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Has Peter Hitchens Latched On To Something?
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Hitchens has always been outspoken on the issue of drugs but has he identified a trend that should be explored and not ignored/underestimated or is it a coincidence between the links of terrorists and drug use?
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Is this the same Hitchins who is adamant that drug users have control over their actions?
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He can't have it both ways.
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He can't have it both ways.
On the while I find Mr Hitchens repellant , but I have to agree with him to some extent about cannabis use.
I have no opinion as to the link between cannabis use and terrorism, but I do very strongly believe that cannabis is a drug which can do dreadful damage to mental health.
One instance of cannabis psychosis is too many and I think it should be banned or at the very least strictly controlled.
I have no opinion as to the link between cannabis use and terrorism, but I do very strongly believe that cannabis is a drug which can do dreadful damage to mental health.
One instance of cannabis psychosis is too many and I think it should be banned or at the very least strictly controlled.
The legalisation debate has been going for so long that I became aware of the (colloquial?) link between its use and paranoia some 20+ years ago. Certainly enough to scare me off using it.
I was surprised to learn, recently, that skunk, which I thought was something new, has been sold in the UK for about 20 years too.
The article specifies people in their 20s and younger. Psychosis is a distinct from paranoia and we'll call it a 'new symptom', for the sake of argument. So, either we must postulate
i) that skunk brings on psychosis in a timespan as short as two or three years' exposure (psychotic teens) or
ii) their exposure began in the womb and they consumed it passively until their parents straightened out of using it in the family home. Smoking their own took their ligetime exposure past a much longer threshold, say 15-20 years.
The Matthew Parris and Jon Snow accounts report disturbing experiences from a single exposure.
If so, I would like to read a chemical analysis of what they tried versus what MS patients take as an analgesic. Is skunk cut with addictive agents, like opioids, or something?
I was surprised to learn, recently, that skunk, which I thought was something new, has been sold in the UK for about 20 years too.
The article specifies people in their 20s and younger. Psychosis is a distinct from paranoia and we'll call it a 'new symptom', for the sake of argument. So, either we must postulate
i) that skunk brings on psychosis in a timespan as short as two or three years' exposure (psychotic teens) or
ii) their exposure began in the womb and they consumed it passively until their parents straightened out of using it in the family home. Smoking their own took their ligetime exposure past a much longer threshold, say 15-20 years.
The Matthew Parris and Jon Snow accounts report disturbing experiences from a single exposure.
If so, I would like to read a chemical analysis of what they tried versus what MS patients take as an analgesic. Is skunk cut with addictive agents, like opioids, or something?
And here he is on Shaun the Sheep:
"As I watched the new Aardman animation, Shaun The Sheep – The Movie, and its flock of all-too-easily led and conformist woolly creatures, I struggled to work out who they reminded me of.
Then it came to me in a flash ..."
Cue insertion of you particular aunt sally: in his case, the "monstrous regiment of political journalists", in my case,as I had already reflected to myself, the rent-a-mob demonstrating against Ukraine in Moscow yesterday. I had a worrying moment when I thought I might be morphing into Hitchens :-)
He's paid to rouse middle Britain from its slumbers on a damp Sunday morning and no doubt he does a good job.
"As I watched the new Aardman animation, Shaun The Sheep – The Movie, and its flock of all-too-easily led and conformist woolly creatures, I struggled to work out who they reminded me of.
Then it came to me in a flash ..."
Cue insertion of you particular aunt sally: in his case, the "monstrous regiment of political journalists", in my case,as I had already reflected to myself, the rent-a-mob demonstrating against Ukraine in Moscow yesterday. I had a worrying moment when I thought I might be morphing into Hitchens :-)
He's paid to rouse middle Britain from its slumbers on a damp Sunday morning and no doubt he does a good job.
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mikey, they've been saying that for decades.
You can read a more scientifically based assessment from Ben Goldacre here
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You can read a more scientifically based assessment from Ben Goldacre here
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