Cannabis (seeing through the smoke): The New Science of Cannabis and Your Health

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An excellent book, which helps to give a more balanced account on cannabis than you would hear from a politician or stupid newspapers that can only focus on emotional hot air, misinformation and not hard facts. We now have more than 2,500 patients enrolled, who are using a range of medical cannabis products, from formulations of mostly cannabidiol to just THC and all ratios in between,” Professor Nutt says. Excellent look at the issues with British politics rejecting science in favour of old fashioned dogma , racism and staunch Conservatism. Other previous national contributions include serving as the medical expert on the Independent Inquiry into the Misuse of Drugs Act (2000 Runciman report), and membership of the Committee on Safety of Medicines, the Committee on NHS drugs and the Ministry of Defence Science Advisory Board. Whole genome analysis shows that the genes for cannabis use are the same for risk overdose psychosis,” he says.

We need to move medical cannabis from Schedule 2 to Schedule 4 [of the Misuse of Drugs Act] and allow GPs to prescribe.By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Nutt attempts to answer the question that cannabis became illegal not through science, but through politics, the media and society. The only criticism I have for this book is that it has a lot of mention of Britain and it's policies but it also shows how to start the change from within very conservative minds whom have deemed all drugs to be problematic and punishable.

Read about how we’ll protect and use your data in our Privacy Notice. Many countries do now approve cannabis drugs for some forms of epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, cancer, Parkinson's. It shouldn't be shocking to learn its legal status in the UK (and other countries) has been decided by personal opinions of lawmakers and propaganda more than medical science.Giving us a big chunk of medical data, recreational regulated markets and harm reductionist policies to draw experience from. In David's first ground-breaking book on the subject, he will cover its impact of all areas of the body and the brain and its effective use for treatment of illness from chronic pain, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and PTSD, to anxiety and depression. And yet none of this would have happened if it wasn't for illegal cocaine being brought internationally.