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

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The war on drugs is a failure and we need to be looking for alternatives in allowing people to take these drugs, rather than putting them in prison, giving them criminal records, and helping criminalise gangs to make lots of money.

We are also very excited by the growing use of medical cannabis for Tourette’s and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. We need to move medical cannabis from Schedule 2 to Schedule 4 [of the Misuse of Drugs Act] and allow GPs to prescribe.It's as much governments that have led to country lines as much as criminal gangs and it leads to unsafe products with no quality control.

When I was a child, I saw my great uncle, a physician, helping my cousin to clean and prepare his medicine – pot– so he could tolerate his chemotherapy treatments. Goes in depth to a lot of interesting practical topics that come with regulated markets, like when is it safe to drive, how is this measured etc. We now have more than 2,500 patients enrolled, who are using a range of medical cannabis products, from formulations of mostly cannabidiol to just THC and all ratios in between,” Professor Nutt says. And thus, along with Harry Jacob Anslinger who was a United States government official who served as the first commissioner of the U.He is quoted frequently in the national media, in such venues as People , the New York Times, New York Magazine , the Washington Post, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, and the Boston Globe .

Other previous national contributions include serving as the medical expert on the Independent Inquiry into the Misuse of Drugs Act (2000 Runciman report), and membership of the Committee on Safety of Medicines, the Committee on NHS drugs and the Ministry of Defence Science Advisory Board.

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. The film, Reefer Madness, which made out in a racist manner that the drug made people crazy, violent and mad.

Seeing through the Smoke is packed with accessible, engaging, and useful information delivered with the heart of a humanitarian and the commonsense of a sensible scientist. So much money has been made that if you put every dollar on top of each other it would reach 1/4 of the way to the moon. I’m sure if people want more detailed assessments they can find these online / in other texts and build on what this book already starts.

S. Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics - though even he ended up riddled with cancer and treated with the very drugs he spent a lifetime fighting (his story is told in Johann Hari’s excellent book ‘Chasing the Scream’ which also ends up describing the war on drugs as an utter failure. The UK Government has persisted with prohibition policies, which … have not reduced the consumption of cannabis,” says Professor Nutt, and may exacerbate harms and fuel crime. Scientists were using the MCDA method for analyzing the harms of different drugs and they came to the conclusion that using cannabis is not as harmful to people and society as alcohol and even cigarettes. The legalisation of cannabis around the world offers a real-world experiment to assess cannabis’s risks and benefits – and it suggests that the risks have been exaggerated, says Professor Nutt.