... of teachers has shown that many children in primary school in the UK believe that cannabis is a safe and legal medicine. Specialist teachers who promote drugs awareness in 2,000 schools across the UK were surveyed by the charity Life Education Centres. Almost three quarters of them said children thought it was less harmful to smoke cannabis than a cigarette and 79 per cent of the children thought that cannabis was perfectly legal. More than 80 per cent said children thought cannabis was legal and 79 per cent said they thought it was a type of medicine. Life Education Centres believe not enough is being done to raise awareness of drugs among children and that people who work with children must double their efforts to make the dangers of drugs clear. It is not unreasonable to expect children to be confused about cannabis. Home Secretary David Blunkett has moved the ...

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