Response to commentaries: moving towards an evidence-based policy around cannabis use.

摘要

We are glad that our invited commentary [1] on the relationship between cannabis evidence and cannabis policy has stimulated debate, and we are grateful to our scientific colleagues for their thoughtful responses [2-6]. These responses raise more issues than we can address adequately here, so we will stick to the main points. Our paper had two aims. The first was to examine, and attempt to understand, the recent scientific debate around possible cannabis harms. The second was to discuss what a policy around cannabis based on this evidence might look like. We recognize that political support for evidence-based policy in this context may be, at best, rhetorical.