Posted by sowhysosad on April 24, 2009, at 17:23:01
In reply to Re: cannibus and brain attributes, posted by linkadge on April 24, 2009, at 7:19:49
> It also depends a lot on how the cannabis is grown. THC content has gone up 6 fold since the 60's.
The increased strength of cannabis is a myth that's regularly trotted out by prohibitionists, particularly here in the UK.
Over here, the average THC content of weed has risen from 8% to 12% over the last 10 years. That's 1.5x stronger, not 6, 8, 10, or even 25(!) times stronger as the police, politicians and journalists regularly claim. Back in the '70s, the UN Drug Control Programme analysed seized samples of both weed and resin that were 16 or 17% THC.
A lot of hypocritical politicians and journalists were stoners in their college days. There's a lot of rose-tinted nostalgia that leads to the belief that the dope they smoked was somehow harmless whereas today's is evil and killing their kids.
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