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He said: "The link between cannabis and psychosis is quite clear now; it wasn't l0 years ago." Many medical specialists agree that the debate has changed. Robin Murray, professor of psychiatry at London's Institute of Psychiatry, estimates that at least 25,000 of the 250,000 schizophrenics in the UK could have avoided the illness if they had not used cannabis. "The number of people taking cannabis may not be rising, but what people are taking is much more powerful, so there is a question of whether a few years on we may see more people getting i11 as a consequence of that." "Society has seriously underesrimated how dangerous cannabis really is," said Professor Neil McKeganey, from Glasgow University's Centre for Drug Misuse Research. "We could well see over the next 10 years increasing numbers of young people in serious difficulties."...... Source: http://news.independent.ca.uk/uk/health_medical/article236$994.ece A British survey finds that half of a^ crime suspects and 57 percent of young offenders admit recent smoking of marijuana. The Home Office, for the first tune, questioned people who had just been arrested, the Daily Mail reported. The rate of marijuana use was significantly higher than. expected. The government downgraded cannabis from a Class B to a Class C drug in 2004. "These alarming statistics raise serious questions about the consequences of the government's chaotic and confused policy on drugs," said David Davis, the Conservative Farty's Shadow Home Secretary. "We have long said that drugs fuel all sorts of crime. This is because they both undermine a person's sense of responsibility but also because takers anal addicts need money to feed their habit." White 57 percent of those arrested were identif ed as problem. drinkers, far smaller percentages said they had used heroin or cocaine. Source: ht~~/lwww playfuls com/news 10 7742-Stud.v-Links-Marijuana-To-Crime.html Canada: Speakers to talk about marijuana use By STEPHANIE WA.DDBLL It might only be a joint, but territorial prevention consultant Sandy Bowlby wants Yukoners to know there are harmful effects that come with it. "It is a drug and it is addictive," Bowlby, a prevention consultant with. the territory's prevention services department, said in an interview earlier this week. New studies have indicated marijuana is physically addictive, heightens cancer rates and risks to mental health and impacts short-term memory, Bowlby said....Over the past 15 years, cannabis use in the territory has risen from 1 b per cent of Yukoa~ers to 21 per cent....Meanwhile throughout the country, the study showed ] 4 per cent of Canadians smoke pot. There seems to be a perception. that pot is a safe drug, Bowlby said. Recent studies, however, have indicated it can be physically addictive. In the past, marijuana has been regarded as a drug that is not physically addictive. Research done in more recent years, Bowlby said, has shown heavy pot smokers who quit suffer from anxiety, sleeping problems and have shown anger issues while their bodies are getting rid of the drug. It's also been found recently that when a marijuana user also smokes tobacco, his or her risk of cancer not only increases by a little bit, but multiplies. 20 75A-115