BBC Cannabis Debate
If you’re reading this because you googled me from my comments on the BBC news pages regarding Cannabis and mental health, please be aware that the BBC cut my comment short. The full, unabridged version (!) submitted to the BBC was :
“I’m sick and tired of all this cannabis fearmongering. I’m in my 30s, a PhD student and I smoke cannabis daily. I agree that teens should not be smoking it because the research is frightening, but for the rest of us mature adults, please treat this stuff without this ‘Reefer Madness’. It’s unrealistic and unfair to those of us who don’t drink, and for whom cannabis is a positive recreational drug. We’re not lunatics, losers or druggies. We’re mature, intelligent, responsible adults who use marijuana like others use wine and who will not be persecuted for it. ”
and the bit that made it to the BBC site was :
“I’m sick and tired of all this cannabis fear-mongering. I’m in my 30s, a PhD student and I smoke cannabis daily. I agree that teens should not be smoking it because the research is frightening, but for the rest of us mature adults, please treat this stuff without this ‘Reefer Madness’. ”
A simple edit, but lessened my argument by removing the context it was originally intended for.
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