Tyndale: Why Britain will pay the price for soft line on Cannabis

Mar 7 2011 by George Tyndale, Sunday Mercury

FOR many idiots, particularly those of a liberal, middle-class, chattering disposition, cannabis is still seen as the acceptable face of drugs.

As they pass around a post-dinner joint, they decry the escalation of violent crime, the inner city muggings and the general dumbing down of standards in decency and respect.

The intellectual trendies are vaguely aware of the menace of so-called hard drugs and appreciate the damage done to families and communities by the peddling of heroin and amphetamines.

But they console themselves in the misguided belief that cannabis is a “soft” drug; that it is harmless.

They say it “chills people out,” calms them down, and therefore cannabis is a beneficial, like a strong Lemsip.

In fact, to these twerps, cannabis isn’t even a drug – it’s a lifestyle choice.

The consumption of it, through smoking or in imaginative home-baking in cakes and muffins, represents a social good. They accept smoking may cause lung cancer but it is a risk worth taking.

What these trendy drug-addled apologists don’t admit, far less tell their children, is this: cannabis is also likely to make you mad – particularly, it seems, if you are young.

Madness in anyone, at whatever age, isn’t very much fun at all. On occasions, it can be dangerous – fatally so.

A damning report by a team of international scientists has revealed that youths are twice as likely to experience psychotic episodes if they use cannabis.