10 years ago, Rosie Boycott, the wibbling liberal nutjob who was editor of The Independent at the time thought
“I know, cannabis is a psychosis-inducing drug which causes permanent and irreversable damage to the user.
We’d be down with the hip kids if we called for de-criminalisation”.
Well, we’ve all puffed a joint in our past. Personally, I can leave it. All it did was make me sleepy and hungry.
And I can get the same effect from ‘aving a wank, and without the stains on my teeth (unless I’m really unlucky).
Ten years on, they print a retraction…
We report today that the number of cannabis users on drug treatment programmes has risen 13-fold since our campaign was launched, and that nearly half of the 22,000 currently on such programmes are under the age of 18. Of course, part of the explanation for this increase is that the provision of treatment is better than it was 10 years ago. But there is no question, as Robin Murray, one of the leading experts in this field, argues on these pages, that cannabis use is associated with growing mental health problems.
And that took you ten years to work out??
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