Re: Weed vs. Tobacco

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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> : 
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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. 
>

This is a use of the word "Calvinist" that I'm not familiar with. I'm 
trying to grok it from context and am coming up empty.

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