Nut is cracked by herb.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Cannabis seems like the odd on out on his list with ecstacy and LSD alongside it.

I only know what I was taught at school, but doesn't ecstacy cause serious physical side effects, sometimes killing poeple pretty quickly? And LSD causes serious halluciations, such as a guy trying to saw off his arm because he thought it was a snake?

Cannabis, on the other hand, I would not think is so harmful.

[Fisherking]

The best reason to keep cannabis on the list is to keep commercial hemp from being grown.

In the same way that prohibition ended the threat of alcohol as fuel to the oil industry. Making cannabis illegal was a wind fall (engineered and promoted) to the timber industry.

I don’t think it represents a dire threat to humanity but legal hemp would make paper products a lot cheaper.

[InsaneApache]

Cannabis seems like the odd on out on his list with ecstacy and LSD alongside it.

I only know what I was taught at school, but doesn't ecstacy tobacco cause serious physical side effects, sometimes killing poeple pretty quickly? And LSD alcohol causes serious halluciations, such as a guy trying to saw off his arm because he thought it was a snake?

Cannabis masturbation, on the other hand, I would not think is so harmful.

Fixed.

[rory_20_uk]

Thank you all for showing why we need toxicologists and other related scientists and physicians to undertake and peer review scientific data!

• Everything can be lethal
• That includes water, oxygen, glucose and all medications
• Banned drugs are harmful
• Legal drugs are harmful
• All can leave you a physical or mental cripple
• Sports can be harmful
• ANYTHING can be harmful

Risk management, OK? Be that driving an old banger as opposed to a new Volvo, to getting pregnant (yes, this increases your morbidity and mortality!) everything is a potential risk!

These scientists are in a position to judge the effects of the drugs on the body better than anyone here. They might not be able to judge the effects on society, but this is mainly due to them being illegal, rather than the drugs themselves. They can build models taking into account the purity and likely contaminants that they might contain, but these will not be 100% accurate. Again, this could be massively improved if they were legal.

The method of delivery makes a massive difference. If someone were to mainline alcohol the toxic dose is massively less than thee oral dose; if one is to eat cannabis this is much less dangerous than smoking it (and I've heard of some idiots injecting mashed cannabis...)

Legalising something does not make it compulsary. When opium was legal it was not something everyone did before work - it was looked down upon in the main, or taken by artistes... so, nothing has changed there really, bar the criminals get the money.

Let people choose what they do to their own bodies. Make the information freely available. And people are more likely to read it when it is based on fact, not government backed fairy stories.