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BMJ. (2020) Would decriminalising personal use of cannabis lead to higher rates of mental illness? BMJ, 368, doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l6975.

External website: https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.l6975


Removing criminal penalties for possession could increase adolescent use, say Bobby P Smyth, Mary Cannon, and Andrew Molodynski. But H Valerie Curran, Niamh Eastwood, and Adam R Winstock find no evidence for this and say that liberalisation of drug laws could reduce harms

Item Type
Article
Publication Type
Irish-related, Open Access, Article
Drug Type
Cannabis
Intervention Type
Harm reduction
Date
15 January 2020
Identification #
doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l6975
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
Corporate Creators
BMJ
Volume
368
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