Fascinating.

So she gets high twice, has 1 good trip and 1 bad trip, and now they're reached an ultimate conclusion. Wow...science sure is easy.

I need to find a study like this and participate LOL

*DRUGS

Adding video to channels (Drugs) - requested by SlipperyPete.

It couldn't possibly have to do with the mental state she went in with could it...

It's worth noting that she's only talking about HER experience in this piece. She probably isn't the only participant in the study...

It's the BBC that makes this look whole thing look like a joke, not the researchers.

Very good point. The researchers are probably doing a very good job, but the media needs to stop sending ignorant non-scientific reporters to do scientific stories. A reporters opinion on a subject is NOT news.

>> ^braindonut:

It's worth noting that she's only talking about HER experience in this piece. She probably isn't the only participant in the study...
It's the BBC that makes this look whole thing look like a joke, not the researchers.

No, this woman is a shithouse 'sensational' 'journalist'. She also did another show about plastic surgery, was supposed to be a proper look why people get it done, is it safe etc... But just ended up with her going and getting cheap surgery done overseas.

She never looks at things deeply, always does things purely from her point of view and is just... urgh... doing things for shock value and ratings.

She sucks.

>> ^rottenseed:

So she gets high twice, has 1 good trip and 1 bad trip, and now they're reached an ultimate conclusion. Wow...science sure is easy.


Well i don't understand exactly what's going on with the separate experiments. I assume the cannabinoid is what you typically get from weed, and the pure THC is the extracted drug from the weed without anything else.

And what this tells me is that weed is good fun. Also, i've only ever "tripped" on weed by having FAR FAR FAR too much (alcohol equivalent - an absolute bender, 2 litres of vodka and beers to follow in the space of a few hours). Wasn't too bad, i just stared into space and drifted off a bit, then snapped out of it and got confused as to how long had passed. And laughed so hard i nearly puked.

What surprises me is she slammed it and it took ten minutes to hit her? That seems odd to me.

She's going to be screwed if she gets picked for a random drug test at work.

I think it's time to light me one.

Last year I tried pot again for the science of it. I've never smoked without a lot of people around and always hated it, so i got some to have a go alone and really get into it. You know how people on pot say like, "no worries man" like they haven't a care? Well I felt that way. I had no worries because everything lost any real value. Nothing mattered at all. Family, love, society, my future... nothing was worth the even the effort of consideration. It was very depressing. I am so not a drug person.

Ahh life before my government job was so much funnier *cough cough*

Feel like I saw this on the sift already.

Wait it was when the article came out.

http://www.norml.org - all the info you need

This report is shit, the logic is faulty, the experiment has already been invalidated.

Cannabis doesnt make you crazy. Being crazy does.

im curious to hear her laugh sober. I know when im high my laugh is distinctly different (and magnitudes more absurd)

>> ^smooman:

im curious to hear her laugh sober. I know when im high my laugh is distinctly different (and magnitudes more absurd)


I laugh like i laughed when i was a kid. Times which i miss. I think we could all benefit from laughing like we were kids.

Well, according to the "Just say no" literature I've read, she should be a $5 crack whore by now.

Not far off, but again, she wasn't too far away going in, she's an "investigative reporter" after all.

I think the quote at the end tells you all you need to know:

"With no history of mental illness and no predisposition to schizophrenia I was at no long term risk"

like every fucking drug, some are good for you, some aren't, but since they all react somewhat different with each individual, it's up to you to figure out which is good for you and which ain't.

sugar is not a good drug addiction.

>> ^dannym3141:

>> ^rottenseed:
So she gets high twice, has 1 good trip and 1 bad trip, and now they're reached an ultimate conclusion. Wow...science sure is easy.

Well i don't understand exactly what's going on with the separate experiments. I assume the cannabinoid is what you typically get from weed, and the pure THC is the extracted drug from the weed without anything else.
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Maybe you are confused because they tried to dumb down the terminology. They are testing the interaction between two cannabinoids found in Cannabis, THC and cannabidiol. The idea is that new varieties of Cannabis have been selected from higher THC content, and that this throws off the ratio between THC and other canabinoids in the plant. The question is, "does the ratio of THC to other cannabinoids affect the frequency of psychosis in Cannabis users?" They are testing this by giving people either synthetic THC alone, or synthetic THC in conjunction with synthetic cannabidiol.

Their sample size is small, but the results appear to support the prediction that the effects of THC are altered by the presence of an additional cannabinoid that naturally co-occurs in Cannabis.

This appears to be the research they are reporting on:
http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v35/n3/full/npp2009184a.html

I don't see why the marijuana users have their hackles up about this. Wouldn't it make sense to push the breeding community to develop strains with smoother, or a wider variety, of highs, rather than constantly pushing for greater potency? Maybe they are already doing this?

>> ^rottenseed:

So she gets high twice, has 1 good trip and 1 bad trip, and now they're reached an ultimate conclusion. Wow...science sure is easy.


I've been doing this same experiment for years. Still inconclusive.

First she's so *happy! Then, things for her get very, very *dark.

Invocations (dark, happy) cannot be called by messenger because messenger is not privileged - sorry.

I'm not gonna play the role of dictator, but this is a snippet from something that is already on the sift.
http://documentaries.videosift.com/video/Should-I-Smoke-Dope
My personal feeling is that this constitutes a dupe.

Reddit ripped this piece to shreds, well I mean /r/trees.

Either she is an idiot, or her editors are idiots.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid

THC is a Cannabinoid. She was taking pure THC, and Cannabinoid. What the fuck does that mean?

Perhaps she meant Cannabidiol. Either way this piece is utter shit.

>> ^rottenseed:

So she gets high twice, has 1 good trip and 1 bad trip, and now they're reached an ultimate conclusion. Wow...science sure is easy.

>> ^braindonut:

It's worth noting that she's only talking about HER experience in this piece. She probably isn't the only participant in the study...

@3:38 "I'm just one of many volunteers taking part in this trial."

>> ^criticalthud:

like every fucking drug, some are good for you, some aren't, but since they all react somewhat different with each individual, it's up to you to figure out which is good for you and which ain't.
sugar is not a good drug addiction.


Especially if you try snorting it...

Whether high or not, it can be interesting to notice the many ways any situation could be interpreted.

Thank god people aren't injecting pure THC!

Oh, and as for new strains of cannabis, THC ratios haven't changed much since the '70s. Only when they take new samples of old substances where the THC has degraded do they find that it used to be less potent back in the day. More high quality stuff these days but HQ then and HQ now are about the same THC ratio. What is interesting are the ratios of the other cannabinoids which can produce different feelings and states of mind.

Perhaps contained in the larger work...but not in the 1/6 vid as cited.>> ^rgroom1:

I'm not gonna play the role of dictator, but this is a snippet from something that is already on the sift.
http://documentaries.videosift.com/video/Should-I-Smoke-Dope
My personal feeling is that this constitutes a dupe.