Researching the tobacco/cannabis link

[Frazz]

Author: Susanna Freymark

Date:14th October 2009

Source: The Northern Star

Copyright:© APN News & Media Ltd

 

DO YOU like to mull? In this case we are talking about mixing tobacco and cannabis together.

 

If so, and you are a male between 25 and 34, Kingscliff Health Centre research project officer Annie Banbury wants to talk about your smoking history and habits.

 

The North Coast Area Health Service and University of NSW are doing a joint study on the relationship between tobacco and cannabis.

 

The Federally-funded project aims to understand why the North Coast has higher than usual numbers of men in the 25-34 age group who smoke cigarettes. It is believed men stay addicted to tobacco because they mull, Mrs Banbury said.

 

A man from Mullumbimby, who asked not to be named, spoke to The Northern Star about his mulling habits.

 

“Every few weeks I mix. I've been a smoker since I was 14. If you use cannabis straight, you use too much,” he said.

 

Mrs Banbury wants to interview 15 non-indigenous men and 10 indigenous men to find out when they started smoking tobacco and cannabis. She has interviewed four men so far and will travel to regional health centres for more interviews.

 

“It is a qualitative study, it's not about huge numbers, but we use grounded theory to analyse the thoughts, meanings and process of why men smoke,” she said.

 

The identities of participants will be kept confidential. Mrs Banbury said that interviews were taped and took about an hour. Participants are offered $50 in vouchers to cover expenses.

 

The research will influence the work carried out by the tobacco team at the NCAHS and the National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre at the University of NSW in Sydney.

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[mull]

Qualitative

 

It's because of nicotine and prohibition of cannabis.

 

Now please refund the aussie taxpayers $1250 in wasted vouchers.. not even going to guessitmate what's wasted on your salaries NCIPC'ers..

[grace]

Author: Susanna Freymark

Date:14th October 2009

Source: The Northern Star

Copyright:© APN News & Media Ltd

 

DO YOU like to mull? In this case we are talking about mixing tobacco and cannabis together.

 

If so, and you are a male between 25 and 34, Kingscliff Health Centre research project officer Annie Banbury wants to talk about your smoking history and habits.

 

The North Coast Area Health Service and University of NSW are doing a joint study on the relationship between tobacco and cannabis.

 

The Federally-funded project aims to understand why the North Coast has higher than usual numbers of men in the 25-34 age group who smoke cigarettes. It is believed men stay addicted to tobacco because they mull, Mrs Banbury said.

 

A man from Mullumbimby, who asked not to be named, spoke to The Northern Star about his mulling habits.

 

“Every few weeks I mix. I've been a smoker since I was 14. If you use cannabis straight, you use too much,” he said.

 

Mrs Banbury wants to interview 15 non-indigenous men and 10 indigenous men to find out when they started smoking tobacco and cannabis. She has interviewed four men so far and will travel to regional health centres for more interviews.

 

“It is a qualitative study, it's not about huge numbers, but we use grounded theory to analyse the thoughts, meanings and process of why men smoke,” she said.

 

The identities of participants will be kept confidential. Mrs Banbury said that interviews were taped and took about an hour. Participants are offered $50 in vouchers to cover expenses.

 

The research will influence the work carried out by the tobacco team at the NCAHS and the National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre at the University of NSW in Sydney.

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"The identities of participants will be kept confidential. Mrs Banbury said that interviews were taped and took about an hour."

The research will influence the work carried out by the tobacco team at the NCAHS and the National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre at the University of NSW in Sydney.

 

Take care fellas of interviews that are taped and take about an hour

 

... maybe this should read "the work is being carried out by the National Cannabis Policing and Intelligence Centre."

 

Thanks for the post Frazz

[jabez]

This study sounds very dodgy!

 

Anyway, if mixing your weed with tobbacco actually caused people to smoke more cigarettes, then shouldn't it be victoria that had a higher than average population of cigarette smokers. Since every other state I've been too people always ask if you spin, but in victoria nobody would even bother to ask, since its just the norm, it's just how weed is smoked in vic.

[Frazz]

the study IS dodgy, its part of the merry-go-round where money is handed out for research , research results in a report , report is dodgy , government uses report findings in the War Against Drugs if it suits the message the government is peddling ..

next year the same mob line up for more handouts to 'study and report' , it goes on and on costing millions

its ridiculous waste of taxpayers money

 

[Thurgood Jenkins]

Yeh i don't trust anything government funded haha.

 

With this though, I can easily smoke 10-20 cigarettes a day when not smoking herb. Crave cigarettes like crazzzzy all day/

 

And then when i go back to smoking herb again - i will mull up about a 5-1 ratio herb to baccy and not crave cigarettes all day. Even if i just have a session in the morn and go without all day.

 

Am i the only one???? :yinyang:

 

oh cool theirs a jedifight smiley!!!

[Pig Mindset]

I stopped mixing a while ago and I actually use less dope now then I did then which makes me think tobacco isn't really making anyone's dope go further, it's just making you smoke more to get the nicotine hit.