Cannabis upgrading more likely

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Gordon Brown;
"I have always been worried about cannabis, with this new skunk, this more lethal part of cannabis,"
"I don't think that the previous studies took into account that so much of the cannabis on the streets is now of a lethal quality and we really have got to send out a message to young people - this is not acceptable."

'Lethal quality'?? Get a fucking grip, Gordon

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i just found a brilliant (!) argument against cannabis on an internet-website:

Pot makes you stupid

must have been def a pot-smoker who stated this

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shouldn't be b class or c class....its should be tottally legal like the air we breath imo

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The LAW is getting stupit now about weed they just need to leave us alone, to much police power getting used to find weed growers and dealers and the people smoking it and driving!! we allready HATE this smoking ban whats NEXT!!!! soon salt be banned becuse its bad 4 you! so is mcdonalds shell we ban that as well???

lol to many laws !!!

ive posted a comment on that web site as well gav just typed up some shit i know its pointless aint gonna help but people suffer more from the law for smokeing weed than suffing from health problems LOL

Peace!

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I believe it was in the 1960's when Richard 'what the f%$k is going on' Nixon was on the campaign trail that an astute and well known 'Dope fiend' commented that there are three things that matter to a politician at the time of an election:

War
Abortion +
Drugs

Its been over 40 years since that observation and the pattern never changes. Low and behold theres the local elections in May and the subject of drug classification comes up. To be honest I personnaly find the whole thing yawnsome. I'd bet £100 (if i had it!)in the bookies that come the national election there is some more nonsense about the perils of drugs. the only reason they changed the classification all those years ago was to then reclassifiy it at an election and the only people who take notice are those who have never used drugs.

The only thing that will change is that instead of getting it thrown away by the ol' bill or getting a £50 fine is that you'll now get a £75 fine or 15 minutes Un Paid Work. The same ol' nonsense will be going on in 10 years from now to. Its just political white elephant designed to detract from the fact that most politicans are imbicilles and incompetent.

Rant over

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Maybe there shoul;d be an extra vote in the above options saying:

doesn't matter as nothing will change becuase theres so many twats with knives filling up the judicial system that the courts can't be arsed with a bunch of stoners!

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Police set to ignore Brown.. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/01/police_cannabis_changes/

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along with the rest of the country.......

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MedWire News: Schizophrenia risk is not influenced by variations in the cannabinoid receptor (CNR1) and alpha7-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (CHRNA7) genes, say UK researchers.

They also found no evidence for the purported effects of cannabis use on schizophrenia according to variation in the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene.

Schizophrenia is associated with an increased use of tobacco and cannabis, with evidence suggesting that patients may use the drug to alleviate neurophysiological symptoms. The benefits of these substances are thought to be mediated through their effects on CHRNA7 and CNR1, respectively, notes the team.

They therefore looked at the effects of variants in the genes encoding CHRNA7 and CNR1 on the risk for schizophrenia and the potential effects of tobacco and cannabis use.

Stanley Zammit, from Cardiff University, and colleagues genotyped 750 patients with schizophrenia and 688 mentally healthy controls for the CHRNA7 promoter polymorphism -86C/T and the CNR1 polymorphism rs1049353. They also gathered information on tobacco and cannabis use via interviews and case-note records.

In addition, the team conducted a case-only study of 493 participants from the schizophrenia group, examining interactions between cannabis use and the Val158Met polymorphism in the COMT gene, as well as the rs737865 and rs165599 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).

The team reports in the British Journal of Psychiatry that there was no evidence of an association between the CHRNA7 -86C/T genotype and schizophrenia. Schizophrenia patients were 4.4 times more likely than controls to smoke, but among the schizophrenia patients, there was no association between tobacco use and the -86C/T genotype.

Similarly, there was no significant association between the CNR1 rs1049353 genotype and schizophrenia. Schizophrenia patients were 2.6 times more likely than controls to use cannabis, but cannabis use was not affected by rs1049353 genotype among schizophrenia patients.

The results also showed that there were no associations between the Val158Met genotype and cannabis use, or between cannabis use and the variations at rs737865 and rs165599.

The only genetic effect on phenotypes of schizophrenia was a weak association between the -86C/T genotype and a younger age at onset of schizophrenia.

“In summary, we failed to find any evidence that variation at the CHRNA7 or CNR1 locus was associated with schizophrenia, or that the effect of variation at these loci was modified by use of tobacco or cannabis, respectively,” the researchers write.

They add: “Cannabis use was not associated with the presence of valine allele at Val158Met with COMT in our sample, therefore our findings do not support a previous report of a putative gene–environment interaction between COMT genotype and cannabis use on risk of schizophrenia.”

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Addendum: Cannabis is a component cause, part of a complex constellation of factors leading to psychosis.

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RECLASSIFICATION TO CLASS B CONFIRMED http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7386889.stm

Gordon Brown's personal feelings obviously massively outweigh the opinions of experts.

Also, it has been reported that the police are to introduce 'fixed penalty' fines for possession, so expect a crackdown (not for the revenue, of course!) near you.

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thats just gay m8 fucking gay!!!

mr brown is a stuck up twat i didnt even vote for the fat prick!

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I vote that Gordon Brown can FOAD....