B.P. Terpstra
“He might look rather pleased with himself in this picture - but it's likely he regrets posing for this snap now,” reports the Mail Online, UK. “For when police raided the home of drug dealer Darren Ellis, 35, they found this photograph of him holding up his stash of cannabis.”
Also, in stupidity-related news, the Herald Sun, Australia, reports two “women are due in court today on cannabis possession charges after one of them repeatedly set off a metal detector at an airport in New Zealand, allegedly leading to the discovery of foil-wrapped cannabis in her bra.”
Talk about stupid: “The woman, 52, had 50g of the drug in 28 individually wrapped packages in her underwear, police told The Southland Times.”
Not to be outdone, however, one father-of-three “growing cannabis worth almost £9,000 in his attic, had bought the equipment with a £750 crisis loan meant for furniture, a court heard.”
The UK’s Lancashire Telegraph reports, “Terence Graham, 30, who is on benefits, had 12 plants and a hydroponic system in the loft space when police raided his home in New Market Street, Colne, last September.”
Yet, cannabis lovers, I’m told, aren’t stupid. They’re just misunderstood.
Woodstock Alzheimer’s
The hard medical research informs us that brain issues and cannabis love to walk hand in hand, unfortunately.
But it’s not like today’s revelations are new. “Claiming that this evidence is new is less than flattering to the pharmacologists and the psychiatrists who have been giving warnings of the hazards since the 1970s,” reported Doctor Thomas Stuttaford for The Times of London, in 2005:
When he was at Oxford, the then Professor of Pharmacology was Sir William Paton…and his colleagues published many papers describing their observations, which had led him to conclude that even regular social cannabis smoking could induce schizophreniform symptoms. He listed these symptoms and they would have made worrying reading for any parent. Paton also drew attention to cases in which schizophrenia seemed to have been precipitated by taking cannabis in people who had previously been apparently unaffected by any form of psychiatric or psychological problems, and in whom there was no evidence that they were carrying a genetic burden that might make them liable to schizophrenic breakdown.
And, since then? Sophisticated Brain Scan Imaging has also confirmed that using cannabis is stupid. Just look at Darren Ellis. He has the photos to prove it.