Sorry for drugs advice

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THE host of a British radio gardening program apologised today for unwittingly giving a caller advice on how to grow marijuana.

 

Frieda Morrison, who co-hosts Beechgrove Potting Shed on the BBC's Radio Scotland, said she had thought the caller was discussing cabbages.

 

Morrison and fellow host Jim McColl spent more than three minutes explaining which compost to use and how to water the plant, which the caller referred to as Northern Lights - a very strong variety of marijuana that shares a name with a variety of cabbage.

 

Speaking on BBC Scotland's Good Morning Scotland program today, Morrison apologised for the error.

 

"We thought the caller had said cabbages and if you look it up on the internet there is a variety called the Northern Lights," she said.

 

"So this is where the confusion started and all the way through the interview we were talking about cabbages.

"It is a very busy program and we made an honest mistake."

 

There has been a vigorous public debate over the government's decision to reclassify marijuana, known as cannabis in Britain, from a class B to a class C drug, making its use and possession a less serious crimes.

 

The reclassification, which took effect last week, puts marijuana on a par with steroids rather than amphetamines and barbiturates and will let most users off with a warning - a concession condemned by critics, who say it sends a wrong message that marijuana is not harmful.

 

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/commo...55E1702,00.html

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northern lights CABBAGE ... geez .. I gotta try that in a coleslaw salad...

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