Cannabis (seeing through the smoke): The New Science of Cannabis and Your Health

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In Cannabis: Seeing Through the Smoke (Yellow Kite Books), David Nutt, Edmond J Safra chair in neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, analyses the risks and benefits of cannabis. Giving us a big chunk of medical data, recreational regulated markets and harm reductionist policies to draw experience from. 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. A lot of information to take in, but good to have the facts rather than the fiction put about by media and the government. David Nutt is Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit in the Division of Brain Sciences at Imperial College, London.

However, cannabis can still have negative implications on your health, especially with intensive usage. David is currently Chair of DrugScience (formally the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD) and President of the European Brain Council. TREATMENT: People with a range of pain difficulties and epilepsy, cancer and other horrific conditions have been successfully treated with cannabis when other medical treatments have failed or had much worse side effects.So, if you want to save your time and learn all the important points from the book and more, I suggest you read this article. The figures are too small and fairly difficult to read, but overall this is clear, well argued and easy to read. But, he makes a convincing case for the almost complete failure of New Labour to take effective, progressive action on drugs.

Definitely one to add to the library if you haven’t already – and the latest in a series of books from Professor Nutt, including ‘Drugs Without The Hot Air’ that have become compulsory reading for those involved in drug policy reform circles. It's as much governments that have led to country lines as much as criminal gangs and it leads to unsafe products with no quality control. This statement was corrected – in fact if you had some peanuts in one hand and an ecstasy tablet in the other, the peanuts carry far greater risk of harm and death than an ecstasy tablet. It's a plant chemical that has been used by human beings for thousands of years, it's not something new, it's a natural substance. Americans have spent more on this than anything else to stop Pablo Escobar and yet he's managed to flood the USA with 80 tons of cocaine every month.

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? An excellent book, which helps to give a more balanced account on cannabis than you would hear from a politician or stupid newspapers that can only focus on emotional hot air, misinformation and not hard facts. He is quoted frequently in the national media, in such venues as People , the New York Times, New York Magazine , the Washington Post, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, and the Boston Globe . He also lecturers widely to the public as well as to the scientific and medical communities; he has presented three time at the Cheltenham Science Festival and several times for Cafe Scientifiques.

Seeing through the Smoke has something for everyone – from the novice to the expert and everyone in between with an interest in cannabis.

The plant’s chemical composition depends on the variety, preparation, growing conditions and harvesting, 1 so medical cannabis is usually a standardised oil. It's amazing and yet the USA has been trying to burn coca leaves for 50 years when it's part of some countries in South America's livelihoods - not to make cocaine (that's the USA) but to live on and grow as we might coffee beans or wheat. This is the essential knowledge that cuts through the noise and give us evidence-based information that will change people's lives.