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As the Western World continues rail against the ills of tobacco – the legal and socially accepted drug that still does the greatest harms to public health – we, ironically, are being subject to an assault in a contrary and counterintuitive direction. A small, but clamorous and well-funded Cannabis lobby, continues in their relentless War […]

Investigating the veracity of a sample of divergent published trial data in spinal pain PAIN: April 25, 2022 – Volume – Issue – 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002659 Abstract In Brief: Evidence-based medicine is replete with studies assessing quality and bias, but few evaluating research integrity or trustworthiness. A recent Cochrane review of psychological interventions for chronic pain identified trials with a

Fake News is a label thrown about by anyone at everyone who presents a view different from the egocentric agenda a party is wanting to promote. In this now entrenched utterly subjective ‘journalistic arena’, confirmation bias is the only research tool used when crafting one’s ‘unassailable’ position of ‘rightness’. Any contrary data and even facts are ignored,

“At the 2022 International Congress of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Danish researcher Carsten Hjorthøj, (an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen and research leader at Copenhagen Research Center for Mental Health), presented the following data. The International Congress is the annual conference of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, which oversees the practice of

Pro-cannabis promotors declared unwaveringly and repeatedly that, The illegal market would almost certainly disappear. Massive savings in law enforcement costs. Revenue streams so vast that it would not only pay for any unlikely (or very low) dependency issues, but the excess would also build parks and schools. Minimal impact to health services and no real

The environmental disaster that is cannabis cultivation has an ever-burgeoning narrative of harm that is being largely over-looked by environmental groups…We wonder why? Interest in growing cannabis for medical and recreational purposes is increasing worldwide. This study reviews the environmental impacts of cannabis cultivation. Results show that both indoor and outdoor cannabis growing is water-intensive.

This now 7 year old World Health Organisation Overview on Cannabis Harms, whilst accurate and even predictive, is now looking a little ‘light on’ with data.  The increasing bredth and depth of cannabis concern and carnage continues to grow and whilst pro-pot progagandist work tirelessly to bury this emerging data, the evidence of the short,