Val Curran, Professor of psychopharmacology, at University College London, speaking about Cannabis: Is it a cure for, or cause of, mental ill-health?, on the Humans Stage, at New Scientist Live 2019
It's now legal in the UK for doctors to prescribe cannabis to people with mental health problems. Strange, surely, when newspaper headlines have long shouted about cannabis leading to psychosis. Indeed, most scientific research to date has focussed on the harms of the drug rather than its benefits. Cannabis, containing over 100 different cannabinoids and more terpenes, is potentially a treasure chest of new medicines. Let psychopharmacologist Val Curran guide you through both sides of the debate on cannabis. Is it a cure for, or cause of, mental ill-health? Val is director of UCL’s clinical psychopharmacology unit, research lead at a London NHS drug service and a founding member of the charity Drug Science. Her research on drugs, the mind and brain is funded mainly by the Medical Research Council. To study the drug’s effects she has given different forms of cannabis to hundreds of people over the last 20 years. Val’s current cannabis research focusses on teenagers. She led Channel 4’s documentary "Drugs Live - the cannabis trial" and has given talks on drugs all over the world including in the UK and European parliaments and US congress.
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