Comments on: [Updated] CASA: Marijuana Potency up 175 Percent, Medical Diagnoses, Treatment Admissions, ER Findings for Teen Marijuana Use up Sharply

By: pbeal

pbeal — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:32:01 +0000

I first used pot in 1982 I started smoking with my dad in 1983 I cant speak for the time between 1992 – 1998(long dry time) its always been variable.

By: Christiaan

Christiaan — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:51:28 +0000

“58% of the people in drug treatment for marijuana were referred there by the criminal justice system!”

Actually I bet that number would be MUCH higher if you figured in the percentage of those who enter treatment programs AHEAD of sentencing by the advice of attorney’s for a better sentence, or enter treatment in hopes of avoiding jail time once they do go to court.

After a long time in the Corrections field I saw that scenario played out more often than not. People awaiting sentencing were working the phones frantically trying to get accepted into a treatment program prior to court just to gain favor from the judge.

Of course there is no way to accurately account for any numbers in that scenario, but my guess is that 58% would jump significantly!

By: Harold L Nicol

Harold L Nicol — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:06:20 +0000

The very fact that there is a market of unregulated, unknown potency cannabis being sold to anyone who has the money makes the argument for a regulated market similar to alcohol. How would you like to buy a beer (3.5-10%) and get Everclear (close to 100% alcohol)? Cannabis should be regulated for purity and active alkaloid content and percentage. I would not like to get 20% THC cannabis when I am happy with 7-10% bud. I am a senior citizen who went through the Woodstock weed decade and smoked fantastic Vietnamese cannabis and seedy Mexican brick when the Feds were’nt pushing the cannabis market into the hands of ruthless drug mercenaries. Now, it’s money and potency with no appreciation for the culture and the plant. I only hope I live long enough for this plant to be reinstated to it’s wonderful abilities to heal our health and our planet. Peace to all.

By: littleflower

littleflower — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:31:36 +0000

here’s my problem with the The this isn’t your fathers weed argument I am in my 30’s so I don’t have first hand experiance but from what I have heard seen and read, my understanding is that in the sixties and seventies , just like any other time in the history of the world . there were all different levels of cannabis potency available. In the sixties and seventies folks were going on “drug tourism excursions to places like india and afganistan and morocco. these are hot mountainous regions. cannabis potency is affected by altitude and temperature. not only that people were doing alot more than cannabis back then. the folks of the generation before were not naive bumpkins who never got high.