Stoned again
All these politician who smoked cannabis at university but didn’t like it: how unlucky were they? What are the odds that every single one of them scored rubbish gear? It’s damned unlucky, I reckon.
Was cannabis generally inferior back when every single one of them was at university? If only just one of them had met a bloke in the pub with a decent stash. They might now be talking sense on the subject instead of being in the vanguard of the counter-Enlightenment. Or sounding like a bunch of Sunday school berks. On such poor fortune does history turn.
Maybe Jacqui Smith should get out there now it’s generally acknowledged that cannabis these days will knock your socks off. Maybe then she could speak from experience and knowledge rather than sounding like a spinster aunt who had a couple of Snowballs at Christmas in 1956 and didn’t like the taste.
Posted on July 20th, 2007 at 6:23pm under UK politics
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Excellent point, I think the public ‘at large’ generally forgets about what you said in that the chances of so many of them being unlucky with it are slim.
Still doesn’t make it right, even if they didn’t like it.
Wow, didn`t take long for the Brown gummint to assume the Blairite mantle of world class, olympic standard, liarmania. `I smoked it and didn`t like it` – what a lying shower of spineless, meretricious phlegmwads. Clearly, there`s no danger of Gordie doing the decent thing (like ditching PFI, getting the fek out of Iraq) so ah reckon I`m going to enjoy the Brown Years after all. In a black, gallows-humour kinda way.
Like most drugs, and some foods, isn’t it rather an acquired taste? And isn’t it possible that Jacqui Smith and Co just couldn’t be bothered to acquire it?
I tried it a number of times in the UK, but being a non smoker, the tobacco bit got in the way a bit. It was not until I went to the US and sampled some grass that I could appreciate the effect without gagging.
We are just going through this as the topic du jour in Australia. I think not to have smoked pot in Australia for the generation behind Howard would be to have lived in a monastry or to have been in jail. The Treasury Secretary, a stuffy conservative came out and said that he had used it. Australians assume people of that generation smoked pot and if they deny it, their reputation dives, if it hasn’t prior to this. All kinds of ducking and weaving as the admission made it fair game for interviews. Kevin Rudd, the Labor Leader claims not to have tried it and I think that in his case, it is possible. He is Nerd Central.
Good point, Paul, although it shows a worrying lack of commitment on their part, if you ask me. The taste of power however seems to be instantly addictive.
A certain Labour MP who entered the house in 1997 but later lost their seat was notoriously on-message to the point of toadyism but was nevertheless notably quiet when it came to crackdrowns on drugs. My brother always reckoned that this was because he was afraid someone would tell the press that he’d smoked cannabis at college – which my brother knew very well he’d done as they’d shared the same joint.
I know a surprising number of people who have used it but don’t like it – I’m married to one. In her case she says she gets no psychological effects except incoherence and paranoia. Maybe there are really a lot of people like that. Maybe there’s even a correlation with the sort of character flaws that make you go into Parliament.
Maybe if Smith &Co had got properly high, they’d have got a life instead.
I once voted New Labour but I didn’t like it.