This
animation was inspired by seven members of the UK Government Cabinet
admitting to using CANNABIS when they were younger. WOW, 'so what' I
thought. Then I thought about the leader of the opposition [Tory] party,
David Cameron. Now he won't say one way or the other whether he used
weed or not in the past. 'So bloody what' I thought. Then the Prime
Minister said that he is considering reclassifying cannabis back up
to class B, instantly making criminals out of millions of UK citizens
who are only excercising their right as a human being by consuming or
smoking a natural substance which is a part of of human history and
of medical and psychological benefit to the majority of those who use
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it may be that young people use this and other drugs before they have
built up the mental machanisms to cope with life. It may be that some
people who are pre-disposed to psychiatric problems expound their problems
if using cannabis, but let's get real, it is only 1% of 1% of the total
population of Britain. So when I heard that the group of booze sodden
old perverts we call our government were stirring the shit about weed,
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This one is about the outragious claims made in a report published in the Lancet today by Dr Stanley Zammit: He claimed that just one joint can give you a psychotic illness such as schizophrenia. It is fearmongering lies like this that are taking us back to the days of 'Reefer Madness'. The hysterical few are about to criminalise enyone who smokes a joint just because 1% of 1% of the population may make their mental illness worse if they smoke a joint. This utter tripe is yet another political move by an american arse-licking puritanical government.It would seem that we are slipping back 70 years in attitudes towards cannabis use. The UK newspapers are full of headlines just like those in the 1936 anti cannabis film ‘REFFER MADNESS’ – it would be funny but for the uneducated and ignorant and hysterical knee-jerk reaction to this wonderful herb. I was a psychiatric nurse working on an addiction unit and a general admissions ward for 22 years. Not once in that time did I meet or treat a patient who had ‘gone mad’ or become schizophrenic by using cannabis – I did meet a number of schizophrenic and other psychotic patients, all of whom said that they did not use cannabis as it made them feel worse. All psychiatrists that I worked for agreed that cannabis would compound symptoms and cause psychotic episodes in patients with a major psychotic illness – and they all agreed that cannabis was NOT the cause of their illness. They all also agreed that cannabis is a relatively harmless substance for those who did not have a history of psychotic illness. The numbers of schizophrenic patients, per head of population HAS NOT RISEN in the last 30 years. The numbers of schizophrenic patients in countries such as Holland, where cannabis laws are relaxed, is no higher than in countries where the laws are strict, such as France – these topographical figures prove beyond a doubt that cannabis, while making an existing and sometimes latent psychotic illnesses worse, it is not and has never been the CAUSE of schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses. The motivations for re-grading cannabis are political and yet another example of how the people of Britain are being pressurised to conform to a set of puritanical rules – we cannot smoke in public yet our nation drops bombs on innocent people – we are told that we drink too much – take too many drugs – we eat too much, or we eat the wrong things - our children are all yobs - paedophiles lurk in every shadow, and to top it all they are convincing us that global warming is our fault, not the fault of the big corporations [have a look at coca cola’s or the oil and plastic industries environmental track record, ] A
nation in fear, a nation weighed down with guilt is a good place for
the drug companies to make a lot of money, I wonder how much money is
made from Prozac and similar products. I wonder how much will be made
from a drug to treat an imaginary cannabis psychosis. It has been shown
that people under stress will consume more, will get deeper into debt,
become more violent, will display more racist tendencies. Take a look
around you
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