CANNABIS REPORT

BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union's (EU) illicit drug control organisation has called for more detailed studies into whether particularly potent cannabis poses a serious health risk to the public. The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) had been investigating claims from politicians and newspapers that cannabis resin and grass was becoming increasingly intoxicating. The EU agency concluded that there had been a growth in supplies of indoor reared cannabis, yielding grass with an increased level of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the ...


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