Personally I think it should just be legalised. I’m very uneasy about this “decriminalisation” strategy. Saying something is against the law but you’ll be let off for it anyway seems to me to be encouraging people to break the law.

A lot’s been said on the health risks of cannabis but to me it seems to be largely irrelevant. Alcohol and cigarettes are far worse for you both physically, and more importantly, socially. There was a story not that long ago about a kid who had become schizophrenic and it was possibly linked to cannabis. His mother said he had smoked something like an ounce a week every week since he was fifteen. If he’d drunk a bottle of whisky a day instead he’d probably be dead. I think we need to start getting things in proportion. We could start by coming up with a non-political drugs classification system.

But neither will help the poor wretches who are addicted. They must be given effective treatment & help to achieve total abstinence-and not a lifetime on Methadone.

The initiative in Scotland, arising from SNP/Tory co-operation, to look again at treatment regimes is a very good start.

That sounds ominous.. Are we talking lizardmen or invaders or something?

Yes that would be interesting.

Especially if it compared regular CofE church goers with the general public.

I think that the CofE church goers are more upset then the rest of the population. But I could well be wrong about that one.

Is there or has there ever been, an organization in the known universe that is more critical of its own leadership then the people not in it?

Very likely not. What this could indicate to us all about who or what is really controlling the established church of the country could be more then interesting.