No, what it does is make it really easy for the prohibitionists to imprison people. The paperwork is all there and the criminals are gauranteed not to…

Good question. The original article is here (Chinese language). It mentions ephedrine cold medicines being used to make crystal meth (locally known as ice. I guess this sentence gives you the best answer:

国家药监局表示，销售含麻黄碱类复方制剂的药品零售企业应当查验、登记购买者身份证

The…

People buying 20 tablets for a cold or 100kg for export, labelled as something else?

These findings are likely to be mistakenly adopted by those who advocate continuing the prohibition of cannabis as a justification of their position. But assuming that such correlations are true, it is obviously important that cannabis use takes place within a framework where age limits…

The social sanction is are prevented from occuring by prohibition.

Cannabis is a low priced, discretionary purchase that…

A strong social sanction on providing cannabis to young teenagers would help a lot.

It’s actually this kind of social prohibition that has helped turn around the meth boom. The P-pipe became…

That they’ve got a brilliant street address?

The police are required by law to uphold stupid and harmful laws. When there's a potentially long sentence and a high chance of conviction they have to go after it, so they'll always go hard after harshly prohibited materials.

Cannabis (particularly when eaten) is terribly weaksauce…

You dont regulate for that. Having a good home environment with loving caring parents who will listen to the children's problems as they encounter them while growing up and who are sensitive and educated enough to know what has happened. And, without…

The more pertinent question being why would you want to regulate for that? How do we regulate for that with alcohol? Prolonged use causes psychosis in selected users. Surely the ideal endgame for a progressive developed society is one where the greater…

In the case of the link between adolescent cannabis use and adult psychosis, the Dunedin researchers identified a genetic predisposition in 2005 :

The team found that…

that's what politicians are for

like violence, you mean

Maybe they were trying to give you a heads-up...

That was proved by finding mechanisms of causation to confirm the epidemiological results. You can demonstrate experimentally that cigarette smoke is mutagenic, etc.

utilitarianism

That always takes me straight to Bentham's Panopticon. Something which I think many modern "liberals" would like us all to live…

Yeah nah.

This is a part of a long term study done by some good…

That's always extremely difficult to decouple. The ambiguity stood against proof that tobacco was harmful for a very long time.

This should at the very least, start with balanced research into what actually harms people

I've often wonder if a policy of harm reduction is…

Sure. But this comes on top of similar findings in the same study with respect…

Perhaps the same people who use cannabis at a young age also take up life…

Interesting stuff. Good honest science finds things that are highly counter-intuitive, sometimes. So much the worse for intuition. So many reasons based on micro analysis, why cannabis should cause lung cancer, and yet, it seems not to. I was very interested to hear about the…

The "state legal" drug dispensaries aren't legal under…

No. And for a higher-level perspective, this review published this month in the British Medical Journal (blog article here ), places cannabis lower…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJmQ16cGBHU

I do not consider cannabis to be harmless. If there was no risk, there would be no reward. Nor does it have no…

Also, one could use those pictures to illustrate a book on cultivation techniques (all images courtesy NZ police).

Anyways, the question for me isn't "is weed safe" -…

You could start with Wikipedia or Google, but here's an online reprint from his book Marihuana Reconsidered.

It might be worth adding that both the US Shafer Commission prior to Nixon's War on…

‘Cannabis seedlings and the mother plant’M
Poor mum incinerated with her offspring...

Absolutely. We well know the irony inherent in the current approach, which has made illegal a great number of harm-minimisation devices. Hopefully this doesn't attract negative attention from the law.

There are a range of harms and benefits, and a responsible…

LOL, classic. But would it take off? There's even smaller, easier to use things for nicotine smokers, that actually look like cigarettes, but they're not making major inroads.

Indeed. It feels jarring watching people in American Weed inhaling huge quantities of…

More seriously, inhalation of burnt organic compounds at high temperatures has significant public…