Comments on: The cannabis saga – should it be reclassified again? http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/the-cannabis-saga-should-it-be-reclassified-again/ News and views from the Drug Education Forum Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:52:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Peter O'Loughlin http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/the-cannabis-saga-should-it-be-reclassified-again/#comment-10614 Peter O'Loughlin Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:02:46 +0000 http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/?p=1045#comment-10614 Hope have advanced a well reasoned and balanced argument for re-classification, and one would like to think that the ACDM will view it favourably. Unfortunately the damage has been done and is probably irreversible among the current generation of suffferers. Nevertheless if the government acts on Hope's suggestions, and in the process gives as much adverse publicity to the dangers of cannabis as it has done to smoking, inroads can be made into the widely accepted view that cannabis is harmeless. Hope have advanced a well reasoned and balanced argument for re-classification, and one would like to think that the ACDM will view it favourably.

Unfortunately the damage has been done and is probably irreversible among the current generation of suffferers. Nevertheless if the government acts on Hope’s suggestions, and in the process gives as much adverse publicity to the dangers of cannabis as it has done to smoking, inroads can be made into the widely accepted view that cannabis is harmeless.

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