I work with barristers and lawyers daily, yesterday while waiting in court for the Judge, Miss ----- Q.C. a criminal law barrister at the top of her professional tree, who I hitherto regarded as a person worthy of my respect, gaily and casually announced in general chit-chat with her opponent another high calibre(ish) barrister, that in her erudite opinion ,and I quote "all prison inmates should be given as much cannabis as they can consume...as it would calm them down!"
The response to this chillingly ignorant declaration was all round sniggering and nodding from other apparentley learned persons (it was a big case, lots of barristers,big drain on public purse)who.working in the criminal justice system , I assumed until that moment would have known (as many disadvantaged children and adults do to their eternal cost) that taking cannabis, especially in a person
who lacks accomplishment or recommendation (ie most of this woman's clients)has shattering, tidal wave proportion consequences for mental health upon the weakest and poorest in society.
Miss -----QC is unaware of the paranoia, resultant unpredictable violence, pysychosis, schizophrenia,and poverty of spirit, finance, and hope that ingestion of cannabis leads to for the taker and all to do with them.
This is written from experience, may I introduce exhibit 'A' once my quite nice brother, who began smoking cannabis at the age of 20.I challenge Miss -----Q.C. (and have done so in person) to move in with him for a mere 28 days, perhaps she will continue to deem cannabis less than harmful once she has enjoyed the behavioural consequences of his cannabis use,i'm sure the following traits don't occur in any of the members of her prosperous, well educated household:
1) lack of personal hygiene or ability to notice this
2)squalid living condition and inability to notice this
3)unpleasant, frightening unpredictably violent and threatening demeanour and an inability to
recognise the lack of reason in this behaviour
4) inability to conduct a normal conversation, at his very best his mantra may as well be 'ME ME ME ME,ME ME ME ME!!!!'
5)inability to manage a household or shop and cook the simplest meal...
6) desire for a meaningful friendship or relationship is rendered an impossible dream
7) inability to care for or love in any real way his traumatised and permanently damaged son...
not I think a person with whom Miss -----QC would wish to spend any of her quality
time unless she is being publically remunerated and a thick perspex safety screen divides them!!
Perhaps after 28 days Miss -----Q.C. would realise that cannabis does not 'calm down' its users, and
having realised,although her life would not be irrevocably bighted by this drug like so many inncent children's has been...at least she would deign from her leafy street to acknowledge the evil my brother's screaming violence has wreaked upon society, and then multply that pain and fear throughout the council estates and ordinary places the length and breadth of Great Britain....
Miss -----Q.C. when you advocate cannabis for the great unwashed, I wish upon your offspring the same cruel agony inflicted upon my nephew, who exists in perpetual terror of his father, my brother and his vile furniture breaking rantings...I urge you and your aquaintances to see that a few spliffs smoked at university while you were trying to appear bohemian is different in its knock effect to administering this filthy mind altering poison to empty soles with no inner resourses who will smoke it 24/7...
and then I hope you will humbly apologise...
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