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Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial - Channel 4 10PM

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"Last year, cannabis was smoked by two million people in the UK, making it the most commonly used illicit drug. Skunk now dominates 80 per cent of the British market, but some believe it can provoke paranoid episodes, psychotic symptoms and memory loss. In this programme, presented by Christian Jessen and Jon Snow, volunteers - including Matthew Parris, Jennie Bond and Jon himself - are seen taking part in a six-month trial looking at the effects on the brain of two forms of cannabis - skunk and hash. The experiment, designed by psychopharmacologist Val Curran, is conducted at University College London. David Nutt of Imperial College London provides scientific insight along with Curran, while the studio audience gets involved in a debate on UK law, legalisation and medical use"
 
Jon Snow throws a whitey, it's already been all over the news. They gave him two Volcano balloons of decent weed and stuck him in an MRI scanner. He was on This Morning today, and spouted some of the worst bullshit about weed that I've ever heard. I'm hoping Professor Nutt corrects the shit he believes.
 
Treacle said:
Jon Snow throws a whitey, it's already been all over the news. They gave him two Volcano balloons of decent weed and stuck him in an MRI scanner. He was on This Morning today, and spouted some of the worst bullshit about weed that I've ever heard. I'm hoping Professor Nutt corrects the shit he believes.
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Didnt it rob him of his soul? =D
 
It was a mainly positive programme. It established that skunk is stronger than 'hash'. It's a shame Professor Nutt seemed to class hash and skunk as two different drugs, rather than just saying one is stronger than the other (depending on how good the hash is). No one seemed to argue that green contains CBD, sometimes in a higher concentration than THC, or mention that the weed available in Amsterdam or legalised in America, for medical or recreational use is the same sort of weed we smoke here. 'Skunk' was portrayed as a type of weed with loads of THC, and no CBD, which is entirely inaccurate.
 
Me.. what do I win...?

I missed the program but I imagine it to be much like that crud ecstasy live or whatever it was called..
 
A cannabis-naïve person taking a massive amount in one go was never going to go well.

Weed is really, secretly, deep down a massively powerful hallucinogen. Most people simply never get to that state. At least when you smoke a joint, you get to titrate your dose -- and you'd be too fucked to skin up, before you got to the intense trippy stages. That requires at least several bong hits -- and an assistant to drive the bong.

You can also get pretty disarboreated by eating it, with something greasy to help your body absorb the THC (which is not soluble in water). Nice before bedtime, as it gives you way better dreams ..... but again, very easily overdone.
 
Shambles said:
Jon Snow seems the tokey type though. Didn't he recently mention having taken acid at uni?
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If I recall correctly, he's wheeled that one out a few times.

Supposedly it was (of course) a spiked cake or something, and he (naturally) disliked the experience.

At least he'll never be able to claim he didn't inhale...
 
I think jon snow just liked to absorb some coolness by association and exagerrated his hippified past (the pink socks aren't enough on their own), just as some sort of rebellion against his scion family - whereas jennie bond actually did smoke 'loads of weed' in uni, and it showed - new nickname: Jennie Bonged (btw i'm using 'disarboreated' Julie)
 
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