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Anti-drug activists think that a few puffs on a joint will turn you into a red-eyed, unemployed psychopath – probably for life. But is marijuana actually that bad for you? With several American states having decriminalised the herb for personal use, scientists have suddenly had the chance to see what cannabis actually does on a mass scale. And guess what? Cannabis actually has some VERY surprising health benefits.  Here’s a few. Smoking weed makes you thinner – or at least less likely to be obese You might not think it after you’ve watched a munchie-struck stoner devour an entire KFC family bucket in one go, but dope smokers are less likely to be obese. A study in the journal Obesity found that regular weed smokers are less likely to be obese than non-smokers. The researchers from Conference of Quebec University Health Centers looked at 700 adults aged 18-74 – and found that cannabis users tend to have low body mass index scores (often taken as a sign o...

All legal highs are going to be banned automatically under a new law designed to stop the spread of new drugs for recreational use,  the government announced today in the Queen’s Speech. Under the proposals there will be a default ban on “any substance intended for human consumption that is capable of producing a psychoactive effect”. Anyone who breaks the ban would face up to seven years in prison. At the moment the government has to identify a new drug by its precise chemical formation, then create a specific law to ban it.  This process can take years and producers can easily get around the legislation by slightly altering the chemicals used to make each drug, forcing the government to start the whole process again and ensuring legal highs remain available. The new law, announced by the Conservative government, will instead introduce an automatic assumption that all new psychoactive drugs are illegal to sell.  However, it will not criminalise...