WATCH: Dagga trial continues
Inside the high Court, Professor David Nutt from the United Kingdom, an expert witness for the plaintiffs took the stand.
The trial of the “dagga couple” – Myrtle Clarke and Jules Stobbs – entered day five on Friday.
Demonstrations continued outside the high court with the anti-dagga concerned young people of South Africa stationed at the entrance to the court in a large group singing and chanting, while the pro-group gathered at the exit with banners hanging on the wall.
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The banners contained messages of support for the couple and messages calling for legalisation and freedom for cannabis users.
Inside the high court, Professor David Nutt from the United Kingdom, an expert witness for the plaintiffs took the stand. He said taking dagga was risky or harmful but not illegal.
He said when a drug was illegal it was hard to get data, unlike alcohol or tobacco, but with cannabis it was harder to collect data.
“Cannabis can be 100 times safer than alcohol per dose used. This is according to a scale looking at harmfulness of a dose of a drug.”
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Nutt said they covered a spectrum of legal and illegal drugs including ecstacy, heroine, vallium, methadone and cocaine.
He said cannabis was less harmful than tobacco and alcohol and that many ignore the toxicology of alcohol because they enjoyed it.
He said cannabis, as opposed to popular belief, did not cause schizophrenia.
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