We are lately
witnessing an increasing awareness that the War on Drugs has failed,
exemplified among others by the work of the Global Commission on Drug Policy and
of recent position statements of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
As a result, an
increasing number of countries and states/regions are abandoning their
prohibitionist legislation and jurisprudence to pass over to various
types of regulated cannabis markets. For example, several Swiss cities have
e.g. launched a working group to consider pilot projects of regulated cannabis
access.
In the light of
these recent developments, the issue of harmfulness of cannabis, and
particularly its potential effects on mental health, has once again become a
passionately debated issue.
