How Prohibition-based Policies Caused A Cannabis Problem | Letters

Your article correctly raised concerns astir nan harms of higher-strength cannabis connected group susceptible to psychosis (‘I’d tally down nan roadworthy reasoning I was God’: a time astatine nan cannabis psychosis clinic, 16 November). However, it didn’t explicate really erstwhile prohibition‑based policies designed to trim cannabis usage person driven up nan spot of thoroughfare cannabis, nan root of astir cannabis for group pinch psychosis, frankincense making nan problem worse.

Furthermore, increasing information from nan Drug Science T21 task and different medicine databases globally shows that aesculapian cannabis tin alleviate a scope of psychiatric and neurological disorders, without inducing psychosis. Any proposal that rates of cannabis-related psychosis could beryllium reduced by limiting aesculapian cannabis entree is flawed and is apt to harm patients presently benefiting from it.
Prof D Nutt and Prof Ilana Crome
Drug Science