I'm curious about that. Another genius attempt - along with PCP - to create a legal, synthetic alternative to cannabis that's resulted in something much, much worse than cannabis. Well done, everyone.
It's almost like prohibition of cannabis is a really fücking terrible idea, isn't it?
I'm not an expert on drugs as i am lucky (?) that I have never partaken..... but imo cannabis has been shown to have medical beneits so fo that reason alone should be legalised. if you want to bring in tighter controls regarding driving while under the influence etc than do it
Northern Monkey ... who can't upload a bleeding Avatar
The only issue I have with cannabis is the sheer bloody strength of it these days. This again came about because of prohibition. As crackdowns on imports of lower-strength (and very enjoyable) hashish started to bite, it created a gap in the market for domestic growers to create varieties with much higher THC levels, which is how we ended up with skunk. So, again, prohibition created a stronger nastier drug than existed in the first place.
Yes, the thing I found particularly shocking in that book was that the US government deliberately poisoned industrial alcohol in order to put people off drinking it - IN THE FULL AND CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE THAT THEY WOULD KILL THEIR OWN CITIZENS BY DOING SO.
Always worth bearing that in mind whenever some public health prick or prohibitionist type tells you they're thinking of the public good. Just remember these freaks would see you dead in order to achieve their ends.