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Hi All This research is very important please read and forward to other drug prevention NGO’s. The Audio Slides presentation is also very important the slides details the evidence very clearly. http://audioslides.elsevier. com/getvideo.aspx?doi=10.1016/ j.mrfmmm.2016.05.002   Subject:   University of WA scientists found cannabis alters a person's DNA structure Fact of the week: Cancer risk to kids from cannabis use University of Western Australia found that  cannabis alters a person’s DNA , potentially exposing future generations to serious illnesses such as cancer.  “In my 20 years of research on human cells, I have never found any other drug, including heroin, which comes close to the DNA damage caused by marijuana” – Dr Akira Miroshima. WA researchers have warned that cannabis use causes genetic mutations that can be passed on to children and grandchildren. Chromothripsis and epigenomics complete causality criteria for cannabis- and addiction-connected

Heady childhood Marijuana addiction is coming out of universities and into schools with children as young as 11 experimenting with it Veenu Sandhu  March 19, 2016 "Doctor, have you tried marijuana?" "No" "Then how do you know it is bad?" Brahmdeep Sindhu, senior psychiatrist at the Civil Hospital in Gurgaon, was stumped when a 14-year-old from a prominent school threw this question at him. "The child then went to great lengths, quoting blogs he had read on the internet, to convince me why he, many of his classmates and some of his juniors, children as young as 12, thought it was harmless, even beneficial, to smoke up." Every month, 15 to 20 new cases of schoolchildren, boys and girls, are brought by their parents to Sindhu for counselling. They are all hooked to cannabis: often marijuana (the leaf of the plant) and sometimes hashish (extracted from the plant's resin). Far away from Gurgaon, in the fields past Navi Mumbai, childre