They Are Not Exactly Mellow

I have just posted the following comment over on Comment Is Free, but it would also apply to many of the comments that I have either had to reject here (please do not swear on my blog), or else received by email from implausible addresses (not exactly confident in your views, are you?):

My, what a bitter lot you all are! Hardly mellow, are you? Because you thought that there was only one permitted view on cannabis, but then along comes a Prime Minister who doesn't see it that way. And you have absolutely no idea how to cope.

His view is firmly in the tradition of the Fabian and Christian Socialist pioneers, but to you he (and I, a member both of the Fabian Society and of the Christian Socialist Movement) is "Hard Right". You have used views on certain lifestyle issues (and also on the EU) to replace any normal political spectrum, even though that would place on the Left those Children of Thatcher who, perfectly logically, believe in a "free" market across the board, including in drugs. Indeed, you seem to be just that: Thatcher's true heirs. But you think that you are on the Left! Well, you certainly couldn't care less about the poor, at home or abroad.

I particularly enjoyed the comment from whoever it was who said that the concepts of "criminals" and "law-abiding people" were meaningless if it was possible for doctors or lawyers to fall into the former category. I think that that pretty much sums up the cannabis lobby.

Still, congratulations to the BBC on a good day's spoiling. But it won't work. You've lost. Sooner or later, someone from that generation who was left out of "sex, drugs and rock'n'roll" was going to become Prime Minister, since there were always far more of them than there were of you. Precisely that has now happened. So, I say again, you've lost. And you have absolutely no idea how to deal with that fact.

By the way, I have never taken any illegal drug. If you want to vote for someone like that, then vote for me.