Blair Anderson, on the hustings 'canvassing for opinion'

Blair Anderson, on the hustings 'canvassing for opinion'
affiliation: Blair4Mayor.com

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Alcohol, Cannabis... Sandals, Jandals.

sleepwalking with the damned

Image by Kalense Kid via Flickr

"Evidence for the effectiveness and cost–effectiveness of interventions to reduce alcohol-related harm"

 
WHO "European" keyword list..   (see http://www.euro.who.int/document/E92823.pdf )
 
  • ALCOHOL DRINKING – prevention and control
  • HARM REDUCTION
  • COST–BENEFIT ANALYSIS
  • EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE
  • PUBLIC POLICY
  • HEALTH PROMOTION
  • INTERVENTION STUDIES
Why CANNABIS cannot have the same best practice applied to it as ALCOHOL (a hypnotic sedative) beggers me. The underlined keywords 'for addressing and understanding alcohol' seem not to apply to the cannabis policy formulation. Yet the 'drug use' particularly amongst youth remains a 'spectrum' issue.
 
Doh!  When something is made illegal do we all turn stupid?

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