ROLL UP, ROLL UP
Source: Zoo Weekly, UK
Pub Date: Saturday 24 January,
2004
Web: http://www.zooweekly.co.uk
Cited: Legalise Cannabis Alliance, http://www.lca-uk.org
ROLL UP, ROLL UP!
CANNABIS is declassified
next week, as reports link the drug with psychosis. Got any skins?
Dope will be downgraded
from a class B to a class C drug next week, but for the thousands who have used
the drug it won’t be a cause for a celebratory cannabis cake. Killjoy researchers this week claimed that
80 per cent of new psychosis patients admitted to inner city hospitals have a
history of cannabis use.
Robin Murray, a
professor at the Institute of Psychiatry , who took part in the research, said:
“A tenth of people who use cannabis by 15 in our sample developed
schizophreniform disorder by age 25, compared with three per cent of the
remaining cohort.
“This is now the number
one problem facing the mental health services in inner cities.”
But according to Don
Barnard of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance, the study is just a scare
tactic. He said: “There are 4.5 million
cannabis users in the UK, the vast majority of whom have never experienced any
such problems.
“Fatty food is bad for
you. Does that mean it should be
illegal?”
Log on to www.zooweekly.co.uk and let us know what
you think. Should cannabis be
reclassified? A) Yes b) Definitely yes
c) Stop asking all these questions, man.