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Cannabis: The Evil Weed?

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Last broadcast on Sat, 14 Feb 2009, 01:15 on BBC One (except Wales) (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

Cannabis is the world's favourite drug, but also one of the least understood. Can cannabis cause schizophrenia? Is it addictive? Can it lead you on to harder drugs? Or is it simply a herb, an undervalued medicine?

Addiction specialist Dr John Marsden discovers that modern science is finally beginning to find answers to these questions. John traces the cannabis plants' birthplace in Kazakhstan; finds the origins of our sensitivity to cannabis in the simple sea squirt; and finds out just what it does to our brains.

He meets people who have been changed by this drug in drastically different ways - from those whose lives have been shattered to those who lives have been revived.

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Presenter
John Marsden

Broadcasts

  1. Tue 3 Feb 2009
    21:00
  2. Tue 3 Feb 2009
    21:00
  3. Sat 14 Feb 2009
    01:15

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