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Friday 9 May 2008
Mick Hume

Cannabis: Class ‘B’ for boring


Why the one thing duller than a dopehead is the reclassification debate: read Mick Hume’s columns in The Times (London).
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Friday 9 May:

‘When Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, admitted that she had smoked cannabis at university, surprised Oxford contemporaries said they remembered her as “dull and boring”. But there is no contradiction. Dope-smoking makes you dull…’

Read on…

Tuesday 6 May:

‘Lawyers now predictably claim that Josef Fritzl - the Austrian accused of fathering seven children by the daughter whom he imprisoned and raped over 24 years - is suffering from a “mental disorder”. To judge by the paranoid reactions to this horror story, he is not the only one…’

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