its pretty funny though

M2C

The government shot themselves in the foot wth this one as long time ago. If it wasn't for the draconian laws governing the personal possesion and growing for personal use, there wouldn't be this huge problem iwth highly toxic strains being bred indoors. IMO that these skunk breeds not only increase the amount of THCin the plant but also the toxins as well. No-one was ever harmed by this herb for thousands of years and was used (and still is by many cultures) for hundreds of different products covering textile, medicine and food/oil. It is one of the very few plants that has multiple uses all of which have helped mankind to evolve and grow both spiritually, commerically and agriculturally. There are very few if no other plant that comes close to having had such a widespread effect on human civilisation. So it's prostitution to the world of illegal narcotic rationalisation has led to it's barstardisation through intensive manipulation of it's genetic strains to produce some of the most toxic plant to mankind since wheat.

There is still some hope for us if we just let the dam weed grow feral in the bush, and we start growing it for it's fibre and oil instead of cotton and rape or canola seed - both of which depend heavily upon the use of toxic chemicals to make this sort of broadacre farming possible.
Relenting to the agricultural push to legalise the growing of hemp for it's fibre would massively reduce the need for the enormous inland dams in outback queensland and northern NSW and thereby take the pressure of water allocations and therefore the environmental flowons both direct and indirect would be enormous.

Plus - I've never heard of any weed freak so out of their mind going ad commiting armed robbery or otherwise to score another lot of hooch.....

And so far as the supposed mental health effects of the herb - in the 70's I met alot of spacecadets from the 60's and even the 50's who'd used bush weed most of their lives, and I can tell you I've never encountered the so-called schizophrenic debilitations that so frequently seem to occur with the widespread common use of skunk-hybrids I've heard about over the last 10-15 years.

Make it unprofitable to cultivate for anyone other than broadacre agriculturalists and I can almost guarantee a increase in GDP a lowering in crime stats, less stressed society and an increased probability of a return to fashion in wearing flairs and cheescloth tops.