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Letter: Basic information on cannabis is withheld

Derek Williams

The Glasgow Herald

Thursday 19 Oct 2006

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I'VE just read the article by Melanie Reid, Cannabis: a drug more
dangerous than heroin (October 19). It makes my blood boil to see such
an important issue as cannabis and mental health debased by such
ill-informed articles. There is no evidence whatsoever that today's
cannabis is "20 times as powerful as the natural product", and simply
repeating this myth will not make it true. As the European Monitoring
Centre for Drugs reported in 2004, there has always been strong cannabis
and some imported samples are at least as strong as "home-grown".

We have a total lack of some very basic information about cannabis, the
sort of things that we really should know. We don't know how strong any
sample will be, or how pure it is. This is entirely due to the policy of
prohibition which prevents any effective regulation of the supply side.
It's as if people were buying booze in unlabelled plastic bags
containing anything from beer to vodka to moonshine, such is the way
prohibition works.

Cannabis is called a "controlled drug", but in reality it is nothing of
the sort. But cannabis isn't simply THC and strength is not the only
consideration. Different types of cannabis contain very different ratios
of active chemicals, so it's important for any meaningful study to know
what people are using. Due to prohibition, this basic information is not
available.

The area of London which claims to have seen a doubling of schizophrenia
over 30-40 years is Brixton, where cannabis use is virtually the norm;
30 years ago it certainly wasn't; but 30 years ago the population was
utterly different and lifestyles were different.

Derek Williams, 21 Pembroke Road, Norwich.

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