ABSTRACT

Should one smoke cannabis or not? Does one want to? The cannabis legalisation website: https://www.ukcia.org/ certainly is a forum for people to air their views. The viewpoints are many but in this book I am presenting those of two experts-by-experience: Travis Parker here in Chapter 3 who puts forward a positive case for cannabis smoking and Terry Hammond, in Chapter 4, whose son Steve developed schizophrenia after cannabis use. An informed debate is what is required and these two chapters set out the upsides and downsides of this enigmatic drug as well as anyone could ask in the space available. Personally I am neither pro nor anti though I do not smoke cannabis myself. These two chapters, however, certainly take the reader on a roller coaster ride through the territory created by this tortuously difficult issue of our day. With no further delay I now hand you over to Travis.