not much more comment other than "this comes as no surprise".

 

I think it's pretty well established that ginger is not for extreme nausea like you get from chemo.

 

I'm not sure about chemo...I don't think even weed would help a HELL of a lot with that (but hey, haven't been there, and if it works, go for it...weed's gold) but in regards to the ginger thing, it's actually pretty good for an upset stomach, whether it's a buggy thing or a digestive thing, it really works quite well - use it quite often. It's also reputed to be an immune booster and contain anti-cancer agents in it's raw form.

I know this is not a lot to do with the thread, but hey, it's what I had...

[bongonaussie]

Don’t Believe The Hype! Potent Pot, So What?

 

 

“This ain’t your grandfather’s or your father’s marijuana. This will hurt you. This will addict you. This will kill you.”– Mark R. Trouville, DEA Miami, speaking to the Associated Press (June 22, 2007)

 

Government claims that today’s pot is more potent, and thus more dangerous to health, than ever before must be taken with a grain of salt.

 

Federal officials have made similarly More..dire assertions before. In a 2004 Reuters News Wire story, government officials alleged, “Pot is no longer the gentle weed of the 1960s and may pose a greater threat than cocaine or even heroin.” (Anti-drug officials failed to explain why, if previous decades’ pot was so “gentle” and innocuous, police still arrested you for it.)

 

In 2007, Reuters again highlighted the alleged record rise in cannabis potency, proclaiming, “U.S. marijuana grows stronger than before: report.” Quoted in the news story was ex-Drug Czar John Walters, who warned, “This report underscores that we are no longer talking about the drug of the 1960s and 1970s — this is Pot 2.0.”

 

Predictably, in 2008 the mainstream news media ran with yet another set of ‘news’ stories alleging that the pot plant’s strength had reached all-time highs. According to a June 12, 2008 Associated Press story:

 

“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.”

 

Or not. An actual review of the 2008 U-Miss data revealed this nugget of information: 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.

 

Which brings us to this year. Naturally, the Feds are once again sounding the alarm, as reported today by CNN: “Marijuana potency surpasses 10 percent, U.S. says.”

 

If nothing else, the government’s annual “new and improved pot” claims are good advertising for marijuana dealers. As for the rest of the public, it’s time for a reality check.

 

First, it’s worth noting that police and lawmakers made these same alarmist claims about the suddenly not-as-dangerous-or-strong-as-we-once-said-it-was pot of the 1960s, ’70s, and 80s. These allegations were false then and they are still false now.

 

Second, THC — regardless of potency — is virtually non-toxic to healthy cells or organs, and is 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 Czar’s office seems to be overly concerned about its potential health effects.

 

Third, survey data gleaned from cannabis consumers in the Netherlands—where users may legally purchase pot of known quality—indicates that most cannabis consumers prefer less potent pot, just as the majority of those who drink alcohol prefer beer or wine rather than 190 proof Everclear or Bacardi 151. When consumers encounter unusually strong varieties of marijuana, they adjust their use accordingly and smoke less.

 

Finally, if US lawmakers and government researchers were truly concerned about potential risks posed by supposedly stronger marijuana, they would support regulating the drug, so that its potency would be consistent and this information would publicly displayed to the consumer. (Anyone ever been to a liquor store that sold a brand of booze that didn’t post its alcohol content on the label? Didn’t think so.)

 

So let’s review. Our federal government ostensibly wants fewer Americans to consume pot. So they spend billions of dollars outlawing the plant and driving its producers underground where breeders, over time, clandestinely develop stronger and more sophisticated herbal strains than ever existed prior to prohibition. The Feds then inadvertently give America’s marijuana growers billions of dollars in free advertising by telling the world that today’s weed is more potent than anything Allen Ginsberg, Tommy Chong or Jerry Garcia ever smoked in their heyday. In response, tens of millions of Americans head immediately to their nearest street-corner in search of a dealer (or college student) willing to sell them a dimebag of the new, super-potent cannabis they’ve been hearing about on TV. The Feds then demand more of your hard-earned tax dollars so they can get more Americans “off the pot.”

 

Then next year we do it all over again: same time, same station.

 

 

Information from NORML-THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR THE REFORM OF MARIJUANA LAWS

 

 

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e38_1242435973

[brick]

Bring it on. More potency, less plants to grow, less chance of being busted. Well thats my theory.