Thursday, 30 March 2017

Cannabis, Mental Disorders and the Precautionary Principle a Reason to Sustain Prohibition?

Mental Disorders

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.

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