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Marijuana is the real killer

IF LAST week’s mass killing in Wisconsin had been the work of a gunman, the USA would still be convulsed with renewed demands for more gun control. If it had happened on this side of the Atlantic, and a person from a Muslim country had been involved, we would still be taking new precautions against Islamist terrorism.

But both the gun control lobby and the terror obsessives have been silent. For the massacre was carried out using a motor vehicle, a terrifying lethal device which no red-blooded American, liberal or conservative, would ever be without. And the suspect, Darrell Brooks, plainly isn’t an Islamist.

So it has faded rather fast from front pages. Yet, in fact, it has one thing in common with about 95 per cent of such mass killings here, in France, or in the USA. The suspect is a known user of marijuana. The connection between marijuana and mental illness is now so alarming that even The Times, that modish liberal organ, has noticed it.

So is the gigantic mountain of reports of wild, irrational crimes in which the culprit was a marijuana user, including last week’s British case of Jake Notman, who stabbed his girlfriend, Lauren Bloomer, 30 times, then got into his car and ran her over. The man was plainly out of his mind.

The prosecutor in the case had little doubt about the reason, explaining, very upsettingly, that Ms Bloomer ‘was just trying to care for him in this state of being disordered through cannabis’.

Professor Sir Robin Murray, one of Britain’s most distinguished psychiatrists, no longer bothers to hedge his bets on the link between the drug and mental illness. He said last week: ‘One third of young people who develop schizophrenia-like psychosis in London do so because of their heavy use of highpotency cannabis.’ He warned: ‘Everywhere that cannabis has been legalised, the use and potency of the drug have increased, and more cannabis-induced disorders have followed.

Most worryingly, tobacco companies that have experienced falls in the sales of cigarettes are now buying into cannabis companies with the aim of selling as much cannabis as they once sold tobacco.’

This is a huge danger. Big Tobacco, experienced in profiting from misery, switches its resources to backing Big Dope instead.

Big Dope wants marijuana to be legal, advertised and on sale everywhere. And many fools will fall for it, including the teenagers who never grew up and who, terrifyingly, are about to become the government of Germany. We have similar fools here.

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