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UK: Cannabis 'harmful to people's brains'
The Guardian
Thursday 12 Jul 2001 The director of the Royal Institution yesterday weighed into the debate over the legalisation of marijuana, saying it is "harmful to people's brains". Described as Britain's "top brain scientist" and "a director of the Royal Institute", Professor Susan Greenfield, a professor of pharmacology at Oxford University, wrote in the Daily Mail in response to a trend she said worried her. With the Conservative party relaxing its position on cannabis and the substance effectively decriminalised in Lambeth, south London, Professor Greenfield said too many people have forgotten the drug "could risk causing enormous damage to users' health and personality". She reserved particular wrath for "liberalisers" who "get their facts wrong". In the article, Professor Greenfield claimed cannabis is more damaging to health than cigarettes. She said there is no clinical evidence that cannabis is less dangerous than alcohol, and said "liberalisers" should stop making that claim that it is. She added the substance clearly demotivated people. Professor Greenfield said her comments did not stem from a moral obligation, and confessed: "In my misspent youth, I used to smoke up to 40 cigarettes a day. As a student I tried cannabis, although, like a certain former US president, I didn't inhale."
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