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“This is a very tragic story. He was an intelligent, likeable young man who went to university, and I suspect it was there that he came into contact with cannabis. Cannabis is a dangerous drug and is harming more and more people. It is as dangerous as hard drugs.”

A coroner, named Michael Rose, sharing medical observations on the dangers of cannabis. 

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“I don’t subscribe to the view it’s recreational and it’s no big deal to be smoking or selling cannabis. My experience of people I see in this court is that almost without exception they are seriously damaged by the use of cannabis. It certainly leads to mental illness. It is in my judgement a dangerous drug.”

Judge John Boggis, QC, one of the many judges who have noted defendants in court for terrible crimes, who have a history of smoking cannabis. Here, he spoke in 2007 to yet another teenager using the drug. 

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“Those whose minds are steeped in cannabis are capable of quite extraordinary criminality. Your brain has been steeped in cannabis for most of your adult life.”

Justice Niblett, to convicted arsonist. Many in the legal and medical profession, not to mention devastated families, have seen or been victim to acts of shocking cruelty and violence, in which cannabis played a part.