Cannabis (seeing through the smoke): The New Science of Cannabis and Your Health

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Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. Grinspoon's Harvard Health articles have reached tens of millions of readers, have been widely referenced in the national media, and have been cited in congressional testimony. A Serving of Crime with a Difference - You May Just Discover Something Unique, Different, or Unusual in These 20 Crime Novels. Following in the family tradition - Grinspoon's father Lester wrote two seminal books on marijuana - Seeing Through the Smoke can help heal the scars left by the government’s failed war on cannabis. countries including Holland, Belgium and Germany have made cannabis a medicine and yet in the UK it's even mainly illegal as a form of treatment.

He is quoted frequently in the national media, in such venues as People , the New York Times, New York Magazine , the Washington Post, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, and the Boston Globe . There is also a suggestion that extracts of the whole plant alleviate pain and anxiety,” Professor Nutt comments. A powerfully-argued and persuasive, science-based argument in favour of legalisation and state regulation of cannabis. Yet people in numerous countries, including the US, Holland, Belgium and Germany, can access medical marijuana, while several states across the US have legalised recreational cannabis. Biography: David Nutt is Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit in the Division of Brain Sciences at Imperial College, London.

Moreover, most recreational users use skunk, which, because of the high THC levels, is more addictive than medical cannabis.

I think the book also gives an indirect perspective on alcohol as it is legal but yet plenty of risks for society as well as for the user.Seeing through the Smoke is packed with accessible, engaging, and useful information delivered with the heart of a humanitarian and the commonsense of a sensible scientist. is a primary care physician and cannabis specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has edited the Journal of Psychopharmacology for over two decades and acts as the psychiatry drugs advisor to the British National Formulary. What we need to acknowledge, and something that we have known since millennia is that cannabis can be a highly effective medicine.

I found the whole book informative, up to date and its case for some form of legalisation of cannabis well argued. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. And yet people are taking more drugs than at any other time in history and traffickers and drug pushers want this war to continue because they are making trillions of dollars.This is the essential knowledge that cuts through the noise and give us evidence-based information that will change people's lives. Steeped in a deep pharmacological understanding of cannabis and aided by up-to-date analysis of scientific cannabis-related studies, Seeing through the Smoke amplifies a voice trusted by both sides of the ongoing debate about functional and responsible cannabis policies post-prohibition.

People with psychiatric disease may ‘self-medicate’ with legal and illicit drugs, for example, but Professor Nutt says that studies have now shown a direct link. David Nutt is Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit in the Division of Brain Sciences at Imperial College, London. I've been curious about the medical science of cannabis use, given its varied legalization and illegalization across Europe, the US, and the UK in recent decades. His writing has been published in The Nation , the Los Angeles Times and Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics . The figures are too small and fairly difficult to read, but overall this is clear, well argued and easy to read.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. We are also very excited by the growing use of medical cannabis for Tourette’s and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Graphs and informational asides also feature prominently and add to the rounded feeling of information imparted by the authors unto the reader.