2023-06-21 18:40:10
Discover the new podcast of The Conversation France: “L’échappée Sciences”. Twice a month, an original subject covered by an interview with a scientist and a column by one of our journalists.
While experimentation with therapeutic cannabis continues in France, supervised by the ANSM (National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products), this plant remains at the center of sometimes heated debates in our country. The consumption of cannabis by young people, in particular, is still the subject of many fantasies.
What risks, in the short and long term, do problematic uses run? Are they progressing? Why is prevention for young people particularly important? What do we know about the links between cannabis and schizophrenia? Does cannabis use lead to harder drugs? While prohibition was showing its limits, some countries have chosen the path of legalization: with what consequences?
Sociologist and specialist in the social practices of drug users at Inserm, the National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Marie Jauffret-Roustide discusses received ideas, and presents the state of knowledge on this sensitive subject. .
Far from the Epinal image of teenagers from working-class neighborhoods smoking joints earlier and earlier, more and more numerous, dropouts and withdrawn into themselves, scientific research paints a nuanced picture of the habits consumption by young people. And opens up avenues for implementing better adapted public health policies, able to help those who really need it.
In her column, Émilie Rauscher explores our species’ taste for psychotropic substances. Opium and cannabis in Antiquity, tobacco and coca in the 16th and 18th centuries, ether in the 19th… The contexts and modes of consumption have varied greatly over time, as have the substances tested, with little concern for health consequences. Then came the time of the first alerts issued by the doctors. Which led to bans… Sometimes late, when public health recommendations went against certain economic interests. A bygone era… Really?
Animation and design, Lionel Cavicchioli and Emilie Rauscher. Directed by Romain Pollet. Credits music: “Chill Trap” by Aries Beats. Excerpt, “I smoke pu d’shit”, Stupeflip. Written and composed by Julien Barthélémy, 2003 Etic System.
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