Students create 'Spliffs and Ladders' game
STUDENTS in Nottingham are to highlight the dangers of cannabis by giving out a "Spliffs and Ladders" board game in the city.
The game – printed on the back of a leaflet resembling a Rizla packet – has been developed by final year students at Nottingham Trent University.
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Pooja Shah and Ibou Camara
It is based on Snakes and Ladders but with cannabis joints replacing the snakes and information about the drug on many of the squares.
Hundreds of copies have already been distributed around bars near the university's city centre campus.
And Nottingham's Crime and Drugs Partnership is now planning to use the leaflets, which include information about the impact of smoking cannabis, at city youth centres.
The students involved were Paul Harrington, Ibou Camara, Pooja Shah, Osman Hussain and Mark Ryan.
The project, which is being funded by £1,000 from the Nottingham Crime and Drugs Partnership, forms part of the final year of their health and environment degrees.
Elsewhere on the board game leaflet there is information about services young people can access if they have concerns about cannabis use.
Paul Harrington, 31, from Sandicare, said: "We just want to raise awareness among students about how cannabis might affect them at university.
"It is not to judge them on their actions – it is making an informed choice."
Part of the leaflet describes how tetra-hydro-cannibol, the active ingredient in cannabis, can attack the way cells in the brain work. The strength of new strains of the drug was cited by the Government in support of its decision to reclassify cannabis as a class B drug in January.
Pooja Shah, 22, from St Ann's, said: "I think people were just naive to it. They just thought it was cannabis and there wasn't anything more to it."
One university student, who spoke to the Post on condition of anonymity, smoked regularly until he gave up last summer. "I was getting lazy and I didn't want to come in to university," he said. "Now I think it is a waste of money."
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by Jock, Notts
Wednesday, March 18 2009, 10:19PM
“if this badman is an example of what it does we should line all users up against a wall and shoot them.
Fags and booze are legal, but drugs are illegal, heres the difference, but its these on weed who go onto harder drugs and come round to rob your house to fund there habit.”
by The unknown toker, no really, you're a bad advert for tokers mate
Wednesday, March 18 2009, 5:55PM
“25 years old, been blazing half his life, and he's fine (he says)......yet he cant spell a lick, spends all day making dumb comments on here, sounds unemployable (so will be a skint mess all his life), threatens people he's never going to meet........and he says he's fine........LMFAO!!!!!”
by The unknown toker, been blazing longer than you've been alive, sonson
Wednesday, March 18 2009, 5:53PM
“Is anybody else pi55ing themselves laughing at the irony in badmans messages, or is it just me?”
by BADMAN, ST.ANNZ
Wednesday, March 18 2009, 5:41PM
“COME ON BEN!!! U ARE ETHER LOOKING FOR A FIGHT OR UR JUST BEING A TW@T OF A LITTLE KID THATS JUST GOT HOME FROM SCHOOL AS UR COMENT COMES AFTER SCHOOL TIMES HMMM!
LETS MEET SO I CAN DO U SOME HARM U PUNK @SS RUDE GIRLL GO PLAY WITH UR SELF!!.
KIDS SHOULD FINISH SCHOOL AND GO OUT TO PLAY OR SOME THING
I BET UR REALLY FAT AND HAVE NO MATES U SAD LITTLE BOY GO AND EAT A CREAM CAKE”
by dott dott, on a reggae tip
Wednesday, March 18 2009, 4:32PM
“how about we start hearing about the dangers of class a drugs like heroin and cocaine.
that won't happen because half of our government are either using or supplying the stuff, scum.
There is nothing wrong with chilling out at night with a spliff instead of a glass of wine for example..
no substance should be abused..”
by Darren G, Draycott
Wednesday, March 18 2009, 4:20PM
“Solidarity to my H & E comrades......jolly good show with the kingsize rizlas.
Now cue all the usual trolls that spout their rubbish all over these comments pages....”
by Ben, st annz
Wednesday, March 18 2009, 4:09PM
“bad man you are thick”
by Jason, Notts
Wednesday, March 18 2009, 3:11PM
“It will never be as popular as Buckaroo, the sport of kings :D”
by tim, kitchen
Wednesday, March 18 2009, 2:46PM
“i thought this was a load of tosh when i first read it.now i can really see the benefits of playin this game, im sure( no no i mean ,im positive )pooja and freinds will save no end of lifes with this scheme,i cant wait to get a copy and give it to my younger brother to help him stop smoking, pooja is also my hero”
by BAD MAN, ST.ANNZ
Wednesday, March 18 2009, 2:13PM
“I AGREE TO THAT TELL THE STUDENTS TO BRING BACK ROBIN HOODS BOW THEN GO BACK TO THERE OWN CITYS IF THEY DONT LIKE THE SMELL OF WEED SMOKE YA HERD”