Now lets be quite clear: Cannabis isn’t a controlled drug because it’s illegal, I’m sure this blog has mentioned that before once or twice. The problem with cannabis in the real world is that fact that although illegal, millions of people use it and a massive unrestrained, unregulated uncontrolled illegal trade funds organised crime as [...]

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Just how many people would you need to prevent getting stoned to have any hope of reducing the rates of mental illness if the theory of a causal role for cannabis were true? The answer, it seems, is rather a lot. A strange bit of research was published this week by researchers at Bristol, London, [...]

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Two stories over the past few days reported as “news” which actually serve to underline how the prohibition of recreational drug use hides what’s really going on out there in the real world. Before we consider these two reports, it’s perhaps a good idea to remind ourselves that illegal drugs are called “controlled substances” and [...]

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A study with the snappy title of “Maternal tobacco, cannabis and alcohol use during pregnancy and risk of adolescent psychotic symptoms in offspring” was published recently  in BJpsych (abstract) (full text)  by researchers at Cardiff, Bristol, Warwick and Nottingham universities which threw another spanner in the claims that cannabis causes schizophrenia. As the title suggests [...]

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Nobody listens to people who “cry wolf” or who are hypocrites. Nothing could be nearer the truth when it comes to the government’s anti cannabis campaign aimed at young people. The problem we have is real; we have ever younger kids getting hold of and smoking  cannabis and despite of all the effort being put [...]

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