If you check the UKCIA (Cannabis Internet Activists) website, you can see numerous comments about a current worsening of the problem of cantamination in the cannabis supply. Dealers in pursuit of profit are adding toxic stuff like glass dust and lead (to increase weight). In Britain and parts of Europe there is a large population of “mixusers” who combine cannabis and tobacco in the same “joint” (that’s what they think the word means) or “spliff”. The UKCIA has a section entitled Toke Pure which campaigns against this terrible practice, a danger to everybody because the victims, with tobacco present, can’t tell if there is crap in their weed, and this emboldens treacherous dealers to poison the herb for everybody (especially those without the courage to say NO when it may be a while before they can find some other herb.

Amen, Mikmo6.

First off the fact that there are stronger strains of pot being grown is no big thing. Smoking some hydroponic “one hitter quitter” instead of low-grade Mexican stress weed is no different than taking a shot of Jack Daniels instead of drinking a can of Bud Light.

To hear PM Brown talk about it this new super-weed is so dangerous that a person would wind up just like Art Linkletter’s daughter who took acid and jumped out a window.

This Brits do seem to have their own strategic variation on U.S. anti-pot propaganda which stresses the terrible “schizophrenic” effect it has on people.

And while I guess potheads are a little paranoid, we have to admit to that but what is it we’re paranoid about? It wouldn’t be about getting arrested or losing or jobs, would it? Does that make me a paranoid schizophrenic?

Sounds like the same type of scare tactics that have always worked for anti-drug zealots going back to the “Reefer Madness” days.

To me the outrageous lengths to which our politicians and law enforcement go to keep marijuana illegal is the difference between real freedom and the illusion of freedom.

Too bad governments in the U.K., U.S. Canada, etc. can’t rely on real science which has long recommended to legalize weed and get their mits on the regulation side of things since they’re so concerned about the potency of our weed.

Instead, anti-drug policy makers rely on the old addage of telling huge lies often enough to make them become the truth and their number one tool for doing so are of course the various forms of mass media including the Internet.

Lying about pot is an institutionalized mandate that has woven itself into every fabric of American and apparently British society, and I am just grateful for an organization like NORML for providing a forum where we can find some recluse from the shit-storm of lies and deceit churned out by the taxpayer-funded mass media machine which since the 60’s has grown much more sophisticated and potent to the rights of the ordinary citizen than any new strand of “killer weed.”