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MERRY CRIMBO EVERYONE!!!

I AM LOVING XMAS TODAY, LOTS OF PREZZIES AND LOTS OF FRIENDS LOTS OF FUN AND LOTS OF TOOTERING TO BE HAD, HAVE A FABULOUS DAY EVERY1

AND JUST TO KEEP TOPICAL, HERES A REPLY I HAD A WHILE BACK, SPEAKS FOR ITSELF??

on 23rd august i wrote to my mp as the media reported upto 13 children a (day, week? cant remember) are taken to hospital because of alcohol.
I asked my mp in comparrison how many people were admitted through cannabis, i also mentioned the plight of THC4MS and my usual legaise cannabis comments.

Today i recieved my reply dated 3rd Oct from caroline flint (department of hell, sorry health)

The first part of the letter stating how there is sympathy for those with ms and other illnesses cannabis will not be legalised in its raw form and they can expect results in spring 2006 for a medical treatment.

(The letter is EXACTLY the same as those i have had from MEP etc etc over the last two years, the letter is pretty standard, and I am sure you all get the same one too, so i wont write it word for word, its the same old crap)
But at the end it does say.

I will now turn to elsies specific (LIKE THE THC4MS BIT WAS NOT SPECIFIC?? BUT ANYWAYS) query about the number of cannabis users admited to hospital as compared to those who have drunk alcohol.

We do not have a total number of admissions of which cannabis or alcohol missuse may have been a factor, for example in causing accidents. However as the minister of state Rosie Winterton informed the house of commons on 18th July statistics have been collected on the number of admissions under mental illness specialities with a primary diagnosis of a mental or behavioural disorder due to phycoactive substance abuse or poisoning caused by drugs.
The figures for alcohol and cannabis are shown in a table below.

2001 -2002
cannabis 580 admissions:rastasmoke:
alcohol 11470 admissions

2002-2003
cannabis 580 admissions:rastasmoke:
alcohol 11700 admissions

2003-2004
cannabis 710 admissions:rastasmoke:
alcohol 11280 admissions

figures for 2002-2003 2003-2004 have not been ajusted for shortfalls in data and or clinical error therefore data is ungrossed.

Source: hospital episode statistics, NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre.

I hope elsie finds this information helpful

Yours Caroline Flint.

So out of the figure for cannabis, how much is adulterated soap bar? does this say to you what it does to me?
In the letter they state cannabis has a number of acute and chronic health effects, which is why cannabis remains controlled. but the results tell me alcohol is the bigger problem?/

comments, ideas for response, thanks