{"id":3213,"date":"2009-07-26T16:19:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T15:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=3213"},"modified":"2009-07-26T16:19:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T15:19:15","slug":"cannabis-a-cause-for-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/cannabis-a-cause-for-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis &#8211; a cause for Concern ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000099; font-family: verdana;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Conference in Moses Room, House of Lords, 28th November 2002-11-28 CONSENSUS OF CONFERENCE<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u25cf In the light of the most recent international evidence regarding the adverse effects of cannabis, we urge the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary to reconsider their determination to reclassify Cannabis from a Schedule B to Schedule C drug.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf We are concerned that reclassification sends the message \u2018it is ok to take cannabis\u2019 or \u2018cannabis is harmless\u2019 or \u2018taking cannabis is legal now\u2019, especially to young people. We therefore strongly oppose reclassification.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Instead, we urge the Prime Minister and the Home Office not to play down the many adverse and sometimes irreversible health effects of cannabis but to send out the clear message that cannabis is both harmful and, for that reason, illegal.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf We urge the Prime Minister \u2013 in the light of recent evidence \u2013 to reassess the adverse physical, emotional, mental and spiritual impact cannabis abuse has on individuals, but also to assess the adverse effects of cannabis on society including families with a special reference to ethnic minorities, the education system, the National Health Service, the Police, the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf We are concerned that drug prevention is not given the emphasis it deserves, that \u2018mixed messages\u2019 are sent out and in particular we are very concerned at public funding of organisations whose \u2018drug education material\u2019 appears to promote rather than prevent drug abuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf We urge the Prime Minister to allocate more resources on prevention of cannabis abuse. Prevention is better than cure. We believe that these resources will be well spent. Our society and especially our young people deserve to be protected from cannabis abuse.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000099; font-family: verdana;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Source: <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000099; font-style: italic; font-family: verdana;\">Conference in Moses Room, House of Lords,<br \/>\n\u00a028th November 2002-11-28 CONSENSUS OF CONFERENCE<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000099; font-family: verdana;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conference in Moses Room, House of Lords, 28th November 2002-11-28 CONSENSUS OF CONFERENCE \u25cf In the light of the most recent international evidence regarding the adverse effects of cannabis, we urge the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary to reconsider their determination to reclassify Cannabis from a Schedule B to Schedule C drug. \u25cf We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}