Tim Worstall

Right, That Does It.

I have indeed changed my mind:

Harriet Harman yesterday became the ninth Cabinet minister to admit to having smoked cannabis. On Thursday Ms Harman, the Labour deputy leader, had refused to comment, but after eight members of the Cabinet said that they had tried the drug when young, she owned up as well.

Ms Harman told GMTV yesterday morning: “I did, when I was at university, smoke cannabis once or twice.”

Anything that produces Mrs. Dromeys is simply too dangerous, too evil even, to be allowed to be legal.

We’ll just have to ban universities I’m afraid.

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  1. Bob B Avatar
    Bob B

    Worth noting this in Saturday’s Independent:
    “The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, which examined the issue 18 months ago, will be asked to do so again. It concluded in its report in December 2005 that the strength of cannabis resin (hash) had changed little over 30 years and was about 5 per cent tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Skunk, it found was 10 to 15 per cent THC – two to three times as strong, not 25 times. Professor Leslie Iversen, a pharmacologist at Oxford University, said the widespread belief that skunk was 20 to 30 times as powerful was ‘simply not true’. . .
    “Scientists led by Professor Murray, at the Institute of Psychiatry, have argued that cannabis smoking can trigger psychosis in vulnerable individuals. A key worry is that young people are starting to smoke the drug earlier, in their mid-teens, when their brains are more vulnerable.
    “But experts led by Professor David Nutt, a specialist in addiction psychiatry at the University of Bristol, said in The Lancet in March that a causal link had not been established. Even if it were, cannabis could account for at most 7 per cent of cases of schizophrenia, he said.”
    http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2788634.ece

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  2. Mark Wadsworth Avatar
    Mark Wadsworth

    Bob B, you stopped jsut when it was getting interesting.
    How many people are there with proper schizophrenia, i.e. you are unable to work or go round killing people?
    If there’s a million of them, then max. 70,000 will have been caused by cannabis, that’s be a bit worrying.
    If there are 100,000 of them, then max. 7,000 were caused by cannabis, and I think a society of 60 million can cope with 7,000 extra nutters.

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  3. dearieme Avatar
    dearieme

    “the strength of cannabis ..was about 5 per cent ..THC. Skunk.. was 10 to 15 per cent THC – two to three times as strong… a pharmacologist at Oxford University, said the widespread belief that skunk was 20 to 30 times as powerful..” Do they actually know enough to be confident that the “power” is directly proportional to the %TCH? I ask because I’m always struck by how little seems to be known about illegal drugs – or rather, how little scientific knowledge is reported to the layman by the MSM.

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