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As was recently noted in Lancet: European
Region the European continent is subject to
a quadruple convergence of rising:
prevalence of cannabis use; intensity of
daily use; THC concentration; and detox’s
required for cannabis addiction.
Cannabis has been known to be both
neurotoxic and genotoxic for many decades.
Recent press reports from France and Germany
showing increased numbers of babies born
without limbs, a serious birth defect
attributed in animals to cannabis since
1969, and in several nations or states in
human populations since 2007, is a signal
warning to Europe especially since nearby
Switzerland has not seen these changes.
Cannabis is increasingly entering the food
chain in France and Germany but not in
Switzerland. Unless one is deliberately
blind a child can connect these
thalidomide-like dots.
Increased cannabis use has been linked in
recent publications from our group with
exponentially rising rates of autism in USA;
with the doubling of serious mental illness
in young adults in USA; with all the
chromosomal defects tracked longitudinally
in USA, with five common cancers in USA;
with the commonest childhood cancer acute
lymphoid leukaemia thereby proving the
heritability of its effects across
generations; with driving the 50% rise in
heritable paediatric cancer in USA; and with
testicular cancer where it doubles the rate
of cancer formation; and directly and
heritably damages 20% of the human genome.
The news gets worse. Papers which will soon
be published link cannabis with dozens of
birth defects in USA and with many common
cancers there.
However the above litany of disaster is all
relatively good news compared to unleashing
cannabis into the food supply where –
without people being informed or their
consent - genes will be widely destroyed
which we known leads to dramatic aging of
the whole population and the software
(called the “epigenome”) which controls gene
expression will be damaged for at least four
generations, minimum.
Professor Nutt assertions are grossly in
error at every point.
The comments of Claire Foges, Robin Murray
and Nicholas Bennett whilst correct,
grossly understate advances in the most
recent epidemiological findings. Cannabis
advocates need to be warned that all of the
above cannabis-related outcomes are at
present relatively rare because cannabis use
is rare – as the quadruple convergence
accelerates under legalization it has now
been convincingly demonstrated that the
nightmarish holocaust will descend.
Professor Stuart Reece,
University of Western Australia and
Edith Cowan University. |
Dr.
Stuart Reece is a
family physician
working in Brisbane
in Australia where
he runs a large
clinic with a
special interest in
the medical
treatment of drug
addiction. He is
interested both in
the underlying
pathophysiology of
drug addiction – how
drugs work in the
body and why they
are so destructive
to long term health
– and also in the
treatment of drug
addiction including
its radical cure.
