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Titolo: La cannabis provoca centinaia di morti ogni anno

www.telegraph.co.uk
Sunday 2 November 2003
 
Cannabis use causes 'hundreds of deaths a year', coroner warns 
By Julie Henry, Education Correspondent
(Filed: 02/11/2003) 
Britain's most senior coroner is warning that hundreds of young 
people are dying in accidents caused by their prolonged use of 
cannabis.
Hamish Turner, the president of the Coroners' Society, said that 
the drug, which is often portrayed as harmless, has increasingly 
been behind deaths that have been recorded as accidents or suicides.
In the past year, he estimated that cannabis was a significant 
contributory factor in about 10 per cent of the 100 cases that he 
had dealt with in south Devon, where he works.
Conversations with his colleagues led him to believe that the scale 
of the problem elsewhere in the country was equally bad. "Cannabis 
is as dangerous as any other drug and people must understand that it 
kills," said Mr Turner.
"From my long experience I can say that it is a very dangerous 
substance. Increasingly it is mentioned not only as the first drug 
taken by people who overdose, but also in suicides and accidental 
deaths.
"It is an awful waste of young lives. People are trying the drug at 
a very young age. Many go on to harder drugs and I am dealing with 
more and more heroin overdoses. People can also suffer severe 
consequences from the cannabis alone, however.
"Bereaved parents say to me, 'We didn't realise how dangerous it 
was until it was too late, if only we had done something'. It is 
heartbreaking."
Recent examples of the dangers of the drug cited by Mr Turner 
include the case of James Taylor, a 31-year-old, who was found 
hanged in his Torquay flat. The inquest heard that he had started 
smoking cannabis when he was about 15 and was a habitual user. The 
drug was blamed for the depression and mental health problems that 
later plagued him and which led to his death.
Mary Taylor, his mother, said that there was no doubt in her mind 
that cannabis had killed her son. "The cannabis made him paranoid 
from the word go. He went from a good-looking, artistic, talented 
chap to someone who did not trust anyone, not even his sister, who 
he was very close to.
"Because of the damage the drug did to him he became more isolated, 
more lonely and more depressed. The loveliest boy was destroyed by 
this drug. I would never have believed that James would have acted 
as he did when he took his own life.
"People who insist that cannabis is harmless are talking rubbish. 
We had years of hell when James was on cannabis, and that was all he 
was taking. Now he is dead and our family life has been devastated."
Cannabis also contributed to the death of Dragan Radoslavjevic, 42, 
from Paignton, Devon. He died earlier this year after using a power 
tool to drill a hole in his head. An inquest in Torquay heard that 
he suffered from depression and relied on drugs such as cannabis and 
heroin.
Mr Turner said that stronger varieties of cannabis - up to 10 times 
more potent than those used in the 1960s - were now common, leading 
to physical and mental problems in young people living in rural 
areas as well as in cities.
The drug robbed young people of their appetite for life, the 
coroner warned, with regular and prolonged use leading to panic 
attacks, paranoia, psychosis, racing heart, agitation, an increased 
risk of heart attacks and strokes, and even a tendency to violence.
"Cannabis is a mind-altering drug which has ravaging effects on the 
brain," he added.
In another case, Ralph Hamilton, 27, from Torquay, died when the 
car he was driving hit a bus in Totnes. Witnesses reported that he 
"looked almost comatose" as he drove directly into the front of the 
open-topped bus. Blood tests showed that Mr Hamilton had been taking 
cannabis and the inquest heard that he was a regular user.
Other coroners also expressed concern about cannabis. Michael 
Gwynne, the coroner for Telford and Wrekin, said that he feared that 
deaths would spiral if the Government decriminalised the drug. 
"There is clearly some evidence that cannabis is a contributory 
factor in drug-related traffic accident deaths but, because of the 
problems with toxicology, we are unable to state its full impact," 
he said.
"What the Government should not do is become more tolerant of the 
drug; that would involve setting legal limits, and risk cannabis 
becoming a major cause of road traffic deaths."
Veronica Hamilton-Deely, the Brighton and Hove coroner, said that 
national figures supplied by coroners' offices showed that illicit 
drugs, particularly cannabis, were increasingly present in victims 
of road traffic fatalities. These statistics showed that in 2000, 12 
per cent of the 3,400 people killed in road accidents showed traces 
of cannabis: a sixfold increase on a decade earlier.
The dangers of cannabis were highlighted in research published last 
month, which showed a sharp increase in drug-related deaths. 
According to the European Centre for Addiction Studies at St 
George's Hospital Medical School in London, in 2002, British 
coroners cited cannabis as the major cause of death in 18 out of 853 
drug-related deaths. The drug was also implicated in a further 31 
out of 1,579 deaths involving a cocktail of drugs.
The biggest killers were heroin, which was the major cause of death 
in 712 cases, and cocaine, which was the principal factor in 147 
deaths.
© Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2003.
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Quanto sopra riportato ben descrive l'estrema pericolosita' della
cannabis che i delinquenti umanisti di sinistra vorrebbero 
legalizzare.
Tutte le ricerche e le iniziative finalizzate all'utilizzo della
cannabis in settori che vanno dal tessile all'alimentare sono
attivita' criminali.
Chiunque sostenga le pretese proprieta' medicinali della cannabis
e' un criminale, e come tale andra' trattato.
Padania libera !
La capitale e' la gran Milàn !
Los von Rom !
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Per non dimenticare: tra il 1987 e il 1994, la polizia di stato
italiana incaricata di rapinare banche, uffici postali, stazioni di
servizio e supermercati ha ucciso a Bologna 24 persone ferendone piu'
di 100. Per contro, i reati che rimangono impuniti sono l'80.4% su
scala regionale (dato riferito all'Emilia-Romagna) e l'82% su scala
nazionale. Per il conseguimento di tali risultati degni di una
satrapia islamica, lo stato italiano estorce a noi cittadini del Nord
fino al 72% del reddito in tasse.
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"Messaggio inviato con l'ennesimo alimentatore di ricambio" :-(

By Julie Henry, Education Correspondent
nel mondo?
statistica assolutamente non rilevabile, quindi significa nessuno
morto ogni anno, ma comunque anche se fosse molto meno che la nutella
ed il cibo macdonalds ;-)

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