Britain's 'Super Strength' Cannabis Could Be Causing Mental Health Problems
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Re: Britain's 'Super Strength' Cannabis Could Be Causing Mental Health Problems
#2"Latest figures shows there were 7,545 hospital admissions in 2016/2017 for drug-related mental health and behavioural disorders, 12 per cent higher than in 2006/2007."
Why provide a stat that includes all drugs in an article about one specific drug
Re: Britain's 'Super Strength' Cannabis Could Be Causing Mental Health Problems
#3'Super Strength' is a relative description, it is comparing professionally bred and grown strains against bush weed from the 1970's. It is no more super strength that the strains available in the US right now. The telegraph is essentially a right wing tabloid these days, little better than the Daily Mail, im suprised to see such a poor article so high on HN.
Re: Britain's 'Super Strength' Cannabis Could Be Causing Mental Health Problems
#414% is pretty weak marijuana.
There are many other factors.
I believe this piece is biased.
Re: Britain's 'Super Strength' Cannabis Could Be Causing Mental Health Problems
#5"Latest figures shows there were 7,545 hospital admissions in 2016/2017 for drug-related mental health and behavioural disorders, 12 per cent higher than in 2006/2007." Why provide a stat that includes all drugs in an article about one specific drug
It's a newspaper - not an academic journal. Interesting figures, even if not directly related (or just flat-out misleading), are commonplace.
Re: Britain's 'Super Strength' Cannabis Could Be Causing Mental Health Problems
#6'Super Strength' is a relative description, it is comparing professionally bred and grown strains against bush weed from the 1970's. It is no more super strength that the strains available in the US right now. The telegraph is essentially a right wing tabloid these days, little better than the Daily Mail, im suprised to see such a poor article so high on HN.
It also uses the telling tabloid scare-word "skunk" as if it's some kind of devilish genetic engineered superdrug when actually skunk cannabis is just a indica-sativa hybrid that has a strong smell, not necessarily a strong THC concentration.
As a sad parallel, in Romania around 2008 when we had a massive influx of "legal high" synthetic THC analogs , the media scare-word for these highly dangerous synthetic research chemicals was literally "ethnobotanics".... Even now I can't contain my anger at this kind of willful ignorance spewed by what is supposed to be public information..
Re: Britain's 'Super Strength' Cannabis Could Be Causing Mental Health Problems
#7Completely anecdotal but i saw friends who moved on to long term use of "skunk" in the UK change a lot. They never kept up with the pack or reached close to their potential and ended up drifting away from the friendship group.
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#8While marijuana is a dangerous drug that ought to be illegal, this has all signs of a moral panic.
Re: Britain's 'Super Strength' Cannabis Could Be Causing Mental Health Problems
#9While marijuana is a dangerous drug that ought to be illegal, this has all signs of a moral panic.
The Telegraph are barely better than the Mail on some topics. Since their relatively recent ownership change and rebrand they can't really be considered quality any more.
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#10"Latest figures shows there were 7,545 hospital admissions in 2016/2017 for drug-related mental health and behavioural disorders, 12 per cent higher than in 2006/2007." Why provide a stat that includes all drugs in an article about one specific drug
It's a newspaper - not an academic journal. Interesting figures, even if not directly related (or just flat-out misleading), are commonplace.
It's not just any newspaper, it's The Telegraph. Where nothing is ever as good as it used to be. Apparently now dope too.