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A.AtTard

Feb 9th 2011, 14:07

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-471106/Smoking-just-cannabis-joint-raises-danger-mental-illness-40.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1354589/Cannabis-brings-psychotic-illness-years-earlier-mentally-ill.html

David... with all respect after days and days of reading your constant advertisment about cannabis.Stop feeding rubbish to people, especially to our children!! .

David Caruana

Feb 9th 2011, 19:11

It's called freedom of speech, dear A.Attard and you can rest assured that I won't let someone like you take away this right from me. Before you call Reuters and BBC "rubbish" while quoting The Daily Mail, here's what our local experts have to say about the subject you have brought up: "However it was noted that few studies adjusted for baseline illness severity, and most made no adjustment for alcohol, or other potentially important confounders. When these confounders were taken into consideration, the results became less convincing. Therefore it was difficult to be confident that most of the (mental illnesses) associations reported were specifically due to cannabis. " Mark Agius MD / Anton Grech MD, MRCPsych / Stanley Zammit PhD, FRCPsych http://www.um.edu.mt/umms/mmj/PDF/278.pdf Your article seems to quote a UK Government-commissioned report. Here's another study, commissioned by the same UK government: "Our research estimates that, to prevent one episode of schizophrenia, we would need to stop about 5,000 men aged 20 to 25 years from ever using the drug.... So, OVERALL, CANNABIS USE DOES NOT LEAD TO MAJOR HEALTH PROBLEMS." http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/opus1714/Estimating_drug_harms.pdf I hope that this answers all your doubts.

r spiteri

Feb 9th 2011, 14:33

or when someone builds a powerstation that works with coal in Marsa?
or when someone opens a mizbla at zurrieq? we still suffer from the 1980s decisions.