Cannabis legalisation?

[Spud1]

Just a few interesting things to add;

about increased potency:
http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabi...is_myth2.shtml

gateway drug thing:
http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabi...s_myth13.shtml

more:

http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabi...s_info14.shtml

Just more proof/articles that show most of the arguements against cannabis to be unfounded, or at the very least unproven...

[oralpain]

I don't think any form of drug should be restricted, regardless of how adictive/fatal it is.bUnless handling it can cause acute and fatal poisioning, I don't see any reason I consider valid to limit it.

[Alex]

Just a few interesting things to add;

about increased potency:
http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabi...is_myth2.shtml

gateway drug thing:
http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabi...s_myth13.shtml

more:

http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabi...s_info14.shtml

Just more proof/articles that show most of the arguements against cannabis to be unfounded, or at the very least unproven...

I have to say, having recently researched this a lot, that these articles aren't giving the whole picture. Often they seem to be saying that because something is unproven it is untrue - even if scientific evidence seems to be pointing the other way. For instance - it is true that a causal link between cannabis use and harder drug use has not been proven, but there still remains a very close association. It is incredibly hard to prove or disprove a causal relationship without actually creating a double blinded controlled study, and this is not going to happen in the near future. The article seems to say that because this is still a theory and not known fact, it cannot be true. The arguments are not unfounded, just unproven. The only other thing that is going on is to see how a causal relationship might work, through altering brain activity, which would show us a causal relationship. This is research that will probably come through sooner than any other, but the problem is a causal relationship can't be disproven this way. After weeks of research, I still have no idea whether the relationsip is causal, but be aware that it isn't as simple as that website portrays. It makes some interesting points, but is clearly biased, and if the debate was as simple as they make out then cannabis would already be legal.

Anyone can write a website and have some scientific references, that doesn't necessarily make it right. Doesn't necessarily make it wrong either, but beware trusting what a website says because it sounds scientific and says what you want it to say.