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I Keep Reading this in the UK press....High Potency Skunk......93% of police seizures are high potency skunk...so it is supposedly Wide spread
But.....What the hell is it....?
Have any of you heard of it....
..grown it...smoked it....or is it simply a Scare Word made up by the UK press or police...
If it was Available...we would have heard it here surely......?
Every violent crime linked back to a cannabis smoker gets Blamed on it........
...but me...sitting on a canna site..day in day out has Never seen it advertised..or even Talked about....
..am I Missing something....?
Morning Mossy
Please forgive my very quick reply, I literally woke up and read this, I still have sleep in my eyes.
This nonsense has been being reported for years.
It all started when cannabis quality and strength of cannabis was improving due to modern selective breeding and improved indoor growing techniques in the 90's.
Skunk was just a just a buzzword for all modern strains of cannabis grown in doors! It doesn't actually mean "Skunk" the strain.
I think any of us who were smoking weed and hash in the 80's know for the most part that the imported "brick weed" which was full of seed and stalks and the Moroccan "slate" was of fairly low quality.
Modern strains in the 90's had higher THC for two reasons, one because it was carefully grown with the correct nutritional and in the best environmental conditions.
Second reason is because breeders wanted to breed better weed and were focussed on increasing resin production with higher THC levels.
This was before breeders realised that CBD was also important.
Lots of the research is biased and use "Noddy" data.
Honestly I could write a dissertation on this but I don't have the time and I don't think anyone would read it.
The press just pick up what little morsels they can find and blow it out of proportion, The red tops are the worst.
Where as the "Independent" newspaper actively supported cannabis and was know for it's Pro Cannabis Editor. Not sure what the current Editor thinks re cannabis.
These days there are a lot of scientists looking in to the health effects of cannabis and breeder are growing balanced THC/CBD strains as well as CBD only strains.
High doses of THC can make you paranoid, If you can actually ride the wave and not worry it can be quite an exhilarating experience. Inexperienced users would most likely find it a troubling experience.
15 year olds have a ton of shite going on, yup puberty is bitch.
15 year olds who don't smoke weed are still freaked out by the world and get depressed etc.
I need coffee and to wake up.
I will leave a link to one of the "Roots" to the story you posted.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/about/d...the-link-between-cannabis-and-psychosis-2.pdf
Below I include the references for the above report!
REFERENCES • Louise Arsenault et al. Cannabis use in adolescence and risk for adult psychosis: longitudinal prospective study. BMJ, 2002; 325: 1212-3 • Morrison PD et al.
The acute effects of synthetic intravenous Delta-9- tetrahydrocannabinol on psychosis, mood and cognitive functioning. Psychological Medicine, 2009 Oct; 39(10): 1607-16 • Bhattacharyya S et al. Opposite effects of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol on human brain function and psychpathology. Neuropsychopharmaology, 2010 Feb; 35(3): 764-74. Epub, 2009 Nov 18 • Di Forti M et al. High-potency cannabis and the risk of psychosis. British Journal of Psychiatry, 2009; 195 (6) 488-491
When a news article reports on modern cannabis being bad for teenagers, maybe it should mention the study cites -
The acute effects of synthetic intravenous Delta-9- tetrahydrocannabinol on psychosis, mood and cognitive functioning.
None of us are injecting artificial THC!!!!
So much I haven't said but when legislation is finally considered in the UK, I know this study will be brought forth by the rabid naysayers.
However the push for legalization will be bolstered by new more informed studies from the States & Canada etc, that will debunk the myths in this report from Kings College.
The longer the UK leave addressing legalization of cannabis, the more empirical data there will be to support it being legalised.
The UK has what is called "The baby boomer generation" kids that were born when Daddy got home from the Second World War".
This was a generation that occured in a tidal wave of new births all at the same time.
These are the same people who voted for brexit. They are rabidly against all change but they are also a force, which will not be with us so much in the next 10-20 years as, they are all reaching the end of their lives.
These naysayers will not be here to stop cannabis laws changing, all we have to do is wait!
Until then expect more stories like this to pop up, because the older generation have no idea what they are talking about and don't want to know, they will just keep hanging on to the lies they are told.
..glad you have your plants up and running again.....
same here Mossy
4am here
