It should just be legalized... what a joke.
It's a herb and way more beneficial than some of the bullshit meds sold over the counter.
It's a National disgrace and I just hope there's a government with some balls that sorts out this bullshit law soon.
More states legalize Pot 8) when for Oz?
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Mainly roll a joint these days. No spin (tobacco).Woods Of Ypres wrote:skids how do you smoke your weed
do you roll joints, make blunts / mix tobacco
or smoke from pipe or bong
Sometimes a bong (if it's a potent bit) and a bucket bong if I'm down at the shack with my old mate Scanners, it's the only way he smokes.
I've used a vape, that was ok. Rice in the bong instead of water.
Don't count the days, make the days count.
Is today’s cannabis much higher in potency than 25 years ago?
https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/is- ... years-ago/
Sep 25, 2018
'... Page is also the president and CEO of Vancouver-based Anandia, a company specializing in cannabis genetics and lab testing for quality control purposes; he was part of the Canadian team of scientists who were first to publish the cannabis genome sequence.
... “Growing high-potency cannabis is a standard thing now,” says Page. “But it doesn’t mean that 40 years ago people couldn’t find really high-potency cannabis. If you went to India, some places would have really potent stuff. An old hippie guy I met in California went to Pakistan in 1971 and purchased seeds that are the source of the cannabis he still grows.”
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Page and his colleagues at Anandia crunched the numbers from Canada’s Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations program and found today’s average THC potency (milligrams of THC per gram of cannabis) to be between 15 and 17 per cent, which Page says is quite strong.
According to High Times magazine, in 2017, California’s Godfather OG strain was evaluated as boasting a record-breaking 34 per cent THC level. By comparison, American studies have determined that, in 1995, average potency hovered around four per cent.
Page doesn’t have much faith in those figures. “I don’t really believe the over-30 numbers,” he says. “I question either the lab or people putting other cannabinoids in the product to make it stronger. The maximum I buy into is 28 per cent. The thing about the numbers [in the American studies] is that they’re based on drug seizure analyses that the cops put into the labs. And maybe it was poor quality because people would buy anything in those days. So it skewed to these lower potency numbers. It’s like comparing apples and oranges.” '
https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/is- ... years-ago/
Sep 25, 2018
'... Page is also the president and CEO of Vancouver-based Anandia, a company specializing in cannabis genetics and lab testing for quality control purposes; he was part of the Canadian team of scientists who were first to publish the cannabis genome sequence.
... “Growing high-potency cannabis is a standard thing now,” says Page. “But it doesn’t mean that 40 years ago people couldn’t find really high-potency cannabis. If you went to India, some places would have really potent stuff. An old hippie guy I met in California went to Pakistan in 1971 and purchased seeds that are the source of the cannabis he still grows.”
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Page and his colleagues at Anandia crunched the numbers from Canada’s Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations program and found today’s average THC potency (milligrams of THC per gram of cannabis) to be between 15 and 17 per cent, which Page says is quite strong.
According to High Times magazine, in 2017, California’s Godfather OG strain was evaluated as boasting a record-breaking 34 per cent THC level. By comparison, American studies have determined that, in 1995, average potency hovered around four per cent.
Page doesn’t have much faith in those figures. “I don’t really believe the over-30 numbers,” he says. “I question either the lab or people putting other cannabinoids in the product to make it stronger. The maximum I buy into is 28 per cent. The thing about the numbers [in the American studies] is that they’re based on drug seizure analyses that the cops put into the labs. And maybe it was poor quality because people would buy anything in those days. So it skewed to these lower potency numbers. It’s like comparing apples and oranges.” '
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Talking to Dad on the blower today, as you do on Fathers Day when you're away and can't have a beer with the old bastard.
Amongst other things he told me how Mum starts on cannabis capsules next week. She's had this undiagnosed (correctly)/ unexplained condition for over 10 years and this is an option she hasn't tried yet.
In a nutshell, she has this 'blistering' in the roof of her mouth which then bursts and leaves holes. Very painful and been driving her and the old man crazy.
She's seen more specialists and scientists and dentists and any other 'expert's they could find since 2006. All had theories and different remedies, but none have even helped, let alone worked. I tried her to hit up the Docs for the cannabis years ago.... she finally listened.
Dad said the paperwork they have to complete, to get the script is ridiculous. But they've pushed on with it and she should be starting treatment this week.
I'm guna buy her some Tim Tams when I get home, a box of the fckrs.
Stay tuned!
Amongst other things he told me how Mum starts on cannabis capsules next week. She's had this undiagnosed (correctly)/ unexplained condition for over 10 years and this is an option she hasn't tried yet.
In a nutshell, she has this 'blistering' in the roof of her mouth which then bursts and leaves holes. Very painful and been driving her and the old man crazy.
She's seen more specialists and scientists and dentists and any other 'expert's they could find since 2006. All had theories and different remedies, but none have even helped, let alone worked. I tried her to hit up the Docs for the cannabis years ago.... she finally listened.
Dad said the paperwork they have to complete, to get the script is ridiculous. But they've pushed on with it and she should be starting treatment this week.
I'm guna buy her some Tim Tams when I get home, a box of the fckrs.
Stay tuned!
Don't count the days, make the days count.
Mythbusters: Cannabis potency
https://www.drugfoundation.org.nz/matte ... s-potency/
NZ Drug Foundation, Matters of Substance - Nov 2010, Volume 20, Issue No.4
"At first glance, claims of increasing cannabis potency appear to have been confirmed by the recent ESR study, with THC potencies of up to 30 percent compared to levels ranging between 1.3 and 9.7 percent in a study by the same institute in 1996.
The 1996 study measured the THC content of cannabis plants seized by Police from illegal growers and found its potency had been largely stable between 1976 and 1996. Those seizures consisted of a mixture of mainly outdoor grown and imported cannabis and only small numbers of indoor grown plants, as the method of hydroponic indoor cultivation was in its infancy at that time. And this is where claims of greatly increased cannabis potency start to look a little shaky or at least somewhat exaggerated.
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A better test of changes in THC potency over time would be to continue testing illegally grown cannabis material seized by Police. According to the authors of the 2010 ESR study, this kind of testing is currently underway, and preliminary results show an average THC content of 10.9 percent. This does indicate a slight increase in potency since 1996, where the highest THC measurement was 9.7 percent and most of the samples tested were between 1 and 5 percent THC.
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The extraordinarily high potency figure of 30 percent reported in the 2010 ESR study was achieved for only one sample, from one plant, from one grow cycle in the entire study. In fact, the average THC content for each plant tended to hover around 7 or 8 percent, which is comparable to THC levels reported for cannabis across Europe.
The overwhelming finding from ESR’s experimental cannabis harvest was the extreme variation in potency, not just between plants, but even between samples taken from the same plant. ...
A report on cannabis potency in European countries by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction in 2002 stated that the natural variation in cannabis THC levels found at any given time is likely to “far exceed” any changes observed over time."
https://www.drugfoundation.org.nz/matte ... s-potency/
NZ Drug Foundation, Matters of Substance - Nov 2010, Volume 20, Issue No.4
"At first glance, claims of increasing cannabis potency appear to have been confirmed by the recent ESR study, with THC potencies of up to 30 percent compared to levels ranging between 1.3 and 9.7 percent in a study by the same institute in 1996.
The 1996 study measured the THC content of cannabis plants seized by Police from illegal growers and found its potency had been largely stable between 1976 and 1996. Those seizures consisted of a mixture of mainly outdoor grown and imported cannabis and only small numbers of indoor grown plants, as the method of hydroponic indoor cultivation was in its infancy at that time. And this is where claims of greatly increased cannabis potency start to look a little shaky or at least somewhat exaggerated.
...
A better test of changes in THC potency over time would be to continue testing illegally grown cannabis material seized by Police. According to the authors of the 2010 ESR study, this kind of testing is currently underway, and preliminary results show an average THC content of 10.9 percent. This does indicate a slight increase in potency since 1996, where the highest THC measurement was 9.7 percent and most of the samples tested were between 1 and 5 percent THC.
...
The extraordinarily high potency figure of 30 percent reported in the 2010 ESR study was achieved for only one sample, from one plant, from one grow cycle in the entire study. In fact, the average THC content for each plant tended to hover around 7 or 8 percent, which is comparable to THC levels reported for cannabis across Europe.
The overwhelming finding from ESR’s experimental cannabis harvest was the extreme variation in potency, not just between plants, but even between samples taken from the same plant. ...
A report on cannabis potency in European countries by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction in 2002 stated that the natural variation in cannabis THC levels found at any given time is likely to “far exceed” any changes observed over time."