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- From: starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr)
- Subject: Re: Is WOSD being won?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.113456.28387@genie.slhs.udel.edu>
- Organization: UDel, School of Life & Health Sciences
- References: <1992Nov18.041958.21190@u.washington.edu> <1992Nov19.190353.5440@island.COM> <1992Nov20.071946.6355@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 11:34:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.071946.6355@u.washington.edu> lamontg@stein.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist) writes:
- }guido@island.COM (Guido Marx) writes:
- }>Actually, I don't think the increase in the age of our population is
- }>the cause of the decrease in marijuana use. In fact, this decrease
- }>in marijuana use is about the only "bright spot" in the war on drugs.
- }>The government has been quite efficient in reducing the street supply
- }>of marijuana, thus drastically increasing its price (around here, I
- }>understand that good bud goes for $800/oz.). Of course, people have
- }>quit using pot and switched to alcohol, crack, and heroin. Isn't
- }>that terrific !!?
- }
- }True, but if you look at past statistics this trend started well over a
- }decade ago at least...
-
- This overlooks the fact that growers have bred for increased potency. Most
- smoking hemp is about 6 times more potent than it was during the 1960s, if
- memory serves me correctly.
-
- How to factor this in is unclear, because people like my mother no longer
- smoke hemp for the very reason that it's now too strong for them. According
- to her the trouble all started when the Nixon administration had the mexican
- hemp fields sprayed with Paraquat.
-
- } "When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases."
- } -- Robert Anton Wilson
-
- Another fine quote from one of my favorite Libertarians!
-
- Tim Starr - Renaissance Now! - Think Universally, Act Selfishly
- starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu
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- "True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten
- oneself and others." - Voltaire
-