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I have heard cannabis can have some positive medical qualities, so why not legalisr it , it is less harmful than alcohol.
I am intersted in peoples views on this subject.
Thats the common 'red hering' thrown out by stoners eh ... it's medically useful
Well, the tobacco industry KNEW as far back as 1920's that tobacco was causing cancer and yet they still managed to 'sell the idea to medical doctors' that smoking was good for the health ... on the grounds that it made smokers cough ... which cleared gunk off their lungs.
Of course that was a lie and the lungs were being coated with tar ...
In WW2 the Brits had a desperate proble ... the carnage was more than many men could bear and many fled from the trenches ... bit of a problem as some days they were shooting near as many deserters as enemy!
But psychiatry was the emerging science that would solve everything and the Brits sent a couple of shiney new shrinks off to the trenches ... they didn't 'run away' but their research was flawed. They observed the 'usual signs of terror' and they noticed a few tommies sat around drinking tea and having a smoke ... so, as all the tommies drank tea and at different places they wrote a report concluding that 'smoking cigarettes created relaxation' and that was enough to get them sent home and have the army start shipping tons of cigs to the trenches!
It was later discovered that person 'in distress' listens to the Voice of Authority and behaves as told to expect ... so, they were told 'Smoke this it will help you relax...' and so a murderous myth was born !