Cannabis 'could kill 30,000 a year'

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Cannabis 'could kill 30,000 a year'http://society.guardian.co.uk/drugsandalcohol/story/0,,947830,00.htmlJames Meikle, health correspondentFriday May 2, 2003The Guardian

Thirty thousand Britons a year might eventually die from cannabis smoking, doctors claimed last night. They called for a battle against the drug to mirror that belatedly waged against tobacco, saying that it too could soon pose a major public health hazard.

Their warning, made in an editorial in the British Medical Journal, is the most high-profile attempt yet to alert authorities to public health difficulties that might result from an apparently more liberal attitude to the drug.

 

 

 

 

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