{"id":2344,"date":"2019-12-09T17:13:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T06:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/legalisation-of-cannabis-is-a-fool-s-crusade\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:02:11","slug":"legalisation-of-cannabis-is-a-fool-s-crusade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/legalisation-of-cannabis-is-a-fool-s-crusade\/","title":{"rendered":"Legalisation of cannabis\u00a0IS\u00a0a fool\u2019s crusade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cCalls to make dope as freely available as cigarettes or alcohol are gathering support but ignore the real harm it does!\u201d<\/em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Clare Foges (Journalist \u2013 London Times 25.11.19)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2026highlighting&nbsp;hospitalisations&nbsp;and how \u2018those tormented by devils today tend to seek sanctuary in the local A&amp;E, where admissions for psychosis have been rising\u2019.&nbsp;An&nbsp;omission in this otherwise&nbsp;<em>tour de force<\/em>&nbsp;was any mention of the gulag of over-subscribed&nbsp;secure mental health units. Psychiatrists have called them cannabis dependency units, and they are populated largely by irreversibly damaged young male&nbsp;psychotics, betraying the fact that this is not an equal&nbsp;opportunities illness. Young men are the main victims of cannabis\u2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativewoman.co.uk\/legalisation-of-cannabis-is-fools-crusade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">For more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCalls to make dope as freely available as cigarettes or alcohol are gathering support but ignore the real harm it does!\u201d&nbsp;Clare Foges (Journalist \u2013 London Times 25.11.19) \u2026highlighting&nbsp;hospitalisations&nbsp;and how \u2018those tormented by devils today tend to seek sanctuary in the local A&amp;E, where admissions for psychosis have been rising\u2019.&nbsp;An&nbsp;omission in this otherwise&nbsp;tour de force&nbsp;was any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-conundrum","tag-cannabis-conundrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}