this is the article we talk about
The article in The Independent on Sunday is what we call
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Prohibitionist drug war propaganda.
The fact that more and more youngster are looking for help because of problems related to cannabis consumption is (at least partly) because of prohibition it selve. The presure on teens to go into treatment can rise enormously ones you're caught by your parents, school or the police. A lot of this youngster go low profile for a while and play the good son/daughter.
Of course, besides this there are young people who really get in to trouble. Prohibition didn't work for them either...
How come that, in spite of prohibition, these kids can get to buy Marihuana so easily? Don't dealers ask for identity cards when they sell their dope?
In society as a whole we've seen a rise in the number of people that are suffering of psychiatric and psychological problems. Can it be that also Cannabis consumers follow this trend?
Also it's only human to look for external reasons if things go wrong. It's easier to point at peoples late cannabis use to explain psychological and psychiatric problems instead of looking at the often broad range of internal and environmental factors that came along with the cannabis use.
Public opinion makers and politicians now do as if cannabis is (and has to stay) prohibited because of the possible negative consequences for peoples health (psychosis). But if we'd make registration of patients in psychiatry and the prevalence of preceding alcohol use, you'll see that also alcohol can cause this kinds of danger as well.
Drugs aren't prohibited because of they're dangerous. If this was the case then alcohol and tobacco would have been prohibited to.
Public health (and crime) is the most named reason by specialists if you ask them why we shouldn't prohibit alcohol. What's the difference with Cannabis? (MY CULTURE FIRST!)
There is a relation between the (young) age that people start using drugs and the chance on possible negative consequences later on. Why is it that we keep on ignoring this fact by still not regulating the market for adults? Regulating the drug market for adults will shrink the illegal market wich will slow down the spread of drugs among minors. Age limits in a regulated market for adults will be the second front that slows down the accessibility of drugs by youngsters.
We need to regulate the market for adults in order to be able to protect the children.
The artikel also referred to the constant rise in the amount of thc in Cannabis plants in the past few years. The high thc level is referred to as a cause to psychosis and other mental problems. This so called rise in thc level of course is a consequence of our Cannabis policies that makes production and distribution illegal. There is no way that you can influence the black market because by installing prohibition you gave away your means of controle. (and then new speak by calling the illegal drugs âcontrolled substancesâ!)
One points to the rising amount of thc in Cannabis and then use this fact to plee for keeping Cannabis illegal. To understand he who can understand. This is the world up side down.
It's this kind of curved reasoning that's on the basis of what we currently have on drug laws and drug reality. The politicians, scientists, opinion makers and policy makers who now give the impression that because of the new scientific proof we should intensify zero-Cannabis policies are out of line. They lack the will or the intelligence to interpreted reality as it is. Therefore they aren't capable to do what is so urgently needed.
Cannabis Scare?
I'm scared too you know. I have two little kids and I'd like to see this problem solved by the time that they get 12-13 years old.
Stijn Goossens
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