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Let’s play a new game; spot the drug war propaganda talking points!<\/p>\n
\nAsian gangs develop highly potent cannabis strain<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n
by Keith Moor<\/em><\/p>\n
May 14, 2007 07:50am
\nArticle from: The Daily Telegraph<\/em><\/p>\nPOLICE fear a new form of incredibly potent cannabis is destined to hit Australia.Vietnamese criminal gangs in Canada have developed a sophisticated method of growing the plant indoors year round.<\/em><\/p>\n
It greatly increases both the yield and potency of the cannabis and cuts growing time.<\/em><\/p>\n
Latest criminal intelligence suggests that Australia-based Vietnamese drug dealers have travelled to Canada to learn how to cultivate the highly addictive cannabis.<\/em><\/p>\n
They are expected to use this knowledge to grow and sell it in Australia.<\/em><\/p>\n
The new threat was revealed in the Australian Crime Commission’s annual Illicit Drug Data Report.<\/em><\/p>\n
Justice Minister David Johnston said the amount of illegal drugs seized had decreased from 13 tonnes in 2004-05 to six tonnes in 2005-06, but the number of drug arrests had increased.<\/em><\/p>\n
“We have more people arrested for less weight,” Mr Johnston said.<\/em><\/p>\n
The report reveals that cannabis is the most commonly used illicit drug in this country.<\/em><\/p>\n
Cannabis arrests account for almost 70 per cent of drug arrests in Australia.<\/em><\/p>\n
The number of detections of heroin in 2005-06, which reached 300, was the highest annual number on record.<\/em><\/p>\n
But the weight of heroin detected at the Australian border (45.6kg) was the lowest since 1995-96.<\/em><\/p>\n
Heroin arrests now account for fewer than 3 per cent of all drug arrests.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Did you find them all? There’s at least 5.<\/p>\n
<\/blockquote>\n* addictiveness myth<\/strong> – THC is not physiologically addictive, unlike alcohol, tobacco, heroin, caffeine, cocaine<\/p>\n
* potency of hydroponically grown cannabis myth<\/strong> – potency is determined by plant DNA, not growing method<\/p>\n
* new super cannabis strain\/not your father’s marijuana myth<\/strong> – when samples are corrected for different harvesting methods, 1970s cannabis is nearly identical to present day cannabis<\/p>\n
* more THC is more harmful myth<\/strong> – in fact, users smoke less if there’s more THC by weight<\/p>\n
* hydro yield myth<\/strong> – indoor growing yields much less than outdoor but indoor is much less likely to be stolen\/discovered<\/p>\n
<\/blockquote>\nMore than 60 hydroponics stores are operating in the Sydney vicinity alone (per Yellow Pages<\/a>)- quite a few of those have been trading for 10-15 years. Despite this, the zero-tolerance ideologues over at Noise Ltd have credited Vietnamese crime gangs with apparently only recently developing ‘a sophisticated method of growing the plant indoors year round in Canada.’<\/p>\n
Vietnamese crime gangs are also credited with developing ‘super cannabis,’ something that large cannabis seedbank and hybridising concerns in Europe<\/a> and Canada<\/a> would surely like to know a bit more about. However, Noise Ltd isn’t interested in white people making millions on cannabis<\/a>; stories demonising Asians are much more bankable. Throwing in the bit about heroin at the end of the story only further supports the anti-Asian racism and drug disinformation angles in this wild tale.<\/p>\n
Unlike alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, heroin and cocaine, no physiological withdrawal symptoms are produced in humans, even when heavy cannabis use is abruptly ceased. The human body does not develop a tolerance or addiction to THC<\/a>, the psychoactive component of cannabis. There’s no such thing as physiologically addictive cannabis, highly so or otherwise. You’re as likely to develop an ‘addiction’ to getting a newspaper delivered each morning. A sick paperboy can throw a whole neighbourhood out of whack for a day.<\/p>\n
Neither Vietnamese crime gangs nor anyone else need travel to Canada to learn how to grow cannabis with hydroponics- everything one could ever want to know is on the net<\/a>. Hydroponics, however, doesn’t do a thing for the potency of cannabis. The plant’s DNA controls the potency. Hydroponics does not make lettuce any crisper nor tomatoes more tomato-y, either.<\/p>\n
This story is so full of wrongability that it’s a pure zero-tolerance ideological rant, not news- and<\/strong><\/em> he pins it all on a single ethnic group, to boot- without so much as a pretense<\/em> at evidence or proof of anything he says about cannabis or Vietnamese crime gangs. We’ve come a bit full circle here; racism played a large role in the original criminalisation<\/a> of recreational drugs.<\/p>\n
Keith Moor is missing only the pointy hat and a crucifix to BBQ.<\/p>\n
-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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