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No sociological change here: hippies getting older.

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"I like to smoke at home and just relax," she says. "Sometimes I'll get on my treadmill; sometimes I'll get out my guitar; sometimes I'll just watch Desperate Housewives and giggle."

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Older and retired, you're not likely to get busted, and if you do you aren't gonna lose your job and pension. Smoke 'em if ya got 'em.

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“The potency of marijuana in the United States has doubled since the mid-1980s,” said Rafael Lemaitre, spokesperson for ONDCP.

In 1983 the THC level was just under four percent, but Lemaitre said the current samples indicate the level has swollen to 9.6 percent.

According to their most recent quarterly report, the University of Mississippi used marijuana samples obtained by law enforcement in the confiscation process. In one sample, the THC level registered 37.2 percent.

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Newspapers around the US have pointed out that the strength of marijuana went from 4.78% THC to 10.54% THC, a massive increase, more than doubling potency. Did marijuana growers get twice as good at growing marijuana over the last year?

What no newspaper mentioned was that the number of seizures analysed by the laboratory went from 852 in 2007 to 12 in 2008; did drug busts suffer a 99.98% decrease over the past year, or is the DEA picking and choosing samples?

Of the 12 samples, 10 were described as sinsemilla buds, typically, for every other year, ditch weed and seeded bud made up much larger portions of seizures. The conclusion to be drawn from this study is that the DEA and NIDA data has been manipulated with cherry picked data and very low sample size.

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If the former weren't a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Pharmaceutical industry, its membership would have probably come out for medicinal use a long time ago.

Also interesting to note that these "puff dadies & pot mammas",(great term that!} were somehow able to combine earning a living and raising a family responsibly alongside past and occasional recreational use of the dreaded Mary-Jew-Wanna,"Killer Weed With Roots in Hell!". So much for multiple generations of Reefer Madness propaganda.

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