Comments on: There is no harm-free cannabis policy https://www.policyforum.net/no-harm-free-cannabis-policy/ The APPS Policy Forum a public policy website devoted to Asia and the Pacific. Thu, 24 May 2018 10:24:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 By: Peter Reynolds https://www.policyforum.net/no-harm-free-cannabis-policy/#comment-11752 Thu, 24 May 2018 10:24:30 +0000 https://www.policyforum.net/?p=24810#comment-11752 A remarkably balanced view from Wayne Hall. It makes a very pleasant and long overdue change. The wild exaggeration of risks that he has been responsible for in the past help no one.

]]> By: Legalise it? There is no harm-free cannabis policy – BKKOK.COM https://www.policyforum.net/no-harm-free-cannabis-policy/#comment-11749 Wed, 23 May 2018 22:45:40 +0000 https://www.policyforum.net/?p=24810#comment-11749 […] By Professor Wayne Hall, a scientist internationally recognised for his research on the health effects of cannabis and public policy responses to cannabis and other illicit drugs. This article originally appeared on PolicyForum.net. […]

]]> By: Malcolm Kyle https://www.policyforum.net/no-harm-free-cannabis-policy/#comment-11748 Tue, 22 May 2018 11:21:30 +0000 https://www.policyforum.net/?p=24810#comment-11748 Health concerns regarding cannabis/marijuana tend to come from a self-fueling group of discredited scientists funded by the pharmaceutical, prison, tobacco, and alcohol industries. They push non-peer-reviewed papers, fraught with conjecture and confounding variables, while relying upon reports issued by others in their own group to further support their own grossly misleading research and clearly biased agendas.

Here’s the real science:

Study: Cannabis/Marijuana Use Not Predictive Of Lower IQ, Poorer Educational Performance

“… to test the relationships between cumulative cannabis use and IQ at the age of 15 and educational performance at the age of 16. After full adjustment, those who had used cannabis more than 50 times did not differ from never-users on either IQ or educational performance. Adjusting for group differences in cigarette smoking dramatically attenuated the associations between cannabis use and both outcomes, and further analyses demonstrated robust associations between cigarette use and educational outcomes, even with cannabis users excluded. These findings suggest that adolescent cannabis use is not associated with IQ or educational performance once adjustment is made for potential confounds, in particular adolescent cigarette use.”

Source: C Mokrysz, et al. Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, University College London. Published January 6, 2016 in Journal of Psychopharmacology.

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