Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Cannabis legislation | |
Posted by: | Michael Robinson | |
Date/Time: | 10/09/15 15:17:00 |
Dan, the first two of your points are anecdotal and "correlation is not the same as causation". Plenty of non-cannabis users get sectioned and there are plenty of demotivated and underperforming secondary school kids who aren't taking cannabis. There is lots of research on this subject - don't forget, many other countries have far more liberal policies from the UK so the affect of liberalisation upon public health can be monitored. Even in the UK, despite being treated as a class B drug, the use and strength of cannabis has been increasing but there hasn't been an attendant growth in numbers being diagnosed with schizophrenia. I'm not saying that cannabis has no bad affects for some people - of course it can - just like alcohol and tobacco - but the level of potential harm is far below alcohol and tobacco. As I said before, cannabis in the UK is a political issue, not medical, and in my opinion it would be far better if it was legalised and regulated like other drugs. The classification going from B to C and back to B was just political opportunism and had no medical justification |