Crazy British Weed Makes Kids Go Loco, Moms Write Books
In the UK there’s a magical strain of skunk weed: It addicts teenagers, turns them psycho, prompts their mum to write a tell-all book, and then sends the nation into an uproar over said book. And it’s coming to America!
The uproar, that is! And the book. But not the weed, as far as I know, because this Crrrrrrazymaking skunk only exists in Cheech & Chong movies and the imaginations of lightweights. (And in England).
Julie Myerson is a British author. She had a teenage son. He started smoking skunk and acting progressively more crazy and unmanageable, until she had to kick him out of the house. In America this is known as “being a teenager”.
Then she wrote a book about her son’s crazy life-destroying skunk addiction. In America this is known as “capitalising on your own brand.” Reality TV has mastered this domain! So who’s to say Julie Myerson cannot tell her son’s story, as unlikely as it may seem to your average American weedhead?
The British media, that’s who! There was a huge uproar over whether Myerson was exploiting her kid (he said she was) and whether she’s a terrible person, etc. Which, hey, helped her sell a lot of books!
Now the book’s coming out in America and Myerson fears she may see the same uproar here. Unlikely. She’ll see a different uproar here. Americans could not care less about exploiting the foibles of a family member through the media. That’s the American dream! Our uproar will just be about where do you get this magic weed that makes you crazy?
Cause I mean in Florida they had that Kryptonite but the worst it ever did was make somebody fall off the couch.
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if she doesn't want him
HowDareThey
also i would do the son
HowDareThey
like my nana always says, you should be able to give your bad kids back
HowDareThey
@thisisnotradio: An interview with this pot-taking fiend of a son!
thisisnotradio
[www.dailymail.co.uk]
thisisnotradio
I get my fantastical Skunk Weed from a Unicorn with the street name "Pepe Le Pew". The last time I used it I ended up galloping through the streets of Paris giddily chanting "Les Mew, Les Meow! Les Mew, Les Meow!" Thanks for hooking me up, Pepe. BTW, that new gold horn you're sportin' is some serious bling! There's also an article telling Jake's side of his mothers Reefer Madness here: [www.dailymail.co.uk]
She is an awful, awful woman and I'm glad you've got onto this! I spent my vitriol over her a few months ago, nothing like a nostalgic trip down Crappy Exploitative Book Lane, though.
@i'm a bottle: God, I hate these two people so much.
i'm a bottle
Lol.
But seriously this is ridiculous. People don't seem to understand that tetrahydrocannabinol has no addictive qualities meaning if you stop doing it you don't get the shakes or pains. It also does not kill brain cells as it was once thought to do. All in all this lady is just writing a book to exploit her sons problems so she can make money. In America, we call that reality television. sad...
IllianaBogdan
I don't like to use the word "prick" often because I like to save it for special occasions, for instance, when describing Paul's father.
This prick wanted his son, a "star pupil" who was receiving straight As in all of his classes, to fail a class so that he would "realise what he's doing" with his life by smoking "skunk."
I can fully understand why a fifteen-year-old would become "violent" when faced with a familial situation like that, when his parents actively work at trying to make him fail so that they can prove some dumb point.
[www.guardian.co.uk]
i'm a bottle
Whatever. NYC crack weed will put that British shit to shame. That lady is so high on cocaine it's ridiculous.
FaceMelter
I lived in The Hague as a teenager and smoked Skunk and even "Super-Skunk" all the time. It is a very popular strain of weed in The Netherlands and no more addictive than any other.
And may I say, what is up with this host? has anyone ever seen Brass Eye?
These people are children.
JacindaAss
@Foster Kamer: Dood, High Times pays decent ducats for free-lance work and on time. Only hitch is you need to work in a pot angle on anything you write about. Kind of difficult if you've never touched the stuff, but it can be successfully faked. I mean baked.
snugbug
first off, the skunk in England is pretty low quality compared to the good old hydro here in NYC. The whole UK skunk epidemic was started by a couple of over excited journalists at the Daily Mail a couple years to go. It's just decent bud- not even great bud. Needless to say this woman is a total moron.
AlinaPolyhymnia
@CaptainFantastic: Exactly what I was thinking. I used to work with patients with Schizophrenia back at UCLA, and many young men's use of MJ and even alcohol sped up the onset of their disease - NOT caused it. Or they self-medicated.
That, or maybe having a nutjob of a mom we're watching in this clip did the trick just as quickly.
Poor kid.
Oh, also, this woman is disgustingly full of shit. She's like the anti-J.K. Rowling.
People come up with the silliest names for their weed. I think the one time I ever flipped through a High Times I saw a Playboy-like centerfold of a plant called ALASKAN THUNDERFUCK and laughed so hard I dropped the magazine. Imagine doing that on weed, man.
"Skunk is completely different from cannabis."
? I don't get it. Is this some sort of new drug or is this just some air-headed way of implicating pot as the evil-doer?
She should just get really stoned and watch a nature documentary. I mean, that's the worst thing I've done on the heinous weed...
Julio Esquivel
@Flippyjack: Well, I've seen 'public' turned into 'pubic' plenty of times, but never the other way round. Grats on a first?
Way to avoid this: just go with 'pubes'--I can assure you will never mistype it as 'publes'.
So she has a sensitive teenager with a predilection for kine buds and a love for writing poems? Sounds awful.
i'm a bottle
Sadly, the conservatives will get a hold of this book and raise it up as another roadblock to the legalization of a magic herb that one would have to smoke 1500 pounds of to overdose. And has an overdose ratio of 1000:1 whereas alcohol is 10:1. Geesh.
Maybe the son should've baked his mom some brownies.
jthh
I don't want to blow 8 minutes on the video, but perhaps the son was struggling with mental illness, which often boils up during the late-teens and early twenties, and he was self-medicating with marijuana?
Anyone know the name of this particular strain?
AMediaElite
@Flippyjack: Give her a break, she apologized for writing that a-hole column. When she REPRINTED it in a book.
snugbug
She wrote a column about her son's first public hairs and he was teased about it at school. I think she deserves honorary American Media Whore citizenship.
So, her kid got into trouble and she kicked him out and wrote a book about it? Never mind what the kid was on, I want what she is smoking.
Team son. Oh my God, what a fox.
snugbug
According to the article before the son started smoking, she was writing a weekly column in the Guardian about how her son was an awkward underdeveloped pre-teen loser. What did she expect?
this woman sounds like a self-aggrandizing moron. if only she was american and could magically turn this into a TLC reality show.
southernbitch
Just wait until she hears about this "alcohol" all the kids are using.
I need to move to the UK. All my weed makes me do is crave cold stone creamery, and play Okami for hours.
SugitaAlcimede