The new grass to adjust the old habit
Humans and animals are creatures of habit, a change in them enough for that life begins to change. What we consume and how we consume?, What are its effects on the body and behavior? Just think of the current forms of feed, inform, entertain and communicate every day: light foods, and canned GM, fast food, microwaves and home delivery, nutritional supplements, energy drinks, personal computers , Internet (through media) newspapers, books and electronic journals, MP3 music, television and radio on the Internet, video games, e-mail, Messenger and Skype , cell phones, gadgets Multifunction and social networks. The environment requires us to adapt to work, nothing is as we were accustomed. Substances are not exempt from this process and ways of placing either.
According to recent UN data, an estimated 190 million people smoke cannabis in the world. In the case of Mexico, the chain that integrates the market is changing the skunk from producer to consumer: the farming methods, product quality, distribution, price and how to smoke it (times, amounts, frequency). If you change the grass, also a smoker. Change their behavior to continue doing what is in the market. It is a habit that replaces another, as usual, but a sophisticated old habit.
Skunk is a hybrid grass that comes from the combination and manipulation of sativa and indica seeds. Since the seventies is grown in hydroponic greenhouses, where he added various nutrients and chemicals to emphasize motivational effects. As it creates new kinds of seeds and plants stronger than their predecessors. The Skunk # 1 is the mother of the hundreds of variants found in coffee shops Amsterdam exotic names or numeric keys to distinguish. This is a transgenic grass, looks healthy, colorful, fluffy and bright resin crystals. Its aroma, its flavor and symptoms are also different. Sold and consumed in small quantities priced as high as its effects: 400 pesos a bag of 5 grams, which explains its demand among the middle and upper classes. The skunk is renowned for its power. In its flowers contain concentrations of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) up to five times the natural. This will suit the smoker, which is always in search of total buzz. Two milestones have the same effect that smoking a full cock sativa. It becomes so powerful that the abuse is often disabling and distracted, leaving them stunned. For this reason the smoker reduces their consumption once a day (not morning, digestive and sleepy), in small quantities, usually at night, when it can be given to consciousness without worry. And so demand decreases and herb smoking sativa, no one would want if there and dílers skunk, as they used to say, no longer handle.
The skunk is a consequence of the war on drugs. For the producer and distributor of hydroponic grass resolve logistical problems. They have adapted to the war against the government of Calderon, the new grass is one of their offensive. The tracts of land remote and inaccessible areas where they need to grow the plant have been reduced to small spaces hidden in basements and cellars. It is no longer a matter of working the land, planting, wait, harvesting, curing the weed, packaging, storage, transport, distribution. Now mounted lighting greenhouses, irrigation, and ventilation measurement, where grows faster, stronger with all kinds of additives. With the knowledge of hydroponics anyone can install the basic equipment in a corner of your home and become self-sufficient. Internet is full of places where you buy the necessary equipment and the coveted seeds. Currently
skunk is in the eye of the debate on decriminalization in several European countries due to the alleged effects in the medium and long term chronic use. The discussion took a turn for the prohibitionists to recent research published by Dr. John McGrath, Queensland Brain Institute, who followed a control group of 3, 800 people in 21. McGrath studied the use made of the herb. The results showed that 14% smoked cannabis for six years or more, particularly skunk, and were twice as likely to suffer psychotic episodes. Is it? Smoking or not smoking, a personal decision. They say the grass is the worst there is.
* Published in Replicante in the recent issue of Drugs and Culture.