The sloppy journalism that misrepresents cannabis use
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The following headlines splashed across The Mail: ‘The price of going soft on cannabis: Labour’s experiment “pushed up hard drug use and crime”’, and The Telegraph: ‘Cannabis use soared by a quarter after Class C downgrade, study finds’, and ‘‘Softly softly” cannabis scheme drove up hospital admissions for hard drugs, study’.
Yet if you scratch below the surface of these articles – and make the effort to read the research being reported – it quickly becomes clear that the debate is being dra...
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