By TPerl
Saw this in today's NY Post:
Reuters
April 26, 2007 -- The marijuana being sold across the country is more potent than ever, government drug experts said yesterday.
Average levels of THC, the active ingredient in pot, rose from 7 percent in 2003 to 8.5 percent in 2006, the National Institute on Drug Abuse said.
THC levels have risen steadily from 3.5 percent in 1988, which could explain a growing number of medical emergencies involving the drug, the feds said.
Now that's what I call progress!
And what exactly are the "growing number of medical emergencies involving the drug"? I never heard of anyone going to the hospital for eating an entire chocolate cake at 2AM.
By the way, the Post's headline for this blurb was "It's Not Your Father's Pot" - pathetic, if you ask me.
If only I could get a job writing headlines at the Post!
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Everyone in the DEA should be forced to drop acid and rub each other's naked bodies with peanut butter and ferrets.
There's some decent commentary on the potency "problem" here:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/04/more_potent_pot.html
Basically, is it a problem if people are just smoking less for the same effect?
Exactly.
And I like the other clarifiction in your link about the "medical emergencies" thing - it turns out the statistic used here simply means that individual in the ER admitted to using weed, but the pot did not necessarily have anything to do with the ER visit.
And back to your original point, if we're smoking less to get high now, than today's pot is actually HEALTHIER for us since we inhale less smoke (and all the other toxins contained therein).
To quote a great man....
"Im a fuckin' bong" T. Perl
G-race
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