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Scientists v Politicians: Round 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/2009/10/scientists_v_politicians.html
David Nutt
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/2009/10/scientists_v_politicians.html
David Nutt
"(T)here is a relatively small risk for smoking cannabis and psychotic illness compared with quite a substantial risk for smoking tobacco and lung cancer".
Furthermore, the professor points to what he describes as a paradox.
"Schizophrenia seems to be disappearing (from the general population) even though cannabis use has increased markedly in the last 30 years."
"Research," he argues, "consistently and clearly showed that psychosis and schizophrenia are still on the decline. So, even though skunk has been around now for 10 years, there has been no upswing in schizophrenia."
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12. <cite>At 10:04am on 29 Oct 2009, badgercourage wrote:</cite>One could be forgiven for concluding that the most dangerous drug is POLITICS.
It certainly seems to affect the working of the brains of the people involved. They babble incoherently, display signs of megalomania, become paranoid and want to expose their inadequacies in public...