Slog - Comments on Science Gets Skunked

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:41:23 -0800

Well, the obvious answer to your presumably rhetorical question must be: because UK prisons are woefully underutilized, what with there not being nearly enough murders, bank robbers, child rapists, cut-purses, highwaymen, or deer-poachers to fill them.

Fortunately, such a problem doesn't exist in THIS country, where our prisons are full-to-overflowing.

Comment by michael strangeways

michael strangeways — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:46:57 -0800

I think the British are deathly afraid of the Winehouse Effect and they'll be overrun by a generation of gap-toothed, rats nest behaired, one hit wondered, drug addicts.

Comment by Westside forever

Westside forever — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:51:33 -0800

I think one of the factors in this trend is a Boomer vs. their kids thing. I've remember hearing from a boomer woman I know say that smoking marijuana was verbooten for her kids, even though she had let her own freak flag fly back in the '60's, because today's pot is "way stronger".

Grandma's "lid" of Mexican Brown back in the day may have been weaker, but she and her friends had to smoke up a hell of a lot more of it to get as high as today's hydro. It's a specious argument to say that stronger=more dangerous. Stronger can just as easily = more efficient.

Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty

Fifty-Two-Eighty — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:58:02 -0800

I am constantly hearing that "today's pot is stronger," and I have to ask: stronger than WHAT? There was strong pot and weak pot 40 years ago, just as there is today. It would be interesting to see what qualitative measurement justifies that statement.

Comment by Jiberish

Jiberish — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:11:24 -0800

before i moved away hash was much more prevalent than weed in the uk.

Comment by poppy

poppy — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:14:23 -0800

Isn't stronger pot a lot safer than weaker pot? You don't have to smoke nearly as much.

Comment by PJ

PJ — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:18:53 -0800

I do believe that pot is more potent than it used to be due to improved growing techniques. But from a public health standpoint this is a good thing. Stronger pot means bongs and pipes are more frequently used instead of joints, which means less marijuana is necessary to achieve the same effect.

Comment by KeeKee

KeeKee — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:26:01 -0800

Hello? They just recently started calling it skunk? Where have the U.K.'s potheads been the last 25 years?

Comment by Jiberish

Jiberish — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:35:42 -0800

@8 smoking hash, and skunk is cheap weed, skunk is strong weed. same language different meanings.

Comment by Jiberish

Jiberish — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:36:33 -0800

sorry i meant it doesn't mean cheap weed...it means strong

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:37:48 -0800

Have to agree on the comment about Boomers trying to legislate their lack of morality on their kids.

Total waste of time, quite frankly.

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:54:07 -0800

Many Boomers have simply done exactly what they said they'd never do - become just like their parents.

And just like their parents, their "do as I say, not as I (did)" prohibitions will prove equally as ineffective on their own children as their parent's were on them.