{"id":1628,"date":"2017-10-06T12:45:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T01:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/smoking-cannabis-does-make-people-more-violent-project-confirms-for-the-first-time-that-using-the-drug-is-the-cause-of-crimes\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:02:21","slug":"smoking-cannabis-does-make-people-more-violent-project-confirms-for-the-first-time-that-using-the-drug-is-the-cause-of-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/smoking-cannabis-does-make-people-more-violent-project-confirms-for-the-first-time-that-using-the-drug-is-the-cause-of-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking cannabis DOES make people more violent: Project confirms for the first time that using the drug is the cause of crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Cannabis users more likely to commit violent crimes, research has shown&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Study found there was a \u2018more constant relationship\u2019 between cannabis and violence than between alcohol or cocaine use and violence<\/li>\n<li>More than 20 US states have legalised cannabis for medical purposes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"right\"><em>By&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=Steve+Doughty+for+the+Daily+Mail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Doughty &nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;PUBLISHED:&nbsp; 5 October 2017&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cannabis users are more likely to commit violent crime, pioneering research has shown.<\/p>\n<p>It warned those who smoke the drug regularly run an increased risk of using violence against others.<\/p>\n<p>The project is the first to demonstrate that cannabis is not only linked with violent crime but is the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Violent incidents monitored by the study based on the lives of more than 1,100 American psychiatric patients included assaults, attacks with weapons and rapes.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers said that cannabis causes violence and they found no evidence that the link is the other way round \u2013 i.e. that violent people are more likely to use cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>There was no support, they added, for theories put forward by campaigners anxious to free the drug from the taint of links with crime. The academics said the effect of cannabis use was clear and not diminished by other factors such as patients who were heavy drinkers of alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>The study comes after a series of American states have decriminalised cannabis \u2013 despite it being stronger and more potent than the hash smoked by hippies in the Sixties \u2013 or made it available for medical use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-4950206\/Smoking-cannabis-DOES-make-people-violent.html#ixzz4ugfCBZtD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"button\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dugre-violence_after_psych_d-c_predicted_by_MJ_use_2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"button\">Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cannabis users more likely to commit violent crimes, research has shown&nbsp; Study found there was a \u2018more constant relationship\u2019 between cannabis and violence than between alcohol or cocaine use and violence More than 20 US states have legalised cannabis for medical purposes By&nbsp;Steve Doughty &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;PUBLISHED:&nbsp; 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