BBC -- HOW DRUGS DONT WORK - CANNABIS

I could hardly believe my ears when i watched the above program on the I Player. I had not heard such an out of date bunch of shite about cannabis for at least 15 years. It seemed to be fixatated on THC and Skunkweed and how dangerous this stuff could be. Well Really. All drugs, and for that matter, all repettive behaviour carries with it dangers both physical and psychological but to single out THC in this infantile way does not do the BBC any credit and paints a sorry picture of drugs research into the bargain.

At the last count ther3e were supposedly 421 chemcials in cannabis, 420 of which are not THC. several of which were found to be useful or potentially useful in the treatment of a number of physical and mental ailments. Surely the BBC program could have found a little time for some of these. And before you way, what do you know about all this i must point out that i worked with my Local MP in the 90s on the issues of cannabis pharmaceuticals and decriminilisation. In the course of this i prepared evidence for the House of Lords Select Committee and even discussed it with the Police Foundation.

Another issue which i find genuinely offensive is the failure of this type of programming to differentiate between use and abuse. There is a long distance which seperates the person who smokes a joint from the person of smokes cannabis in joints, pipes, bongs, etc etc from dawn till dusk. If we apply this kind of misguided logic to much of human activity we find we are surrounded by comparatively few abusers of cannabis but these are certainly well exceeded by sugar addicts and abusers, chocaholics, alcoholics, nicotine addicts, and i havent even begun to consider all those who regularly use and abuse prescription drugs such as aspirin, paracetamol, etc etc.