Pot Potency? Boomers' blissfully unfazed by mere facts.

[DdC]

Boomers' Marijuana Not as Strong as Today's Pot By Michael Pound
Source: Beaver County Times November 07, 2005
Pennsylvania -- This is not your father's marijuana. Or your mother's. And that's the problem. A generation that often viewed marijuana use with a casual eye is now old enough to have kids who may be experimenting with the drug themselves. But their own experiences with pot are keeping them from having an accurate perception about use of the drug these days.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21273.shtml

"Marijuana is ten times more dangerous than twenty years ago.
Presidential candidate Bill Clinton 1992



Average Pot Potency No Stronger, Study Says
July 1, 2004 - Lisbon, Portugal
The overall strength of marijuana available in Europe has remained stable despite claims from US officials and others that it has increased significantly in recent years, according to a study released this week by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.

OPED: THE MYTH OF 'HARMLESS' MARIJUANA by John P. Walters, US Drug Czar
01 May 2002 Washington Post, p. A25.
"Parents are often unaware that today's marijuana is different from that of a generation ago, with potency levels 10 to 20 times stronger than the marijuana with which they were familiar."

Drugwar Distortion 11: Marijuana Potency False.

Federal research shows that the average potency of cannabis in the US has increased very little. According to the federal Potency Monitoring Project, in 1985, the average THC content of commercial-grade marijuana was 2.84%, and the average for high-grade sinsemilla in 1985 was 7.17%. In 1995, the potency of commercial-grade marijuana averaged 3.73%, while the potency of sinsemilla in 1995 averaged 7.51%. In 2001, commercial-grade marijuana averaged 4.72% THC, and the potency of sinsemilla in 2001 averaged 9.03%.

Source: Quarterly Report #76, Nov. 9, 2001-Feb. 8, 2002, Table 3, p. 8, University of Mississippi Potency Monitoring Project (Oxford, MS: National Center for the Development of Natural Products, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2002), Mahmoud A. ElSohly, PhD, Director, NIDA Marijuana Project (NIDA Contract #N01DA-0-7707).


Rare Vietnam Brisk Tea ("Acapulco Gold and Vietnam blend")

Original 1960s - early 70s, Dayglow and Blacklight Posters

Drug Intelligence Brief
The Cannabis Situation in the United States
December 1999"

The Clinton administration has said that doctors prescribing marijuana could be prosecuted for a federal crime.



"Marihuana makes fiends of boys in thirty days --
Hashish goads users to bloodlust."
Hearst newpapers nationwide circa 1936

"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than a small one"
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf.
Quoted by Alisdair Milne in memoirs of a British Broadcaster p. 269

The Racist Ganjawar

"Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice."
Hearst newspapers nationwide, 1935

PREJUDICE: MARIJUANA AND JIM CROW LAWS



It's like I'm stuck in a time loop posted by cloud7
Looks like Johnny Pee is seeding the papers again.
Please check the archives of these identical articles for insightful comments.
March 20, 2005 Is Pot Far More Potent Than in the Past?
November 07, 2004 Potent Pot Just One Reason Legalization Unwise
October 20, 2004 Exposing Potent Pot Myths
July 20, 2004 U.S. Drug Czar Warns of Potent Pot Here
July 19, 2004 As Pot Gets Stronger, US Officials Change Policy
May 17, 2004 Marijuana More Potent, Harmful
May 05, 2004 Stronger Marijuana Propels Abuse Rates
How about one more from 2000 to emphasize the staleness of this refrain?
August 27, 2000 Potent Pot Rolling Up Sales
Find more here: cannabisnews.com/thcgi/search



"[Marijuana] is highly intoxicating and constitutes an ever recurring problem where there are Mexicans or Spanish-Americans of the lower classes."
New York Times- Dec. 3, 1933 - Pg. 6, Sec. 4.

'Murder Weed'

The 'Virtues' of Ganja



The Drug War Refugees

The Ganjawar Fraud...

Acapulco Gold Patch/Tee



Potent Pot Myth Undermined By Report From The Ultimate Authority.
Cited By Swedish Prohibitionist Who Don’t Seem To Understand. As Usual.
Posted by Richard Cowan on 2000-02-10
Marijuana Prohibition And Potency, Price, And Safety
"Is Marijuana Stronger Than It Was Back In the '60s,
When Everyone Thought It Was Harmless?"
Analysis By Richard Cowan (MarijuanaNews note: The prohibitionists like to claim huge increases in marijuana average potency make it much more dangerous today. That is simply not supported by the official data. Amusingly, I found this on the web site of the Swedish prohibitionist propaganda organization, Hassela Nordic Network. Obviously, they don’t understand how devastating this is to the party line. Quite often that is the case. They are blissfully unfazed by mere facts.)

Marijuana: the law vs. 12 million people
Life magazine Oct 31, 1969. 25-35



Is marijuana more potent today than in the past?
Potency is a red herring. Average use today may be of marijuana that is about 2 to 3 times as potent as decades ago but users simply use less to get the same effect with less smoke.* Even 30 years ago, much more potent strains than are normally used today were available, but were seldom used. As with alcohol and tobacco, users generally prefer milder versions.

[DdC]

Don't Buy The 'Potent Pot' Hype By Paul Armentano
CN Source: Huffington Post June 16, 2008 USA
Government claims of highly potent pot must be taken with a grain of salt. As is the case with any black market commodity, definitive facts are difficult if not impossible to come by. That said, even by the University of Mississippi's own admission, the average THC in domestically grown marijuana -- which comprises the bulk of the US market -- is less than five percent, a figure that's remained unchanged for nearly a decade.**
continued...CN/24016

How the Clinton Administration is Abandoning the War Against Drugs
by John P. Walters June 16, 1994

White House Returns To Stoking Fears About Pot

Potent Pot Worries Officials

Study: Marijuana Potency Increases in 2007

Few Medical Marijuana 'Adverse Events'
CN Source: United Press International June 17, 2008 Montreal

Medical use of cannabinoids from marijuana does not cause an increase in serious negative medical side effects, Canadian researchers said.

Researchers at McGill University Health Centre and McGill University in Montreal and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver said that as the use of cannabinoid medications increases, so do concerns about their potential to cause "adverse events."

Dr. Mark Ware of the McGill University Health Centre said the analysis reported 31 separate clinical studies of cannabinoid medications conducted between 1966 and 2007. Adverse events were categorized as either serious or non-serious; with serious adverse events defined as those leading to death, hospitalization or disability.

"Overall, we found an 86 percent increase in the rate of non-serious adverse events among the patients treated with cannabinoids compared to the patients in the control groups," Ware said in a statement. "The majority of events were mild to moderate in severity."

The majority of non-serious adverse events observed involved dizziness and drowsiness, the researchers said.

The findings were published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

NORML


Marijuana Is Addictive – So What?
The Stanton Peele Addiction Website, January 7, 2006.

"Thus he adds to his statement, in order to signal to middle-age people that the marijuana experiences with which they are familiar are no longer applicable, “the marijuana that is available today can be 5 times more potent than the marijuana of the 1970s.”"

Research increasingly shows that intensive marijuana use often meets the technical requirements for addiction (or dependence). Analysts use this as evidence of the need to maintain the drug’s illegal status. But the fact of addictiveness is irrelevant to legality – addictive drugs (e.g., cigarettes, alcohol) are legal and nonaddictive drugs (e.g., LSD, Ecstasy) are not. Indeed, the fastest growing category of illicit use is of legal, but controlled, pharmaceuticals – both addictive and not. Addiction is a sideline in outlawing drugs, a label applied conveniently by authorities and cooperating scientists in support of prior policy biases.

I Know – Let’s Really Scare Kids About Drugs! by Stanton Peele
The Stanton Peele Addiction Website, March 30, 2006.
You may recall the famous egg and frying pan ad, “This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?” This was created as part of a series begun in 1987 by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America — a non-profit coalition of advertising, media, and public relations professionals. The Partnership was given $200 million annually by the federal government. Media outlets contributed over $3 billion in free television time, making it the largest and most expensive anti-drug campaign ever.

Don't Panic!
Stanton Peele, Ph.D. Morristown, NJ
Marianne Apostolides Berkeley, CA

A Parent's Guide To Understanding and Preventing Alcohol and Drug Abuse.

Teenagers often use drugs as a part of adolescent exploration. A small portion abuse drugs to escape from problems they can't handle in a positive way. Drug use differs from drug abuse.

Most adolescent substance users do not become abusers.Teach your child to avoid excess by practicing moderate substance use, whether the substance is alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, food, caffeine, etc. Talk with your teenager openly and honestly. Talk with your child about feelings as well as ideas. excerpted titles only...

DWR: Friday, June 13, 2008
Bruce Mirken does a nice job with the Potent Pot nonsense.
See also Jacob Sullum.
Search DrugWarRant.com: Potency

Pot potency
Forget big colas and stinky buds: it's all about the resin.

Marijuana growers must look closer at their crop than the average farmer to achieve a premium product. Rows upon rows of beautiful plants are of no use if they do not glisten with the THC-laden trichomes that are the object of our quest.

David Peel is a New York-based musician who first recorded in the late 1960s, with Harold Black, Billy Jo White and Larry Adams performing as The Lower East Side Band. Though his raw, acoustic "street rock" with lyrics about marijuana and "bad cops" appealed mostly to hippies at first, the sound and DIY ethic make him an important, if little-credited, early performer of punk rock.
Mother Where Is My Father?

Does Waldo think he came up with these lyrics on low grade pot?

Mara - Marijuana, Mara - Marijuana, Mara - Marijuana, Mara - Marijuana
I like Marijuana, Y....ou like Marijuana, We like Marijuana too.
I want to be to be a hippy on the lower East Side for Mara - Marijuana
I want to be a runaway I want to get high for Mara - Marijuana
It's my life and I'll do what I want Mara - Marijuana
It's my life and I'll do what I can Mara - Marijuana
I want to smoke pot and I w...ant to smoke a lot
But ask of my father you kn...ow he never smoked a lot of
Mara - Marijuana, Mara - Marijuana, Mara - Marijuana, Mara - Marijuana
I like Marijuana, Y...ou like Marijuana, We like Marijuana too.

* I Like Marijuana * Here Comes A Cop * I’ve Got Some Grass * Happy Mother’s Day * Up Against The Wall * I Do My Bawling In The Bathroom * The Alphabet Song * Show Me The Way To Get Stoned * We Love You * Lower East Side * Pledge Of Allegiance * Legalize Marijuana * Oink, Oink * I Want To Get High * I Want To Kill You * Girls Girls GIrls * Hey, Mr. Draft Board * God * Christ In A Tomb * I'm A Runaway


Released 1968

The Cannabible by Jason King's book of photos
Google: various outlets/prices.
Ten Speed Press

References:

1) Starks, Michael. 1977.
Marijuana Chemistry Genetics, Processing and Potency.
Ronin Publishing, Inc., Berkeley, CA pp. 17-86.
2) McParland, Clarke, Watson.
Hemp Diseases and Pests; management and biological control,
CABI Publishing, New York, NY
3) Pate, DW, 1994.
Chemical ecology of Cannabis.
Journal of the International Hemp Association 2: 29, 32-37.
4) Kutscheid, 1973.
Quantitative variation in chemical constituents of marihuana from stands of naturalized Cannabis sativa L. in east central Illinois.
Economic Botany 27: 193-203.
5) Bócsa, Máthé and Hangyel. 1997.
Effect of nitrogen on tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content in hemp leaves at different positions.
Journal of the International Hemp Association 4(2): 78 -79.
6) Helen Philbrick and Richard B Gregg.
Companion Plants and How to Use Them. 1996.
Devin-Adair Company, Old Greenwich, CT.
7) Oldtimer1, 2001. Personal communication
8) Vic High, 2001. BC Growers Association. Web site and help desk.
9) Hoffman, Dr Silke. 2001.
Floraculture International, May 2001.
Ultraviolet radiation in the greenhouse.
Ball Publishing, Batavia, Illinois. pp18-27.
• An excellent general reference is Marijuana Botany,
by Robert Connell Clarke. Ronin Publishing, Inc. Berkeley, CA


Nurture your trichomes and feed your head!

[DdC]

Myths and hysteria bad basis for drug laws
Peter McKnight March 31, 2007 The Vancouver Sun

Governments' approach to substance abuse is informed more by superstition than science

On Aug. 11, 2005, the former federal Liberal government announced, to much fanfare, that our current demon drug, methamphetamine, would be upgraded to Schedule I of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, which provides for the most severe penalties.

Three former ministers -- Ujjal Dosanjh, Irwin Cotler and Anne McLellan -- felt the need to be associated with this momentous event. And all made it clear that the change in meth's legal status was a result of evidence as to the harm it causes.

As then-health minister Dosanjh put it, "there are significant health, social and economic harms caused by methamphetamine." Dosanjh neglected to mention the scientific studies that drew him to this conclusion, but his oversight was ignored by the media.

That's not surprising, of course, since the meth hysteria that captivated us then and seduces us still is entirely a product of media myth-making. Science takes a back seat to headlines and deadlines, which makes our communities the captives not of drug habits but of drug hysteria.

That, in essence, is the message delivered by the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, in a report released this week titled Comparing the Perceived Seriousness and Actual Costs of Substance Abuse in Canada. continued...

Marijuana Strain Library



The Ganjawar Fraud

Politics of Pot

Drug War Distortions

Drugwar Lies Linked to Schizophrenia

Virtues' of Ganja





Crimes of Indiscretion
norml.org updated: Mar 07, 2005

Crimes of Indiscretion: Marijuana Arrests in the United States, compiled by Jon Gettman, PhD is a comprehensive study reporting and analyzing national arrest data between 1995 and 2002. This online version contains the original downloadable full report in PDF format, various other browser-friendly extracts from the report and NORML's Marijuana Arrests Investigator Flash tool, a companion application specifically designed for this project where you can create custom maps of arrest data dynamically from search parameters you enter.

List of Figures

Section 1. Marijuana Use

Figure 27.jpg Marijuana Arrest Rate and Sinsemilla Potency (1992-2001)
Figure 26.gif Marijuana Potency 1992-2001



White House Drug Policy.gov * Full Potency Reports/pdf

The University of Mississippi and the US Government's National Institute of Drug Abuse released data based on samples from the US Drug Enforcement Agency, on the potency of marijuana seized in the United States, and it comes with some surprising revelations.

Newspapers around the US have pointed out that the strength of marijuana went from 4.78% THC to 10.54% THC, a massive increase, more than doubling potency. Did marijuana growers get twice as good at growing marijuana over the last year?

What no newspaper mentioned was that the number of seizures analyzed by the laboratory went from 852 in 2007 to 12 in 2008; did drug busts suffer a 99.98% decrease over the past year, or is the DEA picking and choosing samples?

Of the 12 samples, 10 were described as sinsemilla buds, typically, for every other year, ditch weed and seeded bud made up much larger portions of seizures. The conclusion to be drawn from this study is that the DEA and NIDA data has been manipulated with cherry picked data and very low sample size.

Another interesting point of the study is the strength of hashish in the United States, which has apparently suffered a massive decline, going from 28.19% THC in 2007 to a mere 0.26% THC in 2008. Hash Oil declined as well, from 27.17% to 1.35% THC. So, while marijuana is doubling in potency, hash is somehow loosing between 99.95% and 99.99% of it's THC content.

From this study, the only conclusion one can fairly draw is that NIDA, the DEA, and the University of Mississippi are producing fundamentally flawed or intentionally misleading data on the strength of marijuana.
whitehousedrugpolicy .gov/pdf/FullPotencyReports



Study: Marijuana Potency Increases in 2007 By Hope Yen
CN Source: ONDCP Associated Press June 12, 2008 Washington, DC


Marijuana potency increased last year to the highest level in more than 30 years. 9.6 percent level represents more than a doubling of marijuana potency since 1983, when it averaged just under 4 percent.
-- John Pee Walters


"Marijuana is ten times more dangerous than twenty years ago.
-- Presidential candidate Bill Clinton 1992


"Parents are often unaware that today's marijuana is different from that of a generation ago, with potency levels 10 to 20 times stronger than the marijuana with which they were familiar."
John P. Walters, US Drug Czar
01 May 2002 Washington Post, p. A25.



Pot Potency? Boomers' blissfully unfazed by facts CCf

Waldo the Scumbo smoked schwagg in the 70's,
Not more potent today...
As thugczar, he's just now finding the good shit...
* Rare Vietnam Brisk Tea ("Acapulco Gold and Vietnam blend)
* Acapulco Gold
* Panama Red
* Thai Stick - DdC


Thai Stick larger image

Average Pot Potency No Stronger, Study Says
July 1, 2004 - Lisbon, Portugal



Drugwar Distortion 11: Marijuana Potency False.
Source: Quarterly Report #76, Nov. 9, 2001-Feb. 8, 2002, Table 3, p. 8, University of Mississippi Potency Monitoring Project (Oxford, MS: National Center for the Development of Natural Products, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2002), Mahmoud A. ElSohly, PhD, Director, NIDA Marijuana Project (NIDA Contract #N01DA-0-7707).

Propaganda vs Reason
More Propaganda, Same Reason

Maximizing Harm
A book about the drug war's losers and winners


1969 MARIJUANA PROPAGANDA Film SONNY BONO

BIZARRE LUDICROUS DRUGS CULTURE FILM 1968 DVD

Hypnosis and "Reefer Madness"
From the book Mind Control in America by Steven Jacobson



Drug War Propaganda (2003, Cafepress. 324 pages)
A review and analysis of modern drug war propaganda.

Wonder Drug Cover-Up: Yes, it's true: pot fights cancer.

As Bad For Your Lungs As Smoking 20 Normal Cigarettes?
Why does the US Government make cannabis researchers use only Government-issued marijuana?

[DdC]

Drug Warriors and Their Prey by Richard Lawrence Miller
From Police Power to Police State
Praeger Publishers 1996, ISBN 0-275-95042-5
A Review by Peter Webster

RACISM and FEAR April 10, 2008
A brief history of marijuana use and the laws against it.

Bush administration/government initiated illegal surveillance of innocent Americans long before 9/11 attacks



Pot Propaganda
The Latest Marijuana Propaganda Campaign
Marijuana Propaganda
Demon Drug Propaganda Doesn't Cut It Anymore



Walters' Propaganda Won't Hold Water
Priming The Propaganda Mill
Drug War Briefs: Superbowl Propaganda III
Propaganda Czar



Saying No To Propaganda
Why Do You Think They Call It Propaganda?
Pricey Prime Time Propaganda
Reading, Writing And Propaganda
My Propaganda or Yours?

Classic Marijuana Propaganda Films- 1950s - 1970s
Drug, Narcotics, & Marijuana as a Gateway Drug
Propaganda Films (2005)
Known in street parlance as "Mary Jane," the drug marijuana inevitably leads users down a road of hardcore drug use and (most likely) death or insanity; at least that's the way it's presented in these often chuckle-inducing propaganda films from the 1950s to the 1970s. This vintage set includes the films PIT OF DESPAIR PART I & II (1967), THE TERRIBLE DRUG (1951), DRUG ADDICTION (1951) ... See Full Description



Shamanism and the Drug Propaganda- Patricarchy and the Drug War by Dan Russell
"Shamanism and the Drug Propaganda traces the cultural evolution of our species from shamanism to the mass media religions. It is an important book, very well written, a must for anyone interested in psychoative plants and the cultural evolution of humankind. It is also a very pleasing volume to read, the kind of book that will keep you holding your breath until the end. I strongly recommend this heavily illustrated, original, yet rigorously empirical historical vision." Anthropologist and Ethnobotanist Pedro Fernandes Leite da Luz, M.A.: pedroluz@rio.com.br

Cult: Drug Films Video Titles
Maniac (1934)/Narcotic(1933)
Narcotic(1933)
The Cocaine Fiends(1937)
The Devil's Harvest(1942)
Reefer Madness(1936)
She Shoulda Said "No"!(1949)
Assassin Of Youth(1937)
Hooked (1957)/The Flaming Teenage(1956)
Marihuana (1936)
"Did you know that the use of marihuana is steadily increasing among the youth of the country?" Watch what happens as a teenage "pot party" leads to crime, pregnancy, insanity, and even murder in B-film auteur Dwain Esper's shocking expose. Harley Wood, Pat Carlyle star. AKA: "Marihuana: The Devil's Weed," "Marihuana: The Weed with Roots Hell."

Vintage Drug Films on 6DVDs Alcohol & Marijuana Films

The Honorable Light Side of the War on Some Drugs



CN Article Search: Title: Reefer Madness

Editorial: Must See Television, Propaganda
Drugs, TV and Propaganda
Propaganda for Dollars
The Quiet Death of Prime-Time Propaganda

Drug Free America Foundation
…a propaganda-generating tax shelter.

Cannabis Chronicles
...the inside dope on medical marijuana

The T.H.C. level in marijuana is what makes you feel high. “The T.H.C. level we had in marijuana back in the ’60s was estimated at two to sometimes five percent. Now I have recently had a T.H.C. level of chronic, high grade marijuana, at 28 percent.”

This has been stated frequently in the media, and Slate.com had an excellent response to the claim in “The myth of potent pot.” Daniel Forbes explains the method used to come to this... conclusion:

CANNABIS CARBON CREDITS
HEMP versus PROPAGANDA
A campaign was begun to discredit hemp. Playing on the racism that exists in America, Hearst used his newspapers to apply the name "marijuana" to hemp. Marijuana is the Mexican word for the hemp plant. THC (tetrahydrocannabino l) is the psycho-active constituent of Cannabis. Associating anti-social and criminal behavior of non-white immigrant labourers with marijuana smoking portrayed them both as evil.

This application along with various "objective" articles created fear. By 1937, these industrialists were able to parlay the fear they created into the Marijuana Tax Act. This law started the demise of the Hemp Industry in the US and the negative effect on the biofuel and many other industries.


Gary's Mountain Inn
H I G H I N T H E S I E R R A S
These are stickers that were contributed by label collector, "Sam"
Pot Stickers

[patriot]

You have pictured my one and only record album. I found it at a yard sale in Denver for 50 cents.

[DdC]

I shed my albums over the years,
and have no record player.
But I ordered And The Rest Is History: The Elektra Recordings on CD...
Be well
DdC