Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Stoner provides a health message

The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: All Men Are Liars

Sam de Brito, whose blog at Fairfax I don't particularly care for, has at least done a service by warning youngsters off marijuana, at least if it is of the hydroponic kind.

I don't have time to go looking for evidence of this today, but is the explanation he gives (that hydroponic stuff is dangerous because it is usually covered in pesticides and fungicides) actually been tested? I have heard it before, and it seems to be widely believed in the smoking community. But has it been tested?

2 comments:

Caz said...

It was a good piece (for a change), and no, he isn't making it up.

This is well known in "the industry" and in the medical and law enforcement professions.

It's not new.

Steve said...

Yes Caz, I knew it was not new, and is wildly believed, but I wondered whether it was based on hard evidence of tests carried out on a range of hydroponic pot.

I know it is contoversial, but isn't there some evidence of greater concentrations of THC in marijuana now(perhaps just through selective breeding rather than hydroponics as such) and that seemed a possible alternative explanation.