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'Spliffs and Ladders'

A group of Nottingham Trent University students have designed a board game with a twist.

'Spliffs and Ladders' is based on 'Snakes and Ladders' but instead of snakes, there's cannabis joints with information about the drug on many of the squares.

The game is within an information leaflet which has been handed out to some pubs in the city-centre.

Some Health and Environment students have done it as part of their final year work.  Nottingham Crime and Drugs Partnership has paid for it.  It is planning to use the leaflets at city youth centres.

A 20 year old student, who wants to remain anonymous, told trentfm.co.uk he smokes the drug socially, but he has seen it make people anti-social: "I have friends who smoke, but they choose to stay at home and smoke and not come out.  There's some people who just stay at home and all they do is smoke and they don't interact with other people."

Some information on the leaflet includes...

Cannabis users in the 1970's were most likely to smoke the leaves, whereas cannabis users today are smoking the more potent flowering tops, or buds of the plant.

Cannabis is not being grown as the natural plant as it was in the 1970's.  It is now a product which is genetically and chemically modified at every stage of its life.

Smoking marijuana allows its active ingredient, THC, to travel through the body, including the brain.  THC attaches to cannabinoid receptors on nerve cells in the brain, altering the way those cells work.
 

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