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Will legalising cannabis offer the public freedom of choice and take it away from the hands of criminals, or will it be a public health disaster as teenagers see us adults giving them the green light to use it, at a time when science has proved cannabis can cause very serious damage to the brains of teenagers? I hope this blog will help the debate move forward.
Cannabis use amongst teenagers is increasing, along with an increase in young people developing cannabis-induced mental illness. How do we stop this dangerous trend? In this blog, I draw on the experience of the 1990s, which managed to reduce cannabis use dramatically.
Supporters of cannabis have argued for years that cannabis is not a Gateway drug. In this blog I dispel this myth and provide the facts.
For years, supporters of cannabis have rejected the many studies linking cannabis with psychosis, claiming that research has yet to prove cannabis can lead to mental illness. That link has now been proven, especially amongst adolescents.
Many parents are oblivious of just how dangerous cannabis can be for teenagers. In this blog, I provide compelling evidence that exposes these dangers.
The question whether cannabis causes mental illness has been asked for hundreds of years. In this blog I look at the evidence.
In This Blog I look at whether cannabis is addictive.
New book explores the ticking time bomb of cannabis and its impact on the mental health of teenagers
The new book will delve deeper into whether increasing numbers of teenagers risk wrecking their mental health by consuming more potent strains of cannabis.
The medical use of cannabis goes back centuries. In ancient China, physicians mixed cannabis into medicine to treat pain and used it as an anaesthetic. In Ancient Greece cannabis was used to stop nose bleeds. Queen Victoria is alleged to have used it for period pains. The use of cannabis as a medicine increased during the 1900s and its use continues to increase.
During Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt in 1798, alcohol was unavailable as Egypt was an Islamic country. In place of alcohol, Bonaparte's troops resorted to trying hashish (extracts from the cannabis plant) which they found to their liking.
Will legalising cannabis offer the public freedom of choice and take it away from the hands of criminals, or will it be a public health disaster as teenagers see us adults giving them the green light to use it, at a time when science has proved cannabis can cause very serious damage to the brains of teenagers? I hope this blog will help the debate move forward.
Cannabis use amongst teenagers is increasing, along with an increase in young people developing cannabis-induced mental illness. How do we stop this dangerous trend? In this blog, I draw on the experience of the 1990s, which managed to reduce cannabis use dramatically.
Supporters of cannabis have argued for years that cannabis is not a Gateway drug. In this blog I dispel this myth and provide the facts.