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I'm glad you have given up cannabis, Paul - maybe you'll think straight now
By Peter Hitchens

Last updated at 10:13 PM on 18th February 2012

Paul McCartney, who was a popular singing star many years ago and is for some unfathomable reason treated as if he is a serious person, tells us that he thinks the Monarchy is �an amazingly old-fashioned affair�.

In that case, I had better call him Mr McCartney.
For if he thinks kings and queens are outdated, he must feel the same way about knighthoods, not to mention the MBE that he was careful to cite when he so irresponsibly called for cannabis to be legalised back in the old-fashioned Sixties.
Yesterday man: Paul McCartney with his new wife Nancy last week
Mr McCartney is much more outdated than the Monarchy.
I don�t just mean that anyone listening today to the works of The Beatles must be puzzled and embarrassed that such trivial stuff plunged millions of teenage girls into shrieking hysteria.
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I mean that his political views are much the same as those of a student revolutionary of half a century ago, or of a BBC executive (much the same thing).

During the past 40 years or so, republics haven�t exactly distinguished themselves, have they?

Iran and Iraq are republics. North Korea is a republic. Republican America searched through more than 200 million citizens for a President and came up with... George W. Bush.

Yet among the small number of the longest-lasting free, law-governed countries in the world, most are monarchies.

This fact would make an adult think.

But like so many children of the Sixties � and children is the right word � Mr McCartney has generally preferred fashionable beliefs to independent thought.

After all, what grown-up, informed person would call for the legalisation of a drug whose users so often end up suffering from incurable mental illness?

The busy, well-funded pro-cannabis lobby will no doubt say that the connection has yet to be definitively proved.

The fact so many cannabis users end up tragically mentally ill, or that mental illness has increased since cannabis use became widespread, is not enough for them.

The tobacco lobby used to spread the same complacent story about cigarettes and lung cancer � in fact, they did so for about 30 wasted years, during which many thousands of people were fooled into thinking that smoking was safe.

By the time they found that it wasn�t, they were already dying in pain in the cancer ward, or ravaged by heart disease and emphysema.

The only good news is that Mr McCartney has announced that he has at last given up smoking cannabis. Why? Not because of our allegedly cruel drug laws, anyway.

Possession of this substance is supposed to be illegal, and Mr McCartney has made no secret of his taste for it, but British police have taken no action against him for 40 years.

So I wonder why he has given up? It is supposed to be because he is worried about the effect on his youngest daughter, Beatrice, aged eight.

But what about his other, older, children? Wasn�t he just as concerned about them?

Whatever the reason, let us hope that, once the greasy fumes of years have cleared away, he realises how much harm he has done by his espousal of this poison and joins the campaign to make it properly illegal again.

There are children now in school, the same age as Beatrice, who may be saved from life in the locked ward of the mental hospital, if he will only recognise that he was wrong..

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thomas davison · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 4:53 pm Post subject:

Yes I understand about using it for pain but Paul" I am superior" big head
is someone else, maybe he is in pain or is it he is a pain.