Bloody load of nonsense from a government that have no clue, and can’t be arsed to get one :you_crazy.
elretardo87 wrote:
Thats gotta be a joke.
Lets base our drugs policy on wild claims by the Daily Mail.
Neither harsh nor big headed mate, but entirely true from the look of things. The idea that skunk should be class B, and soap bar/normal weed C is ridiculous – firstly because most forms of hash are produced from some form of skunk/shiva cross – basically the higher the THC, the better the hash, and secondly because the hash we get in this country is for the most part utter crap.
The prevalent form of hash generically known as “soap bar” is basically a concoction of a small quantity of THC, with a load of other ingredients (including plasticisers, inert plant matter, sometimes things like vallium and ketamine – basically very little cannabis hit, and a load of stuff that is generally bad for you).
We are truly the laughing stock of Europe for the things dealers get away with selling as “hash”. I stopped smoking about 10 years or so ago, because I wasn’t getting anything like the high that originally got me smoking, and had started to get some adverse side effects (paranoia, manyana sindrome etc). I thought at the time it was the THC doing it, and started to buy in to the bollocks about high strength grass/hash until a mate at a party introduced me to white widow (which is a very high strength “skunk” type ganj). All of a sudden, I’m getting properly high again, with no side effects (apart from becoming a danger to mars bars :wink:).
I’d stopped smoking tobacco between times, and so decided to make my smoke a special occasion, and something I only do now and then which means I get totalled with only a small amount – the only time the paranoia and whatnot returned is the one time I smoked soap bar. Decided it was good weed only from then on…
Strong drinks are banned BTW mostly because when the US had prohibition on alcohol, and the inevitable black market stills appeared, some of the alcohol produced was so strong that people were going blind and whatnot from drinking it. Pure ethanol is VERY bad for you if drunk in any quantity – much like too much nicotine. The guinness record holder for the most cigarettes smoked in an hour (72 as far as I remember) died when he finished the record attempt from nicotine poisoning – nicotine is also a contact poison in quantity (if you put 5 or so packs of baccy in a pot with water, and boil it for a few hours until thick and goopy, you’d better be wearing gloves when you next handle it – the concentrated nicotine will go straight through your skin as if it’d been mixed with DMSO. It will then proceed to shut your internal organs down one by one until you fall over). Kinda gives the lie to the whole “relative harm” argument really.
There is only one sensible path to take with drugs, and that is to legalise the lot. Tax and regulate the recreational ones (so they are safer), and allow doctors to prescribe the addictive ones (so it can be done under some sort of medical supervision). Prohibition doesn’t work full stop. All it does is give money to gangsters, and kill users because the demonisation stops them getting properly educated (about things they are going to do no matter how much you tell them it’s bad….)
Sorry… got carried away there… Rant over.:weee:
