What we’ve recently learned about cannabis
Listed here the latest scientific facts about cannabis. Most of the information is taken from that well respected peer-reviewed scientific journal, The Daily Mail*, whom I would like to thank for their valuable contribution to rational debate and responsible, well balanced reporting.
- It is now 30 times stronger than that smoked in the 1960-1995 period.
- A single puff on a cannabis cigarette can mean catching life-long schizophrenia.
- Using cannabis increases the risk of catching schizophrenia to 41%.
- Since reclassification, mental health wards have been overloaded with over 30,000 cases of schizophrenia amongst schoolchildren each year.
- Children as young as SIX are being treated for cannabis addiction.
- Research has proved that 30,000 people die a year through lung cancer caught by smoking it.
- Smoking one cannabis reefer is as damaging to the lungs as smoking 5 Capstan full strength cigarettes.
- Cannabis intoxication is responsible for at least 12 murders and countless assaults by schizophrenics in the last year alone.
- At least 10 cannabis addicts committed suicide in 2006.
- It causes heroin addiction, 99.9% of heroin addicts started by smoking cannabis.
- Cannabis is grown in rented houses converted to factories by Vietnamese gangs using child slave labour. The electricity meters are bypassed, which has caused several dangerous fires.
- Cannabis has been found to contain dangerous amounts of deadly Silicon Dioxide granules.
Thanks to Phil Stovell, Hampshire, UK
* The Daily Mail is a British newspaper and the oldest tabloid, first published in 1896. It is Britain’s second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun.