:00:00. > :00:24.This his Newsbeat debates. I am Tina Daheley and we are live in radio
:00:25. > :00:28.one's Live Lounge tonight for a special debate about cannabis.
:00:29. > :00:32.Tonight, we are asking the question should cannabis be legal in the UK?
:00:33. > :00:37.We will look at the arguments before and against and we will also take a
:00:38. > :00:41.look at what Britain can learn about the way the law works in other parts
:00:42. > :00:51.of Europe. Over the next 60 minutes we will hear from an audience of
:00:52. > :01:04.specialist guests. We have the crime artist. Hello. Doctor Aisha and
:01:05. > :01:07.sharing. And Rick Bradley from a national charity supporting people
:01:08. > :01:15.around substance use and mental health. We also have some Radio 1
:01:16. > :01:21.listeners with us. Hello! We also want to hear from you tonight.
:01:22. > :01:29.Should cannabis be legal in the UK. You can text us, to eat at BBC
:01:30. > :01:39.Newsbeat and we are using the hashtag Newsbeat debates. First,
:01:40. > :01:44.Newsbeat reporter Jim Connelly is with me. You have been looking into
:01:45. > :01:48.this subject for a Newsbeat documentary. Just remind us where we
:01:49. > :01:55.currently stand in the UK when it comes to the legality of cannabis?
:01:56. > :02:00.Cannabis is the UK's most popular illegal drug. We have 2 million
:02:01. > :02:05.people admitting using it. It is a class B drug and the government are
:02:06. > :02:12.at and it will remain that way. They will not change the law because they
:02:13. > :02:15.say it causes harm to users and wider society. If you're caught with
:02:16. > :02:19.it in possession you can face up to five years in prison, dealing it or
:02:20. > :02:23.growing you can face up to 14 years in prison. That is where we stand
:02:24. > :02:33.currently. The government say no chance of any change. You have
:02:34. > :02:39.looked at the science of the drug and also been out with a cannabis
:02:40. > :02:41.club who claim record membership and insist the drug causes less trouble
:02:42. > :03:06.than alcohol. When cannabis is grown it releases
:03:07. > :03:14.substances. THC is blamed for the mental health issues. Depending on
:03:15. > :03:19.the genetics of the plant you can have a high THC knows CBD strain or
:03:20. > :03:30.you could have it the other way round or something more balanced.
:03:31. > :03:42.There are three main types of product. Herbal, hash or high
:03:43. > :03:55.potency cannabis often called skunk. It has high levels of THC and almost
:03:56. > :04:03.no CBD. Some say it is the lack of CBD which can lead to mental health
:04:04. > :04:07.problems. My first stop is Brighton to meet Rob. He is the chair of the
:04:08. > :04:15.Brighton cannabis club. He is campaigning for a change in the law.
:04:16. > :04:21.Basically we are visiting a club. It is fully medicated. The meal is
:04:22. > :04:27.cannabis infused which will get you high. This is all about taking rocks
:04:28. > :04:32.of cannabis. It is a rainy drizzly day on the seaside, a lot of people
:04:33. > :04:38.will go to the pub at lunchtime, why not have a pint? We believe cannabis
:04:39. > :04:44.is a less harmful alternative to smoking tobacco or drinking alcohol.
:04:45. > :04:50.Where are we going? I cannot tell you the exact location. It is a
:04:51. > :04:59.restaurant in Brighton which will allow you some medicated products if
:05:00. > :05:05.you are a Brighton cannabis club member. That sounds a bit dodgy.
:05:06. > :05:09.In the kitchen some chefs have been hard at work knocking up some food.
:05:10. > :05:21.It looks pretty impressive, to be honest, and I -- to be honest it is
:05:22. > :05:25.not the site the of food you would expect in Amsterdam. The chef behind
:05:26. > :05:29.it has worked in some top restaurants. This is not what they
:05:30. > :05:34.will be putting in all the food. This green stuff is genuinely a
:05:35. > :05:37.dressing. The food will be infused with an oil that goes through it and
:05:38. > :05:46.that is where the cannabis will be. What is on the menu today? It will
:05:47. > :05:51.be corn-fed chicken Boo Johns then grilled sea bream fill it --
:05:52. > :06:17.this is a bit strange because we sat here and it is quite a civilised
:06:18. > :06:21.event. The government would say what you're doing is illegal and it is
:06:22. > :06:29.illegal because of the harm it can do to you, your friends and wider
:06:30. > :06:33.society. Why are you doing this? We believe the information is outdated
:06:34. > :06:38.and research is outdated. If you look at Spain, Portugal, Canada and
:06:39. > :06:46.America, they all forward progressive forward-thinking
:06:47. > :06:58.policies. We are looking at what it can do for the industry. You are
:06:59. > :07:07.representing Brighton Cannabis Club, how popular is the club? We have 400
:07:08. > :07:12.members. We have 40,000 Instagram followers and 6000 Facebook likes.
:07:13. > :07:16.At one of our outdoor events it is growing year-on-year. In the first
:07:17. > :07:22.year we only had 100 people turn up to it and then 1000 people in the
:07:23. > :07:34.next year. We had over 3000 people attending and 25,000. -- 25 stalls.
:07:35. > :07:40.Sitting here watching these guys, it all looks normal but what they are
:07:41. > :07:46.doing is illegal and they could be arrested. But should weed, cannabis,
:07:47. > :07:50.call it what you want, be illegal? That is the question we are asking
:07:51. > :08:00.today. Should it be illegal in the UK? You can get in touch and I want
:08:01. > :08:08.to get your reaction to what we have just been hearing. Is a cannabis
:08:09. > :08:14.infused meal just an excuse to eat we'd? Hello, I am a pharmacist in
:08:15. > :08:18.the north-west will stop pharmacists are the experts in medicines and
:08:19. > :08:23.acts the high street and I would be so sad to see any legalisation of
:08:24. > :08:29.this and for it to become more widely available. My concern is it
:08:30. > :08:32.would lead to considering other drugs because they would be exposed
:08:33. > :08:39.to the illegal black market areas of getting hold of the drugs. You think
:08:40. > :08:43.it would be a gateway drug? Yes. The other problem is the NHS is under so
:08:44. > :08:49.much strain at the moment and we have a mental health crisis. People
:08:50. > :08:53.who need mental health services cannot get access for weeks. I do
:08:54. > :09:00.not want more people to be suffering. We know this drug can
:09:01. > :09:04.cause psychosis which means delusions, hallucinations, anxiety
:09:05. > :09:09.and it can cause depression in some people. Do I want to be allowing
:09:10. > :09:15.that on our high street for people? Absolutely not. Who disagrees with
:09:16. > :09:21.that view? I will come to this lady at the back. I am Zoe McLeod, a
:09:22. > :09:27.student at Nottingham University. Reaction to the film first of all?
:09:28. > :09:31.It is an interesting and set because a lot of people struggle with
:09:32. > :09:35.smoking so it is an alternative, but in terms of the pharmaceutical use,
:09:36. > :09:42.I suffer from epilepsy personally, and I have been reading a lot of
:09:43. > :09:47.evidence about weed and cannabis oil with people with the same problem as
:09:48. > :09:51.me. I have been lots of stories of people in America are giving it to
:09:52. > :09:58.their children. There has been a lot of evidence to suggest it can treat
:09:59. > :10:02.PTSD, anxiety and insomnia. Who is giving you that evidence? It is more
:10:03. > :10:06.anecdotal but I think if we legalised it there would be more
:10:07. > :10:11.time to check if these things are true. We are hearing claims about
:10:12. > :10:16.the medical impact, how it can help certain conditions. Aisha, you are a
:10:17. > :10:21.doctor, what do you think? I understand there is controversy
:10:22. > :10:28.about whether it can help PTSD and certain other illnesses. My response
:10:29. > :10:33.to that, unfortunately, the evidence has not been overwhelming in favour
:10:34. > :10:38.of cannabis achieving some of these things. But the proviso is, and I'm
:10:39. > :10:43.going to declare I am sitting in the middle. I am not strongly in favour
:10:44. > :10:47.or against but I do think we need more high-quality research in this
:10:48. > :11:00.area to make it a good decision for everyone. Rick, you work for the
:11:01. > :11:05.drug and alcohol addiction charity, Adaction. Tell us about your
:11:06. > :11:11.experiences. We work nationwide with young people. Within our young
:11:12. > :11:15.people's services at the age of 18, probably two thirds or three
:11:16. > :11:20.quarters of those who are seeking support to cut down or stop use is
:11:21. > :11:26.in relation to cannabis. There are clear risks. We are not talking
:11:27. > :11:31.about overdoses but an impact on education, on jobs, on motivation,
:11:32. > :11:34.on relationships, on debt. You have issues around psychological
:11:35. > :11:39.dependence for some people and we have had mention of some mental
:11:40. > :11:43.health conditions. What we have to size is the vast majority of young
:11:44. > :11:48.people across who use cannabis do not have those problems. It is
:11:49. > :11:52.relevant for some people but not for others. When it comes to our
:11:53. > :11:58.position in terms of the law, we are very much in favour of
:11:59. > :12:02.decriminalisation for personal use. White? If you are criminalising
:12:03. > :12:07.young people you just add an additional are. Is it appropriate
:12:08. > :12:12.for a young person who is 15 or 16, they have been caught with a small
:12:13. > :12:16.amount of weed and then they have a record which can impact on jobs,
:12:17. > :12:20.education and travel. You have a stigma which is attached by society
:12:21. > :12:23.and also themselves. Recently we had a young person we were working with
:12:24. > :12:35.who got caught buying a small amount of cannabis from a group of friends.
:12:36. > :12:41.They have now got a criminal record and he classes himself as a drug
:12:42. > :12:44.dealer. He said, that is not who I am. You have got a lot of stigma
:12:45. > :12:47.attached. What we need to do is set aside the funds from the courts and
:12:48. > :12:49.the criminal justice system and focusing on it as a health issue,
:12:50. > :12:56.ploughing money which can be diverted from those processes into
:12:57. > :13:00.an additional area. We always hear about decriminalisation and
:13:01. > :13:08.legalisation, cannabis being legalised keeps coming up. Where do
:13:09. > :13:11.we stand? What do they mean? It is really important to define those
:13:12. > :13:16.terms. Decriminalisation would be the removal of sanctions for
:13:17. > :13:22.possession. Whether it would be no sanction at all or an administrative
:13:23. > :13:29.penalty. That someone who would be found with cannabis on them? There
:13:30. > :13:36.is national guidance which a small amount of possession should be
:13:37. > :13:42.defined by no criminal record. Those not available for Andrei teams. If
:13:43. > :13:47.you are talking about protecting young people, they are at risk of a
:13:48. > :13:50.criminal record. And when we talk about legalisation, we're not
:13:51. > :13:59.talking about a free for all on the high Street, what we are talking
:14:00. > :14:01.about is the term regulation, so a controlled market. That is
:14:02. > :14:05.government-controlled and you know what is in the drug so you don't
:14:06. > :14:14.have the issue of those high potency THC strains. I want to bring in
:14:15. > :14:20.Greg. A cannabis infused meal, is that going too far? Not at all. It
:14:21. > :14:25.is a safer way to consume cannabis. Myself and other members of the club
:14:26. > :14:34.are medical uses. Ingesting it that way is a safer way of using it. When
:14:35. > :14:36.you say medical, what do you mean? I have Crohn's disease. My immune
:14:37. > :14:42.system is attacking my digestive system. I was put on a lot of
:14:43. > :14:49.different pharmaceutical drugs, 16 in total. A lot of them are opiates,
:14:50. > :14:54.anti-inflammatory is and they are to try and control my immune system and
:14:55. > :14:58.take it back to zero. It did not work, it made me very ill. They
:14:59. > :15:02.thought they had to take my intestines out and give me a
:15:03. > :15:07.colostomy bag. I would have been fed through a straw into an artery and
:15:08. > :15:12.they gave me five years to live. I have outlived that by two years now.
:15:13. > :15:17.Cannabis is what I chose to use as my medicine. I went to Colorado and
:15:18. > :15:22.got medical cannabis oil which is legal out there. I saw how the
:15:23. > :15:34.medical industry works and I got access to good quality medicine and
:15:35. > :15:37.I have come back to the UK and I have continued using it and I am a
:15:38. > :15:39.healthy person. You have put the fact that use survived down to
:15:40. > :15:42.medicinal use of cannabis? My doctor said what had happened? I was not in
:15:43. > :15:54.a bid with a walking stick. I want to get reaction from you. I
:15:55. > :16:01.want to say that is an amazing story and I am happy your Crohn's disease
:16:02. > :16:05.is in remission. My perspective is unfortunately when we look at bigger
:16:06. > :16:08.numbers, sometimes there are vulnerable people and it unmasks the
:16:09. > :16:15.tendency to have the negative effects. That is something I see
:16:16. > :16:21.every day when I am working in practice. I see families. That would
:16:22. > :16:25.be my fear, that you have used it is a sensible and controlled manner,
:16:26. > :16:28.but whether there are some people because of their vulnerability and
:16:29. > :16:38.maybe the family structure, they would not have that guidance. Greg's
:16:39. > :16:43.experience, he says it has helped to save his life, what about that?
:16:44. > :16:47.There are anecdotal cases like this and I would ask we have more
:16:48. > :16:57.research. High quality, large studies to show. We already use in
:16:58. > :17:03.the NHS some cannabinoid derived drugs. But unfortunately the use is
:17:04. > :17:08.limited. We use it for the treatment of multiple sclerosis. There is a
:17:09. > :17:12.case to use it more widely in some other diseases and I understand
:17:13. > :17:23.Crohn's disease is one we will look into. Glaucoma, even HIV. You were
:17:24. > :17:34.nodding. I would like to touch on THC. It is a big problem that
:17:35. > :17:38.psychokinesis is coming up now. -- psychosis. If you look at the
:17:39. > :17:45.cannabis problem, you will see a lot of the psychosis is coming from high
:17:46. > :17:51.levels of THC. This is happening because the weed, skunk, cannabis,
:17:52. > :17:55.is not regulated and there is an underworld that grow things that
:17:56. > :18:00.have not been tested. You would not go to the shop and pick up a can of
:18:01. > :18:05.red liquid and just drink it if you did not know what was in it and that
:18:06. > :18:13.is where we are with cannabis, we have no control. In the old days you
:18:14. > :18:19.would smoke naturally grown weed and now it is grown in small
:18:20. > :18:24.laboratories by people who do not know what they are doing and I have
:18:25. > :18:29.seen it first hand from many different ages. Kids nowadays, they
:18:30. > :18:33.are getting their hands on the skunk, street skunk, we like to call
:18:34. > :18:40.it because it has no control over it. They smoke high levels of THC.
:18:41. > :18:44.They are getting psychosis, because that is where the problem is. We
:18:45. > :18:52.will come back to high potency cannabis. The meal we saw, when we
:18:53. > :18:56.talk about attitudes towards cannabis and people smoking, does it
:18:57. > :19:02.normalise it and this increase in cannabis clubs? On a basic one, the
:19:03. > :19:09.first thing I would see from that meal is a safe intake. Education on
:19:10. > :19:16.how to use cannabis is minimal. You cannot find anywhere in London a
:19:17. > :19:22.leaflet given out how to use safely. If somebody is cooking cannabis and
:19:23. > :19:26.eating it and they are not smoking, lighting fire and putting it into
:19:27. > :19:30.their lungs and burning their lungs, that is a safer way to consume and
:19:31. > :19:34.that is what people should look at, not the fact they are taking
:19:35. > :19:40.cannabis, that is safer, and they will live longer. Let me get your
:19:41. > :19:45.reaction to the cannabis meal. I have just graduated from the
:19:46. > :19:48.University of Exeter and I am against legalisation of marijuana.
:19:49. > :19:54.The meal is generally irresponsible. We have to point out the link with
:19:55. > :20:01.psychosis. It looked like a lovely meal. Why is it a problem? It is
:20:02. > :20:05.technically illegal and if any young person who did not know much about
:20:06. > :20:13.weed went in there, they could potentially have harmful effects.
:20:14. > :20:21.The key thing to establish is the link between psychosis and cannabis.
:20:22. > :20:27.In early 2017, a study came out in America, an analysis of 10,000
:20:28. > :20:30.studies relating to marijuana and it showed conclusive and substantial
:20:31. > :20:40.evidence between marijuana and psychosis. If you were to legalise
:20:41. > :20:44.marijuana, and have many young people who are potentially naive and
:20:45. > :20:50.do not know much about the effects of marijuana, that could be
:20:51. > :20:57.damaging. Thomas, thank you. Kirsty, would somebody be arrested for
:20:58. > :21:01.eating a cannabis meal? It is possession that is the offence so
:21:02. > :21:08.technically you are in possession. But if you are eating bats. The
:21:09. > :21:14.ingestion or taking of drugs is not illegal in this country -- if you
:21:15. > :21:17.are eating that. The people providing the meal are technically
:21:18. > :21:21.supplying the drug and so that is where the offence lies, and the
:21:22. > :21:25.people eating the meal you are in possession of your plate of food.
:21:26. > :21:33.Jim, what are people saying online? It is split. We have Ryan on Twitter
:21:34. > :21:37.who says it is ridiculous it is not and alcohol is. Tom Bolt Facebook
:21:38. > :21:44.says he does not smoke it but there are many people who do and it would
:21:45. > :21:48.be daft not to. Kerry here says absolutely for medical purposes.
:21:49. > :21:53.Against it, Tallulah, if you knew what cannabis could do you would
:21:54. > :21:57.never dream of taking it, she says. David said never legalise it it
:21:58. > :22:01.causes mental-health problems. Another said it is a gateway drug.
:22:02. > :22:07.And Charles said I hope you will talk about the differences between
:22:08. > :22:14.cannabis and skunk because skunk causes the problems. We will be.
:22:15. > :22:22.Remember you can keep your comments coming in. Should cannabis be legal
:22:23. > :22:30.in the UK? You can send a text. H 1199. You can tweet to Newsbeat and
:22:31. > :22:35.use the hashtag Newsbeat debates. -- eight 1199. We have been talking to
:22:36. > :22:40.attitudes here, how does it work in other places? There is a massive
:22:41. > :22:46.shift across the world to cannabis. The best example is North America.
:22:47. > :22:50.If you look at the USA, you have eight states legalised and more than
:22:51. > :22:55.half have moved to decriminalisation for medical use. Next year, Canada
:22:56. > :23:01.will legalise. Uruguay has done the same. In Europe it is patchy. More
:23:02. > :23:07.changeable. We have countries with strict laws and countries like
:23:08. > :23:12.Portugal who have more relaxed laws and have decriminalised. You went to
:23:13. > :23:18.Portugal and Sweden to look into this. Two countries with different
:23:19. > :23:23.approaches. Sweden, despite having a reputation for being liberal has
:23:24. > :23:29.some of the toughest drug laws in arguably the world. This is the
:23:30. > :23:35.minister in charge of policy. In Sweden we have broad political
:23:36. > :23:40.supporting government and parliament for a drug-free society. At the
:23:41. > :23:45.heart of your policy is the idea cannabis is a gateway drug. Why do
:23:46. > :23:49.you hold that policy so close? We see especially among young people
:23:50. > :23:57.and also study show that extensive use of cannabis, regular use of
:23:58. > :24:01.cannabis at an early age, also affects especially young
:24:02. > :24:06.people'sbrains. While many Swedish people agree with the government
:24:07. > :24:13.strict policy, plenty do not. Alexander is a bit of a celebrity, a
:24:14. > :24:19.former musician and now a judge on Sweden's. Talent. Essentially Sweden
:24:20. > :24:24.is the Saudi Arabia of drugs in Europe because in Sweden we had the
:24:25. > :24:28.idea we have a government, socialist, conservative, but it
:24:29. > :24:35.would spin aggressive anti-drugs policy. Sweden with a drug policy
:24:36. > :24:39.and culture surrounding drugs it is changing fast. We came here because
:24:40. > :24:44.people say it is the strictest country in Europe, but your argument
:24:45. > :24:49.is it might be stripped from politicians, but lots of young
:24:50. > :24:56.people are moving away from that and their attitudes are changing?
:24:57. > :25:00.Totally. Policy in Sweden, aggressive anti-drugs stance, it is
:25:01. > :25:05.an anomaly in Swedish culture. Sweden is liberal about sex for
:25:06. > :25:08.example. This aggressive conservative stance concerning drugs
:25:09. > :25:15.is kind of an anomaly. Swedish drug policy has been about the gateway
:25:16. > :25:21.drug. Cannabis seen as a gateway drug, all of your drug policy is
:25:22. > :25:25.based on this philosophy. A lot of people still believe that to be the
:25:26. > :25:30.case. We spoke to the head of police. We spoke to MPs. They say
:25:31. > :25:38.that is still the case. Why do you think it is different? It turned out
:25:39. > :25:41.to be alive, it is not true. Ironically some people starts with
:25:42. > :25:48.LSD and then smoke cannabis. If I come back in five years, will it be
:25:49. > :25:52.different, a legalised system? They are differentiating between drugs
:25:53. > :25:55.and recreational use and not addictive. We have the other
:25:56. > :26:01.category which is addictive drugs that are destructive will stop I do
:26:02. > :26:05.not see we would legalise those. We would have a more advanced and
:26:06. > :26:08.civilised debate on how we deal with addiction in itself and I think
:26:09. > :26:15.Sweden could be at the forefront of that. Later that evening I found two
:26:16. > :26:24.friends who had different views on cannabis. It is like with alcohol, I
:26:25. > :26:29.think it should be is prohibited as with alcohol. I do not see the
:26:30. > :26:34.difference between. Your off-licences are regulated. That is
:26:35. > :26:39.how you would like to treat weed? I think so. You can have a beer or
:26:40. > :26:45.glass of wine, pairing with food and wine and beer, but when it comes to
:26:46. > :26:54.drugs, it is just drugs. You think they should be banned? Yes,
:26:55. > :26:59.absolutely. Is that the solution? It is a generation question. The
:27:00. > :27:06.younger ones smoke more. Have you smoked? Yes, I have. But you would
:27:07. > :27:13.not do it in front of her? She loves me anyway. The Swedish approach on
:27:14. > :27:18.paper is not 1 million miles from the laws in the UK, but my next stop
:27:19. > :27:23.is somewhere with a different approach. 16 years ago Portugal took
:27:24. > :27:28.a bold step to decriminalise all drugs. While it does not mean they
:27:29. > :27:31.have been legalise, it means if you are stocked with a small amount of
:27:32. > :27:35.anything from cannabis to her when you are treated as if you have a
:27:36. > :27:40.medical problem rather than criminal. This doctor designed the
:27:41. > :27:47.system. It started from a catastrophic position. We had one of
:27:48. > :27:53.the highest rates of problematic drugs used in Europe by the late
:27:54. > :27:56.1990s. It was almost impossible to find a Portuguese family with no
:27:57. > :28:06.problems in connection with drugs. We decided to try a new approach. We
:28:07. > :28:13.are happy. 15, 16 years later we can look back and say we have a lot of
:28:14. > :28:19.improvement in the consequences of drug use in Portugal. Chatting to
:28:20. > :28:24.people in Lisbon it is clear and most seem to think the government
:28:25. > :28:29.has got it right when it comes to the more liberal, medical approach
:28:30. > :28:33.to drugs. But, as with these things, not everyone agrees. We are heading
:28:34. > :28:38.out of the city to meet a guy who runs his own drugs clinic. The
:28:39. > :28:46.interesting thing about him, he thinks it's gone a little bit too
:28:47. > :28:52.far. Carlos, nice to meet you. Carlos has been working to help
:28:53. > :28:56.users for over 30 years and runs a residential rehab centre. What is it
:28:57. > :29:04.about the Portuguese system you think has overstepped the mark? We
:29:05. > :29:10.need more restrictive measures because it is too easy for
:29:11. > :29:14.youngsters to get strokes. As we walked around, we have seen clearly
:29:15. > :29:20.people dealing in the streets in certain areas. That is because in
:29:21. > :29:25.your mind they are allowed to carry quite a lot of drugs, so it is an
:29:26. > :29:34.easy cover, you can say it is for me. That is the main problem. I must
:29:35. > :29:41.clarify, I am in favour of decriminalisation. I am not against
:29:42. > :29:47.it. The real problem is the business that is behind all of this movement.
:29:48. > :29:52.Clients, they want to have a good time when they start consuming
:29:53. > :29:56.drugs, but afterwards, the good time becomes a nightmare. 23-year-old
:29:57. > :30:04.Andreas showed me around the centre. He has been here six months. At
:30:05. > :30:09.first I had problems with hashish, cannabis. They were the first, then
:30:10. > :30:17.I started going to parties and started to take amphetamines and
:30:18. > :30:22.later when I was 16, 17, I started cocaine and that was bad for me, I'd
:30:23. > :30:27.destroyed my life with that. A common path that people mention. It
:30:28. > :30:32.is controversial, the idea of a gateway and you start with cannabis
:30:33. > :30:34.and go on to other drugs. Do you see a link between cannabis use and your
:30:35. > :30:45.later use in other drugs? Yes, because we get used to the
:30:46. > :30:52.drugs and then they seemed to stop working and we need something
:30:53. > :30:57.harder. How have drugs, specifically cannabis and other psychedelic drugs
:30:58. > :31:06.affected your mental health? Cannabis has THC and psychotropics
:31:07. > :31:10.that it really busts your head. I started having psychotic thoughts
:31:11. > :31:16.and I ended in the hospital because I heard noises in my head and that
:31:17. > :31:19.was very bad. When I walk in the streets I have always the feeling
:31:20. > :31:29.that someone is stalking me and I need to hide and run. Then here I
:31:30. > :31:33.started to take the right pills and medication to heal myself and it is
:31:34. > :31:38.working and I am grateful to that. While possession of drugs is not a
:31:39. > :31:45.crime in Portugal, users caught with small amounts of substances could be
:31:46. > :31:53.sent to a hearing to assess their drug problem. This is the waiting
:31:54. > :31:56.room. These are the rooms where we have the preliminary interview
:31:57. > :32:03.before the hearing stage. This is the room where we are having their
:32:04. > :32:06.hearing now. Ricardo has been given an appointment after being caught
:32:07. > :32:12.with a few joints at a music festival. He has agreed to let us
:32:13. > :32:17.record his hearing. I heard the word hashish. He was caught with some
:32:18. > :32:29.cannabis? He was caught with a small amount of power sheesh, a cannabis
:32:30. > :32:32.derivative. For a offence we have a suspended period of three months and
:32:33. > :32:42.if he's not caught in that period we will close it. After the hearing I'm
:32:43. > :32:48.keen to have a chat with Ricardo to see what he thinks of the dissuasion
:32:49. > :32:53.caught. We will not film your face. Do you think this process of
:32:54. > :33:01.chatting with a psychologist and a drug drug worker has helped to? For
:33:02. > :33:08.now I will stop, I don't need it. And the systems important goal, I
:33:09. > :33:17.think it is the best. -- and the system in Portugal. That was
:33:18. > :33:23.fascinating and quite an experience. Everything about this is weird. The
:33:24. > :33:28.building, not a court in the sense that you would know back home. The
:33:29. > :33:32.whole experience was very relaxed, very informal and we saw a guy going
:33:33. > :33:37.through that case and at the end of it saying I will not smoke weed
:33:38. > :33:43.again. Surely, for the authorities here, that is a success in their
:33:44. > :33:46.system? So two very different ways of
:33:47. > :33:49.dealing with the legalisation of cannabis there. We have been getting
:33:50. > :33:55.a huge reaction online and on texts as well. Keep them coming, 81199 is
:33:56. > :34:01.the text number. Tweet at BBC Newsbeat. Make sure you give us your
:34:02. > :34:06.name when we read out your messages. Opinion is divided. We have had
:34:07. > :34:10.hundreds of texts. Tom in Tamworth says he thinks the government goes
:34:11. > :34:17.over the top when it comes to cannabis stroke weed. It can help a
:34:18. > :34:20.lot of people of America have shown. Another person said they were
:34:21. > :34:26.introduced cannabis and ended up being sectioned. His personal
:34:27. > :34:31.experience is cannabis is dangerous when it is used recreationally. It
:34:32. > :34:38.is obviously split. What can we learn from Europe. You have been to
:34:39. > :34:42.Amsterdam? I'm a student at Loughborough University. I went to
:34:43. > :34:46.Amsterdam and had a really crazy trip. I was there with a few friends
:34:47. > :34:52.and we were enjoying ourselves, going a bit over the top but what I
:34:53. > :34:56.learned literally if it is about understanding what you use. Like you
:34:57. > :35:05.can go over the top drinking your first time, you can go over the top
:35:06. > :35:10.smoking. I feel at times people like to use the negative things about
:35:11. > :35:15.marijuana and cannabis and saying he is having a trip, he must be really
:35:16. > :35:20.bad but we see drunk people out every weekend. But aren't you
:35:21. > :35:24.worried that if it is legalised it can be regulated but if you are
:35:25. > :35:29.buying stuff in Amsterdam legitimately and you had a bad trip,
:35:30. > :35:35.doesn't that worry you? Not really. Mainly because I am on holiday!
:35:36. > :35:41.LAUGHTER To be honest, I am on holiday. It
:35:42. > :35:54.was worrying. Tell us what happened. I was on a tram. I was thinking what
:35:55. > :35:59.is going on? Everyone is speaking Dutch, what is going on? And you
:36:00. > :36:04.want to feel like that on holiday? No, but the next day you learn from
:36:05. > :36:08.it. It is a learning experience for me that day in the sense of when you
:36:09. > :36:12.don't understand something, that is what can happen. I'm coming from a
:36:13. > :36:16.background in the UK where it is pushed away, no one speaks about it
:36:17. > :36:23.and I have gone abroad and it has happened. I did not see any of the
:36:24. > :36:27.locals, that happening to them, they are used to it, it is part of the
:36:28. > :36:31.culture. I come from a culture here when you feel bad speaking about
:36:32. > :36:38.cannabis. It was four years ago, I was about 18 years old. I was a
:36:39. > :36:42.younger man and not very confident. I think we need to open up the
:36:43. > :36:45.culture because at the end of the day, if we continue to treat people
:36:46. > :36:51.like criminals for doing something which 2 million people in the UK do,
:36:52. > :36:59.is that 2 million criminals? Good question. At the moment, yes. Rick,
:37:00. > :37:02.what is your response to Yinka's trip in Amsterdam? I think he makes
:37:03. > :37:08.some really good points, particularly about the openness to
:37:09. > :37:13.substances. Our organisation Addaction is to keep people safe and
:37:14. > :37:17.in the wider community. Sometimes we get some slightly strange looks when
:37:18. > :37:22.we talk about openly discussing the fact that people will use substances
:37:23. > :37:26.and people might enjoy their experiences. Obviously, a lot of
:37:27. > :37:31.people may be do not have positive experiences as well. If we are
:37:32. > :37:36.effectively stopped from having open discussions around these things in
:37:37. > :37:39.schools, and I am not talking necessarily about substance specific
:37:40. > :37:44.information about THC and CBD. You will not go in and do an assembly
:37:45. > :37:48.about these things: that would be irresponsible, but we need to have a
:37:49. > :37:51.chat earlier discussions about decision-making and risky
:37:52. > :37:54.behaviours. We need to support young people to make positive choices and
:37:55. > :38:00.to speak to young people who can guide them. We have had Sony
:38:01. > :38:03.cutbacks around pastoral services and youth services. -- we have had
:38:04. > :38:09.so many cutbacks. And on the point of the video, if you take Portugal
:38:10. > :38:13.and decriminalisation, there has not been a massive rise in drug use.
:38:14. > :38:16.There has been a big deep crease in some associated health problems.
:38:17. > :38:21.They have been able to reallocate funds which would have gone to the
:38:22. > :38:24.justice system into health and education. If we can do that in this
:38:25. > :38:29.country and have open debates like we are having here, that will surely
:38:30. > :38:35.be a much better way of moving forward? I want to bring in George
:38:36. > :38:41.into the discussion. What do you do? We are drug policy ink tank and we
:38:42. > :38:47.look at drug issues in particular cannabis. What are the issues are
:38:48. > :38:53.buying cannabis legally? This is the interesting thing. I think it is
:38:54. > :38:59.saddening how little the debate has moved on in the UK. Those are the
:39:00. > :39:04.questions we should be asking. Instead we have people talking about
:39:05. > :39:09.the Gateway issue. Just to be clear it is not true. So if you start
:39:10. > :39:13.smoking cannabis it will lead to other things? It is proven beyond
:39:14. > :39:19.any reasonable doubt that cannabis use at a young age is not a reliable
:39:20. > :39:27.indicator of later life problematic use with so-called hard drugs.
:39:28. > :39:30.Proven by who? There is extensive research. I will show you afterwards
:39:31. > :39:37.but it would be boring to go through. The issue indicator of
:39:38. > :39:42.whether someone would develop more problematic drug use in later life
:39:43. > :39:45.is their family and social circumstances. Heroin is a
:39:46. > :39:49.painkiller. People use it to treat trauma and severe pain. We need to
:39:50. > :39:56.look at the problems around druggies which are issues around addiction
:39:57. > :40:01.which stem from other wider societal use -- problems around druggies.
:40:02. > :40:11.Cannabis does not lead you down a dark path into Herod then -- heroin
:40:12. > :40:15.use. How would it work to legalise cannabis? Could work in a number of
:40:16. > :40:19.ways. In the Netherlands they have not change the law but they allow
:40:20. > :40:25.decriminalisation which allows some people being able to sell it. I
:40:26. > :40:29.think that is unsatisfactory. You do not have product testing which means
:40:30. > :40:33.you do not have pesticides in there. You cannot control potency to
:40:34. > :40:37.encourage people to use safer products. I think a better option is
:40:38. > :40:43.what they are doing in Canada which is to set up a properly regulated
:40:44. > :40:47.industry with extensive testing and safety, public messaging and safety
:40:48. > :40:54.and awareness, tax revenues going to all sorts of things, whereby you can
:40:55. > :40:57.slowly look at what products are acceptable, moving people towards
:40:58. > :41:02.products which do not have as many carcinogens as smoking, moving
:41:03. > :41:06.people towards eating like in the Brighton cannabis club. There are
:41:07. > :41:11.ways cannabis can be used which are safer than other ways. At the moment
:41:12. > :41:17.it is a choice between alcohol and substance will stop Jim, you went to
:41:18. > :41:24.Portugal, what was it like? Are there problems? There is a danger of
:41:25. > :41:27.creating a rose tinted view of the Portuguese system. We spent some
:41:28. > :41:32.time in a fairly rough part of the city and there were problems with
:41:33. > :41:35.heroin addicts. There was a serious problem of entrenched drug use is
:41:36. > :41:40.still existing bearing the idea that this money will be refunded to help
:41:41. > :41:44.people is not true. There are a lot of people in the country who need
:41:45. > :41:49.help for drug problems and they are not getting it. The other thing
:41:50. > :41:53.which is stark and shocking is you see a lot of open drug use and open
:41:54. > :41:58.drug dealing. And not just talking about cannabis. We are talking about
:41:59. > :42:02.crack at it in basically the equivalent of Trafalgar Square in
:42:03. > :42:08.London. In Lisbon couple of streets away you have people dealing etc.
:42:09. > :42:13.That is what you need to remember. There are positives to the
:42:14. > :42:18.Portuguese system but there are a definitely negatives. So crack
:42:19. > :42:24.addicts on the street. If you are listening, what do you think? I just
:42:25. > :42:29.want to make the point with regard to Gateway drug use, I just want to
:42:30. > :42:33.mention that it puts you in that environment where you look at this
:42:34. > :42:39.drug and then that one is available because that person is using it. I
:42:40. > :42:41.just want to point out as well millennials are even more
:42:42. > :42:47.health-conscious and care about their bodies more than probably past
:42:48. > :42:51.generations so maybe they are more interested in vegetables than grass
:42:52. > :42:55.at this stage. I see a lot of people who are steroid users for example
:42:56. > :42:58.who come into the pharmacy for needles. There is a whole
:42:59. > :43:06.conversation around that. Is it going to open up a whole new area of
:43:07. > :43:08.public health we have to fund went there have already been cuts in
:43:09. > :43:14.sexual health and also the methadone and needle exchange area. Can you
:43:15. > :43:19.pass your microphone to Hannah? I am an award. I had a similar experience
:43:20. > :43:23.in Amsterdam. I did not take any weed myself that it completely
:43:24. > :43:29.changed my opinion. The culture shock first of all because it was so
:43:30. > :43:31.readily available. What was your thoughts first of all? I never
:43:32. > :43:36.wanted to try it because I was scared of it but going to a place
:43:37. > :43:39.where it was so available, it is so interesting. I think now if I was
:43:40. > :43:43.going to try it I would rather have that than a cigarette because
:43:44. > :43:52.cigarettes are one of the biggest killers in our society. It is so
:43:53. > :43:54.much more dangerous to have a cigarette and it is hypocritical to
:43:55. > :43:58.have legalised cigarettes and not cannabis which is more harmful.
:43:59. > :44:02.Touching on the cigarettes which are important points, I think cigarettes
:44:03. > :44:06.are also leading to psychosis because people who are smoking skunk
:44:07. > :44:13.with high levels of THC, they are mixing up with tobacco and what they
:44:14. > :44:20.are doing is they are smoking over the amount of skunk they should be
:44:21. > :44:25.smoking because they are addicted to the cigarette and not the skunk.
:44:26. > :44:28.They are putting tobacco in skunk and they keep making the skunk and
:44:29. > :44:36.that is where the problem comes in. At this stage we are also denied all
:44:37. > :44:41.talking that smoking cannabis and it is a class B drug addict carries a
:44:42. > :44:45.five-year prison sentence for possession and up to 14 years for
:44:46. > :44:53.supply and production. Jim, how is it looking online? We have Josh from
:44:54. > :44:58.Wiltshire. He says cannabis should be legalised. It does much more good
:44:59. > :45:03.than bad. Just compare it to alcohol. It can also do more for the
:45:04. > :45:07.economy and take money away from the street gangs and dealers. The
:45:08. > :45:12.counterargument is that what message are you giving to our children is
:45:13. > :45:15.that it is addictive, harmful to mental health and it absolutely
:45:16. > :45:17.stinks. Drugs have no place in our society and it should be abolished
:45:18. > :45:29.with stiffer penalties. What is your response? As somebody
:45:30. > :45:35.who goes all night drinking alcohol smells a lot, as well. There is a
:45:36. > :45:42.problem again, organic cannabis does not smell like skunk. It is about
:45:43. > :45:47.educating people on what's different cannabis there is and what
:45:48. > :45:52.difference skunk and how to use it. I want to pick up on the point about
:45:53. > :45:56.the gateway and access ability of other drugs. That is what we have
:45:57. > :46:01.with the black market. You can go to a dealer and get cannabis and you
:46:02. > :46:04.can get other drugs and did a regulated market that would be
:46:05. > :46:09.controlled. At the moment young people do not need IDE to go to a
:46:10. > :46:13.dealer. Jim said he saw people using crack on the streets of Portugal
:46:14. > :46:19.where drugs are decriminalise. That is a wider issue but we should talk
:46:20. > :46:23.about drugs consumption rooms. What about dissuasion committees, the
:46:24. > :46:29.model in Portugal, would you back it? They are useful, distinguishing
:46:30. > :46:32.between recreational use and if there is problematic use that
:46:33. > :46:38.requires intervention, there is the availability of that. This is
:46:39. > :46:43.Newsbeat debates live on radio one and the BBC News Channel. The
:46:44. > :46:49.question, should cannabis be legal in the UK? Jim, you have talked
:46:50. > :46:56.about people commenting online. Reaction is split. It is difficult
:46:57. > :47:01.to talk about cannabis. Without talking about so-called skunk in
:47:02. > :47:06.particular. What can you tell us? A word a lot of people pro-cannabis in
:47:07. > :47:13.this room will not like. I imagine people do not like the word skunk.
:47:14. > :47:20.Just to do a quick poll. A quick response. It is incorrectly used. I
:47:21. > :47:28.explained who here, the government term of skunk is high THC cannabis
:47:29. > :47:33.but that is also what the medical Dutch cannabis is. What we are going
:47:34. > :47:41.to talk about now, call it what you Will it is high post and -- high
:47:42. > :47:46.potency. There is a link between people susceptible to mental-health
:47:47. > :47:49.problems at high levels of THC whether science is focusing and
:47:50. > :47:57.where the debate is focusing. If people have just tuned in, ABC, THC,
:47:58. > :48:03.the THC is the compound in cannabis that makes you high, and CBD is the
:48:04. > :48:07.bit that acts as anti-psychosis. It is a buffer. There is a lot of
:48:08. > :48:17.research that needs to be done on the buffering. But we need to focus
:48:18. > :48:22.on the high-level THC. Jim went to meet a father who has been directly
:48:23. > :48:26.affected by high strength cannabis. We noticed there was something that
:48:27. > :48:37.was becoming strange with Rupert a year ago. He was diagnosed with drug
:48:38. > :48:45.induced psychosis. He was sectioned. What back row day in January, he
:48:46. > :48:49.said to his mother that is the voices were getting stronger in his
:48:50. > :48:59.head and he was scared. Two days later, he went out in the evening.
:49:00. > :49:05.And he killed himself. Afterwards, I spoke to the doctors. Somebody said
:49:06. > :49:13.in an offhand way, that this is yet another casualty of skunk. I said,
:49:14. > :49:18.is that just... Cannabis must have changed. He said it is not really
:49:19. > :49:23.cannabis you might have known, with the greatest respect, 40 years ago,
:49:24. > :49:27.when you might have experimented. He said this is different stuff. I
:49:28. > :49:35.looked it up on the internet. I was shocked to discover how strong this
:49:36. > :49:43.variant of cannabis is. And as such, it is my belief that the way to
:49:44. > :49:51.tackle skunk is to legalise the old-fashioned cannabis, so it has
:49:52. > :49:58.the right balance of THC with CBD, and it has only a certain level of
:49:59. > :50:03.potency. Lots of people listening will find it strange that a drug you
:50:04. > :50:09.say killed your son, you are campaigning to legalise. I think
:50:10. > :50:16.skunk has been labelled as cannabis, but it is not really. It is a
:50:17. > :50:20.Frankenstein variant. Some would argue that your son may have had
:50:21. > :50:23.underlying mental health issues and that is what led to him killing
:50:24. > :50:32.himself and not the drug. Indeed, that has been put to me. I received
:50:33. > :50:38.letters from people who read about Rupert's death. Come I read one? I
:50:39. > :50:44.am so sad to read about the loss of your son Rupert. There are so many
:50:45. > :50:48.parallels with the death of my son, who also had a history of mental
:50:49. > :50:55.illness in the most part by smoking cannabis and skunk. Lord Monson has
:50:56. > :51:00.received many letters containing stories similar to Rupert's. As we
:51:01. > :51:04.go through them, his friend Louise arrives. She is a drug worker in
:51:05. > :51:09.London and they have worked together on an approach to high potency
:51:10. > :51:14.cannabis. You work with people who use different drugs. How does it
:51:15. > :51:20.compare with someone who has a skunk problem? This will not be a popular
:51:21. > :51:24.answer but I would say give me a room full of heroin addicts than
:51:25. > :51:29.skunk addicts. If I think of my own sons, I remember saying to my
:51:30. > :51:34.eldest, I would prefer you to take heroin than smoke skunk. He said,
:51:35. > :51:40.you cannot say that! He does not work with the impact. Heroin and
:51:41. > :51:47.crack, it does what it says on the tin. It is physical, emotional,
:51:48. > :51:52.spiritual. Whereas skunk it is the psychotic aspect. Somebody has to
:51:53. > :51:58.wake up and say there will be a generation of kids with severe
:51:59. > :52:03.mental health issues, and with Nicklas's case, kids dying, and it
:52:04. > :52:08.will not be a normal OD from heroin, it will be from suicide because they
:52:09. > :52:15.cannot deal with the voices. It is the voices I work with. You say you
:52:16. > :52:20.have had this correspondence with the Prime Minister and letters going
:52:21. > :52:23.backwards and forwards. Recently in the latest government drugs
:52:24. > :52:27.strategy, decriminalisation was mentioned briefly and dismissed as
:52:28. > :52:35.not having enough evidence. I think the Liberal Democrats have embraced
:52:36. > :52:38.my argument and I know there are many people in the Conservative
:52:39. > :52:48.Party whom beforehand you would never have expected to embrace
:52:49. > :52:51.counterintuitive initiatives such as the one I am suggesting. I think
:52:52. > :52:55.there could be in the next five years, I hope, a change of heart
:52:56. > :53:00.from the government, at least a green paper, I should imagine. Lord
:53:01. > :53:04.Monson talking about his son's problems with cannabis and how he
:53:05. > :53:13.wants to change the law. Does what you just heard scare you? Zoe
:53:14. > :53:19.McLeod. I have had this with one of my extended family members who went
:53:20. > :53:23.into psychosis and they blame dit upon his drug-taking. I think what
:53:24. > :53:28.happened is terrible and what happened to my family member was
:53:29. > :53:33.terrible, but I think fully criminalising because of it will not
:53:34. > :53:40.do any good. You cannot stop people taking it, it is easy to get hold.
:53:41. > :53:46.You need a phone number ?10. I think the most important thing is
:53:47. > :53:51.education. And if we have this one we could have one that has a good
:53:52. > :53:55.level of CBD. I think you are saying you are putting out a message to
:53:56. > :54:00.younger kids it is almost harmless and OK to take and it is important
:54:01. > :54:04.to establish the adolescent mind is still developing and is more
:54:05. > :54:11.susceptible. Official statistics show people under the age of 15 who
:54:12. > :54:15.take cannabis are four times more likely to develop psychosis later in
:54:16. > :54:20.life and statistics show with cannabis usage in adolescence, you
:54:21. > :54:28.are more likely to get psychosis. There are more secondary effects of
:54:29. > :54:35.cannabis intake, for example, in Colorado, where they legalise
:54:36. > :54:38.marijuana, the number of car accidents which were due to drivers
:54:39. > :54:43.being under the influence of marijuana actually increased
:54:44. > :54:49.massively. You are saying you do not think it is true. We do not have
:54:50. > :54:56.long left. Chamakh I will come to you but before we do we are talking
:54:57. > :55:00.about psychosis. It is an acute mental health disorder where you
:55:01. > :55:07.lose connection with reality and it is a scary situation where the
:55:08. > :55:11.victim does not realise they are unwell and they can do dangerous
:55:12. > :55:16.things when they are unwell like this. Jammer, you have looked a high
:55:17. > :55:26.potency cannabis. Were you surprised by what you found? What I found was
:55:27. > :55:31.the level of THC and CBD in the skunk nowadays, in the wide range of
:55:32. > :55:41.skunk you are getting, are imbalanced. I can tell you 20 years
:55:42. > :55:45.ago, when people were smoking hashish, and normal weed grown in
:55:46. > :55:51.natural light, we did not have this issue, it did not exist. You can see
:55:52. > :55:59.the change in the skunk sold on the street and in the youth and how much
:56:00. > :56:02.psychosis we have in England. Working in the music industry, what
:56:03. > :56:11.effect do you think high potency cannabis has on artists? High
:56:12. > :56:16.potency cannabis is also medicated cannabis as the fellow there was
:56:17. > :56:22.saying, but that is in a regulated environments, where you are taught
:56:23. > :56:27.how to use it. Higher THC skunk on the street, given to just a kid who
:56:28. > :56:31.does not know what is inside it, smoking it with a cigarette, that is
:56:32. > :56:36.smoking excessive amounts of skunk because they are addicted to
:56:37. > :56:41.cigarettes. What about it boosting creativity? That is another debate.
:56:42. > :56:48.Some people smoke and stop smoking and say it did not make a difference
:56:49. > :56:52.in their music. There is a long history of creating with cannabis.
:56:53. > :56:57.There is a lot of great musicians that have used cannabis and created,
:56:58. > :57:02.but that is not the issue. The issue is people are getting in trouble
:57:03. > :57:07.with street skunk and non-regulated skunk. Greg, you have smoked high
:57:08. > :57:12.potency cannabis. Has it ever had the effect is Lord Monson was
:57:13. > :57:17.talking about? Absolutely not. I have been on prescribed steroids and
:57:18. > :57:21.opiates and I have had those reactions from those drugs. Maybe
:57:22. > :57:26.they are not for everyone, either. If we look at the debate properly
:57:27. > :57:29.and if we can regulate cannabis it takes it off the street and makes
:57:30. > :57:37.the availability to vulnerable people more unlikely to happen.
:57:38. > :57:44.Cannabis social clubs want to regulate cannabis and make it age
:57:45. > :57:48.regulated. I know you say you are impartial, but what are your
:57:49. > :57:54.concerns when it comes to high potency cannabis and mental health?
:57:55. > :58:00.From my experience in south London I have seen devastation in vulnerable
:58:01. > :58:04.families. I used to work in psychiatry, Denmark Hill, psychosis
:58:05. > :58:08.is devastating for the individual and the families. It has
:58:09. > :58:15.ramifications for the future. I would be worried. In simple terms,
:58:16. > :58:19.the younger you are, the more you use, the stronger the strain, the
:58:20. > :58:25.bigger the risk. If people are using we advise them to get support from
:58:26. > :58:33.GPs, local drug service. We would definitely advise delayed use will
:58:34. > :58:37.stop if people are talking about THC, that is talking about clinical
:58:38. > :58:44.settings and the street stuff is not that in general. If anyone is
:58:45. > :58:48.struggling with drug use, community pharmacies are on the high street,
:58:49. > :58:54.available for everyone with no judgment. Visit us for support.
:58:55. > :58:59.Thank you for taking part. If you are affected by any issues covered
:59:00. > :59:03.tonight, there are details of organisations offering information
:59:04. > :59:15.and support with addiction available at the BBC website action mind. And
:59:16. > :59:19.you can call any time and we have tweeted a link to BBC advice on
:59:20. > :59:29.cannabis. You can keep the conversation going online and watch
:59:30. > :59:32.Cannabis: Time For A Change on BBC I play. Thanks for watching.