Today over HR (German public TV for the Hessen region/state)....there's a great news report over use of marijuana in Germany, and the current problem trend.
For those unfamiliar with marijuana, there's an active ingredient which lays out the path of your 'high' or the intensity....tetrahydrocannabinol (normally referred to as THC). The more THC....the more intense the 'smoke' is for the consumer.
So the experts talk about Germans, and the THC level. Back in 2006, the average THC level was five percent. Today? The last major study on the topic was in 2016, and the average THC level was then noted at 10.2 percent. Yep, it doubled. And the odds are....it's probably beyond 11 percent today.
This brings up a problem that the German medical establishment has referred to....as increasing psychosis events....requiring serious help from medical professionals.
All of this leads to a term that is being thrown around occasionally in German society...."turbo cannabis". Consumers have shifted to heavier doses of THC, and gotten themselves deep into trouble.
This 'trouble' relates to 19,000 Germans who, yearly, now have to put themselves into a clinic because of psychosis issues. That's almost double what it was a decade ago. Panic attacks and anxiety issues? They are all part of this trend, in terms of growth and numbers.
It's an interesting report, and I'd strongly recommend it.
2 comments:
Having never smoked it before I have a limited perspective, but couldn't it be that more people are lacing meth with it and that the meth is leading to the psychosis?
If you go back to the 1960s to 1980s....the normal THC (the active stuff that makes it what it is) was around 2-to-3 percent. In the 1990s...it doubled to 4-percent. Five years ago, you could find a handful of 'strains' which were between 15-and-28 percent. There are scientific ways now to double up the percent level (via edibles and oil) to roughly 90-percent.
So you could go into a shop, buy the weed-gummi-bear chewies, with one dose in the bag (maybe 40-percent)...chew on them for ten minutes thinking nothing is happening, then go to a second bag, and maybe even stupidly do a third bag. Some folks might be able to handle that....those prone to psychosis...it might be bad enough that you'd have to call the ambulance for them (this is actually a regular event now in Colorado) Twenty years ago, folks would have laughed and it's not possible to get that far up on the psychosis-levels.
My firm belief is that THC levels will continue to creep up, and they might hit 120-percent within three years. We will probably hear more about this situation, and more Germans in his mental rehab over psychosis.
I never smoked it myself, but I do see advantages for cancer treatment and pain relief.
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