Comments on: Stoned again

By: Antipholus Papps

Antipholus Papps — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:55:18 +0000

I once voted New Labour but I didn’t like it.

By: chris y

chris y — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:30:51 +0000

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.

By: ejh

ejh — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:16:06 +0000

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.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:20:29 +0000

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.

By: Colin Campbell

Colin Campbell — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:14:52 +0000

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.

By: Paul Linford

Paul Linford — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:04:28 +0000

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?

By: richard hannay

richard hannay — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:36:28 +0000

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.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:25:28 +0000

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.