Go GO BBC!!!!

Voltar · 26 Mar 2008 at 16:28

I am fed up of this atrocious news broadcaster. They cannot keep their government supporting views to themselves and it made me annoyed when I read:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7314812.stm

I cannot stand it when people like this speak this way about 'it' in conjunction with Labour's trusty messenger pidgeon giving a nice spin to it.

Refer to content as 'it' please so that we can keep this family friendly.

I'd just like to say that 'it' isn't for everyone and has different effects, but the whiney undertone from this person just got me foaming with anger. Misguided and completely biased in an utterly objective way.

It's like hearing of a murder that a chav committed (eg.):

'Wayne had been drinking and had smoked 'it' a few hours before he took young Haley's life away.'

not the drinking that counts. Just the 'it'.

Sensible answers please. Don't want a list of your achievements with 'it' or anything else. Just a response to this article and my post.

Thankyou , and if this gets out of hand please close it Mods.

Darkwave · 26 Mar 2008 at 16:31

Like any mind-altering chemical, this includes prescription medication, the effects completely depend on the individual. Some people will be more prone to bad side effects than others where some people will only receive the benefits of a drug. This woman is simply one of the people who has a bad time with cannabis.

I do not smoke cannabis, and never have, but the BBC is blowing this way out of proportion with bias.

Stinky · 26 Mar 2008 at 16:32

indeed again like everything the media will blow it way out of proportion!!

Voltar · 26 Mar 2008 at 16:32

Thankyou for your response. It is just so very irritating that an impartial news broadcaster can get away on many repeated occasions with blatant and unfair bias.

Glaucus · 26 Mar 2008 at 16:34

Like everything else in recent BBC history. Biased tripe with no real facts.

Voltar said:
an impartial news broadcaster can get away on many repeated occasions with blatant and unfair bias.

It hasn't been unbiased for at least a decade. But it is getting worse and worse.

Stinky · 26 Mar 2008 at 16:34

its not only the BBC its all media

platypus · 26 Mar 2008 at 16:34

As it's GD...'down with the BBC!'

Stinky said:
its not only the BBC its all media

It may well be, but we don't pay a tax to other media agencies.

Glaucus · 26 Mar 2008 at 16:35

Stinky said:
its not only the BBC its all media

Yes but taht's because most media is revunue making.

The bbc is paid by are fees. Hence it's mandate is to be impartial.

MookJong · 26 Mar 2008 at 16:38

Cannabis is proven to have these effects, anyone who has smoked it will agree that if your not careful, have too much too quick or not in the right mind set you can get bouts of paranoia. I smoked a lot for a number of years and saw both positive and negative sides to the drug.

These kind of experiments are sensational yes and not exactly scientific but I don't believe this woman is making up her story.

You just don't want to hear it...

Glaucus · 26 Mar 2008 at 16:39

MookJong said:
These kind of experiments are sensational yes and not exactly scientific but I don't believe this woman is making up her story.

You just don't want to hear it...

I've seen what it can do. However what she saying sounds very made up. Smoking it for short periods of times rarely gives you such powerful reactions. Unless they forced feed her an oz at a time.

Voltar · 26 Mar 2008 at 16:40

AcidHell2 said:
Yes but taht's because most media is revunue making.

The bbc is paid by are fees. Hence it's mandate is to be impartial.

Exactly! But why doesn't anything get done about it.

Also what they've done to the English language is shameful. The whole 'dumbing down' thing is so true.
Has anyone else noticed this descent into mediocrity?

sarutobi · 26 Mar 2008 at 16:40

Its no longer abour news, its about making a show. Something thats exciting and dramatic. If they need to exaggerate for better ratings then they will.

Its completely wrong; sacrificing unbiased, neutral news reporting for higher ratings is unethical.

Heliospherez · 26 Mar 2008 at 16:42

I too am supprised the BBC actually went ahead with such a badly researched and completly one-sided report on the effects of the drug.

I don't think I have seen them do similar 'shock-reports' on alcohol or tobacco where they get seemingly normal human guinea pigs to consume excess amount of the substance then wonder why they are having negative effects.....

The programme will prove nothing that isn't already known, and will just make curious teens more anxious to try the stuff.

platypus · 26 Mar 2008 at 16:44

MookJong said:
Cannabis is proven to have these effects, anyone who has smoked it will agree that if your not careful, have too much too quick or not in the right mind set you can get bouts of paranoia. I smoked a lot for a number of years and saw both positive and negative sides to the drug.

These kind of experiments are sensational yes and not exactly scientific but I don't believe this woman is making up her story.

You just don't want to hear it...

So anyone who hasn't smoked it can't be wary about it?

You're damned right I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear sensationalist crap being fed to people from a supposedly, but no longer, impartial bastion of news reporting. I've been fed up with the rubbish the BBC produces for years, and I've had enough.

This kind of nonsense does nothing to alert intelligent people to the dangers of drugs because anyone with an iota of sense will switch off or stop reading after the opening paragraph. All it will serve to do is to heighten the 'cool factor' of the drug amongst adolescents and others who are stupid enough to try it.

Richdog · 26 Mar 2008 at 16:48

You can have a mature discussion without resorting to using the word "it". It's called Marajuana, it's the name of the drug. Use it, it's not as though it's not obvious what's been talked about anyway is it.

Personally I found it was overall the worst drug with the most negative effects out of any I ever experienced... it will exploit any chink in your mental armour and blow it wide open. It is powerful stuff and has many, many bad side effects, both alone with prolonged use, and when mixed with alcohol. Always makes me laugh to hear the casual weekend smokers cry about how great it is and how it has no bad effects.

Haven't heard this BBC report though, so can't comment on it specifically.

The Dread Pirate · 26 Mar 2008 at 16:48

Well of coures shes gonna get paranoid if she goes from smoking none to smoking a hell of a lot straight away tbh the first time I smoked the stuff I could make a 16th or 1.75g last over a week

Voltar · 26 Mar 2008 at 16:48

I agree with you Platypus. For an 'establishment' like the BBC which foreigners always rant about like some of my tutors here in Spain, BBC is so good etc. You have to really wonder. They are becoming no better than the Sun at this rate, in fact it's worse given their reputation and the actual sad truth that they are just Labour Government funded sensationalist scaremongers.

Darkwave · 26 Mar 2008 at 16:52

MookJong said:
Cannabis is proven to have these effects, anyone who has smoked it will agree that if your not careful, have too much too quick or not in the right mind set you can get bouts of paranoia. I smoked a lot for a number of years and saw both positive and negative sides to the drug.

These kind of experiments are sensational yes and not exactly scientific but I don't believe this woman is making up her story.

You just don't want to hear it...

Like I said I've never smoked cannabis, but I know that like any drug (legal or otherwise) the effects come down to the individual as well as not being careful as you said.

I've had prescription medications that really put me in a bad way but, because it's a total non-issue, you didn't see me on the news whinging about that particular medication as I knew it came down to body chemistry among many other factors.

I don't think anybody is accusing this woman of making up her story, it's just that I for one think they're leaving out the big issue that she is obviously more susceptible to the bad side effects than someone else who might smoke it. Some people will have problems where some have no problems.

Carzy · 26 Mar 2008 at 16:54

However, she said a sober public debate was needed about cannabis, as there was growing evidence that it had potentially useful medical applications.

"This is a complex plant, it can do an awful amount of harm, but it can also do an awful amount of good," she said.

"On one hand you have people who think it is the spawn of the devil, and then you have people who think it's fantastic, so nobody ever gets to sit down and actually talk constructively about what we should do with the problem."

Nice to see that right down at the bottom of an article entitled: "'Month of cannabis terrified me'"

Sensationalist garbage again from the BBC.

LordSplodge · 26 Mar 2008 at 16:55

MookJong said:
Cannabis is proven to have these effects, anyone who has smoked it will agree that if your not careful, have too much too quick or not in the right mind set you can get bouts of paranoia. I smoked a lot for a number of years and saw both positive and negative sides to the drug.

These kind of experiments are sensational yes and not exactly scientific but I don't believe this woman is making up her story.

You just don't want to hear it...

\o/

People who partake of Cannabis seem to think it is a nice, fluffy, soft drug that makes everybody relaxed and a little bit hungry.

I have had a very bad experience on cannabis as well as a few good ones. Just like all other drugs, prescription or not, it can have some nasty effects on some people.

I have had bad experiences of prescription drugs too.