However, cannabis can still have negative implications on your health, especially with intensive usage. Recommended reading for anyone working in the cannabis industry to develop your knowledge in this area. I’m sure if people want more detailed assessments they can find these online / in other texts and build on what this book already starts.

We are currently in a war on drugs, and this has only resulted with more people taking cannabis, a black market, and stronger cannabis, as well as criminalising and blotting people's lives with a criminal record. Readers will delight in the historical as well as the scientific focus brought to life by Grinspoon, whose roots and professional experience provide a unique and fascinating perspective. He regularly appears as an expert on national television and radio programs, including NPR’s All Things Considered , NBC Nightly News , C-SPAN’s Washington Journal , Fox and Friends and Fox News .Goes in depth to a lot of interesting practical topics that come with regulated markets, like when is it safe to drive, how is this measured etc. Dealers sell a stronger version – skunk – and a dangerous synthetic substitute, spice, which can trigger extremely violent intoxication, seizures and heart attacks.

A Serving of Crime with a Difference - You May Just Discover Something Unique, Different, or Unusual in These 20 Crime Novels. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Peter Grinspoon is uniquely qualified to dispense verifiable knowledge about cannabis use and misuse as both prescriber of therapeutic cannabis to qualified medical patients and a councilor to cannabis misusers. countries including Holland, Belgium and Germany have made cannabis a medicine and yet in the UK it's even mainly illegal as a form of treatment.Adults should also have the legal safe choices to enjoy their life and if they want to alter their consciousness in the same way people do with alcohol and caffeine etc they should be given the tools to do so safely.

The use of subtitles is good signposting for the reader and is part of the reasons it’s such a useful resource for a variety of people from medical students to medical cannabis patients.Moving through an illuminating tour of the social history and the medical science behind cannabis, Grinspoon unpacks the layers of disinformation left by a sordid history of government propaganda, racial suppression, and indifference from the medical community to answer questions like:Is cannabis addictive?