NORML.ORG CN AB: The Debate Of The Decriminalizing Marijuana Continues To Rage: "-------
LEDUC - The tie Leduc addiction counsellor Gene LeBlanc makes between the consequences of legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco, when compared to the illegal drug marijuana, has been a contentious issue lately for scientists and lawmakers.
According to the article 'Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse', published in 2007 by the respected British medical journal The Lancet, marijuana was ranked as causing less harm and being less addictive then both tobacco and alcohol. As in Canada, marijuana use in Britain is illegal, while tobacco and alcohol use is legal. The report noted the contradiction of having the more harmful substances tobacco and alcohol legal while less harmful substances are illegal, with laws seemingly based only on which substances are more widely socially accepted. "
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