[Van Dro]

Just watched the special on a British women who goes on a month long expierment with using cannabis in Amsterdam. I found most of it pretty bias and sterotypical, and some seemed a little acted out. Some people shouldn't smoke just like some people shouldn't drink or take pills. However the one thing that concerned me was when she went to this doctor who had been researching the affects of cannabis smoking on the lungs and he shows a 22 year old lung x rays that have holes in the lungs and have collapsed, this is very scary to me. I also found the part where they inject two compounds in her blood, one just THC the other a mixture of cannaboids and THC. Just wondering if any of you saw it? And what are your thought on it? I personally thought the majority of it was not very good and could have been better.

[pokealotasmot]

I watched that one time too. Its complete crap. She acts like she cant do anything but eat after having 2 puffs of that j. It said she only had a .1 of a gram. Is that really even enough to affect anyone. I think she should be rewarded for being a good actor and then slapped hahaha

[ps-med]

Just found it and started watching it.

YouTube - Should I Smoke Dope? 1/6 [HQ]

[pokealotasmot]

Originally Posted by ps-med

Just found it and started watching it.

YouTube - Should I Smoke Dope? 1/6 [HQ]

By the time you are done watching it, you are gonna hate that stupid lady. She is acting so fake, its setting our movement back. Its almost offensive to see some like that on national tv because it just perpetuates the idea of being a "typical stoner."

[ps-med]

Originally Posted by pokealotasmot

By the time you are done watching it, you are gonna hate that stupid lady. She is acting so fake, its setting our movement back. Its almost offensive to see some like that on national tv because it just perpetuates the idea of being a "typical stoner."

You are right. That lady is annoying. She is told to take 2-3 puffs of a spliff and then wait, so she takes 25 full drags and then freaks out. There are some good points in the story. I specifically liked the old lady that made the chocolates that tells the reporter "I you stole one you would have to keep it, I don't want stolen property in my flat."

This report had much of the same BS research...one 22 year old pot smoker that had holes in his lungs and the doctor attributes that solely to pot. Wouldn't there be more than one case if smoking pot actually caused that kind of damage? All in all this seems like a report that tries to discourage the use of MJ and is somewhat unfair and one-sided. In the driving test they report that driving under the influence of MJ is 2 times more dangerous than not being under the influence and alcohol is 6 times more dangerous. That could easily have been restated that being UI of MJ is 3 times less dangerous than being UI of alcohol.

Interesting report but take it for the slightly slanted journalism that it is.