It is over ten years ago that prominent cannabis researcher Gabriel Nahas was critiqued for a sloppy 1992 academic study (see http://www.lycaeum.org/drugs.old/plants/cannabis/nahas.flaws ), This ‘biased and unscientific’ scary story was prepared for and funded by the USA government. The National Institute of Health fired him, his work, particularly his horrific ‘smoking monkeys’ experiment vilified, confessing it was ‘meaningless’ science. Nahas. however just added to a long list of studies claiming ‘sensational’ cannabis health risks characterised by lack of controls, oversight, replicatability or independence.
Media and commentators on the biopsychosocial Dunedin Multidisciplinary and Christchurch Longitudinal studies have not abated. The Royal College of Psychiatry has been at it again.
While there may be some harm or risk from cannabis misuse, particularity early chronic use, these are never tested against the gold standard. Nor can they be, such meaningful research can only be conducted and measured in a non-judgmental harm minimiising environment. (see Scoop:Suspect study perpetrates “reefer madness” myth)
“There is not yet any conclusive evidence as to whether prolonged use of marijuana causes permanent changes in the nervous system or sustained impairment of brain function and behavior in human beings.”
National Academy of Sciences, Coptic study (UCLA), 1981
Witness the dysfunction on the prohibitors watch! Could it be the matrix of prohibition that maintains the sustained behavioral impairment?
How much science do we need to quantify the ridiculous?
MildGreens's Backup Blog 
January 23, 2006 at 9:44 am |
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