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April 29, 2008

Gordon and Frank

What is it with Gordon Brown and GMTV? HAs he got the hots for Fiona Phillips something. Anyway, today he was lounging on the eponymous sofa, babbling on about lethal skunk.

BBC - PM 'to send message' on cannabis

"I think people know my view about cannabis and particularly about this lethal version of it, skunk."

Woa! Wtf is lethal skunk? Is it some killer strain of cannabis; are we going to be treated to the sight of dead stoners laying face down in half-eaten pizzas, killed by deadly sativa?

Now the LD50 of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) is 1270 mg/kg which is pretty low toxicity. In fact, you could smoke your way through more than a kilo of cannabis and still not receive a lethal dose. before you got anywhere near that sort of intake, the munchies would have kicked in big time, and you'd be off for pizza or a kebab.

So talk of lethality is total bollocks on the part of Brown. What he his talking about is how mention of the legality of cannabis induces near-fatal apoplexy on the part of Daily Mail readers who he seems to spend so much time sucking up to these days.

A final report by the group, which plays a key role in setting Britain's drugs policy, was delivered to the Home Office on Monday and it is expected to recommend cannabis remain in the lowest category.

But Downing Street has already indicated that Mr Brown remains determined to tighten the law, against the advice.

And there you have it. Sod the science, damn the dictionary, onward with despotic disregard for facts. Why did Brown even bother commissioning the report given that he'd already made his mind up? Perhaps he ought to talk to Frank first and stop talking out of his arse.

Posted by Clive on April 29, 2008 1:35 PM in the category

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