That's fucking stupid

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There’s a £2.2 million radio and TV campaign coming up in the UK, warning the yoof of Britain of the dangers of cannabis. Those dangers which you clearly see in the following chart:

Wait, what? Yes, that’s cannabis there in the middle, marked as class B, yet far less dangerous than alcohol, tobacco or even ketamine.

Oh yeah, and before you hear any politicians talk about “lethal varieties” of skunk (GB, I’m looking at you), just remember that it’s simply impossible to overdose on cannabis. Mostly because you’d be so monged off your tits by the time you’re a tenth of the way through a lethal dose that you wouldn’t be able to find your own mouth anymore.

I could go on about legalisation, availability to over-21s (whose brains are fully developed and unlikely to suffer development-related mental health problems) through licensed pharmacists, the vast VAT income that would bring, and the huge benefit of freeing up police resources, but frankly I’m tired of all that.

When I was a kid we were subjected to fables and parables in assembly at primary school. I used to doubt the value of teaching a child anything that required a made up story to illustrate it; surely there are enough examples in real life to illustrate every important lesson?

My favourite fable was the emperor’s new clothes because I have never had much faith for the intelligence of large groups of people. As it happens the story is quite relevant at the moment because the popularity of that whinging bint, Amy Winehouse, is a perfect example of how people can be fooled into thinking something is good when in fact it does not exist; I am taking of course about her talent. Amy Winehouse has failed to turn up to a number of gigs and causes a whole load of ‘controversy’ in the middle class shit papers but people still argue that she is a wonderful performer and extremely talented when she actually does make it onto stage (between visits to her husband in chokey).

Sorry, but she’s shit. Let’s just move on and find someone who is:

a) talented

b) able to stay sober long enough to get through a concert

It’s not that difficult as there are hundreds of people more talented than her.