Time to try and get some conversations going.
I don't know if anyone watched this documentary on the BBC in the last two weeks (was repeated on BBC3 last night)?
I also don't know if it's part of a complete series doing lots of drugs (as it were)?
Anyway, the first one (that I watched) was all about cannabis. It was supposed to show real people/users and their lives, how they used it and mixed in with "the science bits" and research.
There wasn't a great deal I didn't know, and the narration was very much "don't listen to the straight A student we have on and the professional holding down a full time job, it's VERY DANGEROUS! M'Kay?"
Even the people doing scientific research were very much "well, you may be unlucky enough to be susceptible to the negative effects, but it's roughly a 1 in 10 chance, and even then, it might just be a small chance of it being a single trigger.
Though they did keep pushing "smoke dope and spend your life working in McDonalds with a mildly deformed girlfriend".
Erm, but it was interesting and well worth the watch overall. I didn't know that holding in a drag didn't increase your high, but simply increased the amount of tar your lungs got coated in by about 50 times.
That skunk was female plants kept in a constant state of sexual frustration [/daily mail narration] but, that while it is designed to have maximum THC, it's this that can cause psychosis, whereas normal weed has a secondary high inducing chemical (not as potent as THC) which seems to counteract the negative effects of the THC.
The advice was - don't smoke skunk if you get paranoid and have hallucinations (like seeing old women in the woods in the dark
).
I also didn't know why you got ill (blood pressure lowering too much) and why things are so difficult (the way the short term memory is affected stops you from processing details like depth perception.
Research also showed that possibly the deadening of the short term memory system allows other functions to work much better, such as the creative and connectivity sections. Smoking dope increases vocabulary memory and the ability to connect abstract ideas (making it great for creative writing, producing music, etc, etc).
Then the "medical" use in California made me LOL big time!![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
So all in all, a very interesting program if a little heavy on the "don't" front. Very much in contrast to Channel 4's "Pot Night" in 1995 which was very much the antithesis of this show![Wink ;) ;)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
I hope it is an entire series, and if it's something that has ever interested you then it's well worth tuning in to (or digging out on iPlayer). Take the heavy hand narration with a pinch of salt and enjoy the solid anecdotal and scientific evidence presented.
So, anyone else watch it or interested?
I don't know if anyone watched this documentary on the BBC in the last two weeks (was repeated on BBC3 last night)?
I also don't know if it's part of a complete series doing lots of drugs (as it were)?
Anyway, the first one (that I watched) was all about cannabis. It was supposed to show real people/users and their lives, how they used it and mixed in with "the science bits" and research.
There wasn't a great deal I didn't know, and the narration was very much "don't listen to the straight A student we have on and the professional holding down a full time job, it's VERY DANGEROUS! M'Kay?"
Even the people doing scientific research were very much "well, you may be unlucky enough to be susceptible to the negative effects, but it's roughly a 1 in 10 chance, and even then, it might just be a small chance of it being a single trigger.
Though they did keep pushing "smoke dope and spend your life working in McDonalds with a mildly deformed girlfriend".
Erm, but it was interesting and well worth the watch overall. I didn't know that holding in a drag didn't increase your high, but simply increased the amount of tar your lungs got coated in by about 50 times.
That skunk was female plants kept in a constant state of sexual frustration [/daily mail narration] but, that while it is designed to have maximum THC, it's this that can cause psychosis, whereas normal weed has a secondary high inducing chemical (not as potent as THC) which seems to counteract the negative effects of the THC.
The advice was - don't smoke skunk if you get paranoid and have hallucinations (like seeing old women in the woods in the dark
I also didn't know why you got ill (blood pressure lowering too much) and why things are so difficult (the way the short term memory is affected stops you from processing details like depth perception.
Research also showed that possibly the deadening of the short term memory system allows other functions to work much better, such as the creative and connectivity sections. Smoking dope increases vocabulary memory and the ability to connect abstract ideas (making it great for creative writing, producing music, etc, etc).
Then the "medical" use in California made me LOL big time!
So all in all, a very interesting program if a little heavy on the "don't" front. Very much in contrast to Channel 4's "Pot Night" in 1995 which was very much the antithesis of this show
I hope it is an entire series, and if it's something that has ever interested you then it's well worth tuning in to (or digging out on iPlayer). Take the heavy hand narration with a pinch of salt and enjoy the solid anecdotal and scientific evidence presented.
So, anyone else watch it or interested?