That BBC article just gave me a headache. I'm trying to make some real sense of it... and at the moment I don't know whether that means taking notice.. or disregarding parts of it or what.

I'm expected to beleive here that 500,000 people just in the UK are dependant on weed. Okay well as drastic as that claim sounds, I would be prepared to keep an open mind to it.
IF they had some evidence.

Instead we get this:
"Although figures are not kept, it is estimated that as many as 500,000 people in the UK may be dependent on cannabis.
ermm.. right.

Next thing I noticed:

In 2005, only heroin users accounted for a greater proportion of patients.
Well... okay, thanks for telling us, but doesn't that just seem like another excuse to use the word 'heroin' in every fucking weed article you can find. One word: scaremongering.

Also... I'm failing to find any part of this 'study' about smoking cannabis that has anything to do with smoking cannabis, know what I mean?

The Institute of Psychiatry study gave THC, CBD or placebo capsules to adult male volunteers
In a second study, a team from Yale University administered THC intravenously.
And this is what finished it off for me:

It is similar to comparing the effect of drinking a glass of wine at the weekend with drinking a bottle of vodka every day.
That one annoyed me. It's a statement that really should be described with swearing but i'm afraid that if I do it'll provide evidence for their claim that cannabis makes you lose control of what comes out of your mouth. What a joke. Even if the street potency has doubled, someone feel free to explain how a glass of wine at the weekend x2 = a bottle of vodka every day.

And so I continue to lose respect for the BBC.
Jah420 Reviewed by Jah420 on . Article on the effects of THC vs. CBD Check out this latest barnacle - christ it was only yesterday they were banging on about how smoking cannabis gives you emphysemia by the time your 35 or something... They finally found evidence that cannabis rots your brain! BBC NEWS | Health | Cannabis 'disrupts brain centre' "They then recorded reduced activity in an area of the brain which keeps inappropriate thoughts at bay." What you mean a part of our brain is there to STOP us from thinking? Rating: 5