America’s drug experiment has been a disaster
By: Melanie Phillips (The London Times) 4-27-16 Scientists from Britain, the US, Europe and Australia recently warned that the threat to mental health from heavy cannabis use was serious enough to warrant a global public health campaign. Study after study has flagged up the damage cannabis does to users and others in their ambit. Long-term potheads display on average an eight-point decline in IQ over time, a higher risk of psychosis and permanent brain damage.
America’s drug experiment has been a disaster
The legalisation of cannabis financed by Soros and encouraged by Obama will lead to social decay, writes Melanie Phillips in the Times. ARTICLE BY MELANIE PHILLIPS, 26 April 2016… Fresh research has shown once again that cannabis is intensely harmful.
Proportion of people in treatment for different drugs, global averages
“39% of all in treatment are in treatment for marijuana while 33% of all in treatment are in treatment for heroin” Click below to see report by United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime: Global Overview of Drug Demand and Supply.
https://www.unodc.org/wdr2017/field/Booklet_2_HEALTH.pdf
Mothers against cannabis
By Catherine O’brien for MailOnline | UPDATED: 13:31 EST, 5 February 2009 In England, as in America. Some parents, families have suffered terrible harm from cannabis: The drug was downgraded to Class C five years ago, giving users the false impression that it was virtually harmless, but the four mothers featured here know the reality: 80 per cent of the cannabis seized in Britain today is skunk, which is up to 25 per cent stronger than the cannabis smoked by previous generations. Skunk users are 18 times more likely to develop psychosis, and there is increasing evidence of a link between skunk and schizophrenia. In the past five years, the number of people admitted to NHS hospitals suffering from cannabis-related mental and behavioural disorders has almost doubled. Meanwhile, there is little support for addicts’ families, most of whom find themselves isolated by fear, guilt and shame. Talking About Cannabis, a new parental pressure group, is hoping to change that. These three women reveal how their friendship and contact with each other through TAC has helped them deal with the challenge facing their families.
Cannabis Psychosis Led to Suicide
Senior coroner Veronica Hamilton-Deeley recorded his death as suicide with contributing factors of cannabis related-induced psychosis including auditory hallucination and mood.
Teen, 17, jumped 30ft to his death after ‘hearing voices telling him to leap’
A teenage boy jumped 30ft to his death after he heard ‘voices in his head telling to jump’. An inquest into the 17-year-old’s death heard how Reuben Downes went to Brighton Marina to end his life January last year.
We Love our Son But Can’t Live with What Drugs Have Done to Him
‘We love our son, but we can’t live with what the drugs have done to him’
Early next year, cannabis will be restored to Class B status, and for families of addicts, the reclassification will not be a moment too soon.
Susan Bedack is chairman of appeals for the mental health charity SANE and a supporter of the mental health charity Rethink.
The mother’s story anyone who still says cannabis is harmless MUST read: Henry came from a wealthy family and had a golden future but his life is now in tatters. Henry was a sporty, academic teenager before he started to smoke skunk (potent marijuana). His psychosis was caused by that most pernicious of drugs, skunk cannabis, and psychiatrists confirmed it. Henry – her beloved only child – endures a life bereft of purpose or meaning. Nine years ago, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since then his promising young life has been on hold.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2622755/The-mothers-story-says-cannabis-harmless-MUST-read-Henry-came-wealthy-family-golden-future-life-tatters-thanks-drug.html
‘My son played Russian roulette with cannabis – and lost’: Patrick and Henry Cockburn tell their story
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1349398/Patrick-Cockburn-My-son-played-Russian-roulette-cannabis-lost.html
Canada: Parliament’s Scathing Report on Pot’s ‘Harm’ By Paul Armentano · Oct 24, 2014
Members of the Canadian Parliament’s Standing Committee on Health issued a 24-page report this week focusing on “marijuana’s health risks and harms.” Earlier this week, Health Canada launched a $7.5 million ad campaign on television and online warning: that pot use can “decrease IQ” and cause “hallucinations or delusions.”
http://www.hightimes.com/read/canada-parliaments-scathing-report-pots-harm
Letter from the Head of the Municipal Council ( T. Liubenova MD)on Drug Addiction to the UN Secretary General (Bulgaria 6-26-15)
Parents forbid their children to smoke tobacco and the media gives them advice to smoke marijuana instead. That is a heavy crime against both children and parents. The UN cannot approve of the harm to children’s health and take on a line of passive inaction and a lack of position in regard to this issue, especially on the 26th of June – the International day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. And yes, we do have cases of strong psychotic conditions among 15-16-year-old students because of the use of “weed”.
We fully understand the endless amount of profit that marijuana trade brings to its dealers because addictions can generate endless benefits to organized crime networks, to the mafia. The position of the UN must be to relentlessly protect the victims of this monstrous present-day “plague”, namely the drugs, and that – every single day!
The priority of each and every spokesman of all countries around the world ought to be a healthy life and welfare of children, not the power and money of narcobarons. This should be understood by humankind –
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World Federation Against Drugs- Special Session- Cannabis (2014)
Martien Kooyman, MD, PhD presented: the cannabis grown and sold today is not same drug as was available in the 1970s. The average THC has increased to more than 15%. Cannabis issue can clearly lead to addiction. The damage to the brain from chronic use IS worse compared with chronic use of heroin. Among the negative effects of long-term cannabis use in adolescence include neuropsychological dysfunction, decline in IQ, short memory, among others. Dr. Kooyman concluded his presentation by reinforcing the message that cannabis can no longer be labeled a “soft” drug. There is no justification to have different laws for cannabis than other drugs (labeled as “hard”). The legalization of cannabis reinforces already existing opinion among youth that there are no risks in using cannabis. http://wfad.se/wfad2014-forum-summaries/4930-special-session-cannabis 3rd National Cannabis Conference: Many topic areas were chosen to respond to the developing evidence-base on issues such as cannabis and mental health. Melbourne, Australia- Oct 2015 https://ncpic.org.au/media/4417/final-conference-program_2015-cannabis-conference.pdf
