You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Should i smoke dope? BBC documentary. Thread starter logic Start date Mar 29, Tagged users None. I uploaded this for you all to watch im sure you will have many comments Journalist Nicky Taylor travels to Amsterdam to investigate the growing debate about the legal classification of cannabis.
While there she helps out in a coffee shop that sells the drug, and discovers first hand what the effects of cannabis are on everyday life. Back in the UK Nicky finds out about the genetically modified cannabis skunk, cheap and increasingly sold on the streets. The program asks whether the drug can make you mad, if it is worse than alcohol and if it is stronger than it used to be.
Nicky takes part in a month-long medical trial to find out. Nicky is a drinker I'm sure that as an experienced smoker I would do the driving test better when high Sure I'm concerned for my health Agree, stay off the street skunk I don't know how great it is but the doc that talked about getting holes you your lungs, that seemed far fetched to me that it can't heal itself. The reports about cigarette smokers if you quit your lungs can heal and almost be like you never smoked.
It was not bad but I don't think it was average or a fair test. I would like to know why does the coffee shops combine pot with tobacco? I only smoked it along in a Jay or bong and never wanted to mix the two. She chose to experiment with the drug as part of a BBC documentary in which she investigated just how damaging smoking different forms of the drug can be - with herself as a guinea pig.
At one point, I was simply too frightened to get out of my chair. Without doubt, that was one of the worst moments of my life. But for this investigation she has spent the past month in Amsterdam, where she smoked around a joint of cannabis - which two years ago was downgraded from a class B to a class C drug in Britain - every day.
Controversially, she also allowed herself to be injected with pure THC tetrahydrocannabinol , the active ingredient in cannabis. Her aim was to discover the true effect cannabis had on her mind and body - and conversely on the millions of Britons who now smoke it regularly.
While some will question Nicky's wisdom in committing herself to such an experiment when she is a mother of three young children, there is little doubt that her experiences are both enlightening and cautionary to anyone who might think cannabis is harmless.
At one point during her investigation, scientific tests proved that, thanks to the drug, she had developed a level of psychosis well above that seen in individuals with schizophrenia. It is estimated that 15 million people in the UK have tried cannabis, and up to 5 million smoke it on a regular basis. In the UK, cannabis use has increased 1, per cent since the Seventies, and according to a recent Unicef report, the UK has the third highest rate of young people smoking cannabis in the Western world.
Yet there is now considerable medical evidence that cannabis causes psychosis. It has also been linked to schizophrenia, and is believed to be behind a string of violent murders. And I wanted to find out if the drug really does drive you into madness. To conduct her investigation, Nicky spent a month in Amsterdam, working part-time at a coffee shop that sells the drug.
I ended up having a row with my cameraman, too, because I was so irrational and paranoid. It hit me that I could be risking my sanity - and it didn't feel worth it. However, waking the next morning, Nicky's paranoia had dissipated and she decided to carry on.
That is not to say she didn't feel any physical and mental after-effects of the drug. I had no idea how anyone could get stoned at night and then function properly the next day. Over the following week, Nicky smoked different varieties of cannabis on a daily basis. While she did not encounter the same level of paranoia again, her ability to work was nonetheless compromised by the drug's effects. But this proved to be next to impossible. I was giggly and could hardly keep my mind on what he was saying.
I felt as if I'd just discovered the Holy Grail, but the poor man clearly thought I was incredibly odd. He was obviously uncomfortable in my presence, and I was clearly unable to be professional while on the drug. To find out how much her concentration had been compromised, Nicky set herself the task of assembling a flat pack cabinet, first free from and then under the influence of cannabis.
Without having smoked the drug, she found the job straightforward. For example, with cannabis, people say they're smoking more because they had more time on their hands, and actually they saw it as a way to de-stress; they saw it as some 'me time'.
As well as higher and more solo usage, the survey also reported changes to the drugs market since the Covid outbreak, including price rises, shortages and lower purity.
Kira added: "What we can see as well though is that the drug market's been quite adaptable. For Reece, it's just as easy to get cannabis now as it was before lockdown.
It's a socially distant transaction, with his dealer leaving it in a safe place outside his home and the payment made by bank transfer. But he said he and his partner are now trying to rein in how much they're using. Crew 's survey suggests the majority of recreational drug users are also drinking more.
It's a post-lockdown development that Reece can relate to. He said: "We got a new house last year and the alcohol that people had got us from Christmases before, and for moving in - it all just sat there. We probably put our glass recycling bin out twice in six months.
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