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Cannabis Legalization
For the foreseeable future the debate surrounding the legalisation of cannabis will polarise opinion.
Ian Bishop, a HIV/Drugs worker from Aberdeen once put forward the conclusion – “There can be little doubt amongst those with an informed and open mind that cannabis use is remarkably unproblematic compared with many other drugs. ... ”
I completely agree with this view and in defending this we have to consider how there has not been a single instance of reported death for which cannabis is directly responsible, whereas, repeatedly, studies have linked tobacco with cancer, with high blood pressure, and with emphysema and a variety of other lethal conditions. Yet it is cannabis that is outlawed, while tobacco, currently is available in Britain to anyone over 16-years-old as a succession of cynical governments collects the huge duty levied on it? ... No study has been able to establish that the ‘high’ or intoxicated state that results commonly from the smoking of cannabis have behavioural consequences of a significantly pernicious kind. ... Yet in general, in Britain and the western world, it is alcohol that is the socially approved and permitted option, and the legally endorsed, not cannabis.
To again quote from Ian Bishop on the relative safety of cannabis – “To quote both the Government’s 1981 report by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and the Administrative Law Judge of the American Drug Enforcement Agency: “There is insufficient evidence to enable us to reach any incontestable conclusions as to the effects on the human body of the use of cannabis.
Approximate Word count = 1078
Approximate Pages = 4.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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