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  • One cannabis cigarette = 7 tobacco cigarettes, because of the tar content and bronchodilatation," emphasizes Dr. CHAMAYOU in his thesis.
    Also noteworthy in his thesis:

    - Cannabis will lead to an increase in throat and lung cancers in the years to come.

    - In subjects under the age of 35, all ENT cancer patients are cannabis smokers.

  • Look around you. You will be surprised to see that many young people are able to drink three or four glasses of alcohol without being the least bit "tipsy". Why? Because they have cannabis in the blood (stored for 30 days in fat) and they have to have a lot more alcohol than a person without cannabis to feel the same effects. Hence the consumption of spirits…

  • This is a new phenomena. Young people are consuming alcohol in greater and greater quantities to enhance the effect of the drug. Alcohol can be called a potentializer.

    Alcohol is legal and acceptable to parents, young people are open with bottles but simultaneously hide their drug use. Therefore, the majority of parents think their children consume a lot of alcohol. This is true, but they do not know that this is only part of the picture, young people consume alcohol and cannabis or alcohol and other drugs.

    Dr Chamayou, author of the thesis “The dangers of hashish: the latest scientific discoveries on cannabis” (see our References section), states “A rat which is given cannabis will start to drink alcohol. Without cannabis, it will not drink [alcohol])”.

    Cannabis remains stored in body fat for over 28 days, it opens the door to consuming large amounts of alcohol.

  • How do people die because of drugs?

    SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE !

    Reports show that the rate of suicide in France is one of the highest in the European Union. France has the highest rate of suicides amongst youth aged from 15 to 24. Suicide is the primary cause of death in this group. [...]
    Extract of a letter of the French Prime Minister (Jean-Pierre Raffarin) to the Minister of Health (Christine Boutin) on April 17th 2003.

    In 2008 our country still had the highest rate of suicide of people aged from 15 to 24 in the European Union!

    Let us not forget that suicide is most of the time a consequence of drug taking, legal or illegal.

    How do people die because of drugs?

    SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE !

  • This is the phenomenon of "releasing". When one consumes cannabis, THC enters the blood circulation and provokes effects that are later sought by the user. THC is stored in the body fats from where it is released in case of stress or fear. Many road accidents can be explained this way.

    When in a dangerous incident on the road, the situation awareness of a consumer, whose reflexes are already impaired even if he has not used recently, is modified. He may be able to avoid the accident, but he is scared. The THC stored in the body fats is then released. It is more than likely that at the next intersection, without any obvious reason, an accident will occur.

    One can never know the amount that is stored in the fats. It depends on one's body, on the product that has been consumed and on the releasing that has been occurring.

  • Malaise, depression and suicide are very often the consequences of consuming psychotropic drugs. It is estimated that the number of today's high school pupils consuming drugs occasionally is 70%. Most of them feel unwell because of drugs. During a consultation, a doctor should ask his patient if he uses drugs. His depression, his feeling unwell will be explained by their consumption. Instead of prescribing antidepressants or any other legal drugs, the doctor should advise his patient that he should begin by stopping his drug consumption.
    If antidepressants, benzodiazepines or sleeping pills are added, the consumer will obviously be more drugged and he will feel worse and worse until he finds himself in a serious depression or at the psychiatrist's. This is what is happening more and more often today.

  • We more and more often hear about aggression amongst youth, of physical and verbal violence inside families, schools, society... Drugs provoke violence.

    Enfance Sans Drogue demands that there is systematic research into illegal and legal drugs carried out in every case of aggression between youths or other individuals, as well as in suicide attempts and suicides, in order to enhance the link between violence and drug consumption.

    The publishing of the results will enable us to be fully aware of the situation in our country.

  • In is enough no longer use drugs in order to be healed.

    It is not an illness, nor is it inevitable.

    Only abstinence should be prescribed.

  • No psychotropic drugs' effect is predictable and the stimulant, sedative and hallucinogenic effects of these products depend on the strength of the dose and the sensibility of each person. They all have multiple physical and mental effects which are unpredictable and dangerous, which the manufacturers call "secondary effects".
    C'est quoi la drogue? by Marie-Christine d'Welles

  • Vitamins and minerals are as necessary to the body as water and food.

    Drugs very rapidly burn a high number of vitamins and minerals. Hence those who take drugs have more difficulties in fighting against infections and other illnesses.

    Drug-addicts often suffer from cramps because they do not have enough minerals.

    Minerals are found in food and water, but drug consumers rapidly need them in high quantities.

    They can be helped by being given vitamins and natural minerals.

  • Self harm is increasing and follows the curve of psychotropic drug use.

    It is one of the many side effects of legal and illegal drugs.

    If a person self harms, it is imperative to know what illegal or legal drugs he or she uses. Effectively, if someone has the bad idea of prescribing this person a psychotropic medicine when the self harm is the result of a drug addiction or an adverse reaction from taking a legal psychotropic drug, it could lead to a suicide attempt or trigger a serious mental illness.

  • This is a new phenomenon. In order to increase the effects of drugs, youth consume more and more alcohol. Hence one could say that alcohol is a potentializer.

    Alcohol is legal and accepted by parents. Young people are easily able to display bottles of alcohol while simultaneously hiding their consumption of drugs. Then the majority of parents think that youth consume a lot of alcohol. This is true but they do not know that most of the time, youth consume both alcohol and cannabis or alcohol and other drugs.

    Dr Chamayou, an author of a PhD thesis called "The Dangers of Hashish: the last discoveries in science" quotes: "If a rat is given cannabis, he starts drinking alcohol, whereas without cannabis, he will not drink any."

    Cannabis is a gateway to a high consumption of alcohol.

  • The lastest reports from the Observatoire Français des Drogues et des Toxicomanies (OFDT) have shown that France was amongst the countries which consumed the most narcotics in Europe. It is imperative that this behavior, which has grave consequences and mostly affects youth aged from 12 to 25 – (who make up 69% of daily users), should have an appropriate response.

    A wide variety of narcotics are consumed in France, but it is cannabis which is the most consumed illegal substance.
    The number of regular users is on the rise.

    We should note that drug addiction has evolved into an addiction to various products, mixing together different drugs, medicines and alcohol. Furthermore, we have observed a general trivializing concerning the use of narcotics.

  • Poppers are very prevalent in highschools.

    These young people, male and female, do not know they put their life in great danger and cause their organs -brain, liver, lungs, heart, kidneys...- to age prematurely.

    Moreover numerous cases are reported of lasting visual loss due to degradation of the photoreceptive cells of the retina. See article Poppers

  • When you undergo surgery, it is absolutely essential that you inform the anesthetist which legal and illegal drugs you are using. Any anesthesia is performed thanks to legal psychotropic drugs. If the patient uses cannabis or any other drugs, the anesthetist will take it into account to prevent any potentialization of drugs, such a modification of the drugs' effects could be lethal. Anesthesia is always complicated and precise. Anesthetists study for a long time in order to control these poisons and save us from many risks.
    Our teenagers must be aware of this, because it is not always possible to make a report before an anesthesia, eg. road accident, peritonitis, fainting or coma, emergency...

  • April 2013, Yacin Sid's father had just left the witness box. "Look at me, look at Pierre's family, you must tell the truth, they need it." Yacin replied "That is why I have decided to confess today." His father said "This wasn't how I raised you, you have to answer all the questions so the truth can be told." Yacin's father continued "He was a lovely boy, he was always around me, I called him my shadow".


    There was a dramatic twist that afternoon. Yacin Sid asked to be allowed speak: "I lied before the court, before the examining judge. I am the author of Pierre Nasica's murder. I'll explain to you what happened ..." He couldn't go on. His family was in shock. The hearing was suspended.
    The hearing resumed at 14.40. Yacin Sid read his confession. "We ate a kebab at 1pm. I suggested him going to the parking garage at the Arsenal to smoke. We had been drinking at the kebab restaurant. We talked about credit cards. I had problems with drug debts. Pierre would have nothing to do with it. Pierre didn't take it seriously. He told me it was pointless. That pissed me off. I wanted to make him afraid. I had a knife in my bag. I took it out. I told him that he had to help me. He laughed. I stabbed him for the first time, I don't know where. I went at him relentlessly. He fell to the ground and I was raging. I couldn't understand what I was doing. I didn't recognize myself. He wasn't moving any more. That was when I understood. I shook him. I panicked. I had a lace in my belt. I put it around his hands to stage a believable scene. Afterwards, I was locked in total denial. I couldn't believe that I was capable of doing that. I ask his family's forgiveness. I'm confessing for the family, for justice. I accept the consequences of my actions. I never wanted to kill him. Pierre was always my best friend. I'll regret it my whole life. I'm sorry that I lied for two years."


    Extract from l'Est républicain 8th April 2013