UK - Centre For Social Justice Claims That Cannabis Is “A New Hard Drug”

[Tenchi]

While the rest of the world is moving at an ever increasing rate towards sanity and intelligence on cannabis, the fools at the Centre for Social Justice have been taking ‘evidence’ from Mary Brett and Cannabis Skunk Sense.

The result is the most idiotic claim in their report on addiction that cannabis is “a new hard drug”.

Of course if you give any credence to the propaganda machine and factory for deception that is Cannabis Skunk Sense then you’re bound to fail in dramatic fashion. The truly shocking thing though is the complete lack of evidence or coherent reasoning used to justify this ludicrous scare story.

The report, titled ‘NO QUICK FIX. Exposing the depth of Britain’s drug and alcohol problem’, is disgraceful in its bigotry, cherry picking of evidence , sanctimonious attitude and slavish sycophancy towards the coalition government.

Later this week, CLEAR will reproduce the appallingly inaccurate section on cannabis and post an analysis of just how misleading and inaccurate it is.

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It would be funny if it weren't so tragic.

 

[Venrak]

That PDF is a piece of shittily compiled graphs and misrepresentation of information.

GJ.

 

[Tenchi]

The problem is, our goverment will accept it as fact.

 

[dopemegently]

Ha! It reminds me of UAE outlawing binaural beats as a "dangerous and intoxicating digital drug"
The pig-headed absurdity never ceases to amaze me....

 

[Tenchi]

This is a republication of pages 33 to 36 inclusive of ‘NO QUICK FIX. Exposing the depth of Britain’s drug and alcohol problem’, a report by the Centre for Social Justice, published at the end of August 2013.

It is an object lesson in how to construct a plausible but entirely misleading report. It has all the appearance of a rigorous and scientific approach with a lot of references to peer reviewed and published evidence. The evidence is, of course, cherry picked and what is excluded shines the brightest light on the integrity and true purpose of the authors.

A CLEAR analysis of this will be published shortly.



1.3 Cannabis – a new hard drug

Over the last decade, the strength of cannabis across Britain has nearly trebled and more people are seeking help for its effects.(101) With an increasing number of studies reporting the adverse effects of this stronger cannabis upon mental health and the brain development of under-25s, the long-term impact of cannabis may increasingly be felt by society.(102) Be it children caring for a parent 188(sic) suffering extensive mental health problems, or indeed parents looking after their damaged children, the costs of cannabis are great and rising.(103)

Despite the dangers of this drug, it was used by over two million people aged 16–59 years old.(104) Although there has been a reduction in use since 2003, more people, especially young people, are seeking treatment for cannabis addiction and corresponding mental health problems.(105) Drugs treatment centres, although still dominated by heroin and/or crack addicts, now see one-fifth of all treatment presentations and one-third of first-ever presentations due to cannabis.(106) (107)

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[weekend addiction]

I saw a documentary film explaining the increasing potency of cannabis. Oh here it is:

 

[neversickanymore]

Sorry but hard drugs can kill you and often ruin your life.

 

[2002Tii]

^So can women