POT
BLAKENED: Published letter
Source:
The York Press
Date: June 30 2007
Author: Steve Clements, Legalise Cannabis Alliance
Type: Letter
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FOR the second time you publish comments by Judge Hoffman, declaring that
cannabis causes brain damage and memory loss (Cannabis man is hung out to dry,
The Press, June 21), and for the second time I will inform you that this is
nonsense.
Recently scientists at the Nathan S Kline Institute For Psychiatric Research in
the United States reported that they could find "no... evidence of
cerebral atrophy or loss of white matter integrity" attributable to
cannabis use in the brains of frequent adolescent marijuana users (compared to
non-using controls) after performing MRI scans and other advanced imaging
technology.
Separate studies assessing the cognitive skills of long-term marijuana smokers
have also reported no demonstrable deficits.
I can confirm this, as I, after 25 years of cannabis use have had my memory and
cognitive functions tested, and was found no different to non-cannabis users.
To criminalise an adult's personal choice to use a substance no more harmful
than coffee of his own free will is a farce and a joke.
If there is no victim, there is no crime.
Steve Clements, The Legalise Cannabis Alliance, York.
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