Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Heads Up, in reply to andin,
And in case none of them have noticed, violence behaviour is more often
facilitated by alcohol.
Rendering recorded crime statistic’s virtually meaningless unless we start reporting states of mind.I did explain that in the post. Can you chill a bit?
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Hard News: Heads Up, in reply to andin,
Oh fuck me! drugs have an effect on the mind. No need to get all mystical on it.
Not really mystical. The guy's a scientist. But emotional environment matters, put it that way.
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Hard News: Heads Up, in reply to mark taslov,
So we’re rolling with this now?
Yep. Well spotted. So to speak.
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Hard News: Heads Up, in reply to Richard Ram,
Surprisingly, most were women from Pakistan and India and the odd West Indian woman with little or no friends or supportive family.
The doctors I talked to put it down to their lack of being able to socially integrate, not necessarily their choice of escape.
That's really interesting -- and completely in line with what I've heard this week.
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From the feature on US marijuana legalisation that I did for Matters of Substance, Washington State pot czar Mark Kleiman on labelling for THC/CBD rations:
“I assumed when we started this we’d just look at the literature, figure out some key ratios of, say, THC to cannabidiol and require special labels for anything over some ratio. And then we look at the papers, and it’s not there. We simply do not have the science to put together a decent warning label. Can I show you a paper that shows that a 200:1 ratio of THC to CBD is riskier than 6:1? I’d bet my eye teeth on it, but I don’t have the paper for it.”
Nadia Solowij seemed to have some actual data. Someone should put them in touch.
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Hard News: Heads Up, in reply to Phil Wallington,
But as we see on TV “reality shows” the cops spend huge amounts of money and time detecting and prosecuting cannabis users.
200 people a year get jailed for possession. That's crazy.
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Hard News: Heads Up, in reply to bob daktari,
given the seminars were health related what findings on medicinal usage? or was it all negatively focused
The big session on medical marijuana is tomorrow morning.
One interesting thing -- and it's actually one we should think about in any legalisation scenario -- is the relative decrease in the CBD (cannabidiol) content in cannabis plant in the past two decades. CBD moderates many of the harmful effects of THC, especially the risks of anxiety and psychosis, and may well have applications for treating anxiety disorders.
You know how pot seemed a bit gentler and lighter back in the day, and how modern hydro pot sometimes makes your heart race? That appears to be the relative absence of CBD. If you have an untainted source of old-school outdoor pot grown by hippies in the Coromandel, hang onto that.
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Hard News: Heads Up, in reply to BenWilson,
By joint, did she mean “tobacco mixed with cannabis”? Because 25 pure cannabis rolls per day is a pretty huge quantity.
I should've clarified that. Because, yeah.
It's actually quite surprising they don't seem to be able to quote a grams-per-day usage. Frequency is one thing, but if you're talking about dose-dependent effects, you really want to be clear about the dose.
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I've written a new post here, from the symposium.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The First Time, in reply to Barry Allan,
I lived in the country with unmusical, Merv Smith loving parents so never got to any gigs until I was 20, with one exception – a member of the Bulldogs Allstar Goodtime Band taught at my school, so they put on a show when I was about 11, in 1972 or thereabouts.
Awesome. And I presume they played 'Miss September'. In which case, they performed a song about pornography to a class of 11 year-olds.