On Fri, 16 May 2008 07:03:20 -0700 (PDT), Rich T <rich_tintera@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>I was referring to planet Earth, where weed induced psychoses aren't
>that common (at least in my sector).
They aren't *that* common here, but I am, I assure you, on the same
planet:
in this part of the world it's the Dutch who greenhouse-produce much of
the
ridiculously strong and really rather unpleasant skunk which is the only
dope most people have access to here - as well as all those cheapo
tomatoes.
Most of the rest we grow ourselves, which is something of a recent
development.
The UK government, which recently reclassified cannabis from Class B to
the
'not very harmful' Class C is now planning to reverse that
reclassification
on account of the prevalence of today's super-enhanced skunk and
especially
its effects on those who are at risk from schizophrenia.
This is against the advice of its own experts and is mainly a matter of
pandering to Murdoch and to the Prime Minister's own Calvinist attitudes.
It
is nonetheless true that emergency treatment of people who can't cope with
the effects is on the rise even as usage declines.
(Some UK researchers are also linking long-term usage of superskunk to the
accelerating numbers suffering from clinical depression, but I have doubts
about that: the rapid rise in depression statistics is pretty much a world
wide phenomenon; depression is slated, according to the WHO, to become the
world's #1 epidemic problem by 2020.)
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