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Posted on 08/29/2019 10:58:49 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Federal health officials issued a national warning Thursday against marijuana use by adolescents and pregnant women, as more states legalize the increasingly potent drug for medicinal and recreational use.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Surgeon General Jerome Adams made the announcement, with Azar calling marijuana “a dangerous drug.” Officials said President Donald Trump has donated $100,000 — one-quarter of his annual government salary — toward a digital campaign to raise awareness of the risks. Trump has forgone his official salary since taking office.
The warning comes as legal marijuana has grown into a $10-billion industry in the U.S. with nearly two-thirds of states legalizing it, mainly for medical uses. An increasing number of states and localities are also allowing personal, recreational use. […]
Adams said science shows that marijuana is harmful to the developing brains of teenagers and to the human fetus. The drug has also gotten stronger, with a three-fold increase in the concentration of the active ingredient THC in cultivated plants over the last 20 years.
“This ain’t your mother’s marijuana,” Adams said. […]
Federal officials say they fear the trend toward legalization may make it more enticing for teenagers to try marijuana. It’s a commonly used drug among youths, they said, along with alcohol and e-cigarettes. No states allow legal marijuana use by teens. …
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Do you know how much of this stuff I second and third hand smoke just DRIVING the streets of L.A.?!
Sounds kinda Sharia, that comment about alcohol.
Yeah man. We paid 18 bucks for a OZ of Mexican dirt weed. And 35-40 for red or gold weed. Hash was also big back then. (early 1970s.)
“Too many people are scaremongers and know nothing about pot (but are OK with beer and alcohol!).”
Personally, I think the bigger question is why in our society more and more people seem to need some kind of substance to get through their day. Wine drinking among women, for example, is a health issue in some middle class/upper middle class neighborhoods.
So you’re drinking liquor instead of beer. Adjust use accordingly.
And keep it away from kids. 21 may be too young to be legal. Wouldn’t bother me if they raised the legal age to 30.
Recreational cannabis is legal in my state now. I think I’m seeing it in the quality of the driving, not to mention pedestrians not paying attention to where they’re going.
PLEASE! People learned from others, even way back then!
Thailand's Legendary Marijuana
The first Thai marijuana to reach the United States came in the 1960s via the Army Post Office. The difference between Thai marijuana and most Vietnamese and Cambodian cannabis, was the difference between bathtub corn whiskey and single malt scotch. In 1967, one amazed DEA agent to called it “the Cuban cigar of the marijuana world.”
“Who can forget the first strange-looking Thai Sticks a decade ago! Dense, seedless, stronger than a bull elephant. Years before sophisticated sinsemilla techniques were incorporated into the crop management of U.S. growers,” wrote High Times magazine, the journal of record for pot connoisseurs, “the Thais were, without effort, turning out a superior product.” What sold for $3 per kilo at the farm in Isan, easily fetched $4,000 a kilo in any city in the United States in the early 1970s.
By a certain threshold the question of potency becomes moot.
Just smoke or ingest more.
Of course Marijuana addled minds arent really equipped for intricate discernment
And that’s just how the Pusher Man likes it.
In retrospect I wish I’d never touched the stuff.
I guess the ‘oxy’ and the ‘alprazolam’ lobby, along with the ‘confiscation’ machine ain’t too happy with the feedback from Canada since our northern brothers changed their laws.
Intoxication is intoxication.
Oh, I’m all for legalization. Do what you wish with your own body. Let the courts and cops spend time on other things and keep the state out of yet another part of people’s lives.
I just don’t want society or my taxes to pay for any of the consequences of people’s own choices, whether it be alcohol, weed, or heroin. Sadly, nearly all the pot smokers I know also believe that government should take care of their own, and everybody else’s health-care, housing, their financial state, and most of whatever ails them. How do you propose to fix that??
Marijuana is well documented in studies as causing permanent psychosis and schizophrenia, especially in young users.
The genetics of the strain have a lot to do with potency, but you can take the most potent strain and if you don’t grow it properly, it’s going to be garbage.
Ironically, the people so worked up about GMO don’t ever talk about the fact that modern marijuana has been heavily modified by GMO to be more powerful.
What do we do about all the hundreds of whacked out druggies outside my office building right now? Euthanize them? That is probably the best solution. Having a doctor and a policeman going around giving these guys lethal injections when they are just lying there mumbling totally works for me.
They cost us thousands of dollars a day hauling them off to emergency when they have their daily psychotic episodes, or when they assault or kill people, or they steal all your stuff and require you to have bars on your windows.
I am personally fine with just killing them when they get to a certain state, but there’s no way these brain dead people don’t crap up everything around them.
Undoubtedly. I do believe weed has medical benefits. Especially for people who have problems eating, people on chemo for example.
One way that it becomes more potent is male plants are removed which keeps the female plants from producing seeds.
So for the really good stuff there typically aren’t any seeds to plant.
Yep. While it has probably gotten better, the old “it’s twenty times as strong as what you used to smoke” is a tried and true cliche for the drug warriors.
People are taking one-hits and getting as much THC as a joint of the dirt weed of our days.
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