PETER HITCHENS: Those who shut their minds to the dangers of marijuana must now face the grim truth about the crazy violence in Britain.
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The obvious solution is to enforce our existing severe laws against marijuana possession, so people stop smoking it. This is what they do in civilised, serious countries such as Japan.
But that logical step may be beyond a lot of our political and media elite. It is also unpopular with a lot of people on anti-social media.
It’s easy to explain the elite problem. Our university-educated classes are full of past and present habitual drug abusers, or people who let their children abuse drugs. Or both. They are held back from admitting the truth by their own disgusting selfishness.
But the Twitter warriors – who are frantic to believe that rampage knife attacks are ‘terrorism’ – are just as bad. They go purple in the face when I say that these pointless slaughters are the acts of unhinged people.
There are dozens of examples, but take Valdo Calocane, the culprit of those crazy, horrible killings in Nottingham. His home stank of marijuana. But nobody in authority cared.
The Southport mass killer Axel Rudakubana appears to have once been a bright and pleasant child but his character and appearance changed totally in his early teens, the time at which so many British children meet marijuana at school and fly off the rails, always into slack despondency and often into desperate, incurable mental illness. Choruses of psychiatrists now link this drug with mental illness. Reams of news reports link acts of mad violence with marijuana users.
But as far as I can find out, nobody inquiring into the Southport horror has even asked if Rudakubana took this drug.l
Axel Rudakubana's character and appearance changed totally in his early teens, the time at which so many British children meet marijuana at school. Express.
Blogger: Peter is right.
The obvious solution is to enforce our existing severe laws against marijuana possession, so people stop smoking it. This is what they do in civilised, serious countries such as Japan.
But that logical step may be beyond a lot of our political and media elite. It is also unpopular with a lot of people on anti-social media.
It’s easy to explain the elite problem. Our university-educated classes are full of past and present habitual drug abusers, or people who let their children abuse drugs. Or both. They are held back from admitting the truth by their own disgusting selfishness.
But the Twitter warriors – who are frantic to believe that rampage knife attacks are ‘terrorism’ – are just as bad. They go purple in the face when I say that these pointless slaughters are the acts of unhinged people.
There are dozens of examples, but take Valdo Calocane, the culprit of those crazy, horrible killings in Nottingham. His home stank of marijuana. But nobody in authority cared.
The Southport mass killer Axel Rudakubana appears to have once been a bright and pleasant child but his character and appearance changed totally in his early teens, the time at which so many British children meet marijuana at school and fly off the rails, always into slack despondency and often into desperate, incurable mental illness. Choruses of psychiatrists now link this drug with mental illness. Reams of news reports link acts of mad violence with marijuana users.
But as far as I can find out, nobody inquiring into the Southport horror has even asked if Rudakubana took this drug.l
Axel Rudakubana's character and appearance changed totally in his early teens, the time at which so many British children meet marijuana at school. Express.
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