Peter Boulding <pjb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.)
I understood you the first time. You're bringin' me down, man.
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