{"id":19353,"date":"2025-06-03T20:37:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T19:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=19353"},"modified":"2025-06-03T20:38:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T19:38:02","slug":"cannabis-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2025\/06\/cannabis-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an email from Professor Stuart Reece sent to the Drug Watch International mailing list:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Yes indeed there is certainly more to the Cannabis in Canada story than given in Pam McColl\u2019s Oped<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

If one looks at the places where the most cannabis is smoked in Canada<\/a> it is in those same northern reaches where congenital anomalies are commonest<\/a> \u2013 serious defects amongst children like heart defects and born with bowels hanging out.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is to say \u2013 Canada has shown the world what not to do!!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

Why is this story not being widely told when the maps are so clear???<\/span><\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s Trudeau\u2019s claims to be following Colorado\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

And indeed he is.\u00a0 Colorado\u2019s congenital anomaly rate \u00a0\u2013 and especially congenital heart defect rate rose 70% 2000-2013 \u2013 prior to legalization in 2014 \u2013 it is almost certainly way north of that now \u2013 the only question is how far???.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2000 only 7.6% of Colorado children had a major congenital anomaly rate \u2013 that is more than twice the national USA average about 3.1%.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2013 12.6% of children had a major congenital anomaly \u2013 four times the national average \u2013 and 1 in 8 Coloradan children!!!!!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

And we are continuing down this path\u2026 because\u2026.???<\/span><\/p>\n

So both Canada \u2013 and Colorado \u2013 have taught the world what NOT<\/em> to do\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

So why are we rushing as fast as we can in so many places to repeat their mistakes???<\/span><\/p>\n

Because the media told us to????<\/span><\/p>\n

Sorry this story is not making sense at all\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks so much,<\/span><\/p>\n

Prof. Dr. Stuart Reece,<\/span><\/p>\n

Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Email sent to Drug Watch International (DWI) drug-watch-international@googlegroups.com June 2018<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an email from Professor Stuart Reece sent to the Drug Watch International mailing list:\u00a0 Yes indeed there is certainly more to the Cannabis in Canada story than given in Pam McColl\u2019s Oped. If one looks at the places where the most cannabis is smoked in Canada it is in those same northern reaches […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,30,41,121,90,64,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-drug-use-effects-on-foetus","category-genes","category-global-drug-legalisation-efforts","category-health","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}