TOM LEONARD: The drug's mood-altering and hallucinogenic effects are well known - and Sadiq Khan has already shown he's amenable to ending Britain's ban on marijuana.
Additives have been found to include a pesticide, Eagle 20, that releases highly toxic formaldehyde and mustard gas when heated.
And the mess in California is being repeated in other states such as Oklahoma, Washington and Michigan, which have also legalised the drug. About 80 to 90 per cent of California’s cannabis market remains illegal. Last year, the state seized more than 1.2million illegal cannabis plants. But now that legal cannabis is relatively expensive, the ruthless gangs see the potential to make a fortune.
The scale of the disaster may not have yet filtered through to the mayor of London, but the cannabis crisis in California should give pause for thought.Another worrying misconception is that cannabis is essentially harmless or even – based on evidence of its usefulness as a painkiller – benign. It’s also thought to be responsible for an alarming condition known as cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome or ‘scromiting’, a gastrointestinal illness in which victims start vomiting uncontrollably.And despite the pro-cannabis lobby’s insistence that the drug isn’t addictive, the number of Americans describing their heavy use of it as a ‘disorder’ has doubled since the early 2000s, says to the US’s National Institutes of Health.
Sadiq Khan will hopefully have seen that if even California, birthplace of the hippie utopia, cannot make legal pot work, there may need to be another solution to Britain’s drug problem.posing in an LA cannabis factoryPriti Patel yesterday slapped down London mayor Sadiq Khan after he announced a ‘commission’ to look at decriminalising cannabis in Britain.
The body will examine research from University College London, but will not look at changing the law on class A drugs.
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