Comments on Science Gets Skunked

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Total waste of time, quite frankly.

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.