Cannabis less harmful than drinking, smoking: report

[unhappycamper]

Cannabis less harmful than drinking, smoking: report
Agence France-Presse
Published: Thursday October 2, 2008

LONDON (AFP) - Cannabis is less harmful than alcohol or tobacco, according to a report by a research charity Thursday, which called for a "serious rethink" of drug policy.

The Beckley Foundation, a charity which numbers senior experts and other academics among its advisors, said banning cannabis has no impact on supply and turns users into criminals.

"Although cannabis can have a negative impact on health, including mental health, in terms of relative harms it is considerably less harmful than alcohol or tobacco," says the report by the Foundation's Global Cannabis Commission.

The government is pressing for cannabis to be re-classified in law as a Class B drug compared with its current, less serious, Class C classification.

Authorities are concerned notably by the growing prevalence of the potent "skunk" form of the drug. Around 80 percent of cannabis seizures are of this strain, said to be linked to mental health problems, official figures show.


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[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. We always knew this

This was news back in the sixties and seventies. So why is it news now, I wonder?

Yeah, right. Smoke dope, go insane.

A midnight showing of "Reefer Madness," anyone?

[bbernardini]

2. In other news, fire is hot and water is wet. Film at 11. nt

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. My post appeared twice

And I don't know how, so I'm changing this one..........

[madokie]

4. skunk weed rules

[YOY]

5. Yes but drunks are adorable folks like "Otis" never get in any real trouble no no no...

and alcoholism is really easy to treat!

Potheads are nefarious gateway drug induced fiends who will do anything to get to their next fix! Always committing crimes and killing people in their drug induced haze. Getting them off their horrible fix? Well, you might as well try building the second Hoover Dam it's so troublesome!

:sarcasm:

Seriously, when is the last time you heard of anyone high as a kite committing assault and then driving off to commit vehicular homicide?

I used to smoke a lot of weed. Then I realized I had to buckle down and quit. You know how I quit smoking weed? Want to know how difficult it was to quit smoking weed? Let me tell you how I quit smoking weed.

Here's how I quit smoking weed: I quit smoking weed. It was that goddamn easy.

[Union Thug]

6. As it says above, we knew this years ago...

But the propaganda machine has been unrelenting, and the backwards hypocrites in the US continue to peddle cigarettes and firewater, all the while turning a steely gaze to the lowly, and less harmful reefer...

FASTER! PLAY FASTER!

Gawd this country is cuckoo-bananas!