Cannabis (seeing through the smoke): The New Science of Cannabis and Your Health

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And how many people die from cannabis, about 12 people (who only took cannabis and nothing else) every year.

He's not so much interested in the recreational use of cannabis, except to point out that it is overall much less dangerous than tobacco or alcohol, but that the current predominance of skunk (largely home grown) is likely to mean that street cannabis is more harmful than it need be. This culminates in his own extensive involvement in the attempt to get a rational risk/benefit attitude in UK policy. A great book pulling together all the REAL EVIDENCE on cannabis to inform rather than political propaganda to mislead. There is also a suggestion that extracts of the whole plant alleviate pain and anxiety,” Professor Nutt comments. Adults should also have the legal safe choices to enjoy their life and if they want to alter their consciousness in the same way people do with alcohol and caffeine etc they should be given the tools to do so safely.It's amazing and yet the USA has been trying to burn coca leaves for 50 years when it's part of some countries in South America's livelihoods - not to make cocaine (that's the USA) but to live on and grow as we might coffee beans or wheat. Cannabidiol accounts for up to 40 per cent of the plant extract and does not cause the euphoria induced by THC.

In 2020/21, possession of cannabis was the main drug offence, accounting for 63 per cent of cases in England and Wales. Previously he has been a member and then Chair of the Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD - 1998-2009), a member of the HEFCE/NHS Senior Lecturer Selection Panel and of the MRC Neuroscience Board. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.Prohibition always leads to stronger forms of a substance – in prohibition US they didn’t make more beer, they made gin. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. The UK government has persisted with prohibition policies which have not reduced the consumption of cannabis. The consequent lack of scientific studies into medical uses of the substance over recent decades is a huge and shameful loss to many suffering from pain and other conditions.