Britain has been plagued by a succession of brutal killings linked to cannabis in recent years. One such killer was student Femi Nandap, pictured.
Here is an injustice that will not garner any protests, though the effects of it haunt British streets on a regular basis.
The use of cannabis has been increasingly linked with acts of irrational violence, and yet another study confirms the link. Stephen Adams reports on a new study assessing nearly 300 000 teens and young adults.
The man on the left (Femi Nandap) stabbed the man on the right (Jeroen Ensink) to death in 2015. He evaded a more serious charge, because his lawyers argued that his use of cannabis had damaged his brain.
I have also mentioned the case of Dr. Sarah Halimi, murdered by an anti-Semitic fanatic from Mali, who evaded serious charges when his lawyers also argued that his use of cannabis had damaged his brain.
Other such cases exist.
So why haven’t such links and such acts provoked outrage among the British public? The answer is simple. Cannabis generates millions, if not billions, in revenue. Given the economic catastrophe that Britain and other countries currently face, the cries to legalise cannabis and profit from tax revenues may grow ever louder.
As we saw during the last century, the cannabis industry profits from the same lies as the tobacco industry (which has now morphed into the vaping industry, proving that we lost the battle against smoking). They repeatedly cite no “consistent” link, repeatedly overstate positive usage of cannabis, cynically manipulate unjust prison sentences to promote their cause, and dress up cannabis with the robes of “freedom” and “happiness”.
I wonder whether disciples of cannabis would repeat their propaganda to those who have had their lives ruined or paid the ultimate price at the hands of a cannabis-smoking criminal.