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Topic: Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial
Posted by: Francis Rowe
Date/Time: 04/03/15 12:14:00

The difference is that we already know the scale of the problem that alcohol generates and as a society we have taken an informed decision to accept that.

With cannabis we are only starting to get data on what the stronger strains will do. They are overwhelmingly used by children and young adults and the early evidence is that there is an elevated danger of catastrophic psychological harm in a statistically significant number of cases. This was prefigured by a lot of anecdotal evidence - I know personally of three boys whose lives have been effectively destroyed by using this drug. In their peer group there are none that I am aware of who have had their lives destroyed by alcohol even though a majority of them will drink and a minority will smoke skunk.

These are the short term affects. As with tobacco we won't know the full long term effects for decades and, in the mean time people who profit from the sale of cannabis, either legally or not, will tell us that there are none - just like the tobacco firms.

Basically liberalisation of the law on cannabis would be an experiment on our children which the early evidence is already telling us would end very very badly.


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TopicDate PostedPosted By
Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial03/03/15 23:29:00 Georgina Flint
   Re:Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial04/03/15 09:14:00 Alastair Banton
      Re:Re:Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial04/03/15 09:24:00 Andrew OSullivan
         Re:Re:Re:Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial04/03/15 09:45:00 Alastair Banton
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial04/03/15 09:52:00 Colin Wren
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial04/03/15 09:52:00 Vanessa Smith
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial04/03/15 10:16:00 Francis Rowe
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial04/03/15 10:28:00 Alastair Banton
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial04/03/15 10:50:00 Anita Blake
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial04/03/15 11:52:00 Will Watson
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial04/03/15 12:14:00 Francis Rowe
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial04/03/15 12:33:00 Larry Stamford
                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial04/03/15 14:44:00 Georgina Flint
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial04/03/15 14:49:00 Alastair Banton
                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial04/03/15 15:43:00 Paul Pryce
                                          Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial04/03/15 15:55:00 Larry Stamford
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial04/03/15 14:56:00 Larry Stamford
                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial04/03/15 16:39:00 Andy Pease

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