The tragic death of a girl has been used by the far right bigots at the Daily Mail to promote the idea Cannabis creates psychotic criminals. The Mail is a notoriously conservative, often racist and a hysterically trashy news paper, its attitude towards cannabis is highly out of date and delusional. BBC3's 'Should I smoke dope' made front page news and prohibitionist, reactionary slug Peter Hitchens is a columnist for the paper. The headline places focus on the fact the murderer apparently smoked cannabis before committing his crime. A killer will be a killer with or without cannabis, at no point is this stated in the article.
Prohibition gives newspapers a great deal of moral influence, drug stories can help gather supporters and allow parasitic journalists to target and attack individuals based on their use of cannabis. There are stories in history of journalists selling cannabis to celebrities, just to photograph them smoking from afar at a later point. It was a newspaper that apparently sold out the rolling stones, sending authorities to a party they were holding, and smoking at. Drug stories can create fear amongst naive readers, as outrageous as it seems there are still people out there that consider the Daily Mail a credible source of information on cannabis. As science continues to prove the relatively benign nature of the plant and more people realise it's economic and environmental value, right wing press is required to take a moral stand. They will go to any lengths and will continue to lie if it contributes to the continuation of prohibition.
It's always the way, the life of a human being is just a loose connection to argue their silly stances, statistics that don't even mean anything - They devalue life. These people are disgusting.
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