So UK presenter and war correspondent Jon Snow just ripped two bags of kush to the dome in the name of Science.
Trip report: "Scarier than war"
This report below creases me up something rotten, the idea of this old man being stoned out of his mind going on the Whitey in an MRI machine is just fucking fantastic.
What is it about some people/old people and Cannabis that just don't mix. It really does seem to be marmite, you either love it or hate it. I've seen plenty of freak outs in my time, I wonder what causes such panic attacks when for others this is standard procedure daily.
It's just a matter of tolerance, I think. Old people who have taken Diazepam and opioid painkillers on the reg would probably be fine with the altered state.
I can't handle strong skunks and cheeses as they have a tendency to make me cold sweat and then I start freaking and I'm sick. My brain doesn't like not being in control, I've theorised, but it's probably bollocks.
I'm definitely on the "environment" side of the argument. For fuck sake, there's been two programmes where they've given the elderly drugs and forced 'em into MRI's like jews into an oven. Then act surprised when they freak out?
Give Our Jon his favourite movie, packet of crisps and a bed. See how he likes it then.
>What is it about some people/old people and Cannabis that just don't mix.
That's a question, and should have a question mark at the end. Anyway, I think the issue is a mix of tolerance and expectation. The hippy generation smoked weed that was many times less potent than modern strains of skunk, so if they skin up a fatty with the amount of weed they used to use in their youth, they're smoking an absolutely fucking knockout strong joint. I used to smoke weed off and on, and I'd always find that it took me a few days to get back "in control" when it came to smoking skunk. This is tolerance, which you mention indirectly:
>standard procedure daily
Smoking skunk daily gives you the tolerance required to find it relaxing, rather than stimulating.
Combine all this with an expectation of a much milder, less cerebral kind of high and you've got the perfect mental storm of dissonance required to kick off a properly nasty whitey.
(I couldn't help but laugh at the video, cunt that I am. An MRI scanner is probably a pretty horrible place to be stoned, to be fair.)
My mate works in a hospital and he told me (in complete confidence, of course) about an old man who became very confused and uncomfortable during an MRI scan. Of course, in light of this report he was probably just on a horrendous whitey.
I hate to sound like a "LEGALIZE IT 420BLAZEITLADM8" but this re run in the news of the old "Skunk is too powerful,, it didn't hurt you in the 60s-90s but this stuff is diffrent and will fuck your kids" story just seems to logically only suggests legalization.
Your unregluated underground market is unconcerned about the product becoming more dangerous? WHAT A FUCKING SHOCK.
I find it odd that you never hear anyone in the mainstream even put this point forward.
It also annoys me that I don't really know what I am buying, the first joint our of any bag is always fucking pot luck!
>A Home Office spokesman said the findings backed up the government's approach: "Drugs such as cannabis are illegal because scientific and medical evidence demonstrates they are harmful. This report serves to emphasise how they can destroy lives and communities."
Er hello? No scientific evidence demonstrating the harm of alcohol or tobacco then? No lives destroyed by them? None of their negative effects alleviated by being legal and controlled?
I just cannot understand how anyone can be against regulating, taxing and mitigatating harm in a market that is going to exist anyway. Nearly every issue raised in anti weed debates could be reduced or removed by regulation. Keeping prices at current rates, production would be dirt cheap, the rest as tax (like cigs and booze).
Drugs contribute 4.4 billion to gdp. Assume half of that is stuff that we could only legalize on a perscription for addicts basi, that's still 2.2 billion that could probably be taxed at 75-80%. That is more than the entire mansion tax just on less harmful drugs.
Harm reduction could also probably reduce costs for mental health care and hospital admissions, what we really need is very clear research that is presented fairly, but no one seems to be doing that.
It is just the same with hookers and I don't even use them!
>>7180 Decriminalising pot and prostitution would be absolutely horrifying to a significant portion of the electorate - specifically, the older generation, who actually bother to vote. Even the suggestion would be political suicide.
It's stupid, and all the evidence points to current drugs policies causing more harm than good, but within another 10 or 20 years I have hope that we'll be going through the process that America is right now with regards to the legality of pot.
It genuinely annoys me when people are so damn illogical.
These old cunts eat the biggest chunk of public money, clog up the NHS and make queing in the co-op a fucking nightmare. I know we cant euthanise them but maybe we can take the vote of them?
Overweight drug using smokers like myself should frankly be congratulated. I might cost the NHS a bit more before im 60, but chances of me lingering 30 years in a home or claiming more than 5 years of state pension is pretty fucking thin!
>>7184 >people still prefer to buy it on the black market.
Black market sales still occur, obviously (this stuff doesn't go away overnight), but it's decreasing fast. Everything I've read, including quotes from the farmers supplying cartels with weed, indicates that legalisation in the US has hurt illegal weed business significantly.
>>7171 The whole thing is fucking bogus. You could take a rather old man, get him ripped to the tits on almost any stimulant for the first time, and he'd probably say it was a terrible idea. Tells you nothing.
For fuck's sake don't use the word "pot", I can't read it without hearing it in an awful SoCal duuuuuude accent. It doesn't sound right out loud in any British voice either.
Anyway you're right, we're lagging behind politically these days because our demographics are so skewed towards the elderly. Once the remains of the baby-boomer generation finally shuffle their way off this mortal coil we have some chance of repairing the damage they did to our country and the world- It's worth remembering that a significant amount of the problems faced by young people today, not just petty drug issues, are a direct result of decisions made by the previous couple of generations. There's bound to be a turnaround eventually, it'll just take time.
>>7187 >For fuck's sake don't use the word "pot", I can't read it without hearing it in an awful SoCal duuuuuude accent. It doesn't sound right out loud in any British voice either.
"Pot" got used a fair bit when I was growing up. Regional differences, init.
