Cannabis: monitor policy changes

Reaching out towards cannabis: approach-bias in heavy cannabis users predicts changes in cannabis use

AIMS Repeated drug exposure can lead to an approach-bias, i.e. the relatively automatically triggered tendencies to approach rather that avoid drug-related stimuli. Our main aim was to study this approach-bias in heavy cannabis users with the newly developed cannabis Approach Avoidance Task (cannabis-AAT) and to investigate the predictive relationship between an approach-bias for cannabis-relat...

Projecting the impact of changes in cannabis use upon schizophrenia in England and Wales: the role of assumptions and balance in framing an evidence-based cannabis policy.

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Drugs Policy – What Should We Do About Cannabis?

The organisers would like to thank the European Commission for their support. The views expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and not those of the funding organization(s).

The case for policy reform in cannabis control.

EU Parliament member Dennis de Jong on Dutch cannabis policy

For decades the Netherlands have been the outsider in Europe when it comes to drug policy. The main features are well known: the law is not much different from other member states, the production and use of drugs is punishable by law. But the office of the public prosecutor refrains from prosecuting -under specific conditionsthe consumption and sale of cannabis. To be quite clear: the productio...