Robin Room and cannabis policy: dangerous comparisons.
This paper describes Robin Room's contribution to cannabis policy debates over the period 1993-2010. It focuses on a controversy that erupted over a review that Room and the author undertook for the World Health Organization in the mid-1990s on the comparative harms of cannabis, alcohol, opiates and tobacco. It also briefly describes Room's recent work on global cannabis policy and ends with a brief appreciation of the character of his scholarly contributions to this field.
Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; National Addiction Centre, King's College London, London, UK.
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D002188:Cannabis / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006291:Health Policy / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D011050:Policy Making; D014944:World Health Organization