Cannabis (seeing through the smoke): The New Science of Cannabis and Your Health

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The definitive guide to cannabis and your health, from world-renowned professor of neuropsychopharmacology David Nutt. The drug became illegal due to propaganda from the US where the world turned against the drug after a clever propaganda campaign in the US, where the end of alcohol prohibition in 1933 threatened many police jobs. This statement was corrected – in fact if you had some peanuts in one hand and an ecstasy tablet in the other, the peanuts carry far greater risk of harm and death than an ecstasy tablet. By making this relatively harmless drug illegal, we are criminalising millions as well as giving money to organised crime. Cannabidiol-based medicines are often effective in rare and treatment-resistant epilepsies, including Dravet and Lennox-Gastaut syndromes 1, but whole plant extracts may be even more effective than pure cannabidiol.

And how many people die from cannabis, about 12 people (who only took cannabis and nothing else) every year.The war on drugs is a failure and we need to be looking for alternatives in allowing people to take these drugs, rather than putting them in prison, giving them criminal records, and helping criminalise gangs to make lots of money.

Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. Adults should also have the legal safe choices to enjoy their life and if they want to alter their consciousness in the same way people do with alcohol and caffeine etc they should be given the tools to do so safely.

On the science side – the book makes complex scientific points in an accessible manner, the explanations of the entourage effect, and the way that THC and CBD form a natural complementary see-saw, counteracting the effects of one-another, were particularly interesting.