Well, not exactly.
But last night's BBC Two documentary on cannabis did seem to suggest some sort of Intelligent Design argument, whereby cannabis and human beings eventually converged, with a sort of inevitability, after millions of years.
It did not ask how a man shown doing pretty much nothing except smoke spliffs all day and every day managed to afford his perfectly nice and well-furnished house.
It did not question how the real "Compassionate Use" could be anything other than the isolation of the relevant active ingredient for prescription in the normal way, just as we do not give people with headaches bark to eat.
And it did not mention that fact that if (and it is a big "if") one third of British adults has used cannabis, then two thirds of us have not. I might add that that third would mostly be getting on a bit now.
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Probably 2/3rds of the population have never read a Mills & Boon book either. This is not an argument for banning them.
ReplyDeleteThis is not about banning something, but about unbanning it.
ReplyDeleteIf those figures are accurate, this means at least 1/3 of the population can get through a Mills & Boon book without the aid of cannabis.
ReplyDeleteBut what about the people who can't?
Those who can't, including the entire male population, don't try. We read books about much more interlectull subjects like fights & things going boom.
ReplyDeleteDifferent strokes for different folks.
They are past help.
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