Medical marijuana is now available legally in the UK

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Newsflash: If you abuse any psychoactive substance, including cannabis, it's going to mess your brain up.

However, the evidence shows that cannabis is one of the safest drugs known, far safer than any legal recreational drug and most prescribed medicines.

The recent findings that cannabis causes psychosis tend to focus on cases where the user has smoke large amounts of very potent weed/extracts over an extended period of time. It is also unclear if these users suffer any permanent psychosis from their experiences.

Most cannabis users are aware of the dangers and control their habits accordingly. I have met plenty of cannabis users from all walks of life (doctors, lawyers, engineers, sportsmen etc.) who are able to control and hide their cannabis use from relatives/police/employers completely. That would be very hard to do for someone suffering from psychosis.

I believe that what a person chooses to put in their own body is entirely their own concern, no matter how harmful, and therefore support the legalization of cannabis.

I also believe that a person is fully responsible for their own actions whilst in a state of self-induced inebriation and should be punished for any wrong doing accordingly. Punishing the drug use itself is unconstitutional because it assumes guilt without evidence of crime.

I've heard of cannabis being used as a treatment for epilepsy but not autism/Asperger syndrome. Even though a few people may be vulnerable to potential anandamide syndrome especially with the strains that do not contain CBD but THC because CBD acts to protect a user from anandamide syndrome. There over the years has been a lot of misconceptions and myths surrounding weed/hash most of them debunked the 'brain damage' experiments by Dr Gabriel Nahas was floored and involved pumping 50 Colombian gold strength joints into strapped helpd down monkeys which received no oxygen and therefore died of carbon monoxide poisoning and CO therefore damaged the monkeys brains not cannabinoids found in weed. If you smoke it you will still be autistic it just works on co morbidities like epilepsy for which I had used it for. It has also been tested in the 1960s for effectiveness in treating Dravet syndrome a severe form of childhood epilepsy way before the passing of the Misuse of Drugs Act of 1971. I would love to see a branch of Dampkring or a similar type of coffee shop open up in Reading town centre but with the political will of the UK and its medieval attitudes towards cannabis that is about as likely as my mum becoming 46th president of the US. Actually cannabis is grown in the UK by GW pharmaceuticals which grow indica/sativa hybrids for use in multiple sclerosis and only if other medicines like beta blockers do not cause remission of symptoms.

Actually what the prohibitionists have a beef about 'Skunk' being linked anandamide syndrome is just like a red herring because Skunk is an indica/sativa hybrid that has an unpleasant smell ranging from body odour to urine soaked toilets and does not necessarily contain high quantities of THC. What contains the most THC are the really strong sativas like super silver haze 20% THC and the Americans favourite BC bud 30% THC respectively.
In any discussion on cannabis not many people think of the drinkables and edibles that you can make with it. Most people who are responsible with their weed simply adjust the amount of weed they are eating/smoking accordingly. A lot of the paranoia associated with cannabis users is because of its prohibition. I still like a spacecake now and again but that tends to have a positive effect on any mental pain from 1974 as well as kept my epilepsy in remission for a few years and when I'm on it after a special coffee or a slab of spacecake it has more of a serenic than a psychedelic effect but the Dampkring effect is actually a form of an autistic like thinking style. Another thing when allistic people smoke it most users smoke spliffs pure weed joints to blunts they start to develop a monotone voice when stoned and it can be reminiscent of Asperger syndrome in some people.