{"id":1264345,"date":"2022-02-02T09:22:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T14:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1264345"},"modified":"2022-02-02T09:23:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T14:23:05","slug":"cannabis-users-hospitalised-with-psychiatric-issues-up-74-per-cent-since-scotlands-quasi-decriminalisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cannabis-users-hospitalised-with-psychiatric-issues-up-74-per-cent-since-scotlands-quasi-decriminalisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis Users Hospitalised with Psychiatric Issues Up 74 Per Cent Since Scotland&#039;s Quasi-Decriminalisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcannabis-users-hospitalised-with-psychiatric-issues-up-74-per-cent-since-scotlands-quasi-decriminalisation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1264345&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-825303980-e1643801839584-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The number of Scottish cannabis users being hospitalised with psychiatric issues has increased by 74 per cent since 2016, when the drug was semi-decriminalised by Police Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>The rise follows senior officers in Scotland issuing guidance in January 2016 that so-called simple possession of cannabis could be handwaved away with what amounts to an informal warning, resulting in prosecutions more than halving from 1,809 in 2015\/16&nbsp;to 877 in 2019\/20, according to figures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypost.com\/fp\/the-eye-has-been-taken-off-the-ball-with-cannabis-we-do-need-to-worry-about-young-people\/\">reported<\/a> by <em>The Sunday Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Professor Jonathan Chick,&nbsp;medical director of the&nbsp;Castle Craig rehabilitation clinic in the Scottish Borders, was quoted by the<em> Post<\/em> as saying that the patients he deals with suffer from \u201cdependence and psychosis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOften, where there has been a second or third psychotic breakdown, there has been hospital or police involvement because of incidents of self-harm or harm to others. These patients have terrifying thoughts,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a paranoid psychosis where they can\u2019t even go into the street without misinterpreting thoroughly innocuous cues as malevolent. It is a horrible experience\u2026&nbsp;Sometimes the damage is permanent in which case the treatment for schizophrenia involves living and working in safer environments and medication \u2013 though there is no medication that doesn\u2019t come without effects such as weight increase, mental slowing and involuntary movements,\u201d he added, warning that \u201cThe eye has been taken off the ball with cannabis.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still in the grip of this really worrying narrative that cannabis is about peace, love and opening your mind with no harm done,\u201d lamented the chief executive of the Faces &amp; Voices of Recovery charity,&nbsp;Annemarie Ward, adding that the \u201ccannabis myth has to be challenged\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Nevetheless, Sadiq Khan, the Labour mayor of Britain\u2019s hyper-diverse multicultural capital of London \u2014 and home to a greater population than all of Scotland in a much smaller geographical area \u2014 is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/05\/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-moves-to-decriminalise-cannabis-report\/\">reportedly<\/a> moving towards a Scotland-style quasi-decriminalisation regime, seeking to have users offered counselling instead of arresting them.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">London\u2019s Khan Moves To Decriminalise Cannabis, Choosing Counselling over Arrest: Report<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/arFQL73eU2\">https:\/\/t.co\/arFQL73eU2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1478727988007120903?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The news comes as <em>The Telegraph<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2022\/02\/01\/schizophrenia-risk-six-times-higher-among-teenagers-smoke-cannabis\/\">reports<\/a> on research published in the&nbsp;peer-reviewed <em>Journal of Clinical Psychology&nbsp;<\/em>suggesting that adolescents who consume even small quantities of cannabis may be increasing their chances of developing schizophrenia sixfold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth high- and low-frequency marijuana usage were associated with a significantly increased risk of schizophrenia,\u201d researchers&nbsp;Shea-Lee Godin and Sherif Shehata were quoted as saying by the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe frequency of use among high- and low-frequency users is similar in both, demonstrating statistically significant increased risk in developing schizophrenia,\u201d they warned.<\/p>\n<p>In America, Harvard Medical School has also revealed recently that 78 per cent of psychosis patients aged between 16 and 35 that they studied had used cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>McLean Hospital in Massachusetts, meanwhile, said that two-and-a-half times more people are being admitted for cannabis-related psychosis in parts areas where cannabis has been legalised.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No Trial For \u2018Allahu Akbar\u2019 Man Over Death of Jewish Woman on Account of His Heavy Marijuana Use <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N0uVrLBKxp\">https:\/\/t.co\/N0uVrLBKxp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1383141644560523267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Scottish cannabis users being hospitalised with psychiatric issues has increased by 74 per cent since 2016, when the drug was semi-decriminalised by Police Scotland. 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