Cannabis may soon be reclassified back to 'B' in the UK

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Originally Posted by kracks

"I am also very worried about the most recent medical evidence on mental health. This is a very serious issue."

there has never been any solid evidence that links prolonged recreational use of cannabis to cause mental health of any kind. i hate it when they use that old line!

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Woh! Back up. While I am very much FOR the legalisation of Cannabis, we can't ignore the fact that there are increasingly strong links between cannabis and schizophrenia, in that it can bring on the illness in people PRONE to it, especially at a young age.

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/...alcohol/dn3098

Let's stop and think for a minute. NO ONE IS EVER GOING TO TAKE US SERIOUSLY IF WE IGNORE THE POTENTIAL DANGERS OF CANNABIS! Pretending that it is a risk free drug simply makes us look like idiots, the minute we become hypocrits we don't deserve to have cannabis legalised.

It's a matter of 'are the risks greater or lesser if cannabis is legalised?', I say the evidence points to lesser.

there are dangers in cannabis use...however, when they are compared with the danagers of prolonged use of most other drugs they seem to be weak. however, it takes quite a few years smoking cannabis to develop a mental illness, especially in your teens when ur brains not develped properly, but cases of mentel disease are rare. alcohol could desroy a young persons life much much quicker

the point is people should be given the right to choose what they want to do/say/smoke. Its the governments responsability to make sure people are informed and their not doing a very good job of it. If it were legal then at least they would have more control over who was using it.

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Originally Posted by kracks

(Charles Clarke) - "I am also very worried about the most recent medical evidence on mental health. This is a very serious issue."

there has never been any solid evidence that links prolonged recreational use of cannabis to cause mental health of any kind. i hate it when they use that old line!

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Sadly, it is no longer an old line. There have been numerous tests that have proved this - however, it can cause mental health problems in people who either suffer with mental health problems, or have had them in the past. Plus, younger people do tend to overdo it. They have it in their pocket, so it MUST be smoked right there and then, which is just fucking ridiculous. Save it for when somethings good on TV, or for when... er... I dunno, when yer parents are out for a few hours so you can get totally baked and not have to worry about getting caught.
And I believe that overdoing it leads to the problems in the first place. The best thing that could happen is that scientists do a study on how much people in different age groups can take without suffering from problems, addiction etc and then working out the average. That way, at least if someone does become schizophrenic because of it, it's their own damn fault and no-one elses because they've been advised on how much they should take.
What do you guys think of that idea?

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Originally Posted by kracks

why the fuck is E a class A too??? shurly it would be safer to lagalize so they could controll its manufacture. PEOPLE WILL NEVER STOP TAKING DRUGS!

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Ecstacy is class A because it can kill people so easily through dehydration. And I don't believe that any drug that is man-made/processed should be legal, but that's just my opinion.

Until the media has the balls to expose that the War on Drugs is a world wide on-going failure these politicians don't give a fuck. To them being advocates of the prohibition gets them points with the people who think they're doing the right thing. It just goes to show people are oblivious to anything that isn't on the TV.

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Originally Posted by Swizzy89304

Ecstacy is class A because it can kill people so easily through dehydration. And I don't believe that any drug that is man-made/processed should be legal, but that's just my opinion.

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Hmm, wonder why alchohol isnt banned and put into class A then since it kills millions more people than E does- there are only a handful of deaths on E and only because people dont know what they are doing and drink stupid amounts of water.

Yeah even the highly acclaimed Leah Betts "ecstasy overdose" wasn't caused by the direct pharmacological effects of MDMA. After hyponatremia most other "ecstasy overdoses" are from poly drug use, mixing with alcohol, amphetamines, opiates or cocaine.

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Originally Posted by SensiRide

Hmm, wonder why alchohol isnt banned and put into class A then since it kills millions more people than E does- there are only a handful of deaths on E and only because people dont know what they are doing and drink stupid amounts of water.

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touché.

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Originally Posted by xNoa

indeed, the next 2 weeks will be very important, it could be back to class B before we know it and there will be no hope for the future

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tad dramatic