Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial - live blog

Join us for live action, discussion and debate during Channel 4’s TV experiment into the effects of cannabis, including hashish and skunk injested in a controlled environment Drugs Live: why I wanted to get stoned on TV‘Jon Snow’s negative experience on skunk is very understandable’ 11.42pm GMT Right. So there we have it. The main findings seemed to be that skunk users heard more voices where they weren’t present, that cannabis of any kind was associated with an increased desire to listen to music, and that performance on a memory task was impaired while intoxicated.Also, I’d really like to see more information on the brain imaging aspect of the study, to understand what the differences between the groups mean. Related: Cannabis: what's in a name? Related: Is cannabis a gateway drug? 11.35pm GMT Final advice comes from Adam Winstock – don’t smoke cannabis with tobacco if you want to protect your health. Even better, avoid smoking it at all. Don’t smoke when you’re young and your brain is still developing, and if it’s affecting you negatively, take a break and see if you improve. 11.32pm GMT Right, I think they’re wrapping up. I think Jon Snow is slightly over-egging the ‘cannabis causes music to be more enjoyable’ but it’s interesting. David Nutt says “skunk” would stay where it was in the harm scale, and hash would move to the bottom. Quite a bold claim. 11.31pm GMT Jon Snow brings up education. Val Curran agrees that the message on the ev...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - Category: Science Authors: Tags: Drugs Cannabis Biology Human biology Source Type: news