‘This ain’t your mother’s marijuana,’ surgeon general says

Associated Press ^ | August 29, 2019 | Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

[Olog-hai]

Federal health officials issued a national warning Thursday against marijuana use by adolescents and pregnant women, as more states legalize the increasingly potent drug for medicinal and recreational use.

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Surgeon General Jerome Adams made the announcement, with Azar calling marijuana “a dangerous drug.” Officials said President Donald Trump has donated $100,000 — one-quarter of his annual government salary — toward a digital campaign to raise awareness of the risks. Trump has forgone his official salary since taking office.

The warning comes as legal marijuana has grown into a $10-billion industry in the U.S. with nearly two-thirds of states legalizing it, mainly for medical uses. An increasing number of states and localities are also allowing personal, recreational use. […]

Adams said science shows that marijuana is harmful to the developing brains of teenagers and to the human fetus. The drug has also gotten stronger, with a three-fold increase in the concentration of the active ingredient THC in cultivated plants over the last 20 years.

“This ain’t your mother’s marijuana,” Adams said. […]

Federal officials say they fear the trend toward legalization may make it more enticing for teenagers to try marijuana. It’s a commonly used drug among youths, they said, along with alcohol and e-cigarettes. No states allow legal marijuana use by teens. …

[Vermont Lt]

It’s been cultivated and strains have been crossbred. But there hasn’t been a lot of traditional GMO stuff. Just try to grow the stuff. They call it a weed, but it takes a ton of attention to grow it. It is susceptible to bugs, ph imbalance, temperature, and humidity.

If it was GMO modified it would be resistant that all that stuff.

[Vermont Lt]

Well, we ARE capitalists! The market improves and the quality improves.

How many of the naysayers out there are wine or bourbon snobs. Even the craft beer people are tedious.

[shanover]

State governments are pushing weed hard. It’s sickening. I can be Libertarian but I am not an imbecile.

[NobleFree]

Azar calling marijuana “a dangerous drug.”

So are alcohol and tobacco. In a free society, adults must be free to knowingly assume risks.

The drug has also gotten stronger, with a three-fold increase in the concentration of the active ingredient THC in cultivated plants over the last 20 years.

And liquor is many times stronger than beer - what ofit?

[NobleFree]

the drug cartel doesn’t slaughter women and children so they can smuggle in Bud Lite.

But dealers in alcohol DID kill when that addictive mind-altering drug was illegal; thanks for the pro-pot-legalization argument!

[Valk Rider]

But dealers in alcohol DID kill
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Dopers always protect their so-called safe dope.

[NobleFree]

But dealers in alcohol DID kill

Dopers always protect their so-called safe dope.

Nonresponsive. And nobody here - including me - has called dope safe.

[wildcard_redneck]

“Dopeheads always forget the drug cartel doesn’t slaughter women and children so they can smuggle in Bud Lite.”

Nonsense! The mafia sure as hell did smuggle and kill Americans during Prohibition or did you know that and conveniently forget?

Alcohol is worse than marijuana for users and if you cannot admit it then there is something wrong with your logic.

[Big Red Badger]

I have grown into
Your sentiments,
Life is to Short
To be perpetually
STONED!

[Valk Rider]

Alcohol is worse than marijuana
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Dopers always say that. But...I can drink 1 beer or 1 mix drink and it will have little or no effect. Dopers smoke their beloved weed for only 1 reason, to get wasted.

[dfwgator]

A lot of dopers drink alcohol too.

[KC_Lion]

Thx NobleFree

[NobleFree]

I can drink 1 beer or 1 mix drink and it will have little or no effect.

One can smoke a one-hitter bowl of weed and experience only a moderate effect.

Dopers smoke their beloved weed for only 1 reason, to get wasted.

When alcohol was illegal, those who drank it drank to get wasted.

[sheana]

My doctor and I talked about that. I told him if I could I’d smoke pot for my pain. It makes me sick now though. I get the drunk spins. He said....this isn’t the same stuff we smoked as kids.

[4yearlurker]

South Jersey? I grew up in Vineland.

[grania]

One thing I read that's fascinating: False Memory Syndrome is real, and it's much more common in marijuana users. I wonder how much of the BS that's destroying our politics and the reputations of people is based on druggie's false memories.

It's quite scary that when someone is stoned false memories can be conveyed to them.

[Ken H]

I remember when FDR said the same thing on 60 Minutes. I didn’t buy it then either.

[AppyPappy]

IIRC 1970’s weed was 3% THC and today’s weed can go over 30% THC.

I’ll let you know what I think of it after this weekend :)

[AppyPappy]

” I’d be catatonic”

That’s what we “over 60’s” are looking for. Put us to sleep

[AppyPappy]

There are two types of weed: Sativa and Indica. Sativa is “cleaning weed”. It can make you industrious. Indica is “sleeping weed”. The effects of THC can be dialed back with CBD(Hemp).