Julie Myerson’s son has been the media’s big cannabis story of the week. And it is quite a story. But even bigger should have been the story of the role played by cannabis in the actions of Kevin Bishop, the murderer of Robert Knox.
Right up (or down) there with the barefaced lie that cannabis is almost or entirely harmless to the user’s health is the barefaced lie that it does not make users violent, in marked contrast to alcohol. It certainly does.
Moreover, whereas considerable alcohol consumption is required in order to most people any real harm, practically any cannabis use has horrific consequences for physical and mental health. And likewise, whereas most people who drink do not become violently or otherwise criminal as a result, a very high proportion indeed of those who use cannabis do.
Just say no.
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Alas I have reached 56 without smoking a joint or one of those Etabs so beloved of young people. Neither have I taken an alcoholic drink......ever.
ReplyDeleteA casual visit to any A & E or police cells at the weekend seems to show that ALCOHOL is a very dangerous drug.
Stormont recently passed some legislation banning tobacco to literally underneath the counter.
Personally Id ban the sale of alcohol to anyone undr 70 and then only if they have a note from both parents.
Prohibition in USA never did any harm......well except for organised crime and making the Kennedys even more rich.
Seriously, though, most people who take alcohol neither end up in hospital as a result nor send anyone else there.
ReplyDeleteWhereas a very high proportion of cannabis users does one or the other, if not both. They just happen to account for far fewer incidents absolutely because they account for far fewer people absolutely.
As for tobacco, its use is in terminal decline, anyway.
You're very well aware, David, that I've taken both, and alcohol caused me far more harm- I lost my place on my Master's course due to drink and kept my place at school despite cannabis. I now take neither to excess and cannabis not at all. Alcohol's grip on me was far stronger than that of cannabis- it took me years to get my drinking under control, but the weed I dropped overnight. Just a thought.
ReplyDeleteAnd likewise, whereas most people who drink do not become violently or otherwise criminal as a result, a very high proportion indeed of those who use cannabis do.
ReplyDeleteAnd your source for this is...?
Jeremy, if you have to ask, then there is no point telling you.
ReplyDeletePatrick, you must have drunk an awful lot to be thrown off a Masters course beacuse of it, in my experience... And we both know about school. When is you blog going to be updated again?