Police fight ‘death marijuana’ distribution

YNet ^ | May 23, 2006 | Raanan Ben-Zur

[Cementjungle]

Yeah, I screwed up my decimals. I've been waiting for someone to nail me on it. Took longer than I expected. Good on ya.

It's cocktail hour, our math skils are put on the backburner!

[TKDietz]

"“If in regular grass the active ingredient is 13 percent, in Hydro it is five or six times more,” senior police official Yaron Ahrak said: False"

You mean they don't have 78% THC pot where you live?

[Sir Gawain]

Nah that would even make Jamaicans crap their pants if it existed.

[lesser_satan]

Well there you go. It's so expensive you have no money left for food and starve to death. Hence "death MJ".

[Lurker]

I call bullsh**.

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[Fish_Keeper]

I have some Israeli friends and have visited Israel before. I don't think they have the kind of prevalent marijuana sub-culture that exists in the US. You don't see teens walking around with pot leaf emblems on their clothes like you do in US cities. In some liberal metropolitan parts of Israel (Tel Aviv) there is a "rave party scene" where there is presumably some drug use that goes on --- though I don't think that is the norm in their society.

[Bacon Man]

At least they didn't go overboard on the fear mongering.

/sarcasm set to 11

[CT-Freeper]

Oohhh...the deadly Dihydrogen Monoxide.

Thousands die each year from overexposure to it, but we all ingest unknown amounts of it daily.

What can we do!!??

[monkeyshine]

That's a lot less than the Chronic sells for here in California. It goes for about $55-60 per 2 grams, or around $400-450 an ounce. In California, hydroponic growth has been around for decades.

Nah, I don't smoke the stuff very often - occassionally at a social event a puff or two but I don't like the feeling it gives me. Makes me cold, and introverted, and feeling dumb. My mind races but I can't interact with people. So for me, I think it's bad.

But I have plenty of friends who do smoke regularly and have no qualms about it. I even know people who have medical marijuana prescriptions, and the price at the 'clinics' is no better than street prices - and there is no more quality control in the clinics than on the street.

The trouble with medical marijuana (to change the subject a bit) is the quality control. If you took a vicodin for pain today, and then took a vicodin for pain again 1 year from now, it would be nearly 100% the same. But not with marijuana. Every 6 weeks a new strain is on the market with different effects. Hydroponic growth could theoretically change that, but the market dynamics (not a free market, an underground market) make it a sellers market - whatever is available at the time is what is bought and sold. No QC - So yes, I see the point behind all the BS in this story... depending on the strain and the person smoking it, the side effects will differ.

I don't think it will cause a marked rise in criminality beyond petty theft, and the risk/reward is different. If you have to steal and sell something to buy this "killer weed" or you don't have to steal anything to get plain old weed... I think most people will just buy the cheaper weed. Besides, since smoking weed tends to make people more mellow and less motivated, there is a greater likelihood they will do nothing more than the bare minimum in life, just enough to live and get high.

[monkeyshine]

I don't believe that and I'll tell you why - because there are many different ways to cross the strains of marijuana plant.

In the Medical Marijuana clinics in California they market various types of strains. Each strain would have a different effect on you. Since I have never used marijuana for medical purposes I can't say if all types work well for a particular ailment, but the side effects will certainly be different. One will make you hyper, one mellow, one paranoid, one sensations of cold, one hot, etc.

The different strains are marketed with names like blueberry, train wreck, snow plow, etc. The medical users seek out the strains that help their ailment while giving them the least bad side effect. Sometimes one strain is available, sometimes not. So the point is, if it were legalized, each person would seek the particular strain that they enjoyed the most (without medical considerations). There would be myriad varieties, like wines.

[Know your rights]

Of all those who have used marijuana, 9% have at some point become dependent; the corresponding figures for alcohol and tobacco are 15% and 33%.

Glad I could educate you on this point.

I haven't used it in well over ten years.

Why did you quit?

I reckoned I had better things to do with my time and money. Why do you ask?

[mkjessup]

Responding to a post back on 5-24-06...

KnowYourRights: I haven't used it in well over ten years.

mkjessup: Why did you quit?

KnowYourRights: I reckoned I had better things to do with my time and money. Why do you ask?

I was just wondering if that past habitual marijuana use had caused you to lose track of time, forget what it was you were talking or writing about, or suddenly realize that you had completely overlooked something you meant to say or do, say a week or more ago.

Nothing important, carry on.

[Nova]

I just paid $140 for an ounce of Hydro. I'll be getting high and going on a killing spree in a few minutes. Hey, it's something to do on a slow night.

[Know your rights]

Of all those who have used marijuana, 9% have at some point become dependent; the corresponding figures for alcohol and tobacco are 15% and 33%.

Glad I could educate you on this point.

lose track of time, forget what it was you were talking or writing about, or suddenly realize that you had completely overlooked something you meant to say or do, say a week or more ago.

My family and job sometimes get in the way of my FReeping. If you ever get a family or job you'll understand.