"Please Don't Put Your Wires in My Brain"*

Here's one example of how false propaganda flows:

Back in April, the press agency Reuters let the world know that "Oral Cannabis Induces Psychosis at Low Levels" when two volunteers, 22 year-old men, developed psychotic symptoms after receiving 20 mg of THC or a cannabis preparation containing 16.5 mg THC. These are not low doses of THC, and they did not develop a psychosis but psychotic reactions, such as anxiety and delusion, well known side effects of cannabis ingestion. This was during a study by researchers of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Clinical studies usually start with single doses of 2.5 or 5 mg THC, rarely with 10 mg THC, to find out the appropriate and tolerated dose and to avoid severe side effects. The tolerated doses vary considerably in different subjects. As stated, the anxiety causing effects of THC are well known, but that didn't stop the Swiss 'scientists' from getting excited at their 'discovery', and calling in the press.

Source: Bulletin of the International Association for Cannabis as Medicine (IACM).

That's how the truth gets bent, especially when there's such eagerness for one particular result. Next post - some of the research, and some more distortions from the press.

* from Pink Floyd song, by Roger Waters.