more bbc propoganda

[Kermit]

I should be dead
and where the fuck do i sign up for them tests

[seanlyall]

I really wish I hadnt watched this, my girlfriend was loving it as she disapproves of the "terrorist" that is weed

[Kermit]

I really wish I hadnt watched this, my girlfriend was loving it as she disapproves of the "terrorist" that is weed

Give her a blowback why she is sleeping and if she was mine she would be sleeping rough

[carlazi]

I remember when the BBC science programs were cutting edge. Since the cuts its more like so shock horror shows from C4. I do wonder sometimes who commissions this crap.

[latexdeath]

It was a bit stupid in parts, and down right inaccurate and biased in others! The guy who had been homeless, living in a run down house getting people over to smoke weed all day and night- homeless? He had accommodation and good friends by the sound of it! There are people that weed will not suit, same as there are people that should not drink booze as it turns them into arseholes or just reacts in a bad way. Same with coffee, and almost every substance in the universe. So highlighting one guys problems as a common problem is not accurate at all. I am sure the woman holding the experiments was also the woman who did the same with howard marks on another program. She was getting the patients to do similar things such as as many words beginning with g, and the short term memory test. So all in all, nothing new except a new slant on the propaganda against weed.
And I agree, the crack addict looking bloke that was trying (and failed) to give up was smoking some nasty looking soap, a had a bong covered in horrible brown crap from the thousands of soap bongs he has poisoned himself with. He looked ill, that has to be the contaminants in the soap he was smoking? And his mrs looked like she was stoned anyway!

[Cisco]

Looked to me like that dude was smoking hash/backy mixes !!!! and the fact it was soapbar no wonder he was fucked !! but yeah its not a very fair judgement i think the dude was chokin for the tobak than anything else !?

[dope_demand]

Just seen an advert for the next 1 in the series and apparently its part of the "dangerous pleasures" season. Just about sums it up really

[youngian]

That's BBC3 for you, the tone sounded like a youth leader playing cool trendy older brother with the kids to get his serious message across.

Why not get this man to warn the youth-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiKQO6BVzyA

[Strictlysilvers]

The stoned in suburbia one was quite good, the Lil old dear that made her cakes and Howard marks made it half decent! This last one the female doctor actually recommended smoking hash rather than skunk?!?!!?? In uk surely thTs a lot more hRmful than any weed!!!

[doobydave]

How telling is it, that the only person the BBC could find who used cannabis and developed mental problems, had a father who committed suicide from depression.
FFS. It's been known for ages that suicidal depression runs in families. THIS IS NOT SCIENCE.

Another angle that was missed in this program is the effects prohibition on the issue. Painfully absent, IMO.
The more harmful these deceit peddlers make weed out to be, the stronger the argument to have it legalised, regulated and therefore moved away from children and those at risk.

And, (like someone mentioned previously), when is the 'How drugs work; Booze' episode?

[DeathRowRecords]

Some of you may have seen the other 2 installments to this 'educational' series from the BBC, on Ecstasy & Cocaine. Sticking with this show, you couldn't treat it as science since, as others have pointed out, the 'experiments' demonstrated weren't conducted properly or in any kind of controlled way.

There was an attempt at a balanced argument, with a section on Sativex and its benefits to some, and a piece on teenage cannabis users who happened to be taking their exams (well done the dude with the mop top who got all A stars, hope for us all yet!) without any detrimental effects from smoking.

Overall however, this pseudo-scientific crap wouldn't have looked out of place on the Discovery Channel, although I prefer 'Deadliest Warrior'. The documentary suggested that 1 out of 10 of the population (of the UK) are susceptible to psychiatric problems brought on by cannabis use, which is clearly bullshit. Plus I thought the people on this forum were the 'herbal terrorists', not the weed itself!

This programme and for those of you who saw the other 2, was a load of bollocks. Strictlysilvers you're so right, 'Stoned in Suburbia' was much better. It's been repeated many times, but is more revealing and laced with great anecdotes from Howard Marks amongst others, the story of his whitey following the release of 'Mr Nice' for instance.

[sirphobose]

i had to turn it off (all of them!) it seemed to me that the program makers had decided the way they wanted the drug to be percieved before they had made the show <darth vader. if find your like of science disturbing <darth vader>. Bad because its illegal is not the same as illegal because it is bad. grrrrrrr

[ftcarer]

The next part " Cannabis , what's the harm? " is on BBC3 this thursday (27th) @21:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y37cn

[Strictlysilvers]

Well, opinions on the new one???

Was this actually the BBC showing green in a half positive light???