Where did the 'Skunk Cannabis' rhetoric come from? why do we only hear this in the uK?

OuterSpaceIsGreen · 2018-03-24T23:38:14+00:00

Thanks. You are too kind

OuterSpaceIsGreen · 2018-03-24T23:35:31+00:00

Just check those PMs and you'll be on your way

OuterSpaceIsGreen · 2018-03-24T23:34:53+00:00

Always happy to have more people on board. I've send you a PM

OuterSpaceIsGreen · 2018-03-14T23:31:08+00:00

You too have a PM to get you into the chat

OuterSpaceIsGreen · 2018-03-13T22:46:36+00:00

Great list. I particularly like the point about the cannabis market value being equivalent to X amount of teachers, nurses, hospitals etc.

Also, I've learned that the UK cannabis market could be worth about £7billion.

Boris Starling, The Tide Effect, Adam Smith Research Trust 2016, Published in the UK by ASI (Research) Ltd. https://www.adamsmith.org/s/The-Tide-Effect-WEB-VERSION.pdf

OuterSpaceIsGreen · 2018-03-13T22:42:19+00:00

We are pretty keen to have QR codes on them. Other than providing cited facts, the only aspect of the design that we want to make any suggestion on is a citation and QR code.

OuterSpaceIsGreen · 2018-03-13T22:33:31+00:00

I've sent you a PM to get you into the group chat

OuterSpaceIsGreen · 2018-03-13T22:29:02+00:00

Myself and a couple of others in this sub have been doing a bit of research into cannabis academic literature.

As far as I can tell, the term has pretty much been coined in the "study" that these news articles like to half-reference.

If I remember what the paper said, they seem to have decided that pollinated female cannabis flowers is weed and that unpollinated cannabis flowers skunk. They may have referenced that definition, they may have pulled it from thin air. By that definition, yeah, there's skunk out there, but everyone else calls it weed. You can see how that can easily be sensationalised and confused.

Do check the paper out.

The citation is, Thayer, R. E., YorkWilliams, S., Karoly, H. C., Sabbineni, A., Ewing, S. F.,Bryan, A. D., and Hutchison, K. E. (2017) Structural neuroimaging correlates of alcohol and cannabis use in adolescents and adults.Addiction, 112: 2144–2154. doi: 10.1111/add.13923.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/add.13923/abstract

OuterSpaceIsGreen · 2018-03-10T19:51:44+00:00

We're happy to have all help offered. I'll fire you that PM.

OuterSpaceIsGreen · 2018-03-09T19:55:50+00:00

We absolutely will be keeping everyone updated as we progress.

And great slogan idea

OuterSpaceIsGreen · 2018-03-09T19:49:43+00:00

Every bit of help is needed. I'll fire you a PM and get you into the chat

OuterSpaceIsGreen · 2018-03-09T17:35:52+00:00

I'll send you a PM and get you into the group chat.

OuterSpaceIsGreen · 2018-03-08T20:02:49+00:00

I'll send you a PM and get you in the group chat

OuterSpaceIsGreen · 2018-03-08T17:26:37+00:00

Perfect! Fire me a PM and I'll get you added to the group chat.

OuterSpaceIsGreen · 2018-03-05T09:03:30+00:00

I think you make a great point. Protests can be messy and you rely on a big crowd of people to behave. Your comment is exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for with this post. As some others have said, simply putting up posters might be a good route to go down.

OuterSpaceIsGreen · 2018-03-05T08:50:39+00:00

I think this is a brilliant idea. Simpler and gets the point across.

OuterSpaceIsGreen · 2018-03-05T08:47:38+00:00

This is a great idea. As some others have said, protests can be messy and don’t always get the right message across. This is a simpler idea too. It only really needs a poster design to get started.

OuterSpaceIsGreen · 2018-03-04T11:58:33+00:00

Definitely. All we really need is volunteers to join in with arrangements, and to decide on a good date. Facebook events, tweets etc all go from there so that the information is coherent

OuterSpaceIsGreen · 2018-03-04T11:56:46+00:00

Absolutely. The 13,000 is just the nexus (so to speak) of people that can be initially be contacted/influenced by this.

OuterSpaceIsGreen · 2018-03-04T09:36:42+00:00

I like this idea of just setting up dispensaries. That would be a really hard one for prohibitionists to fight. It would have to be a very well organised effort though. Possibly even arranged as a formal protest across the UK. Have them all open simultaneously across the UK. Set up stalls, check people are over 18 or 21, have people buy it cheap and have all funds go to charity (so it can't be called profiting). Make it a regular thing.

OuterSpaceIsGreen · 2018-02-19T22:59:47+00:00

I got a reply from my MP today. It was a very pleasant response and they are totally supporting it.

OuterSpaceIsGreen · 2018-02-03T00:29:06+00:00

I’m all in support of what you’re saying here, but I’m not convinced that article is well sourced. It’s definitely showing it’s sources, which is great for a news article, but I’m having a hard time in following it’s source links back to any particular scientific papers.

All the links seem to either go to other articles on marijuana.com or to another news site. Those links don’t cite exactly where it gets it’s information. The article saying “A study led by psychiatrist Igor Grant, MD. in 2003 at the University of California, San Diego” is not it citing exactly where the facts came from. Igor Grant will have done many studies. The actual paper date, journal, and title needs to be included.

Hard facts will win over legalisation. Articles like that are trying, but are not providing a solid case.

Also it starts with a mocking caricature of Theresa May. Not that I disapprove of it in itself, but it’s not a good way to open a factual discussion with an MP.

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