Brendan O'Neill is badly wrong about cannabis itself: the lastest advertisement significantly underplays the dangers, although it is certainly an improvement on what has gone before; and invoking the Government's drugs "experts" (to whom it mercifully no longer pays the slightest attention) is a sure sign of having lost the argument.
But O'Neill is right that the cannabis lobby, with its vast cultural and still quite considerable political power, wants to stupefy the public into compliance. Where are the Fabian and Christian Socialist pioneers when we need them?
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Why is having quoted these experts a sign of having lost the argument?
ReplyDeleteThey are nothing but a gigantic pro-drugs lobby, if anything even worse for apparently being unpaid.
ReplyDeleteBlair used to give them whatever they wanted, but Brown is clearly made of sterner stuff.
Blair wanted to be in with the dope crowd at school and university, whereas Brown didn't.