UK - Reefer madness? If 'super skunk' is causing mental health problems, the perverse

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Reefer madness? If 'super skunk' is causing mental health problems, the perverse drug laws are to blame

Telegraph

By Tom Chivers Politics Last updated: June 13th, 2013

With reader comments

Imagine that you're a smuggler. You're running a high-risk operation bringing contraband jewellery out of a country which outlaws the export of any precious or semi-precious stones. If you get caught, you face years in jail. Do you smuggle a) quartz or b) diamond?

No, it's not a hard question, is it. If your risks are high, your potential rewards had better be as well, or you might as well invest your money in a tax-free ISA and save yourself the effort. A high-quality diamond weighing a gramme could sell for up to £53,000, according to a no doubt completely trustworthy website I found via Google. The same quantity of quartz might get you a penny, if it's good stuff. So, you smuggle the diamond. Your risk is still high, but your potential benefits are, too.

Now, imagine that you're a cannabis producer. You live in a country that has relatively draconian measures, including jail terms, for producers. Do you grow a) old-school weed such as your parents smoked at the Isle of Wight Festival while watching Procol Harum, which has to be grown outside in huge fields or b) terrifying luminous-green "super-skunk" that you can grow in large quantities under lights in your mum's basement, and which sells at two or three times the price and is probably called something like "The Howling Paranoia" or "Everyone Is Staring At You Oddly"?

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[I ATE YOUR SOUL]

100% correct, the other issue with growing super strong weed is the level of skill required to get a successful harvest, you don't have to be such a good grower to get high THC from a super strength weed strain, theres a bit more hit and miss. say you grow a plant that might produce 18 to 26% HTC, you may not fully understand what your doing but the chances are you'll still get strong weed. Growing a weaker strain say 10 to 15% HTC with the same amount of knowledge might mean you end up with something that yields poorly and is also maybe only get 6 to 8% THC. if the risks are same why plant anything but the maddest strain you can get your hand on.

 

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Good article, enjoyed the read and the comments as well.