In article <47a7d040$0$39066$dbd45001@news.wanadoo.nl>, jygffv568@jogrtyhf456v.com
(5trfg6h7) wrote:

> *From:* "5trfg6h7" 
> *Date:* Mon, 4 Feb 2008 21:21:16 +0100
> 
> > The Prime Minister ordered a review of that policy last summer 
> > following
> > years of warnings that stronger "skunk" varieties of cannabis are 
> > wreaking
> > havoc on users' mental health.
> 
> Which is insane. There are no 'stronger "skunk" varieties of 
> cannabis'. They
> don't exist. 'Skunk' is a British street term for well grown weed. 
> Whenever
> official government policy is based on street slang, you know what 
> time it is.
> 
> If they reclassify weed, it is a decision based on politics, not on 
> public health
> information.
> 
> It is just politics.
That is not what I hear from inside government and at the ACMD hearing on Tuesday
the presentation by Professor Louis Appleby, National Director of Mental Health for
the Department of Health was impressive. He was very clear about the mental harm,
we heard of patient suicides and homicides,  “68% had taken cannabis”, we (as a
society) are “guilty of complacency” (about cannabis), “causal factor”, “benefits
from re-classification”. “health perspectives” and much more. Professor Appleby was
hugely convincing. HE is not playing politics. He is in no doubt at all that
re-classification is needed. Incidentally the THC and CBD issue does seem to have
some legs, home grown weed is strong in THC but significantly it has much less CBD
than quality resin. It was suggested that CBD moderates the dangerous potential of
THC, which is something I have long thought.
> 
> > He warns that children who are starting to smoke cannabis as 
> > young as
> > ten or 11 could be trebling their risk of schizophrenia.
> 
> Based on what evidence again?
> 
> Who is breeding these 'new strains of Skunk'? What is their name?
> What is the name of the breeder?
> 
> 
> 
>

Claude wrote:
> In article <47a7d040$0$39066$dbd45001@news.wanadoo.nl>, jygffv568@jogrtyhf456v.com
> (5trfg6h7) wrote:
> 
>> *From:* "5trfg6h7" 
>> *Date:* Mon, 4 Feb 2008 21:21:16 +0100
>>
>>> The Prime Minister ordered a review of that policy last summer 
>>> following
>>> years of warnings that stronger "skunk" varieties of cannabis are 
>>> wreaking
>>> havoc on users' mental health.

>>
>> It is just politics.



> That is not what I hear from inside government and at the ACMD hearing on Tuesday
> the presentation by Professor Louis Appleby, National Director of Mental Health for
> the Department of Health was impressive. He was very clear about the mental harm,
> we heard of patient suicides and homicides,  “68% had taken cannabis”, we (as a
> society) are “guilty of complacency” (about cannabis), “causal factor”, “benefits
> from re-classification”. “health perspectives” and much more. Professor Appleby was
> hugely convincing. 

Any chance of stringing your snippets into a coherent argument? I find 
you less than hugely convincing. have you enjoyed a smoke yourself at all?