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Int. J. Drug Policy
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Int. J. Drug Policy · Jul 2010
Editorial CommentCannabis policy: time to move beyond the psychosis debate.
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Int. J. Drug Policy · Mar 2007
EditorialTobacco harm reduction: how rational public policy could transform a pandemic.
Nicotine, at the dosage levels smokers seek, is a relatively innocuous drug commonly delivered by a highly harmful device, cigarette smoke. An intensifying pandemic of disease caused or exacerbated by smoking demands more effective policy responses than the current one: demanding that nicotine users abstain. ⋯ Yet, numerous alternative systems for nicotine delivery exist, many of them far safer than smoking. A pragmatic, public-health approach to tobacco control would recognize a continuum of risk and encourage nicotine users to move themselves down the risk spectrum by choosing safer alternatives to smoking--without demanding abstinence.