Dorset Echo | 22nd June 2022
“There’s two issues here one, would it make life any easier from the point of view of the crime aspect? No. Unequivocally.
“So it won’t change a thing, it will just make it worse.
“If we are looking at it from a public health perspective, look, this has been tried.
“Portugal had a 30-fold increase in its psychosis hospitalisations between 2010 and 2015.
“Scotland itself mentioned a 74 per cent increase in the same thing it was reported in the papers in January.
“Professors of psychiatry are calling for cannabis to be a class A drug again.
“The US we know that every four minutes somebody is hospitalised for psychosis from cannabis.”
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