Potheads: DR MAX PEMBERTON asks if marijuana is a factor in jihadi murders as he says the liberal elite who push for looser drug laws should be shamed
Surely, it is no coincidence that time and time again, in the aftermath of recent terrorist attacks, as we le
arn more about the perpetrators and try to understand their motivation, we discover that cannabis was a part of their daily lives. Mohammed Emwazi, known as Jihadi John - the man who murdered hostages James Foley, Alan Henning and David Haines, among others - was reportedly a heavy cannabis smoker. Richard Reid, the shoe bomber who tried to blow up a plane flying from Paris to Miami in 2001, smoked cannabis as a youngster, as did the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale. Tunis beach killer Seifeddine Rezgui; the Belgian train terrorist Ayoub El-Khazzani; the Leytonstone knife attacker Muhaydin Mire; Khalid Masood, who carried out the Westminster attack in March; ringleader of the 7/7 London bombings, Mohammad Sidique Khan . . . I could go on. (Pictured from top left to right: Mohammed Emwazi, Mohammad Daleel, Mohamed Lahouaiej, Michael Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo. Pictured bottom left from right: Omar Mateen, Ayoub El-Khazzani, Said Kouachi, Seifeddine Rezgui and Tashfeen Malik)
